southwindcg

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by southwindcg 10mo ago
Emoticons have been around since the March 30, 1881 issue of Puck magazine, if not earlier.
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by southwindcg 10mo ago
Show HN is not for reading material. Also, your GitHub link is a 404 error.
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by southwindcg 10mo ago
And that this happened with the theme from Rocky playing (a film franchise in which an American underdog beats up a Russian super-athlete), and there were broken plastic robot bits left on the floor... it really, really does seem like a c
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by southwindcg 10mo ago
Specifically when produced with "exceptional purity"... Wikipedia [0] lists room temperature thermal conductivity at 1300 W/(m·K) and says "Chemical synthesis of cubic BAs is very challenging and its single crystal forms
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
Your links to the original Show HN just point to a comment.
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
Yes, this is exactly my problem with claims about the 'real' universe if we are, in fact, in a simulation. It might be literally, programmatically, impossible for us to infer anything about it. The analogy I like to use is Pac-Man
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
I believe it was H.G. Wells, in his A Story of the Days to Come (1897) and When the Sleeper Wakes (1899).
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
Actual title: "How an Oregon court became the stage for a $115,000 showdown between Meta and Facebook creators"
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
Per the guidelines, please don't editorialize titles. Add a comment if you want to do that. Actual title: "Phelps says NASCAR 'trying our hardest' to settle antitrust suit"
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
Maybe they're p-zombies.
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
Only eight years for a dryer is definitely not pretty good in my mind. It's barely acceptable unless you have a huge family and are doing laundry daily. I had a low-end Capri (Sears house brand) that was 21 years old and still going st
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
Most of them are flagged/killed. You must have Show Dead turned on. While I agree that this user is basically spamming, the community seems to be removing most of the posts. Maybe shoot an email to Dang if you feel the domain should be
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
This is at least the third different account you've used to post this AI slop "prophetic" trilogy here. Please stop.
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
Oh, I meant me, personally, I don't have a use case for it. Without a doubt a lot of people are going to find this speed improvement valuable.
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
I don't [currently?] have a use case for this tool, but I love seeing existing tools made faster or more efficient.
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
True, everything depends on what one is trying to do at the time.
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
Regarding the `line` script, just a note that sed can print an arbitrary line from a file, no need to invoke a pipeline of cat, head, and tail: sed -n 2p file prints the second line of file. The advantage sed has over this line scr
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
*Crystal
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
I pointed out this spelling mistake when OP posted it yesterday, and they've done it again. Strange.
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
It looks like everything this IAX Music channel has posted there is AI slop.
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
Please use actual titles when you can, unless they're obviously clickbait. "Meta ramps up scam detection features in WhatsApp and Messenger"
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
This is the second obviously-LLM-written physics post this morning and I expect as the chat bots get better, we're going to see so many more of them. Maybe people are seeing the likes of Terrence Howard getting attention for nonsensi
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
*Denoising
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
Prefix your post title with 'Ask HN:' and add a short query. Flesh out the question with more detail if necessary, in the post text.
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a68967712/... "Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit are de-orbiting and falling to Earth at the rate of one to two per day."
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
Your previous post claimed to explain "The Nature and Purpose of Dark Matter" while this post is "... eliminating the need for separate exotic forces like Dark Matter and Dark Energy." Are you a physicist? It seems like
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
Your link is 404.
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
Wow, what an original name! Microsoft's lawyers definitely won't be contacting you...
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
A Fox News talking head literally said this recently, but had to apologize for saying the quiet part out loud... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fox-news-brian-kilmeade-apologi...
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by southwindcg 11mo ago
My friends and I had a very simple version of this up and running perhaps fifteen years ago, where we fed-and-scraped Cleverbot[0] and had a second bot posting its replies in our chat. Obviously it was drastically inferior to state-of-the-a

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