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by daoboy 4d ago
The domain was purchased and redesigned. It still exists but lost something ineffable in the process.
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by daoboy 4d ago
So glad to see this preserved. It was sad to discover zombocom finally died an undignified death earlier this year.
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by daoboy 19d ago
We're evolutionarily programmed to stop everything and focus on anything that elicits fear in our environment. Enormous amounts of money has been invested to design algorithms that capture our attention with fear because they need your
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by daoboy 29d ago
I'm on my last Samsung for this reason. Just way too much bloatware, need to agree to a new privacy policy once a week, and every time it updates I find a few new apps on my phone I didn't want. Gonna hold out for the Motorola&#x2
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Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans(nature.com)
3 points by daoboy 1mo ago|0 comments
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by daoboy 2mo ago
This is one of the few places I ever engage on the internet, but I think it may be time for HN to be read-only, too. This didn't seem especially controversial of a comment, and even here there's no end of the rotten attitudes for
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by daoboy 2mo ago
Although the author turned out to be a fairly despicable person, Prime Obsession is an absolutely wonderful book on this subject.
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by daoboy 4mo ago
My earliest introduction to locusts was as a biblical plague. These Sunday school lessons did not include pictures. I always imagined some twisted diminutive demonic swarm of insects, and was disappointed to finally discover they were just
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by daoboy 4mo ago
That homebrew page is pure gold. Thank you for the suggestion!
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by daoboy 4mo ago
That's very similar to the setup I'm working on, including the stand. Thanks for sharing! One of the appealing features on the Note Max was the screen size (13.3"). How do you find working on such a small screen?
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by daoboy 4mo ago
I'm desperately awaiting the perfect eink device for this. I've got a great writing setup on Obsidian that really works for me, a royal kludge mechanical keyboard...just waiting on the next gen of eink The Boox One Note Max was so
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by daoboy 5mo ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834195
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by daoboy 5mo ago
I understood that the move to non-replaceable batteries was at least partially driven by water resistance *Edit. Not sure why people are downvoting. I didn't make a positive declaration. HN didn't used to be this way for completel
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by daoboy 5mo ago
There are a handful of anecdotes like this one that make me very hopeful for the future. In spite of everything, humanity is still achieving wonders: The device, implanted in July 2023, records from the brain region that controls muscles in
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Sperm whale clicks follow similar rules to human speech(phys.org)
3 points by daoboy 5mo ago|0 comments
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by daoboy 5mo ago
Agreed, I found this essay engaging and emotional. While I can see why the unusual style might not be someone's cup of tea, I don't agree at all with the criticism that this is bad writing. It had a Haruki Murakami ethereal feel t
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by daoboy 5mo ago
Physical books are irreplaceable to me. I love the feel, the smell, and having a house full of them. Just went to a library sale this morning and got even more. I also really need a break from screens, and reading a book is a great excuse t
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by daoboy 5mo ago
It sounds like there wasn't really a counter narrative for the models to learn from. This feature of how llms accumulate information is already being gamed by seeding the internet with preferred narratives. I'm not sure how many M
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by daoboy 6mo ago
The majority of my encounters with West Coast Buddhism have been... off-putting. Particularly in the SF tech scene, there is an unfortunate 'competitive enlightenment' vibe amongst many of those who profess to follow Buddhist teac
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by daoboy 6mo ago
Thank you for what you're doing, this is an important fight. The story is tragically illustrative of the maxim that you can oppose terrible legislation a hundred times but they only have to pass it once.
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by daoboy 6mo ago
Adjacent but not directly to the point of the article, does anyone remember their dreams or have success with lucid dreaming? After about a year of trying I can remember at least some dreams most nights, but zero success with lucidity.
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Immersive Dreams May Be the Key to Better Sleep Quality(discovermagazine.com)
19 points by daoboy 6mo ago|3 comments
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by daoboy 6mo ago
Perhaps I'm getting the wrong impression, but it seems like this author is either ignorant of a lot of very successful contemporary scifi or is just taking a narrow view of the genre based on their own preferences. AI and independent p
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by daoboy 7mo ago
"The researchers tested their framework on nearly 1,000 LinkedIn profiles to see if it could match them to accounts on Hacker News. These were profiles where the real-world identity was known to the team, who removed names, links, and
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AI could end online anonymity(techxplore.com)
5 points by daoboy 7mo ago|1 comments
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by daoboy 7mo ago
Many are complaining about banking app compatability, but I've never felt compelled to use anything other than my browser for banking. What's the big deal with the banking apps? Am missing out on some huge advantage here?
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by daoboy 7mo ago
"Excel's default behavior is to convert certain text entries into dates. It makes sense for general spreadsheet use, but not for geneticists. Genes, like Membrane Associated Ring-CH-Type Finger 1, are given alphanumeric symbols (M
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Ask HN: Is free identity theft protection after a data breach worth the bother?
2 points by daoboy 8mo ago|3 comments
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by daoboy 8mo ago
My physician prescribed Vitamins D and B12, so a quality Omega 3 is the only supplement I currently purchase. After an absurd amount of trial and error with every over-the-counter, trendy supplement over the last couple of decades (and lord
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by daoboy 8mo ago
Many years ago I used to play around with CyanogenMod and Linux. Life with work and a family became too busy to fuss with that stuff, but I'm rapidly approaching the point where abuse from android and Microsoft make using a less polish

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