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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
Finland proving the supremacy of "Subs not Dubs". Noted for future reference.
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
Almost anyone who has a semi-useful technical or trade skill and can manage communications, marketing, sales etc is liable to become extremely rich. Almost anyone with no skills except they can talk to people and arrange/organize deals
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
Pilgrimages were still a big thing among early Christians. For example, in Acts 20:16 it notes how Paul was trying to be in Jerusalem for Pentecost. Now this was around 55 AD.
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
Re: Smart TVs. An old laptop running a browser with an ad blocker and some fancy controller setup (perhaps a wireless multi-button mouse or a specialized remote control) can get you way more privacy (and the sanity of a mostly zero-ad exper
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
Nice. Looks like a way to have achievable live text transcripts via tiny devices without using APIs.
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
Regenerative farmers posting on hacker news gives me hope for humanity. Thanks. Apparently anyone in US/Canada can just ask for a farm and practically get one at this point. Either via USDA / private loans or indie farmers giving
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
Gulag Archipelago and various China / Vietnam / North Korea prison memoirs are really good to study also. This is stuff tens of millions of people went through.
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
Less "social" media, more social research paper / life hack resharing makes the world a better place. PS: Always hide the best meme in endnote 14 so your fellow meme scientists know exactly where to find the real discovery.
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
Plato: Writing will make people forgetful.
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
Been mucking around with huge doses of B Vitamins (especially B3/Niacin) and 5-HTP (a serotonin precursor). Both of those are rather, uh, effectful. 500mg+ Niacin will turn you red unless you're actually deficient. And you do not
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
Automoball
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
Open up the GIMP and start making joke meme comics. Laughter is the best medicine.
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
I feel like I'm in a similar boat. Like 6 different mental disorders including constantly pulling my hair out. I've contemplating sales calls. You can theoretically make like on the order of over $1000/hour while sitting on a
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
Endless mountain of todo lists on desk: Index cards. Put them in a box when there are too many and let the unreasonable goals expire. (Optional: Trade them with your friends after a year.) Personal notes: A waterproof mini-notepad. Personal
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
PS: The domain www.particleacceleratorferrets.com is currently available as of my posting this. I'm not necessarily saying we shouldn't domesticate raccoons, but we have to be really careful about what animals are allowed to pilot
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
I recall looking at a stable diffusion metric https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/stable-diffu... And between this and some Whisper benchmarks on data center GPUs I worked out this formula approximatio
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
Yeah, you have to force the results into strict JSON, enforce it, and handle a lot of error cases, and be prepared to give up or reroll on failure. It basically takes a 2nd LLM pass to standardize the JSON keys of the initial result. But it
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
Make the information easily accessible to customers. But actually sell the categorized review data to the restaurants themselves. They will appreciate the feedback/info and can afford to pay something for it on a recurring basis.
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
This is why I love jobs where you get paid based on a sales commission rather than in mystical dollar-hours. Get 10x the results, get 10x the pay.
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
I've wanted to see something like this, but as a browser add-on with a crazy amount of connectivity between sites allowing search/discovery. If you do anything "social", it either has to be useful to the 1st user or you
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
This is why I have one giant, enormous text file of all the technical notes I have ever taken.
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
Powder A Beautiful Mind
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
tldr version: The numerator must be even and the denominator must be odd. The square of this taken modulo 4 must therefore have numerator = 0 mod 4, denominator = 1 mod 4 (1x1 and -1x-1 both become 1 mod 4). 2 times 1 mod 4 cannot be 0 mod
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
In one essay, Christopher Alexander calls suburb design schizophrenic, in reference to how suburb dwellers are forced more and more inward. It's certainly an appropriate description. I've lived in the suburbs for thirty something
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
Dr. John Conolly described insanity in 1850 as "A disease of perception combined with an inability to tell whether these changes were real or not." Anton's Syndrome: Excerpt from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/b
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
1. I wonder how much of this can be solved by well-designed 3rd party search engines? 2. Would be nice to see some well-organized search engines / web indexes that stay up to date and don't suck. Searching for a lot of stuff on go
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by perihelion_zero 2y ago
I wouldn't mind seeing some kind of super-charged tag-based browsing of various existing sites that are annoying to browse. YouTube is one of them.