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Codex is back

Price change is ChatGPT not Codex, you may be mixing them up, Codex (for coding) remains $200

I really enjoyed my first few Sols. Good work! How did you build it? How long did it take? Will it make money?

The World Conker Championships is an annual event held in England, where competitors from around the world play the traditional game of conkers using chestnuts. Each player threads a chestnut, known as a conker, onto a string and takes turns striking their opponent’s conker, aiming to break it. The tournament follows a knockout format, with players advancing until a world champion is declared. The event has been running since 1965 and has grown in popularity, drawing international participants and spectators.

Answer to headline: They rise so high to save some space, while keeping traffic flowing at a steady pace.

The author says in the first paragraph that he used to play a lot of D&D (dndbeyond.com) and now prefers Dungeon World (dungeon-world.com; PDF is $6). Does anyone know why he might prefer the latter? As context, I play D&D weekly, love it, and am always interested in learning more. Dungeon World is designed to focus on creativity and shared storytelling with simpler mechanics to make the game more fluid. However, there's nothing simpler than having a clear D&D rule for something like fall damage, instead of having the party debate if a player survived the fall. Dungeon World doesn't have fall damage calculator and instead relies in the narrative, presumably from the pre-written story or DM.

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What banks offer low interest lines of credit now that Chase ended FRB’s incentive

On the go: AirPod Pro. On plane: AirPod Max and foam ear plugs. Sleeping: foam ear plugs For me, it’s critical that foam ear plugs be full size and cylindrical. The kind Tim Ferris recommended in his book work poorly for people with larger ear canals. Cylindrical foam ear plugs: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001J4HB1C

I'm told this is the first NLP dataset released by Apple. It translates a portion of the Google Natural Questions data set into 26 languages, https://ai.google.com/research/NaturalQuestions.

Google Cloud does not use customer data for Google's search graph. No cloud does this.

From Google: "At Google Cloud, we do not access customer data for any reason other than those necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you. Technical controls require valid business justifications for any access by support or engineering personnel to your content. Google also performs regular audits of accesses by administrators as a check on the effectiveness of our controls."

Justification reason codes for data access https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/audit/reading-access-t...

That said, I agree with what you've said here: "Laws enshrining natural rights of privacy of personal data can't come soon enough." Nicely put.

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Man on Wire

Both redefined for me what it means to be mission oriented and committed. And I have a Guinness Record, so I thought I was obsessive already, but I’m nothing compared to the commitment of the two men in these documentaries.

Does a noise abatement complaint service like this exist for garbage trucks that come in the middle of the night?

The author is a middlebox employee (IPS, IDS, Firewall, NAT, WAN optimizers, LBs). Middlebox people want unencrypted transport headers, because they literally profit from unencrypted headers. :) Everyone else, including users, site operators, and software engineers writing network software prefer that middleboxes not be able to see or tamper with transport headers (both for privacy, avoiding bugs, and being able to evolve software).

From the original article: "What's wrong with encrypted transport headers? One possible argument is that middleboxes actually serve a critical function in the network, and crippling them isn't a great idea. Do you really want a world where firewalls are unviable? But I work on middleboxes, so of course I'd say that. (Disclaimer: these are my own opinions, not my employer's)."

(Credit for this observation goes to my friend NC.)

Related article by Krebs on Gooogle's security key deployment. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07/google-security-keys-neu...

Related video by me and another googler about anti-phishing work by Google. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu6VkVmRMow