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by wwwtyro 15d ago
Also hand washing!
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Voronoi Village(wwwtyro.github.io)
3 points by wwwtyro 3mo ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Speck PBR – A WebGPU molecular visualizer(github.com)
4 points by wwwtyro 6mo ago|0 comments
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by wwwtyro 8mo ago
> Bile is used to process food in the gut. It does not go back into our system. I don't think that's correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterohepatic_circulation I also think you're mischaracteriz
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by wwwtyro 8mo ago
My understanding is that: 1. When someone consumes fat, bile is released into the gut. 2. Oatmeal (and other soluble fibers like psyllium husk) capture this bile and it is excreted in stool. 3. In order to create the bile, the liver needs L
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Aurora Innovation launches live stream of their self-driving truck technology [video](youtube.com)
2 points by wwwtyro 1y ago|0 comments
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by wwwtyro 1y ago
I'm not sure. It seems like the harder they squeeze, the less they can hold onto. Books, movies, TV shows, audiobooks, music - you can find it all online for free and acquire it pretty safely (torrents/vpn etc). I think the only t
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Autonomous trucks with no safety driver are now moving freight in Texas(techcrunch.com)
3 points by wwwtyro 1y ago|1 comments
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Autonomous trucks in Texas, no safety driver(axios.com)
42 points by wwwtyro 1y ago|2 comments
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by wwwtyro 2y ago
Until we get robots with really good hands, something I'd love in the interim is a system that uses _me_ as the hands. When it's time to put groceries away, I don't want to have to think about how to organize everything. Just
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by wwwtyro 2y ago
I love the idea of open source hardware, but one issue I struggle with is - what happens when one or more components go out of production? I suppose one solution is that the maintainers could update their component list (which might involve
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by wwwtyro 2y ago
> Moore waited at least five years [1] before deriving his law. OpenAI has been around since 2015. Even if we give them four years to ramp up, that's still five years worth of data. If you're referring to the example he gave of
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by wwwtyro 2y ago
How does anything swing -1000%?
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by wwwtyro 2y ago
Do you mean medium of exchange? I think it's difficult to make the claim that the USD is a good store of value.
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by wwwtyro 2y ago
Any word on when it'll be supported on Linux without a flag?
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by wwwtyro 2y ago
I'm sure there's a fantastic midi-chlorian joke here.
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by wwwtyro 2y ago
With consistent representation of characters, are we now on the precipice of a Cambrian explosion of manga/graphic novels/comics?
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by wwwtyro 2y ago
I know my priorities are questionable, but I'm more annoyed that I can't expect consistent canvas rendering.
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by wwwtyro 2y ago
Can anyone help me understand how this works without special bitnet precision-specific hardware? Is special hardware unnecessary? Maybe it just doesn't reach the full bitnet potential without it? Or maybe it does, with some fancy trick
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by wwwtyro 3y ago
> We aim to investigate in a reliable animal model whether activating the cervical lymphatic vessels through pharmacological or mechanical means can prevent the exacerbation of Alzheimer’s disease progression by improving CSF clearance.
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by wwwtyro 3y ago
Yes, simply accepting the inadequacy of our current technology is always going to be easier than working to improve it. It's also going to lead to infinitely less progress. Humanity is eventually going to be able to extend lifespans in
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by wwwtyro 3y ago
I assume people will continue to use real estate as an investment for as long as they are forced to escape the inflation of their currency.
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by wwwtyro 3y ago
Seems like this is some kind of legal inevitability that is acknowledged to be counter-productive: > The IASDA report stresses: “There is concern that this decision may cause consumers to mistrust vitamin D supplementation, which will be
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by wwwtyro 3y ago
I'd be worried they'd wait until the population was reliant upon it, and then flip a switch disabling privacy. Seems risky.
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by wwwtyro 3y ago
They now offer color options ( https://www.meta.com/quest/accessories/ )
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by wwwtyro 3y ago
I love this direction. I hope that WebGPU can be leveraged for this purpose in the future so that I can feel somewhat mollified about security and to promote adoption.
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by wwwtyro 3y ago
What does half-life mean in the context of DNA? One base pair corrupted / unrecoverable? Half of them?
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by wwwtyro 3y ago
If it fits your model, WebTorrent[0] can offload a lot of bandwidth to peers. [0] https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent
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by wwwtyro 4y ago
By that definition, I wonder if we've already surpassed that point. Things on the horizon certainly feel hazier to me, at least. I think a lot of people were surprised by the effectiveness of the various GPTs, for example. And even har
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by wwwtyro 4y ago
> or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. This has always felt like a gaping hole to me. It seems like to work it would have to a) always make perfect predictions of the future, and b) agree with relevant humans what &

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