cbowal | 4 months ago | on: HTTPS by default
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cbowal | 1 year ago | on: Wonder is acquiring Grubhub
Looks like it's "Fred's Meat and Bread" which is different than the Meet & Bread chain in Vancouver, Calgary, and Austin.
cbowal | 1 year ago | on: AI vs. a giraffe with no spots (2023)
Asking ChatGPT with GPT-4o:
> please describe this image [image]
> The image shows a young giraffe standing on a gravelly surface inside a fenced enclosure. The giraffe has a long neck, characteristic of its species, with a short mane running along the top. Its coat is a light brown color with a paler underbelly. The enclosure has a wire mesh fence and appears to be part of a larger outdoor area, with trees and additional fencing visible in the background. The giraffe is looking directly at the camera with its legs slightly apart, giving it a curious and alert appearance.
> anything unusual?
> Yes, the giraffe in the image appears unusual because it does not have the typical spotted pattern that giraffes are known for. Instead, its coat is a uniform light brown color. Additionally, the body proportions and the facial features look slightly different from a typical giraffe, suggesting it might be a unique or hybrid species, or possibly an artistically altered image. This giraffe also seems to have a different build, with a more compact body and shorter neck compared to most giraffes.
cbowal | 2 years ago | on: Function calling and other API updates
Has anyone seen speed differences with the new gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 model? I've been testing for the past hour and I'm getting responses in about a quarter of the time.
cbowal | 4 years ago | on: Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt'
The "b"
cbowal | 5 years ago | on: Non-Fungible Taylor Swift
The Spotify app shows play counts. I'm seeing, for example, 433M plays of "Love Story" and 65M plays of "Love Story (Taylor's Version)".
Considering that it was released only 3 days ago it seems like the number of plays for the "(Taylor's Version)" is quite incredible.
cbowal | 5 years ago | on: Hate Your Job
@dang should update with (2018)
cbowal | 5 years ago | on: WhatsApp Will Start Showing Ads
"[The messages] will not be advertisements for commercial purposes, but rather for services, always linked to the community or the app."
cbowal | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Podcast API
When I see usage figures touted in the form "Trusted by X companies" I assume X is the total number of signups they've had.
cbowal | 5 years ago | on: HSBC moved vast sums of dirty money after paying record laundering fine
You might be surprised, but many places have similar murder rates to Iceland. For example, Vancouver, Canada had 9 murders in 2019 [1], not far off of the ~2/year that Iceland has [2].
[1] https://www.vancourier.com/news/vancouver-on-pace-to-surpass...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/12/the-murder-that...
cbowal | 5 years ago | on: Understanding Duolingo’s quiet $10M raise
The new seat is an "observer" seat which doesn't have a vote.
cbowal | 6 years ago | on: Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C to Rust
But then it's weird to specify a location. Camrose is a town of 18,000 people – why not make it explicitly remote?
cbowal | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
What does Disney joining FAANG mean? It's acquired?
cbowal | 6 years ago | on: IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax
If you're in Canada I can't recommend SimpleTax [1] enough. Donation-based, so free or what you can pay. Was recently acquired by Wealthsimple.
cbowal | 6 years ago | on: Share Now, formerly Car2Go, is leaving North America
Not OP, but Modo [1] in Vancouver, Canada has exactly this model with a $500 refundable buy-in.
cbowal | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Building websites from Sketch using deep learning – public launch
@johndamaia – your Zillow testimonial has "an" misspelt in "knock ant artboard"
cbowal | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense?
cbowal | 6 years ago | on: Seattle looks to rein in state policy used to push back on big projects
If that chart is accurate it seems that Canadian cities across the board are building more high-rises. I wonder why.
cbowal | 7 years ago | on: Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
Are the workers putting up the capital to purchase the robots?
cbowal | 7 years ago | on: The Scottish Register of Tartans
They do - .scot!
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