MarcScott

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by MarcScott 3y ago
I didn't like either of them very much, but I've really enjoyed other books of his. - The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. - Seveneves - Cryptonomicon - Anathem - Reamde - Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (Although the metaworld parts in that get
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Microsoft says AI is getting deployed 'at scale'(bbc.com)
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by MarcScott 3y ago
My dad taught us how to make bows from long bamboo garden canes and gardening string, then notched small garden canes with fire-hardened points to use as arrows. We used to set up ramps on the road in our estate while it was still being bui
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by MarcScott 3y ago
Spotted this one: "Not here to fuck spiders" Asked an Ausie mate if it was real, and he confirmed he uses it often, as in: "Look mate, we're not here to fuck spiders, might as well just crack on."
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by MarcScott 3y ago
I don't know how helpful this is, but you might like to work through these kid focused projects with him, so at least he has some idea about game development. https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/collections/un
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by MarcScott 3y ago
But I bought my cats specifically to do the job they were bred for, which is to catch vermin (rats and mice). They're cute pets as well, but that's not what we selectively bred cats to be. The problem is that humans are invasive;
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by MarcScott 3y ago
Being responsible for moderating this wikipedia article must be one of the most time consuming and mundane pieces of unpaid work on the planet.
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by MarcScott 3y ago
The self-checkouts at ALDI in the UK are very efficient. This is partly due to the barcodes, which occupy about a third of the packaging. Additionally, rather than requiring a staff member to scan their ID barcode for assistance, a simple m
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by MarcScott 3y ago
We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.” Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2018)
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by MarcScott 3y ago
Sometimes Dang sees an article that never made it to the front page that he thinks we'll enjoy. He shoves it on to the front page for a while, so it gets some visibility and upvotes.
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by MarcScott 3y ago
I tried for ages to get DALLE to draw me a cartoon spider, but gave up in the end. All the other cartoon animals that I asked it to create were perfect, but it could not draw a spider with eight legs. It's like the one thing that every
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Zero Punctuation star Yahtzee Croshaw quits after 16 years Published(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by MarcScott 3y ago|0 comments
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by MarcScott 3y ago
I'm getting the same, across all the services.
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Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War(en.wikipedia.org)
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Ask HN: Did any of you first encounter programming through Scratch?
33 points by MarcScott 3y ago|52 comments
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by MarcScott 3y ago
This has some benchmark graphs after the first page - https://www.phoronix.com/review/raspberry-pi-5-benchmarks
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by MarcScott 3y ago
$60 and $80 according to https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/
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Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5(raspberrypi.com)
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Raspberry Pi 5 product brief [pdf](datasheets.raspberrypi.com)
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by MarcScott 3y ago
They found it Debris found from F-35 jet in South Carolina after US pilot ejected
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Debris found from F-35 jet in South Carolina after US pilot ejected(bbc.co.uk)
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by MarcScott 3y ago
My child (now sixteen) has had unfettered access to technology and the internet since he was about four years old. He's had old tablets and laptops, and a mobile phone (since about the age of nine). I don't monitor his use, or use
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by MarcScott 3y ago
Your docs at https://moonbitlang.com/docs/syntax/ are unreadable due to the text and background colour
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by MarcScott 3y ago
Only on HN would people complain about a kids' hospital getting a little extra money from the copyright of a book, which was the author's intention. As it happens, I'm off to GOSH this morning, to teach kids on the dialysis w
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The Tetris Effect author says film-makers copied his story brick by brick(theguardian.com)
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by MarcScott 3y ago
The time I take reading the news each day (BBC news and The Guardian) is the time it takes me to use the toilet each morning. I scan headlines, and only read articles of interest. I spend way more time each week on this site, than I do read
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by MarcScott 3y ago
I wrote this about 6 years ago when the then PM was trying to do the same thing - http://coding2learn.org/blog/2017/06/11/dear-theresa/
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Worldcoin: Sam Altman launches eyeball scanning crypto coin(bbc.co.uk)
8 points by MarcScott 3y ago|13 comments
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by MarcScott 3y ago
I was speaking to a gym buddy the other day, and she said she was looking into ChatGPT as she was a copy writer and was aware that her job might be at risk within the next few years. I talked to her about prompt engineering for a little, bu
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by MarcScott 3y ago
I did actually make that point in this comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36528598 and I apologise for my poor choice of wording.

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