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by treetalker 4d ago
The end of the post touches on it, but couldn’t this be foreshadowing the really bad El Niño that they’ve been talking about?
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by treetalker 4d ago
“Free” if you won, meaning the insurer should have covered but refused and forced the insured to litigate, and part of the remedy was reimbursement of reasonable attorney fees. So, in other words, insurer at fault. That fostered a lively ma
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GPT-6's "Stealth Thinking" [video](youtube.com)
2 points by treetalker 4d ago|0 comments
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by treetalker 5d ago
- poetic invocation of awe - rhetoric of universal humanity as backdoor to software anthropomorphism - commercialistic exposition of features (in sentence fragments) and foolproof instructions for use "Put 'em together and wadda y
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by treetalker 5d ago
> “The individual’s molars, which were found in a cave on the island of Sulawesi, are marked with deep grooves that were most likely left by incessant sucking on betel nuts, which release psychoactive stimulants.”
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by treetalker 5d ago
Team ohm-ARCH-ee vs Team ooh-MAH-chee
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by treetalker 5d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_language
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by treetalker 6d ago
Is this not something everybody feels?
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by treetalker 6d ago
When I see someone else jump or fall from a height, I sense the fall in the bottoms of my feet and my lower legs. I feel both the drop and the landing. It also happens if I approach a ledge or dropoff.
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by treetalker 7d ago
https://archive.ph/20260908101546/https://www.ft.com/content...
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by treetalker 9d ago
Why … you could use it to - advance spaceflight - cure conjunctivitis - create advanced versatile clothing material - solve the world’s hunger crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_That_Laid_the_Golden_H...
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by treetalker 9d ago
accountability sink
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by treetalker 9d ago
That looks like a fantastic supplemental resource — thank you so much for bringing it to my attention!
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Ask HN: Best sentence corpora with native audio for language learning?
1 points by treetalker 9d ago|2 comments
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by treetalker 9d ago
Piss-rich?
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by treetalker 10d ago
Ah yes, "the dollar drors", somebody "custodies" things, and two chess kings are after the same goal. The generated image tells me everything I need to know about what follows.
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by treetalker 11d ago
We will be happy to scan your face, x-ray your belongings, and add your latest known location to our database — no extra charge!
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by treetalker 11d ago
This is useful. I use a similar setup to convert online articles worth understanding in depth into a standardized, Tufte-like format to print in my preferred font/size/spacing and to leave the right-hand 40% of the page blank for
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by treetalker 12d ago
Jackie Treehorn knows which Lebowski you are, Lebowski. Jackie Treehorn wants to see the deadbeat Lebowski.
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by treetalker 12d ago
Just bear in mind that fewer than half of American voters voted for Trump, meaning more than half did not; and all are essentially locked into an electoral college system that they never agreed to and whose alteration presents a nearly insu
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Traverse – [Horizontal] OPML Outliner for macOS(apps.shakingthehabitual.com)
2 points by treetalker 14d ago|1 comments
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by treetalker 14d ago
Brett Terpstra linked to this and it looks pretty great. If you remember the Tree horizontal outliner from years ago, this will be up your alley!
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by treetalker 14d ago
fancy ad placement
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by treetalker 14d ago
I sometimes consider the number of man-hours wasted every year by companies (such as Amazon and Dropbox) that repeatedly offer to convert passwords to passkeys, despite having already been declined (once, or even dozens or hundreds of times
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by treetalker 14d ago
Anyone have any insight on Dyson’s data-privacy policy regarding its imaging of its customers’ orifices?
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by treetalker 16d ago
[This is a comment about] an HN post about an article about TikTok videos in which women complain about a video game about the video-game characters’ relationship in the game and urge other women to control their male partners in real life.
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by treetalker 19d ago
This brings to mind another study from the summer: “Slow breathing impacts inter-organ dynamics modulating brain function and risk behavior” (saw it on HN I think). Finding was that “prolonged exhalation increases risky decisions by increas
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by treetalker 19d ago
Worth a listen!
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by treetalker 19d ago
404. Looks like the correct link is this: https://www.iiardjournals.org/get/JHSP/VOL.%2012%20NO.%201%2...
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by treetalker 19d ago
> I'm probably not in the position of educating teenagers as my life has not been a success. Not true! The OP should learn not only about (and from) models but also anti-models! Addressing OP: On anti-models, read NN Taleb's bo

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