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Re:LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document on Monday December 02, 2024 @12:59PM (#42298591)
FYI missing an `h` in Thymine label

looks excellent

Re:Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs on Thursday November 14, 2024 @11:21AM (#42137732)
Generally not for Masters' programs though, which is the most popular and easiest way to get a temporary study visa. Then they pay out of state tuition rates.
Re:Why Does Everyone Run Ancient Postgres Versions? on Thursday October 17, 2024 @10:29PM (#41875871)
JSON - er JSON-based document storage - documents with unique identifiers. and the ability to define and set schemas for the JSON, and ... we're back to a relational database
Shocking!

No wait, predictable.

This is premeditated nefariousness! Horrible
there's a workaholic / achievement / perfectionist satisfaction aspect at play - hustle to make yourself into an idealized version of self. Since achieving this is difficult, gradual, and ultimately impossible, it becomes a perpetual distraction.
Wow pretty amazing. This seems to point very clearly to a muscle tension issue. The piercing into some area on your head may have helped some chronic tension to release, stopping the migraines.
worse yet some moron sets the search type to "regex"
I suppose two case studies worth exploring are:

Consumer Reports (subscription magazine recurring revenue) NY times Wirecutter (a potential add on service to boost apparent value for subscribers)

Your note on affiliate marketing is what makes your first statement potentially unachievable. How does a consumer "know" that a product is significantly better to the point of "worth paying for"? There's always another free (potentially ad supported) affiliate marketer (or 5) around the corner. (Also considering the "worst" version of this "product" is an unskippable ad").

I don't know the solution

Re:AI garbage is already polluting the internet on Friday March 29, 2024 @05:13PM (#39869090)
Wasn't the NY times founded way before the microchip?

zing!

people can find multiple ways to get to the same product. once your way starts charging they will find another way.
they're either paying or it was a gift from sama
Re:Show HN: File-based cache for slow Python functions on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @11:37AM (#39756877)
FWIW There is a built-in cache system for r markdown documents. I'm not up to speed on their exact implementation but I have found it useful.

https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown-cookbook/cache.html

Re:Show HN: File-based cache for slow Python functions on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @11:35AM (#39756849)
Because they are generally incredibly computationally expensive operations that can take hours/days to complete (?more)
Re:Show HN: File-based cache for slow Python functions on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @11:32AM (#39756816)
The degree of reduction is nice considering the countless times in the past where I wrote my own file cache logic using if/else statements, temporary files, pickle, and bespoke sqlite databases.

Why give myself the headache of maintaining so much extra code when someone already wrote it.

Which is a valid business model.

But doesn't make sense when you've personally purchased the machine to do the printing. At this point you should be your own print shop.

I use LLMs to double check/write python pandas code so I don't need to use Libreoffice/spreadsheet software.
Re:ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @10:46PM (#39463008)
But you can "add humor" to your communication with light joking - often with a self-depreciative take

"I'll get back to you assuming I remember where my head is tonight!"

Re:OpenAI postmortem – Unexpected responses from ChatGPT on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @10:42PM (#39462974)
Does the API offer "fixed" models that don't change? I was under the impression they did.
So cool!

Maybe someone will write a parser to convert x language -> English valid python (or any language, just starting simple)

Shouldn't be terribly difficult with some help from AI:

https://chat.openai.com/share/14d4b7b2-fb87-4887-803e-0ecee7...

Re:Why the fuck are we templating YAML? (2019) on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @02:06PM (#39108045)
Just make another named list key called "comment". Problem solved.
It doesn't compound because you aren't repurchasing more treasuries with your interest.
Re:Ilya: AGI must be CEO, humanity be the board (2020) on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @02:34PM (#38368800)
Considering the CEO - Board organization is (very roughly) executive-legislature system (the rest of the C suite are the cabinet), is this really such a terrible analogy to how AI and humanity could evolve together?
Re:GPT-4 Update: 32K Context Window Now for All Users on Friday November 03, 2023 @03:58PM (#38134180)
create a sentient being that learns from its experiences so I don't have to keep setting it up with the same prompts over and over, and so I can manufacture "friends".
What is a more proper way to do it? And I'm assuming you aren't talking about an environment file that is part of the codebase - unless your point is that it is very easy to accidentally add the env file to the codebase - then I get your point.
Will banks dump that many short term t bills to cause a problem? Short term t bills are very popular- I’m sure some b2b loans could be settled with a t bill as payment. As long as the us govt is still good for the interest payments I think plenty will be happy with that arrangement, reducing need to convert so much into cash.
Must be careful not to creat a culture of “toxic positivity” where everyone is expected to drink the kool aid, and talking freely about real problems becomes impossible.
Re:Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance on Thursday July 07, 2022 @12:52PM (#32016380)
But all the “magic” that makes the scientific stack so great is largely due to numpy (and many other Fortran or c driven code) being fantastic. Python is the glue scripting language for organizing and calling procedures. That’s,IMO, it’s original and core purpose.

Now the fact that you can do some fun metaprogramming shenanigans in Python just speaks to how nice it is to write.

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