dempedempe

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by dempedempe 4d ago
I've eaten the peel on a pineapple before. Not so bad actually. I thought eating the skins on kiwis was normal
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by dempedempe 2mo ago
Even if FTL is achievable (which I agree, highly unlikely), it's still extraordinarily slow on cosmic scales. The closest star is a little over 4 ly away! And probing the universe outside the Milky Way? Forget about it.
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by dempedempe 2mo ago
> Researchers have found the first atmosphere surrounding an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star. Well, if they observed not only a planet orbiting the star but also the planet's atmosphere,
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by dempedempe 2mo ago
It's more nuanced than that.
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by dempedempe 2mo ago
Yeah it raises heart rate and blood pressure bc it dilates your blood vessels. The raised HR/BP are to counter that so you keep pushing the same amount of O2 per unit time.
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by dempedempe 3mo ago
I don't think child rearing is supposed to be as difficult as modern society makes it. As you pointed out, you don't have a lot of help in raising your kid. You're expected to do it mostly with your partner (or god forbid al
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by dempedempe 3mo ago
Read the article.
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by dempedempe 3mo ago
Because this person's entire blog is just copy-and-pasted AI responses.
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by dempedempe 3mo ago
Did you just copy-and-paste an AI response an post it on your blog?
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by dempedempe 3mo ago
I'm a contractor (AWS and web apps), so I get a lot of sometimes-ambiguous requests. I have a five-part workflow via Claude/Codex skills: discovery->implementation planning->implementation->verification->review Each p
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by dempedempe 4mo ago
On the sleep deprivation topic, adenosine buildup in the brain is, along with melatonin, one of the brain's core sleep mechanisms. As you expend energy during the day, adenosine builds up, so your brain has an idea of how long you&#x27
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by dempedempe 4mo ago
Standard Ebooks has it too: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/p-t-barnum/the-art-of-mone...
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by dempedempe 4mo ago
I meant with Nix you're comparing hashes. With Docker, you're using pinned versions
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by dempedempe 4mo ago
It's like this with a lot of things now. For example, Nix's learning curve used to be a huge barrier to entry. Now with LLMs, I'm using nix-darwin and home-manager for dotfiles, package management, and have individual flake
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by dempedempe 4mo ago
At then end they briefly mentioned how they started a service to post-train LLMs on producing more human, less formulaic-obviously-AI text.
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by dempedempe 4mo ago
The difference is that the voice in the video is a natural, human voice. It's the robotic sounding voices that always pronounce the same letters the exact same way (mostly the Eloquence family of voices) that enable blind people to li
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by dempedempe 4mo ago
Source can be anything with the original text, but, more often than not, ends up being PG.
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by dempedempe 4mo ago
It takes people years to learn how to write a good patent. If you gave your lawyer your attempt at writing your own patent, they might use the info to understand what you want (you're right about that), but a good lawyer would proba
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by dempedempe 5mo ago
What card games do you play? Do you have any recommendations?
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by dempedempe 5mo ago
Can confirm. I've been using Mercury for three years now for my LLC. Everything is just so smooth.
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by dempedempe 5mo ago
The way I see it: - Water on Mars: confirmed 2004 - Organic molecules on Mars: confirmed 2018 - Complex organic molecules (e.g., DNA precursors) on Mars: 2026 We now know for certain that it is possible for complex organic molecules to be
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by dempedempe 8mo ago
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/plato/dialogues/benjamin-j...
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by dempedempe 10mo ago
Just having JS disabled narrows you down by a lot. Yeah, fingerprinters can't use a lot of their more sophisticated techniques, but they still have a lot to work with as I understand it. I'm no expert though.
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by dempedempe 10mo ago
I find it incredible that the same olfactory activation patterns mapped to the the SAME smells in both subjects.
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by dempedempe 10mo ago
Yeah. You are fingerprinted if you disable JS and/or use a VPN. Read the article for more info.
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Measuring Latency (2015)(bravenewgeek.com)
46 points by dempedempe 10mo ago|11 comments
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You Can't Average Percentiles(latencytipoftheday.blogspot.com)
8 points by dempedempe 10mo ago|1 comments
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Show HN: I built a highly customizable mental arithmetic trainer for iOS(apps.apple.com)
4 points by dempedempe 11mo ago|0 comments
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by dempedempe 11mo ago
Now I finally have an incentive to buy an Analogue Pocket. Nice work and really great idea for a project!
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Phantom in the Light: The story of early spectroscopy(chrisdempewolf.com)
10 points by dempedempe 11mo ago|0 comments

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