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by stickydink 4y ago
Is that the right way to view it? If you believe Listerine isn't going anywhere, at that price you're making a reliable 7.5% return that should track with inflation. On something you presumably could sell just as easily as you bou
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by stickydink 5y ago
Question in what way? There are plenty of people opting to die every year by refusing blood transfusions and transplants already.
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by stickydink 5y ago
There is some threshold where it absolutely impacts productivity. If you haven't seen this in action, you're lucky, I've ran into more than one Engineer who is otherwise very smart but somehow never learned to type.
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Instagram disabled artist’s metaverse handle after Facebook rebranded to Meta(theguardian.com)
3 points by stickydink 5y ago|0 comments
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by stickydink 5y ago
If it helps (not that ITV has anything _worth_ watching), I think TV stations recognize this - both ITV and Channel 4 have ad-free on demand options for a few pounds a month
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by stickydink 5y ago
It's going to depend on the country, and exactly what you dig up (bones is going to be different than gold coins). But in the US, dig up a gold bowl in your backyard? You'd do well to contact a museum or something, but it's y
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by stickydink 5y ago
Good luck catching 2 Michael Phelps in the river
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Apple bans Fortnite from App Store indefinitely(theguardian.com)
9 points by stickydink 5y ago|0 comments
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by stickydink 5y ago
Requirements for "Goldfish" and "Tropical Fish" are listed under the "Small, Harmless, Cold–Blooded Animals" section
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by stickydink 5y ago
Speaking as someone who really doesn't know how long these things take, is this accurate? > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT59YOdch8M > Typically this type of project would take a team months to complete and we
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by stickydink 5y ago
If there's a chance there's any kind of life over there, don't rush into touching it - something could potentially wipe the whole place out.
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by stickydink 5y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...
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by stickydink 5y ago
I think that changed a while ago - regular lambda functions being billed per millisecond? This is Lambda@Edge catching up.
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by stickydink 5y ago
Apple guidelines, section 3.1.1, regarding in-app purchases: >Apps may use in-app purchase currencies to enable customers to “tip” the developer or digital content providers in the app. Section 3.1.2(d), regarding permissible use of othe
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BuzzFeed lays off 47 HuffPost workers less than a month after acquisition(theguardian.com)
20 points by stickydink 6y ago|8 comments
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by stickydink 6y ago
(I'm not super informed in this space) AWS WorkSpaces purports to have machines with meaty GPU's, are they not powerful enough?
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by stickydink 6y ago
I'm not incredibly familiar, but I watched some of those tasty videos I referenced. It certainly looked like there was somebody in there unconscious, with a Dr gowned up. Tubes and cameras and robot arms inserting various things. Depen
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by stickydink 6y ago
Exactly what it sounds like. Fecal matter from a healthy person, transplanted into the GI system of an unhealthy person. Benefits come from all the "good bacteria" living in there that are missing. YouTube has some deliciously inf
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by stickydink 6y ago
App Store also allows you to reset the ratings when you launch an update
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by stickydink 6y ago
Not sure how much I'd trust my brain for this kind of thing... Thinking "I better not press that eject button!" might be problematic
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Game of Thrones video game tycoon dies in suspected poisoning(theguardian.com)
8 points by stickydink 6y ago|0 comments
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by stickydink 6y ago
The best life hack I ever did, have iOS and Mac autoreplace "@@" with your email address.
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by stickydink 6y ago
I have never known anybody that died of the flu. I personally know of 4 people (in 2 different countries) - family, friends, or family of friends, who have died from Covid. None were over 60. I don't know that many people. This is not
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by stickydink 6y ago
The government
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by stickydink 6y ago
That'll be Tencent, smartphone gaming revenue over $5bn USD in Q2 alone https://cdc-tencent-com-1258344706.image.myqcloud.com/upload...
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by stickydink 6y ago
It's nice but, for the service, per-node pricing is frustrating. Maybe our workload is unusual, but I'm running something at a reasonably small scale, with about 30 nodes. The cluster autoscaler has been so good that we've op
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by stickydink 6y ago
I visited Monterey and noticed some odd markings on the roads. Monterey has induction charging built into the roads along some bus routes. I'm not sure if they're charging along the way, or just at the bus stops? Either way, it&#x
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by stickydink 6y ago
> You may talk with our models. The 2.7B can be interacted with on a 16gb P100 GPU or better. The 9.4B parameter model requires at least two 32gb V100 GPUs to interact with. Still cheaper to rent humans!
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by stickydink 6y ago
Yep. It's near impossible. Somebody (presumed ex- or current-employee) took handful of iOS devices from our office a few months ago. Changed the password to the Apple ID, added 2FA phone number. The account isn't even deleted, and
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by stickydink 6y ago
Now, obviously, someone has to run this through Jukebox? https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23032243

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