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by jackcarter 2mo ago
Is there any professional software that wouldn't benefit from high information density? Most software design is optimized for the non-users who have to approve it.
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by jackcarter 3mo ago
I haven’t encountered this bug, but I have been frustrated that there’s no way to give a babysitter temporary access to the cameras in the kids’ rooms. I ended up hosting a local site that embeds the RTSP feeds, which works pretty well, but
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by jackcarter 5mo ago
It’s funny that this is probably due to bias in the training texts, right? Humans are way more likely to publish their “Eureka!” moments than their screwups… if they did, maybe models would’ve exhibit this behavior. Now that AI labs have al
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by jackcarter 8mo ago
"At some point I realized that rather than do something else until it finishes, I would constantly check on it to see if it was asking for yet another permission, which felt like it was missing the point of having an agent do stuff&quo
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by jackcarter 2y ago
> wants it moved over to the others side of the utility closet so that when you open the door it is easier to put clothes from there into the dryer That's when you swap the hinges so the door opens the other way, and you thank the m
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by jackcarter 2y ago
This is very cool, congrats on the execution! Seems great for grandparents. Have you tested with older people with frail or arthritic hands? I'm curious how much dexterity and force is required.
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by jackcarter 2y ago
It's been this way for over a decade: https://www.vox.com/2014/3/31/5563600/everything-you-need-to...
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by jackcarter 2y ago
"How Good is ChatGPT [3.5] at Coding, Really?"
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by jackcarter 4y ago
I don't know the answer, but there's a famous lost camera owned by a team that perished on Everest before Hillary/Norgay successfully climbed it. It's possible that the camera contains proof of an earlier first ascent:
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by jackcarter 4y ago
Camera limitation – it doesn't capture a full sphere. That's exactly the spot where I also noticed it.
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by jackcarter 4y ago
This isn't true for RSUs in the USA. You're taxed on the value at the time when you receive them.
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by jackcarter 4y ago
Hopefully, a self-driving car would have waited for a safe opening to make the turn.
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by jackcarter 4y ago
A heat pump warms a home more efficiently than using the same amount of electricity for resistive heating. It can do this because it's not generating the heat from scratch; it's moving heat from outside to inside. https:/&#x
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by jackcarter 4y ago
“A hotel that did a business of $10,000 per week in room sales found that its receipts from room sales were less in May than those in April. It looked as if the business was dropping off. May was one day longer than April and yet its room s
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by jackcarter 4y ago
Does anyone know if there's a secret advanced option to search by keyword? Some Airbnbs have free bicycles available, but there's no "bicycle" filter (possibly for liability reasons). There's also no way to search
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Do You Know Who That Worker You Just Hired Is?(nytimes.com)
1 points by jackcarter 5y ago|0 comments
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by jackcarter 5y ago
If you use Chrome, the extension Video Speed Controller: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...
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by jackcarter 5y ago
David Lynch on contemporary product placement, 14 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4wh_mc8hRE
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Where Americans gathered, the coronavirus followed(nytimes.com)
2 points by jackcarter 6y ago|1 comments
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by jackcarter 7y ago
This is about the notification that a book is ready for pickup.
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by jackcarter 7y ago
It was $39,381 in 2009, $58,230 in 2019 [1]. These are tuition-only, exclusive of room & board, books, etc. The $100k figure is a projection for 2025. [1] https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/trends/university-of-c
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by jackcarter 7y ago
I learned about Figma recently, in this HN-frontpage article about fast software: https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software/ It really is delightfully fast. It's no surprise that the team behind it is produci
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by jackcarter 7y ago
Some national parks already have lottery systems for certain areas, e.g. to hike to the top of Yosemite's Half Dome: https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/hdpermits.htm Some more: https://www.usat
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The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death(deathindiorama.com)
28 points by jackcarter 7y ago|1 comments
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Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
4 points by jackcarter 7y ago|1 comments
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by jackcarter 7y ago
I built one myself with some spare parts. I love it, to the point that I wear my helmet for short trips when I otherwise wouldn't bother. It's modeled after this one: https://www.efficientvelo.com/home/safezon
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by jackcarter 7y ago
From a comment on the article: "The normal way to excavate bedrock is dynamite. This would probably not be feasible on this site. But at this rate, from the photo, they are going to be jackhammering for another three years to reach th
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by jackcarter 8y ago
iOS does something like this with the Apply Pay Cash card in Wallet: https://twitter.com/supcat/status/1083537384233328640
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by jackcarter 8y ago
> Why state it that there's a 1/2 chance you win $1? It doesn't seem to help answer the problem because assuming you're playing you will always always win $1. The reason they say this (I think) is that there's re
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by jackcarter 8y ago
Ah, that’s interesting and believable. Do you know where you heard that? I found this article, which talks about a slightly different effect: If Antarctic ice melts more quickly than arctic ice, then the Antarctic land rebound will shove so

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