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by ssharp 4d ago
Lots of things were different on the front end back then: - IE was an albatross around every web developers neck - Even better browsers like Firefox and Safari had tons of inconsistencies - jQuery and Prototype weren't around yet - CS
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by ssharp 17d ago
Whenever I looked at using IKEA stuff to hack or incorporate into a larger build, the cost, effort, and quality never seemed worth it to me. I built my current desk from some butcher block counter tops and shelfs and 4x4's. I don'
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by ssharp 5mo ago
On the Polymarket homepage right now, one of the featured markets is whether or not Bitcoin will be up or down over the next 5 minutes. It's hard to justify that as anything more than illegal gambling. I find prediction markets to be i
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by ssharp 5mo ago
Concrete counter top mixes usually use either much smaller, or no aggregate and use more sand. The mixes resemble mortar more than concrete and they are typically a little harder and less forgiving to work with.
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by ssharp 8mo ago
Granted, my modeling skills begin and end with Tinkercad but I've actually created some really useful things for around the house and for hobbies -- a plug for my septic drain field distribution box pipes (one pipe was cut too short an
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by ssharp 9mo ago
The balancing act of figuring out what you can reasonably rely on from an LLM and what you need to be skeptical or dismissive of is not the type of experience an iPhone user should be expected to navigate.
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by ssharp 10mo ago
>> Variant B improved conversion rate (CVR) or Add-to-Cart (ATC) rate? Roll it out. Basing rollouts on add-to-cart rate is generally not a great idea, particularly for experiments on product pages. There are a variety of reasons why s
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by ssharp 10mo ago
I get the sentiment but was this actually some big launch announcement? When I look at the store online, you have to dig a bit just to even find the product.
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by ssharp 11mo ago
Where I live, bald-faced hornets and yellowjackets are very aggressive. Yellowjackets will also build nests inside of structures, in the ground, etc. where it's sometimes very difficult to even know they are there until it's too l
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by ssharp 1y ago
I've used the Tacbo Bel AI drive-thru and came away with the same thought. I kind of groaned at first but it was very accurate, even when making adjustments.
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by ssharp 1y ago
> But actually, Amazon, Apple etc aren't natural homes for this, they don't need to burn money to chase it. Why wouldn't consumer AI be a natural home for Apple? Apple is constantly under blast for being slow to AI but if
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by ssharp 1y ago
Every tool I've tinkered with that hints at one-shotting (or one-shot and then refine) ends up with a messy app that might be 60-70% of what you're looking for but since the foundation is not solid, you're never going to get
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by ssharp 1y ago
I've always guessed that they are able to tell when you called/what you called about, but they simply don't give that level of information to their frontline folks.
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by ssharp 1y ago
If you magnify Alice in Chains' beginnings and pretend like Andrew Wood hadn't died and Pearl Jam never existed and Mother Love Bone became popular, the hair metal influence becomes much more obvious.
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by ssharp 1y ago
I'm not sure about Census but Fivetran's free plan has met my needs to sync data from different ad platforms to BigQuery pretty well. One of their pitfalls is charging by the row. If you're cost-conscious, you really need to
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by ssharp 2y ago
> “the Google executive Jerry Dischler said this was not a “hallucination” – where AI systems invent untrue information – but rather a reflection of the fact the untrue information is contained in the websites that Gemini scrapes.” This
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by ssharp 2y ago
The "Playing different pitches" section plays "The Final Countdown", arguably the greatest synth riff of all time. If you know it, just click the rhythm on that section.
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by ssharp 2y ago
I understand the thinking behind some of this but I don't think it's right. My first language was GW-Basic so I grew up and enjoyed this era. However, if I want to start working on Javascript today, all I need to do is open a brow
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by ssharp 2y ago
I've had to do this a few times for various reasons and got cancellation confirmations from the companies after the chargeback happened. Obviously, this would be much different putting a $1,000+ business SaaS subscription on a credit c
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by ssharp 2y ago
> Most banks will report it to your credit bureau - you won't see it in form of points being withheld BUT it might be adverse for you when you try to get a loan, etc I never knew this! I have heard about companies banning you if you
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by ssharp 2y ago
My workaround to this has been to email the company telling them I want to cancel. Once I either don't get a reply, or get a reply saying "just call us and we'll cancel!", I dispute the next charge with American Express
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by ssharp 2y ago
Another strange part of getting old: The gap between Dookie and American Idiot seems significantly longer to me than the gap between American Idiot and today, yet it's half as long :/
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by ssharp 2y ago
Oddly enough, several professional sports gamblers were aware of a NBA referee manipulating game from their data analysis, well before the NBA became aware of it. That was probably 10+ years ago and I suspect data analysis by the leagues is
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by ssharp 2y ago
Travel from DC through New England is about the only convenient use of Amtrak. Travel times in the midwest are an absolute joke. 12 hours from Pittsburgh to New York City vs. a 1-hour flight to Newark and <30 minute ride to Penn Station.
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by ssharp 2y ago
This seems like such a grim value prop. Even if you have a private bedroom, a table service dining option, and bar, you're still on a train, not a hotel. A hotel is not, unless it's a resort, what you're going to the destinat
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by ssharp 2y ago
Sure, the average gambler is not sophisticated but people who do find edges are generally pretty smart.
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by ssharp 2y ago
There were tons of red flags that were completely set aside. The largest are probably mobile betting and allowing for instant credit card deposits. There is also the fantasy of being able to win money but the reality that if you actually wi
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by ssharp 2y ago
The online (and IRL) sports books will severely limit the amount you can bet if you’re a plus-EV bettor.
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by ssharp 2y ago
For comparison, Apple's stock about 20x'd during Ballmer's tenure and that was after atrocious AAPL performance from 2000-2003. Balmer's biggest failures were mirrored by Apple's enormous success. The two areas this
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by ssharp 2y ago
I keep hearing about people using these for coding. Seems like it would be extremely easy to miss something and then spend more time debugging than it would be to do yourself. I tried recently to have ChatGPT an .htaccess RewriteCond/R

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