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by 205guy 2mo ago
This article starts off well enough and covers some things I had been thinking about myself: exploring the many-dimensional space of an LLM. But then I think it veers into good old human hallucination (buzz-words disconnected from realities
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by 205guy 2mo ago
Just like planting trees, the second best time is now. Travel (with sensitivity and understanding) to see cultures and places that are at risk: glaciers, savanna, wildlife parks, minority cultures, and dare I add Western democracies. Edited
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by 205guy 3mo ago
I hope that pun was intended‽
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by 205guy 3mo ago
Also note that due to isotope decay in the ore, a natural reactor is no longer possible. From the wikipedia article: "A key factor that made the reaction possible was that, at the time the reactor went critical 1.7 billion years ago, t
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by 205guy 4mo ago
Another example is the Honeywell corporation: from thermostats to computers, then parts of defense/aerospace. Looking at its wikipedia, it also seems like one factor of diversification was the WWII war economy where the government paid
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by 205guy 4mo ago
hacker news really needs a best-of page the way craigslist did (sorry, does), just so I can nominate this. Made me discover a great song (and a great cover), with such a wry commentary (the song's and your own comment being spot on for
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by 205guy 5mo ago
Another candidate that I hope isn't vaporware: https://www.telotrucks.com/
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by 205guy 5mo ago
The island of Kaua'i in Hawaii has both tours of a chocolate farm (Lydgate Farms) and a coffee plantation (Kaua'i Coffee) with a visitor center. Just gotta find a conference out there, then hop on a Southwest flight.
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by 205guy 5y ago
Why make (wrong) guesses when you can find the answer in minutes on Wikipedia? Plus it doesn’t make sense to do a TEI with unnecessary mass. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module : “The six landed desc
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by 205guy 5y ago
The tile device works for members of my family who misplace their keys OR their phone: https://www.thetileapp.com/
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by 205guy 5y ago
The canal expansion in 2014 was actually completed in one year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal_Area_Development_Pr...
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by 205guy 6y ago
The boba phenomenon has always surprised me. I enjoy boba, but there are so many other cool slimy-solids-in-sweet-drink to be had at Ranch 99 market (the Chinese supermarkets in California): grass jelly, basil seed drink, nata de coco, and
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by 205guy 6y ago
As others have mentioned, Teslas charge at their fast chargers (and getting faster all the time) spread around the area. Other cars can do the same, or at workplaces. Some new building codes now mandate that the parking be charging ready, s
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by 205guy 6y ago
I remember reading Sun’s financial statements at the time and bragging about huge 50% margins and thinking that can’t last. In some alternate timeline, Sun would’ve lowered their prices, stayed in the game, and we’d all have rock solid Spar
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by 205guy 6y ago
I remember that company towns had to allow private speech, but I never heard that shopping malls had to. I always thought that any protest or disruption or unpopular speech in a mall would get you escorted out by security.
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by 205guy 6y ago
Yes, and if they required the host to live in the space too, 90% of the issues they caused would have been avoided. But “disrupting” VRBO’s market by making it hip and ignoring all those pesky regulations (BnB licensing) made them realize t
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by 205guy 6y ago
This is a great distillation of the issues, getting to the second order effects. I hope @pg thinks about this.
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by 205guy 6y ago
It still does in non-mobile browser tabs—and my iPad Safari can be set to non-mobile user agent (or whatever, it’s in the settings). So I can listen to YouTube and browse the internet, including HN, on iPad and desktop. I use most services
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by 205guy 6y ago
> Atomic Park on Bodega Head, but that never happened for now probably obvious environmental reasons. I think you mean tectonic reasons. Bodega Head is on the San Andreas Fault, not far from the epicenter of the 1906 San Francisco earthq
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by 205guy 6y ago
tl;dr from the video itself: "the blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds." I'd forgotten the commentary by the reporter.
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by 205guy 6y ago
It is art, but the author also said he reads it daily to get a news digest. It is full-sized and sharp, so just as easy to read as a newspaper, and also hanging at eye-height. I can also see it as part of a news diet: get the headlines and
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by 205guy 6y ago
I got caught up in all his videos and had the same question. Fortunately, he has a dedicated video where he answers this with testing on the scope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCbAafKLqC8 tl;dr is what the sibling comme
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by 205guy 6y ago
I want to second that and add: grab a few tools and do some basic landscaping. Remove weeds and cut grass that is growing over curbs and sidewalks. Make it look tidy again.
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by 205guy 6y ago
There were 2 replies that I want to summarize together: empowering the current residents as part of the renewal, and rent control. I think as part of the urban improvement is to work with the renters and landlords to let the renters capture
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by 205guy 6y ago
Not quite your description of bully becoming the bully, but I knew someone who was bullied who became a needy adult that used emotional abuse in their relationships. The person was high functioning on the autism spectrum and had been taunte
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by 205guy 6y ago
Yes in the general case, but not for text editing software. Discoverability is great in modern GUIs, for example a photos app on a mobile device. There are lots of options and they’re all mostly independent and needed in different cases. So
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by 205guy 6y ago
I agree, it is clearly a clickbait title with the keyword of "reaction" to imitate that type of youtube video title. Then again it might be tongue-in-cheek, but since it fits the content perfectly, it's always hard to tell.
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by 205guy 6y ago
You could short Tesla stock. It is well proven that the free market will correct mistakes like this. /s
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by 205guy 6y ago
Just watch out for left-hand exits like the HOV lanes at the Hwy 85 split going southbound. Let's start "Falsehoods self-driving programmers believe about roads:" All highway exits are to the right from the right-hand lane. I
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by 205guy 6y ago
Picks up the mouse and speaks into it: "Computer?" Classic scene: https://youtu.be/xaVgRj2e5_s?t=171 Star Trek isn't my favorite sci-fi show/movie, but they really nailed some futurism and in this case,

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