guidoism

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by guidoism 2mo ago
I think this is cool and all, especially watching all of the launches, but I don't understand why we aren't all talking about the growing potential of a Kessler Syndrome and are inability to access spaces for a century or so. Mayb
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by guidoism 2mo ago
Yeah screw the timer. I can't work under pressure like that when it comes to word games. Maybe other people will enjoy that, but not me.
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by guidoism 7mo ago
Apparently the LED is on the order of 500 nm. Isn’t that essentially the same size as the actual wavelengths? (Just skimmed the article maybe this is discussed)
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by guidoism 7mo ago
> Yes, I know I'm crazy, but Any time I see this phrase I know these are my people.
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by guidoism 7mo ago
> ChatGPT is saying they will mark ads as ads and keep answers "independent," but that is not measurable. So we'll see. Yeah I remember when Google used to be like this. Then today I tried to go to 39dollarglasses.com and
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by guidoism 8mo ago
Nice! I've been using Claude Code and ChatGPT for something similar. My inspiration is Adler's concept of The Great Conversation and Adler's Propædia. I've been able to jump between books to read about the same concept
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by guidoism 2y ago
They are identical in the same way that my Hacker News and Facebook are identical. They are both places where people post stuff and comment on stuff but the community in each is very different. If Hacker News were to shut down for just the
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by guidoism 2y ago
That's similar to the idea I had for combating texting spam: - If your number is in my address book then texts are free for you - If this is the first time you are contacting me then you pay me $1 There are probably downsides and way
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by guidoism 2y ago
Online generator: https://jxl-art.surma.technology
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JXL Art is the practice of using JPEG XL's prediction tree to generate art(jxl-art.surma.technology)
4 points by guidoism 2y ago|1 comments
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by guidoism 2y ago
Look up “convivial computing”. This fits within that ethos.
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by guidoism 2y ago
Aren’t plants literally making food out of thin air? They take a series of photons and pull the carbon out of the “thin air” to make food.
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by guidoism 2y ago
The most amazing sky I’ve ever seen was when I arrived in Urubichá in Guarayos region of Bolivia in 1998 before the electricity arrived in the area. I traveled by bus to visit my friend’s childhood home. The bus only went to the big city an
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by guidoism 2y ago
This reminds me of my professor's (probably very poor) description of NP-complete problems where the computer would provide an answer that may or may not be correct and you just had to check that it was correct and you do test for corr
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by guidoism 2y ago
That’s just a standard chemical rocket for the initial push and then a few gravity assists right? Couldn’t an ion engine with a nuclear reactor providing the electricity accelerate more over that period? I’m genuinely curious, I don’t know
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by guidoism 2y ago
Recipe articles with hundreds of words of irrelevant text before the actual recipe.
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by guidoism 2y ago
Way more interesting than this old zombie company is that new podcast about cpu design. Cool!
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by guidoism 2y ago
I also got in trouble for playing Leisure Suit Larry in 6th grade computer class.
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by guidoism 2y ago
Ours had PS-2s on a token ring network with a TUI to get to the word processor etc but it also had a “drop down to DOS” option that the teachers didn’t know about.
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by guidoism 2y ago
Reminds me of the drip.com TSR program that I put on some of the school computers circa 1990.
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by guidoism 2y ago
I wonder how different each of the wikipedias are between languages. There's barely any info about the dismantling of the Clémenceau in the English wikipedia. I occasionally read the Spanish language wikipedia for South American histor
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by guidoism 3y ago
I’m from the states but I was 23 and it was the first wedding I’d ever been to. And I guess wedding costs for guests wasn’t a topic anyone around me ever brought up.
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by guidoism 3y ago
When I was 23 years old, just out of college, just moved across the country my friend from high school got married. We never talked over the phone or email just hung out when we were both in our hometown. He asked me (along with the rest of
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by guidoism 3y ago
Indeed. Additionally I’m sick of people using “human right” to describe every conceivable characteristic of an ideal modern society. Some things should be basic and a minimum and other characteristics should be add-ons you get for advancing
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Does It Beep?(doesitbeep.com)
3 points by guidoism 3y ago|0 comments
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Gordon Bell's "High Tech Ventures" (1991) [pdf](gordonbell.azurewebsites.net)
1 points by guidoism 3y ago|1 comments
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by guidoism 3y ago
Fascinating look into what it was like in 1991 to start a start-up.
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by guidoism 3y ago
Really cool seeing some old music videos that were originally shot in film get the rescan update. I watched Beat It on YouTube the other day and was amazed by the quality.
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by guidoism 3y ago
I re-typeset the text in TeX and have a nicer looking PDF for those that care: https://github.com/guidoism/tex-oberon
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by guidoism 3y ago
When I lived in the Bay Area I used to use a driving service to go to the airport and the owner had an early Model S. We had several conversations about how many hundreds of thousands of miles he already had on it and how well it was holdin

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