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On the Polymarket homepage right now, one of the featured markets is whether or not Bitcoin will be up or down over the next 5 minutes. It's hard to justify that as anything more t…

Concrete counter top mixes usually use either much smaller, or no aggregate and use more sand. The mixes resemble mortar more than concrete and they are typically a little harder a…

Granted, my modeling skills begin and end with Tinkercad but I've actually created some really useful things for around the house and for hobbies -- a plug for my septic drain fiel…

The balancing act of figuring out what you can reasonably rely on from an LLM and what you need to be skeptical or dismissive of is not the type of experience an iPhone user should…

>> Variant B improved conversion rate (CVR) or Add-to-Cart (ATC) rate? Roll it out. Basing rollouts on add-to-cart rate is generally not a great idea, particularly for experiments …

I get the sentiment but was this actually some big launch announcement? When I look at the store online, you have to dig a bit just to even find the product.

Where I live, bald-faced hornets and yellowjackets are very aggressive. Yellowjackets will also build nests inside of structures, in the ground, etc. where it's sometimes very diff…

I've used the Tacbo Bel AI drive-thru and came away with the same thought. I kind of groaned at first but it was very accurate, even when making adjustments.

> But actually, Amazon, Apple etc aren't natural homes for this, they don't need to burn money to chase it. Why wouldn't consumer AI be a natural home for Apple? Apple is constantl…

Every tool I've tinkered with that hints at one-shotting (or one-shot and then refine) ends up with a messy app that might be 60-70% of what you're looking for but since the founda…

I've always guessed that they are able to tell when you called/what you called about, but they simply don't give that level of information to their frontline folks.

If you magnify Alice in Chains' beginnings and pretend like Andrew Wood hadn't died and Pearl Jam never existed and Mother Love Bone became popular, the hair metal influence become…

I'm not sure about Census but Fivetran's free plan has met my needs to sync data from different ad platforms to BigQuery pretty well. One of their pitfalls is charging by the row. …

> “the Google executive Jerry Dischler said this was not a “hallucination” – where AI systems invent untrue information – but rather a reflection of the fact the untrue information…

The "Playing different pitches" section plays "The Final Countdown", arguably the greatest synth riff of all time. If you know it, just click the rhythm on that section.

I understand the thinking behind some of this but I don't think it's right. My first language was GW-Basic so I grew up and enjoyed this era. However, if I want to start working on…

I've had to do this a few times for various reasons and got cancellation confirmations from the companies after the chargeback happened. Obviously, this would be much different put…

> Most banks will report it to your credit bureau - you won't see it in form of points being withheld BUT it might be adverse for you when you try to get a loan, etc I never knew t…

My workaround to this has been to email the company telling them I want to cancel. Once I either don't get a reply, or get a reply saying "just call us and we'll cancel!", I disput…

Another strange part of getting old: The gap between Dookie and American Idiot seems significantly longer to me than the gap between American Idiot and today, yet it's half as long…

Oddly enough, several professional sports gamblers were aware of a NBA referee manipulating game from their data analysis, well before the NBA became aware of it. That was probably…

Travel from DC through New England is about the only convenient use of Amtrak. Travel times in the midwest are an absolute joke. 12 hours from Pittsburgh to New York City vs. a 1-h…

This seems like such a grim value prop. Even if you have a private bedroom, a table service dining option, and bar, you're still on a train, not a hotel. A hotel is not, unless it'…

Sure, the average gambler is not sophisticated but people who do find edges are generally pretty smart.

There were tons of red flags that were completely set aside. The largest are probably mobile betting and allowing for instant credit card deposits. There is also the fantasy of bei…