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Comment · 9 months ago
If switching to oatmeal, go with the unflavored raw oats. It's not bad once a person gets used to it. Substituting milk with water is also perfectly fine.

Eating a low sugar breakfast does feel pretty healthy.

Comment · 9 months ago
Pretty good! It would be nice to have a little icon showing at the preferred ending location.
Comment · 1 year ago
It’s likely that Google has tested how many ads it can place in search results before users lose patience and turn elsewhere.

On paper, the approach makes sense: push profitability as far as possible. But in practice, it can leave customers feeling squeezed and resentful, much like the increasingly nickel‑and‑dimed atmosphere visitors now complain about in Las Vegas, and the proliferation of tip screens.

Comment · 1 year ago
It's a fitting title to describe life today for most people.
Comment · 1 year ago
> you'd end up paying $9 a year per developer for the license

Correction: Docker Desktop is $9/month (not $9/year).

Comment · 1 year ago
The article makes valid points. However, many of its recommendations are not practical for the 60% of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck. Even merely contributing to a 401(k) or HSA can be difficult for these families.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Small recommendation: The diagrams on [https://wuu73.org/aicp] are helpful, but clicking them does not display the full‑resolution images; they appear blurry. This occurs in both Firefox and Chrome. In the GitHub repository, the same images appear sharp at full resolution, so the issue may be caused by the JavaScript rendering library.
Comment · 1 year ago
And a semicolon, AI really likes semicolons.
Comment · 1 year ago
What does TFA stand for?
Comment · 1 year ago
I’d sign up for a service that calls a pharmacy on my behalf to refill prescriptions. In certain situations, pharmacies will not list prescriptions on their websites, even though they have the prescriptions on file, which forces the customer to call by phone — a frustrating process.

I do feel bad for pharmacists, their job is challenging in so many ways.

Comment · 1 year ago
I would pay for YouTube premium if you can afford it. The cost is pretty reasonable and 55% of the subscription goes to content creators. It's not a huge amount but probably similar to what a creator would make if ads were shown.
Comment · 2 years ago
Imagine being able to tell an app to call the IRS during the day, endure the on-hold wait times, then ask the question to the IRS rep and log the answer. Then deliver the answer when you get home.

Or, have the app call a pharmacy every month to refill prescriptions. For some drugs, the pharmacy requires a manual phone call to refill which gets very annoying.

So many use cases for this.

Comment · 2 years ago
In that example, "s" has two meanings: 1. A table being joined. 2. A column being summed.

For clarity, they should have assigned #2 to a different variable letter.

Comment · 2 years ago
Sandboxie works pretty well.

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