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by pruetj 4mo ago
LOL, don't mess this up for me.
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by pruetj 4mo ago
I have a Costco that is walking distance from my office. If I need to decompress, I walk to Costco for lunch solo, get a hot dog and a slice of pizza, sit down, and watch both the people and what's in their cart. It's so diverse a
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Show HN: MappyMail – The cheapest way to send letters online(mappymail.com)
2 points by pruetj 5mo ago|0 comments
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by pruetj 5mo ago
I remember when Uber first came to Austin, one of the big draws was that a tip wasn't expected. The app didn't even allow it IIRC and Uber sort of advertised this as a feature. 15 years later, back to it, tips seem expected again?
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by pruetj 6mo ago
We do push ahead with missions that might end up in casualties. It's just a matter of risk tolerance. It's impossible to say a space flight mission has 0% chance of casualty. It might be impossible to say that for virtually any
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by pruetj 6mo ago
Appreciate the write up! I’ve always wanted a hive on my property. I’ve seen some carpenter bees and bumblebees at work around the garden and this is giving me second thoughts about introducing more competition for them via honeybees. I thi
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Show HN: Send Love, Send Letters (at cost)(mappymail.com)
5 points by pruetj 6mo ago|0 comments
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by pruetj 7mo ago
> Why could you reach a deal when Anthropic could not? Did you sign the deal they wouldn’t? Based on what we know, we believe our contract provides better guarantees and more responsible safeguards than earlier agreements, including Anth
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Show HN: Say What You Should Have(mappymail.com)
1 points by pruetj 7mo ago|0 comments
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by pruetj 8mo ago
Ha, giving claude code a CC and pointing to mappymail would probably be very good for business. Might be something you regret though?
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Show HN: Send a letter for $1.55(mappymail.com)
2 points by pruetj 8mo ago|2 comments
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by pruetj 8mo ago
"Special offer: 80% off if you send a lime with a note attached instead of a letter!"
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by pruetj 8mo ago
Funny seeing this. I've been working on a site to allow people to send a letter as cheaply and conveniently as possible. I actually think letters (physical) are a great way to make an impression, often times much more so than an email.
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by pruetj 8mo ago
Is that foreshadowing of ChatGPT redirecting users to ChatGPT Health in some way? Base product no longer answers everything, now I need to pay an add-on fee to talk about health related things?
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by pruetj 10mo ago
Thank you for this, I needed that.
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by pruetj 11mo ago
The only thing I can think of is if they had converted Alexa into a truly useful assistant and gotten people to sign up for a premium to it while everyone was still in awe of and having fun talking to LLMs. Even if they executed this perfec
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by pruetj 1y ago
> purchase laptops with decent hardware specs > It costs nothing Seems like it does cost something?
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by pruetj 1y ago
Wow, I played on your servers as a 9-10 year old. I lived in Houston and joined your server simply because they said Houston and I assumed my ping could make it there. I became obsessed with the WC3 mod. Handle was probably Coomie at the ti
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by pruetj 1y ago
Honestly, going off of something I heard Fr. Stephen De Young mention in one of his podcasts. If I remember right, he says when you see the 12 in certain icons, Paul is often present instead of Matthias. He did not speak of casting lots as
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by pruetj 1y ago
Interesting point! One interpretation of this passage suggests Peter is actually rushing this appointment. In typical Peter fashion, he makes choices before fulling thinking them through (this seems to change post Pentecost). Matthias is ne
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by pruetj 1y ago
I like the idea. The rental section has a lot of potential imo. It makes me wonder if there’s room for the personal property rental business in tools like there is for housing and cars. I do a lot of DIY and tend to acquire a lot of the too
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by pruetj 2y ago
If you’ve ever been by a Tesla coil in person, that static-y noise near the top of the screen is almost a perfect match.
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by pruetj 3y ago
> It really shows that asking a computer for something is fundamentally a bad idea No, that is not what it shows at all. Everything you do on a computer is "asking a computer for something." Do you think computers are computing
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by pruetj 3y ago
Church. I was living in Long Beach, about 23 years old. I had searched for community through CrossFit, work, etc. but just didn’t quite fit in right. Finally, I went back to church after not attending for about 5 years figuring I could meet
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by pruetj 3y ago
I used to work on an Ingres database using QUEL that did have FROM before SELECT, just with different key words. We would use something like: RANGE OF t IS table RETRIEVE INTO target (t.column1, t.column2) WHERE t.condition Inst
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by pruetj 3y ago
Ah, got it. I know what you are referring to now. Yea, it is seen in hospitality more often.
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by pruetj 3y ago
Interesting on the “y’all”. I’m a Texan and have never addressed a singular person as y’all. If I do address a person as y’all as in “How are y’all doing?”, it’s assumed I’m speaking of the family unit that person belongs to rather than the
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by pruetj 3y ago
Totally agree, some of my best friends today were found through Halo/dota/RuneScape/Dark Age of Camelot/etc. These are not regrets I have - just more of a point forward perspective in what I do with my time now. I have a
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by pruetj 3y ago
Thank you for the article. ~7 years ago, I realized I have a similar disposition - my best mental state is when I’m in a state of learning and being challenged. The struggle I’ve run into is when I look back and consider what “good” that th
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by pruetj 3y ago
I played a lot of tournament bridge from childhood through college and then stopped (I’m now 32). For me, the two big reasons I quit were (1) the rating system, and (2) finding a partner. For the rating system, it’s just not competitive. Ma

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