BillSims

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by BillSims 27d ago
Do any other old people here remember getting bitten by mosquitos seems like multiple times a day as a child and realize now that they don't remember having a mosquito bite in the last decade or more? Any plausible idea why that might
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by BillSims 7mo ago
I can't make a case for AI versus not AI versus bad human. I am not counting comments or flagged. I'm only counting the number of new articles in the last 24 hours that remain visible at about 4p.m. west coast time in news.ycombin
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by BillSims 8mo ago
Did anybody let https://haveibeenpwned.com/ know about this before the file was taken down?
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by BillSims 8mo ago
All the temporary or uncertain or impractical wishes are discarded because of your constraint. One satisfying wish would be when adults recognize that some 15 year olds do not have and likely never will have any interpersonal skills or emot
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by BillSims 9mo ago
A year or more ago some poor guy asked a simple SO or SE question. I studied that for a while, tried multiple carefully crafted Google queries until I found one that gave a good correct AI result, posted a reply NOT POSTING THE AI RESPONSE,
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by BillSims 2y ago
Does anyone know of a moderately cheap gadget that I could strap onto my head at night which would detect REM/non-REM sleep and that would trigger short bits of audio that I had previously recorded? Is anybody out there doing anything
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by BillSims 2y ago
Different issue in Chrome scroll, probably not related. Win 10,32 bit,any of last dozens of updates to chrome if that matters. Open chrome. Left mouse click All Bookmarks. Tap up arrow key to scroll to the bottom of long list. Begin to slid
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by BillSims 2y ago
Be careful what you wish for. Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pa...
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by BillSims 2y ago
Wow! Vinegar, either 2 tblsp raw or diluted 2 tblsp/cup, is vile. Which makes me wonder: 2 tblsp = 30 grams @ 5% = 1.5 grams acetic acid = 2 grams sodium acetate. Assuming sodium acetate instantly dissociates when it hits stomach acid,
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by BillSims 2y ago
Could there be something like this, not a therapist, perhaps a live coach or mentor or an ai app, not directed at just the smaller task of dating, but directed at life and work and everything else. This could be aimed at the autistic and th
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by BillSims 2y ago
https://oeis.org/search?q=945%2C1575%2C2205%2C2835%2C3465&la...
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by BillSims 2y ago
I am guessing if you ask the people around you why they formed a group against you that they will likely not give you an honest helpful answer. Is there any chance that you could find someone outside the group with great social skills who c
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by BillSims 3y ago
This "The team found that noise-induced hearing loss, which affects millions of Americans, stems from cellular damage in the inner ear that is associated with an excess of free-floating zinc — a mineral that is essential for proper cel
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by BillSims 3y ago
Is there any chance someone at Microsoft is going to insert a CPU compatibility check before bug-patch-Tuesday force installs these on millions of machines? WindowsReport.com cautions about KB5034203 on older CPUS and I have some older mach
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by BillSims 3y ago
Many many many years ago I believe a very elderly friend of mine actually told me, or maybe they were told this by very elderly friends of theirs, that they and a couple of their friends had attended a nazi rally where Hitler spoke and this
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by BillSims 3y ago
I do see some results from a fairly long list of Google Alerts every day, some good, some not, so I don't think that Google Alerts have completely failed, at least not for me. I do ask to see All Results, not just Best Results, and I c
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by BillSims 3y ago
"How to tell that You know and a few don't and what you really need to do about that." The opening paragraph is "Likely you and your friends have a much better idea what the future is going to be for a few people that yo
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by BillSims 3y ago
I continually get emails "thanks for signing up" where someone gave a fakename@gmail.com and they happened to pick my email id. Ah, the stories I could tell. I've spent years trying to convince some places that I didn't
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by BillSims 3y ago
You might take at the book "Limitless Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life" by Jim Kwik. Read the 18 pages of chapter 1 and see whether you think it is worth reading more. You can peek at a s
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by BillSims 3y ago
> An earlier version of this article misstated the unit of measurement used in the collection of tears.
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by BillSims 3y ago
> and collected seven microlitres of my tears. Perhaps milliliters was a typo later corrected
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by BillSims 3y ago
First I take responsibility for most of the failings listed here. Second self-help is a broad subject and I only pursue scrubbing some memories, getting a few frustrating tasks done and increasing some focus/concentration. I've tr
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by BillSims 3y ago
If someone with some experience would take a few moments to describe a "persona" and a behavior that would only take someone a few minutes every day to find and report a small random collection of these scams AND that this would a
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by BillSims 4y ago
The book "The 5 Second Rule" by Mel Robbins has one single idea in it. Some of the example people she describes sound like they are in almost exactly your spot. The author has a couple of past mentions on YC and she has done a Ted
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by BillSims 4y ago
I cannot remember who should get credit for this: rats=bad hair day in sewers and run down buildings versus squirrels=good hair day in the parks and trees, and the squirrels hired a very good public relations firm. See how much of a differe
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by BillSims 4y ago
Trying to get perspective, Google says BofA assets are 2.52T and 44B is 1.75% of that, but with money at that scale the simple percentage may not mean that.
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by BillSims 5y ago
Perhaps https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+nitric+oxide Some are reporting this can be an effective preventative.
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by BillSims 5y ago
Two things that you might look into 1: Pinhole glasses. Those are ordinary frames with opaque "lenses" with a uniform grid of small holes. Some people having problem with the lens in their eye sometimes report that these help. One
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by BillSims 5y ago
I read an academic paper, perhaps a dozen years ago, I've lost that and can't find it now, I REALLY wish I could find that again. They took a group of intellectually "challenged" students and ran them past a panel of jud
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by BillSims 5y ago
I should have done a search. Looks like someone else put this title on the list a while back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23823159 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25860131 I have the 2nd e

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