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Comment #49247315
Why suffer hunger for the rest of your life when you can inject a drug weekly and it takes only 2 minutes? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/well/eat/ozempic-food-noi...
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Comment #49247225
Diminishing returns though. Once everyone is on glp-1, noone gets an employment advantage from it anymore. I still recommend riding the wave as long as it works.
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Comment #49247185
The study also paints this as "kind of unfair against women", but didn't include men at all.
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Comment #49240532
Yes, but I do instruct it to give me the explanations. Maybe that helps.
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Comment #49240522
That explains a lot, thank you. Still a weird quirk that the dirty gas is considered an elite symbol.
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Comment #49235742
The article is unclear: Do they "attack" the GenX managers and encrypt their stuff, or do they simply contact GenX managers in order to get paid faster? In that case, the managers …
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Comment #49232861
Not our problem to solve.
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Comment #49232299
I don't get it. Did the US never get electric stoves? They're over 100 years old tech at this point. It's weird that noone here mentions there are electric stoves between gas and i…
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Comment #49212520
I'm getting all my questions (3-10 each evening) answered by "Gemini Pro Extended" in the free tier, sometimes with PDFs or photos attached. I wouldn't bother with anything "free" …
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Comment #49189522
He never said northerners don't get the same benefit. The contrast was obviously with Sahrawis on the Polisario side, which stay poor and Moroccans outside of the Sahara, which hav…
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Comment #49189465
I don't think you'll be able to argue with Moroccans. If they criticize their dictator they land in prison, so..
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Comment #49189129
What's so hard about having the LLM tool calls scoped to the tenant? Inject "X-Scope-I" after the LLM decided on a tool call and you're done. Easiest fix ever.
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Comment #49165771
The interviewer might also just be a cog in the machine and know how it works. "Just solve it and I'll note down an A+" is sometimes better than "candidate was honest, but didn't f…
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Comment #49165728
Maybe they were judging your perseverance and conduct, not whether you actually finished the work.
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Comment #49152445
If they continue doing this, delay your responses and keep them short. Don't spend more time on the response than they did on the question.
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Comment #49151027
Should have started with writing your own blog posts.
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Comment #49134354
Worked for a company with a 3D web application (among other things.) Those things can't be tested with Playwright et al. So the team had a "every pull request gets an instance like…
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Comment #49127972
This is typical institutional behaviour. The CEO turns to the CTO and asks "Is there anything I need to know in my company?" He doesn't want to be caught off-guard when the White H…
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Comment #49125609
Honestly, i don't need to know what happened internally at Google when I searched. I don't need to know what filters an email passed before it landed in my inbox. I don't need to k…
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Comment #49123912
Even Wirecard – a fraudulent German bank missing some billions of euros and run by a Russian spy – always blamed bad press. Denials mean nothing.
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Comment #49107702
Google and Apple maps have an offline mode. Just select the area you want downloaded and that's that.
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Comment #49060448
AI slop.
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Comment #49059086
It was mentioned in the Ruff article comments and probably reposted.
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Comment #49048476
If you want to criticize LoL design, simply mention that Pendragon stole all the community hero designs from dota-allstars.com
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Comment #49021058
> few people use it to improve people's lives. Did Tao do that?