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willcannings
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Comment #45218982
Most? Almost all my requests to the "Auto" model end up being routed to a "thinking" model, even those I think ChatGPT would be able to answer fine without extra reasoning time. Ne…
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Comment #38878423
You can distribute to "internal" testers (people you add to your developer account) without any review process. The app is only reviewed if you want to distribute to external teste…
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Comment #10017909
They used sentence dependency graphs - in this sentence "John", "trash" and "out" are dependencies of "threw". There's a few variants, but the graph construction rules are standard…
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Comment #7351679
People with depression do not generally have low serotonin levels, and it's unlikely low serotonin is the cause of chronic depression. If it was, serotonin agonists would be effect…
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Comment #5679242
You possibly didn't fool them - they may have suspected you were faking the symptoms, but when a patient shows up to a psychologist/psychiatrist on their own volition it suggests t…
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Comment #2007264
It's interesting seeing differences between countries. Like the author said in the comments, 401k isn't an "issue" in Australia. I don't know how 401k works, but Superannuation in …
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Comment #1997087
Re #1 and #3, that's not really true. They performed a manual landing, and the procedure in any emergency is to 'follow the book' regardless of the type of plane being flown. Their…
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Comment #1954074
Other implementations you haven't mentioned like MacRuby are much faster. In my totally unscientific and completely biased benchmarks (small tests related to the type of work I do …
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Comment #1949975
"By lacking sophistication, I mean a system of alternative capital (VC) that fully recognises Startups as a serious way to generate wealth" That's definitely changing, e.g Innovati…
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Comment #1936720
Take a look at some of the other projects on Kaggle - a lot of them have no money or roughly similar amounts. One of the main crowds Kaggle attracts is University students and staf…
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Comment #1919915
That's really a comment about your distro, not about Ruby or Rails. It /should/ be as simple as installing Ruby, then `gem install rails`. If it's not then something is broken with…
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Comment #1851633
You already have a lot of advice :) But I'll add that if you focus on negative memories a lot you may need to consider if you have OCD or an anxiety disorder, and the anhedonia cou…
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Comment #1824921
Yeah their credits are a bit sneaky :) Twilio only supports US numbers which is a problem. If you're looking at telephony companies, Tropo ( https://www.tropo.com/ ) is only 2c per…
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Comment #1824892
That doesn't scale to the rest of the world though. At least here in Australia you're free to port your number to any carrier at any time (I'm on my third carrier with the same num…
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Comment #1824729
Beware of moonshado unless you're sending marketing messages - their support pages state that all texts sent from them have this footer: "Msg&Data rate may apply txt STOP to opt-ou…
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Comment #1803221
I think it's better to say that they do it exceptionally well with scale. Most algorithms are conceptually simple (once you understand them), but to make them efficient on the sort…
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Comment #1779588
I normally read. Nothing that will get me excited or thinking too much, like some easy books or a newspaper. But - if you frequently can't sleep it's possibly a sign you're stresse…
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Comment #1778772
Sorry, that was a bad typo :) I pay $450 a quarter, so $150 a month. Fixed my comment.
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Comment #1778676
I'd just add electricity to this list - I normally spend around ~$450 a quarter at a two bedroom place (in Sydney), so for one person you'd perhaps be looking ~$100 p.mth depending…
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Comment #1762967
> Really? That's news to me. How do they check? Typically diagnosis is made after an interview (about an hour) and questionnaires. If there's some doubt about the diagnosis you may…