FrankyHollywood

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Tilt–Shift Photography(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by FrankyHollywood 2y ago|0 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 2y ago
> At the level of automation we've reached in society We have been automating work for many centuries. And after a hundred years Keynes prediction [1] still isn't reality, somehow we keep finding ways of keeping ourselves busy
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by FrankyHollywood 2y ago
I agree, the analogy is shaky. Adding extra components to you solution, like Kafka, adds complexity, overhead, maintenance etc. While adding an extra rocket stages reduces load, because you get rid of the extra rocket element as soon as it
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by FrankyHollywood 2y ago
In theory I'm also for decriminalization, but in practice it doesn't work. Some drugs are so intense, can't compare to your Friday night beer. See the heroin epidemic in Amsterdam during the 70s, some neighborhoods became com
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E-seed: Self-burying Seed Carrier (2023)(morphingmatter.org)
2 points by FrankyHollywood 3y ago|0 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
Indeed, I was never aware of it, until Covid... millions of people believing in nano-bots raining from the clouds programmed by Bill Gates and many other unbelievable far fetched idea's, people just believed it like it was common knowl
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
global warming is actually peanuts compared to worries of previous generations, like the cold war, school kids got instructions on what to do if an atomic bomb would fall on city! stress and worries are from all times
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
That 'log' is generated by journalists, and the only reason why I have a paid subscription to a newspaper. Imagine living in a world without journalists and politicians and enterprises can do whatever they like without anyone ever
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ADHD Study – student timelapse (2017) [video](youtube.com)
4 points by FrankyHollywood 3y ago|0 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
Nice idea, but sound distracts me very much, I just wanted to suggest a package deal: blinking led with a pair of noise canceling earbuds :)
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
This is new to me, sounds interesting! I once used Codemod [0] to migrate an old JS codebase. Would this be a use case for Ohm as well? [0] https://github.com/facebookarchive/codemod
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
Or Project Euler! :) https://projecteuler.net/
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
I once read that the actual goal was to have a maximum income of 1 million dollar a year, and the 90% was a compromise. A quick search doesn't give me the source of this, anyone knows a reliable source?
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
Just wanted to share a good experience. I love music and good sound but didn't know how to enjoy Spotify with my setup. I have an older hifi amplifier with great speakers and I was searching for a way to stream Spotify in an easy way.
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HifiBerry(hifiberry.com)
2 points by FrankyHollywood 3y ago|1 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
There are those days you really appreciate the Firefox reader view :D
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28595967 ("Show HN: 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning") is great, I still regularly use it!
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
Indeed it works darn well, my company uses a complex programming assignment during application. Only about 5% of computer science students applying manages to create a decent solution within a few hours. I was curious if GPT could solve it.
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
I still remember seeing Her [0] in the movie theater, it sparkled my imagination. Now it is reality! Tech is progressing faster than ever, or I'm just getting old :D [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
Yes I know putting it into practice by law is not practical or even wanted. I just don't believe climate changes significantly improves by having electric cars and replacing old light bulbs with led. We need more deepcutting measures.
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
All these comments mentioning cutting down on energy. It will help a bit, but the real problem is there are just to many people on earth. A world wide one-child policy like it used to exist in China [1] would be a real solution in keeping e
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
I also liked this recent post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37207791
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
Maybe polygamy in the legal sense is not allowed, but polyamory is getting more common these days, you even have special dating apps for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
"danger, however, is agile shaman! many, many shiney rock lost to agile shaman! whenever agile project fail, agile shaman say "you didn't do agile right!" LOL
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Ask HN: Anyone has good experience with GitHub Copilot?
2 points by FrankyHollywood 3y ago|2 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
Well it shows potential, they powered something tangible. It's not like a single atom quantum scale phenomenon.
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
Stroustrup once told about how he needed the best of both C and Simula, which resulted in creating C++. Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO0PXYMVGSU
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
I can't believe I have never heard of Racket before, it's 28 years old! Quite some libraries available too https://github.com/avelino/awesome-racket
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Animation vs. Math [video](youtube.com)
8 points by FrankyHollywood 3y ago|5 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 3y ago
A framework build not to be a framework, it's almost philosophical :) https://plato.stanford.edu/Archives/Fall2012/entries/liar-pa...

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