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Nice app! Feedback since you asked: The most obvious must-have feature IMO is to paste automatically. Don't require me to hit a shortcut (or at least make it configurable) The next…

> where you have control over your estate via the will, maximally until some time after the death of a specific named person who was alive at the time of your death. (which I find …

Not automatically but you can switch to a lower power model and access more free requests. I think Gemini 2.5 Flash is 250 requests per day.

True but industrial grade natural diamonds are very inexpensive in comparison to jewelry quality ones.

You'd like this then: https://hackernewsbooks.com

I've run into something similar twice now in the last month. A candidate pauses or says 'let me think about that' on a relatively simple question as if to give an LLM time to respo…

Of course it increases the risk - it's the whole point of the ask.

Manhattan is a better example - there is no fast alternative route between the city and airport, and that's why you see a lot of helicopter transfers. I can see this working in a l…

Would you mind clarifying which one you found so helpful? The parent commenter mentioned two books

I keep reading this, but I haven't been able to find much data on intentional vs. accidental consumption with the exception of people who thought they were taking heroin. Do you ha…

Some of them are, some not as much. There are certainly more obvious poetic devices like a "murder of crows" yet there are still many other collective nouns that are more "legitima…

While the numbers for the macro economy may be pretty good - for the tech sector they're terrible.

It's the very beginning of the wave. 30 is quite young and if you know ML now is the time to give it a shot. It is not in any way too late.

Still growing and the main reason worldwide population continues to increase. That said it is projected to slow down over the next several generations like other areas.

This is why you see a number of hotels linking the A/C (and electricity etc) to keycards. If the keycard isn't in the slot, then the A/C isn't running.

This is something I've been wanting for a while now, and I even considered doing exactly what you're doing and trying to figure out OCR myself. The reason I wanted it is because I …

I believe that in many cases judges have discretion to reverse a guilty verdict returned by a jury if there are problems with evidence. They can't do this later though - once the v…

Nice looking site and design - kudos. I don't think there is anything wrong with the idea but you do have to compete with easier alternatives (e.g. credit cards, gofundme, craigsli…

> Maybe, just maybe, if I set things up right, this effort will be worth it. Worth it how? For your own curiosity or in some meaningfully productive way for your future self? > May…

Just FYI - Pihole won't block video ads on Youtube on your TV because it is limited to DNS blocking. Youtube is structured such that blocking the necessary domains would block all …

I haven't, but thanks for the tip!

I think Flying Goose is decent flavor-wise - but it lacks a lot of heat in comparison, and thus doesn't work so well (for me) as a substitute.