sowbug

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by sowbug 7d ago
When you're old enough to need reading glasses, larger is better. I'd love a tiny phone. I just can't see it anymore.
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by sowbug 8d ago
I've wanted something like this for a long time to print recipes that I'm about to cook. I don't want my phone in the kitchen getting gunk on it, so I'll usually print on paper, get the gunk on the paper, and then throw
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by sowbug 9d ago
I'm planning on doing something similar with a $150 treadmill that uses an app called "Gymax." I don't want the app or its adorably embryonic social network. I just want three buttons: slow, fast, and really fast for 60
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by sowbug 16d ago
https://stfu.pankajtanwar.in/
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by sowbug 20d ago
For a long time, it was actually even worse: they obfuscated the product name, and added other products they wanted you to buy. So when you searched your email for practically anything, all sorts of Amazon garbage would come back.
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by sowbug 20d ago
When you pay with Suica, the merchant pays a transaction fee of between 2 to 3.2%, similar to a credit card. That's surprising. IC cards are so universally and cheerfully accepted that I assumed they had no per-transaction costs. Com
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by sowbug 24d ago
I agree with the article's conclusion (though I don't think much of the reasoning that got it there). But I do think we should consider granting additional privileges to real humans as they interact with LLMs. Suppose I have a loc
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by sowbug 1mo ago
One small thing to try is so-called Asian squats while you're playing with your kid. Hip and groin neuralgia started suspiciously soon after my tirzepatide weight loss. I seem to have gotten it under control after mobility exercises ce
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by sowbug 2mo ago
And for putting the inevitable subscribe-for-more form inline at the end of the article, rather than in a popup.
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by sowbug 2mo ago
That's true. I don't know how to solve it, other than booking a long vacation until https://xkcd.com/810/ .
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by sowbug 2mo ago
Those issues existed well before LLMs. Everyone who reads needs a BS detector. It's unfortunate, though, that many such detectors have been replaced with AI detectors.
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by sowbug 2mo ago
If you build a device that can help build devices, you shouldn't be too surprised when people use it to build devices.
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by sowbug 2mo ago
This is a popular misreading of the state of the law. Someone tried, as a bit of a stunt, to register a work for copyright with generative AI as the sole creator/author. That registration was rejected. This is quite different from a pe
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by sowbug 2mo ago
Ten thousand books in an 80-year lifetime would mean finishing one book every three days. That's aggressive, but entirely achievable.
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by sowbug 2mo ago
Shingles vaccine, if you don't feel like clicking through.
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by sowbug 2mo ago
Then today's your lucky day! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48829312
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by sowbug 2mo ago
It's a paraphrasing of the popular 2024 Joanna Maciejewska quote: "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."
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by sowbug 2mo ago
Sometimes it's fun to mod something that other people can also easily buy and follow your mod recipe. It's more of a network effect than publishing Gerbers and a BOM. For example, there are (or maybe were) lots of cheap LED contro
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by sowbug 2mo ago
Probably a good way to become a millionaire, in the Branson sense of the word.
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by sowbug 2mo ago
By the way, if you haven't tried 滷肉飯 (lǔròu fàn, or braised pork with rice), you should. You can't walk more than a block in Taipei without finding it, but I've seen it only once in the US.
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by sowbug 3mo ago
Or even more banal, perhaps Meta wasn't willing to pay a higher price for more capacity.
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by sowbug 3mo ago
You can follow the "correct horse battery staple" method the author referred to in the article. Another handy tool is a BIP39 seed generator ( https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ ), but use the generated seed as a sma
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by sowbug 3mo ago
Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that". https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelin
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by sowbug 3mo ago
I assume this is the Bill Gates reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bill_Gates_Letter_to_Hobb...
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by sowbug 3mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690510
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by sowbug 3mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690510
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by sowbug 3mo ago
Does the modularity make it easy to steal the accessories? I'd be sad if my new customized truck were downgraded to the base model while parked on the street overnight.
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by sowbug 3mo ago
On effective engineering teams, there's always at least one person who is fluent one layer below where the rest of the team operates. That person tends to be extraordinarily useful in tricky situations. Examples: someone who can read a
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by sowbug 3mo ago
We're seeing the first 20 years of the dot-com cycle, but compressed into two years, and trying hard not to fall into the tar pit of ad-supported services.
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by sowbug 3mo ago
Hopefully it would be less of a criticism of the system, and more spurring people to ask questions like "Wait, why did you leave a hunting knife on the coffee table?" Design a scheme that equips parents with better tools to be bet

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