zeitgeistcowboy

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by zeitgeistcowboy 1mo ago
I lived a block away from where he crashed. It’s immediately next to the Santa Monica airport. I saw his mangled plane after the crash. Yes, I suspect he picked the Penmar golf course because it was a safe option, but it’s also under the fl
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by zeitgeistcowboy 2mo ago
Yes, but does a computer system or tool or AI need to be provably correct or 100% guaranteed not to cause harm to be useful? Alternative methods (human, simple rules) aren’t either. Perfect can be the enemy of good enough. Just being pragma
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by zeitgeistcowboy 7mo ago
Warning: if you increase the steps per frame it will break your phone. At least with my iPhone and Safari it stalls the entire phone.
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More Terrible Slack Setups
3 points by zeitgeistcowboy 7mo ago|3 comments
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by zeitgeistcowboy 8mo ago
I used them in high school in the late 1990s... just to get an extra challenge. I had my dad's and grandfather's and I picked up a couple at garage sales. I still have a collection, but haven't really used them in years. I&#x
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by zeitgeistcowboy 1y ago
My sentiments exactly. All the formats were so poorly read that they are all effectively useless.
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by zeitgeistcowboy 1y ago
The momentum behind vibe coding is driven by an underestimation/misunderstanding of what it takes to build software.
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by zeitgeistcowboy 1y ago
So much about this seems inauthentic. The post itself. The experience. The content produced. I wouldn’t like to be on the other end of the production of this content.
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by zeitgeistcowboy 1y ago
So is using an LLM to write SQL for you like using a mitre saw instead of a table saw? I guess the crux is that you still need to do work either way.
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by zeitgeistcowboy 2y ago
We have Woom bikes. This is exactly what they recommend. Each of my three kids learned at different speeds, though. It basically turns your pedal bike into a strider bike.
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by zeitgeistcowboy 2y ago
I lived there between 2004 and 2023 and used to walk along the perimeter of the protected dunes. I didn’t know it was an intentional engineering. I thought it was just natural dunes that were protected. They are really beautiful and you get
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by zeitgeistcowboy 2y ago
This usually means the military.
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by zeitgeistcowboy 2y ago
What a great example of an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym . This guy's last name is Heersink and he's finding out where all the boats sank.
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by zeitgeistcowboy 2y ago
This is disappointing. I thought Boar’s Head was the high quality stuff.
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by zeitgeistcowboy 2y ago
I was a CS undergrad at MIT and took the fancy math people’s analysis class for a math requirement and they used Rudin and it killed me. We went through like 170 pages of it for one semester. The professor was Sigurdur Helgason. I went into
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by zeitgeistcowboy 2y ago
Character 7 is still a bell! I always loved that when you printed ASCII character 7 on old machines it made a sound instead of printing a character.
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by zeitgeistcowboy 2y ago
I wonder if she also did a Google search for the same genre and if this is why she was retargeted.
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There's a lot of Google AI product in HN right now(news.ycombinator.com)
2 points by zeitgeistcowboy 2y ago|4 comments
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by zeitgeistcowboy 2y ago
Right now on HN I see Veo (deepmind.google) in #1, Gemini Flash (deepmind.google) in #3, Model Explorer (ai.google.dev) in #5, PaliGemma (ai.google.dev) in #11. I've never seen so many Google products all listed in HN at the same time
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by zeitgeistcowboy 2y ago
I’m sure I’m being naive, but I was expecting at least one “crazy” and interesting graphic in this article.
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by zeitgeistcowboy 2y ago
There’s a game on Apple Arcade called stitch if you want a much larger and more difficult version of this.
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by zeitgeistcowboy 2y ago
1 x 5
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by zeitgeistcowboy 2y ago
It’s because vulcanized rubber tires weren’t available until the 1840s. There is no sub for inflatable tubes and rubber tires. Without it the ride would be very very bumpy for a light frame with two wheels.
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by zeitgeistcowboy 3y ago
Did anyone else think it was interesting that the difference between the two floating point images looked like a Julia set? It’s probably trivial, but I liked that.
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by zeitgeistcowboy 3y ago
Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm character drives one. He was ahead of his time.
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by zeitgeistcowboy 3y ago
These abbreviations and definitions seem very similar or identical to the charts I’ve used for sailing in coastal waters of the United States.
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by zeitgeistcowboy 3y ago
I like this!
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by zeitgeistcowboy 3y ago
From https://www.trossenrobotics.com/aloha.aspx it looks like it's derived from "A Low-cost Open-source Hardware System for Bimanual Teleoperation" without the S, B or T.
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by zeitgeistcowboy 3y ago
I just talked with a recruiter that said 80% of companies are posting jobs just so they collect the answers to the diversity questions so they can prove to the government that they are considering everyone. You know, the questions about rac
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by zeitgeistcowboy 3y ago
No, not necessarily. If it lowers the humidity, then it can take less energy to heat the house after venting. So it can actually save energy.

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