victorp13

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by victorp13 8mo ago
All is fair in love and dealing with car dealers.
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by victorp13 1y ago
Small nuance, but the term ワープロ馬鹿 actually is unrelated to software like MS Word, and refers to the at one point ubiquitous ワープロ (Word Pro) dedicated hardware device that many Japanese people owned in the 80s/90s to write letters. Read
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by victorp13 1y ago
Also Google the "Sin of riba". Islam was really on to something if you ask me (disclaimer: not a religious person).
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by victorp13 2y ago
> Last thing I'll say is, you know your API is good when "S3 compatable API" is a selling point of your competitors. Counter-point: You know that you're the dominant player. See: .psd, .pdf, .xslx. Not particularly go
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by victorp13 2y ago
Does anyone happen to know if ChatGPT's voice feature uses audio compression similar to Opus? Especially the "heavy 30 percent receiver-side packet loss" example sounds a LOT like the experience I have sometimes.
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by victorp13 3y ago
You can export to PNG and other formats in the Mermaid editor https://mermaid.live/
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by victorp13 3y ago
Was going to post the exact same here. Economics major. Making this comparison shows lack of insight into what a central bank actually does, or the power it yields.
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by victorp13 3y ago
Tried both for quite some time, Obsidian has better community plugin support, better sync (paid) and stores plain text files instead of using a DB. Most importantly the mobile app (at least for iOS) of Obsidian is 1:1 with the desktop app.
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by victorp13 3y ago
No eggplant, and no peach. What happened to the internet?
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by victorp13 3y ago
Bit harsh, could have worded that less blunt than "pathetic".
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by victorp13 4y ago
$ Write an opinion article entitled 'AI chatbots are having their "tulip mania" moment'
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by victorp13 4y ago
Did you... just quote my favourite car of all times, the GT-Four?!
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by victorp13 4y ago
Narita (New Tokyo Airport) is exactly the same distance away, in the exact opposite direction.
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by victorp13 4y ago
Could you put the name of the shop on each search result? That way people can better pick their shop of choice (and avoid the ones they do not want to buy from).
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by victorp13 4y ago
Note how these folks are moving to the next slide using a barcode scanner. Like an absolute boss!
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by victorp13 4y ago
I didn't laugh in exactly the same way I didn't laugh at actual Seinfeld jokes. In that sense, it was absolutely uncanny.
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by victorp13 4y ago
Self-driving cars will be popularized by people not having to pay (increasingly expensive) accident insurance. Once human driving becomes prohibitively expensive, it'll be reserved for the 'elite' who get a kick out of drivin
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by victorp13 5y ago
I'm curious as to what the movie/tv industry's role is in this increase in solitary drinking. I was an active 'solo' drinker as well, who recently stopped altogether. Since I stopped I've noticed something pecu
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by victorp13 5y ago
As the storage cost is very low, why not use both? Not trying to be obtuse, but I genuinely typically have separate columns in my schema design for booleans and the timestamps of these events flipping from false to true (published, edited).
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by victorp13 6y ago
Generic question: I see a lot of news articles stating that WSB has "10 million members". Does being a 'member' go beyond clicking the 'join' button on that subreddit? If so it's more like a 'follow t
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by victorp13 6y ago
Found in the Skyline FAQ that you can turn on anonymously sharing private repo contributions: https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-yo...
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by victorp13 7y ago
I sometimes have thoughts like these. Mostly, before coffee in the morning. I never actually feel the need though to actually go ahead and post them. Kindly reflect on what you did, and where this is coming from.
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by victorp13 7y ago
This is not at all "the accepted way" in Germany.
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by victorp13 7y ago
EE? Electrical Engineer?
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by victorp13 8y ago
Don't just count deaths: Nuclear fallout has profound long-term negative effects that coal accidents do not. At Fukushima, nearly 80.000 people are still displaced, almost eight years later. Source: http://www.reconstruction
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by victorp13 10y ago
That's a fake account.
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by victorp13 11y ago
Such an edge case. Typical example of user feedback that leads to software bloat. There are a great number of workarounds for your 'problem'.
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by victorp13 11y ago
The photo is in fact wrongly captioned at the source, gettyimages. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/japan-chubu-reg... Makes it almost certain the author did not pick this caption at all.
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by victorp13 11y ago
13. Work on volunteer projects I set this resolution for myself last year, and have been able to work on three projects via http://socialcoder.org/ - feels very fulfilling!
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by victorp13 13y ago
HANA Enterprise Cloud is a "managed cloud environment". In other words, IaaS or hosted applications at best; not a true SaaS play.

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