MDWolinski

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by MDWolinski 6mo ago
I asked ChatGPT about that and it gave a nicely reasoned explanation on what AI produces compared to humans. But that being said, the problem I think is that people treat the output from LLMs as final. It should be treated more as idea gene
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Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain(newscientist.com)
140 points by MDWolinski 8mo ago|75 comments
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by MDWolinski 8mo ago
Zangi does this. No idea on their overall security posture compared to Signal, however.
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Cutting Emissions, the Roundabout Way, in New Hampshire(nytimes.com)
1 points by MDWolinski 10mo ago|0 comments
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by MDWolinski 1y ago
The application looks nice but… Why do all these Notion “replacements” seem to think Notion is just an MD editor and note taker. It seems the unique position of notion is the ability to integrate databases into documents much less within ea
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by MDWolinski 1y ago
By this logic, we should be putting a higher tax on commercial vehicles then. Except the proposed bill exempts commercial vehicles, so... In Virginia, I pay a lot higher rate for my EV than my wife does for her ICE vehicle. Which, I agree w
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Emirates Pilots Implement Strategies to Cut Fuel Use and Emissions(airguide.info)
6 points by MDWolinski 2y ago|3 comments
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by MDWolinski 2y ago
I think the Game of Thrones type entries still are calendar entries to block time for personal events and not really To-Dos necessarily. I know plenty of people who block their calendars for personal time.
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by MDWolinski 2y ago
I recall an experiment with bees I read about where the bees were in a box. One path went to food, another to little balls which had no value to bees. Yet the bees would go “play” with the balls. The article and scientists state that this m
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Evangelicals Use Digital Surveillance to Target the Unconverted(newrepublic.com)
30 points by MDWolinski 3y ago|7 comments
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by MDWolinski 3y ago
You can plug in the Battery and just keep working, so as long as you’re not moving around a lot, that works great.
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by MDWolinski 3y ago
Agree with this. In the Louvre, there are many pieces of art not protected from potential damage that people who didn’t care could have protested at. Given that it was the Mona Lisa, I’m sure the thought that the protest would make a statem
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by MDWolinski 3y ago
New categories of hardware don't need a killer app at launch to be successful. VisiCalc wasn't available day one of the Apple II being released. What was the Macs killer app? Laser Printer? Adobe photoshop? The killer app for
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by MDWolinski 3y ago
Meh. This is just latching on to some large companies (Netflix, etc) who already stated they won't be building custom apps for it. Netflix doesn't even have a native Mac app, so it's not surprising that they wouldn't ha
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by MDWolinski 3y ago
Not to be argumentative, just wondering, has there been a case related to iCloud access that Apple has ever blacklisted someone? Certainly, I've heard of Meta and other companies doing not, but don't recall Apple outside of secur
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by MDWolinski 3y ago
No, I fully agree, the idea being that there’s a standard set of analytics and a way to report on them that apps can openly support. Granted the odd ball out would be Apple and if they’d support the analytics in their podcast app, but much
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by MDWolinski 3y ago
It’s amazing how little analytics there are on podcast listening by default as a standard that all apps should provide. Stuff like if an episode was started, marked as listened (but not actually listened to), etc. I get the reason for this
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by MDWolinski 3y ago
Agree that this change doesn’t address what happened. I’m studying for my PPL and certainly very inexperienced at this but this accident seems to be a combination of many mistakes on everyone’s part. I know when instructor and I were going
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by MDWolinski 3y ago
The point of that answer in specific is so the specialist doesn’t make up an answer if they’re not 100% sure it’s the right answer for the customer. Its goal was to make the specialist feel it’s okay to say you don’t know to the customer bu
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by MDWolinski 3y ago
The problem with society is that we live in a world where everyone demands answers NOW and people in positions that need to provide answers MUST give answers. So regardless if a politician or authority figure knows the answer or not, everyo
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by MDWolinski 3y ago
Would you like it better if everything was bills? I agree that the change just accumulates and it’s even worse in Euro where 1 and 2 euros are coins.
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by MDWolinski 3y ago
Business value is the value that a business creates through sales or services. So essentially, income - expenses + goodwill. Market Value is the price of the stock x outstanding shares. The problem lies in that a stock price does not nece
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by MDWolinski 3y ago
One day, I hope, people will inherently understand that Market Value != Business Value. Particularly in these days of extremely high valuation. The stock market does not equal the economy. At best, it equals what 1% of the population thin
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by MDWolinski 3y ago
Yep, we rented a Tesla from Hertz during a recent vacation. Took a small pebble in the window causing a 1-inch spider crack on the lower part of it. Over $1200 repair bill sent to us for it, luckily we had insurance through our credit card
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by MDWolinski 3y ago
I didn’t think the current OSs supported these to enable song loading.
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by MDWolinski 3y ago
Agree on the opinionated nature of the OS. I'm an Apple diehard since the Apple ][+ but as an adult these days, I'm also tired of the Puritan overlord that Apple is. Software wise, create better controls (ie let me lock down app
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Ask HN: Would You Change/Update the iPad
4 points by MDWolinski 3y ago|4 comments
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How often do men think about ancient Rome? Quite frequently, it seems(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by MDWolinski 3y ago|1 comments
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by MDWolinski 3y ago
If there’s profit to be made from lying, assume the worst. In Tesla’s case, the rosy picture was to convince people who had range anxiety over EVs as well as look better against the competition.
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Linda Yaccarino on X(daringfireball.net)
5 points by MDWolinski 3y ago|1 comments

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