nicd

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by nicd 1mo ago
An emphasis on driving users towards IRL socialization, and strengthening geographically local communities.
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by nicd 11mo ago
Partiful works well?
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by nicd 2y ago
They are not big-tech American, and as a non-profit, they aren't beholden to advertiser or investor interests.
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by nicd 2y ago
Very fair, and worth addressing. May I ask- what are the main barriers preventing you from socializing? Could intentionally designed apps or social structures reduce those barriers? What do you think would be most helpful?
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by nicd 2y ago
I'm not sure which happy, anti-social countries you are referring to. "It may turn out that people aren’t hanging out at bars, but at home." I understand that entertaining at home has been in decline over the last few decades
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by nicd 2y ago
This is the issue that is top of mind for me at the moment. If you're frustrated by political polarization, this is one of the root causes! I'm very eager to hear any ideas on steps we can take to systematically reverse this damag
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Software Engineers: Do No Harm(medium.com)
1 points by nicd 2y ago|0 comments
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Lamenting 2024, and NY Resolution(medium.com)
1 points by nicd 2y ago|0 comments
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by nicd 2y ago
Because liquidating / selling your shares is a taxable event. If you purchased a simple ETF to begin with, your tax burden would have been lower.
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by nicd 2y ago
In Apple's case, it is also a demonstration that leadership strongly cares about design (a core value of the company).
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by nicd 2y ago
This also reminds me of Lumii (now Fathom), which is an MIT media lab spin-out that prints multiple inkjet layers to create a 3D effect: https://www.inkworldmagazine.com/contents/view_online-exclus...
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by nicd 2y ago
This image may not be a representative test case. It looks like it has heavy compression (including posterization), and overall poor quality. "Quality" meaning things like focus, contrast, and low noise- separate from resolution.
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by nicd 2y ago
Instead of writing out frames at a fixed FPS (ie, 60 fps), the driver would send out updates to individual pixels at precise moments in time, and the unaddressed pixels would remain unchanged. I'm not sure whether or where this kind of
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Lucky Lab Rat: How AI Saved Our Company(medium.com)
2 points by nicd 2y ago|0 comments
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by nicd 2y ago
Not sure what Gong's pricing is, but we evaluated a few different notetakers and settled on https://fireflies.ai/ . $18 / month gets a recording and summary sent out to all invitees to the calendar invite, uploaded
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by nicd 2y ago
Fluorescence microscopy is a great tool for this!
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by nicd 2y ago
Diffusion in liquid is relatively consistent. When paper is soaked and allowed to dry, it can produce uneven concentrations as regions evaporate at different rates, and solutes move along with the flow of solvent. A good example of this is
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by nicd 3y ago
Imagine there were a set of a few common terms that businesses could select, each with an icon, a high-level explanation, and the detailed legal copy. I think there is a common set of those that would probably cover 80% of needs. The remain
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by nicd 3y ago
This assumes that the new ponds will pull mosquitoes away from existing ponds. Is this true? (Maybe mosquitoes are limited by suitable breeding grounds, and introducing decoys could have no effect.)
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by nicd 3y ago
It's less power efficient than a cable, so trivially it's going to generate more waste heat (sure, there might be small amounts of power released as RF, but typically, innefficies in electronics result in heat).
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by nicd 3y ago
It would be really neat if after pulling the captions, an LLM was used to reword the content into an idiomatic "blogpost" (since speech is typically different than writing). Using LLMs, we could even choose the level of summarizat
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by nicd 3y ago
Why not just connect the LED to the same rail that powers the camera?
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by nicd 3y ago
We faced a similar problem with consultants on an old AWS account that had become obsolete. A week of back-and-forth with support ensued as we tried to figure out how to close the account. The process seemed excessively complicated since th
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by nicd 3y ago
In my experience with ChatGPT-4, I'll get a full 2-300 line class, with maybe 1-2 compilation errors (often a missing import or invalid function invocation). In most cases, I can copy the compilation error back into the chat, GPT will
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by nicd 4y ago
I understand Musou black has it beat: https://takemy.money/musou-black-the-new-blackest-paint-in-t... ! And the blackest (non-acrylic) paint is Vantablack, the carbon-nanotube-based paint that is infamously only available to
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by nicd 4y ago
What benefit is there to growing pot next to consumers? Compared to salads, for example, isn't pot easily stored and transported?
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by nicd 4y ago
As a consumer, the Tesla charging network is a significant selling point over other electric vehicles. It's unclear to me that standardizing the charger would benefit their business position (although I agree it would benefit society!)
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by nicd 4y ago
In my experience (US), they seem to be uncommon in residential properties. I've seen them in many hotels, though.
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by nicd 4y ago
I think you could do that today? Incubating a cell culture is definitely possible. You can either purchase used lab equipment, or even build your own incubation chamber. I don't think OP's chicken heart experiment requires genetic
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by nicd 4y ago
vast.ai, paperspace.com

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