NiloCK

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by NiloCK 3y ago
This is not rhetorical at all - I am genuinely confused by the statement. Unless you run a lot of red lights, or read the mail of your neighbors, how would you know about enforcement from these cameras? What outward sign would appear?
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by NiloCK 3y ago
I have! ... but not through any conscious method or effort. In fact, this post just "reminded" me of the fact that I had regular and occasionally severe tinnitus over the course of many years. Mine started in high school and persi
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Billboards? Street posters? I'm in an airport right now and can easily count a dozen ads in my field of view, even counting the two large ad carousel displays as one apiece. I'm sure I encountered hundreds on my way to this gate.
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by NiloCK 3y ago
It's hard to understand something if your salary depends on it being false. It's much, much harder again to understand something if it makes your life's work ignoble.
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Has the future-self of gambling addicted eight year old been forced to spend money on video games?
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Breakfast cereal is generally pure garbage, so I'm happy enough about this score, but a globally applied linear "goodness" scale on foods is too simple to be accurate. Food is good for you, or not, in context of the rest of
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by NiloCK 3y ago
re: 6. Isn't Luke the same story? He went from zero to Darth Vader rival in a couple of years maybe? Yoda thought that kid Anakin was already too old for training, but Luke was a young adult. Rey's rise was sillier still, but both
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by NiloCK 3y ago
From memory: "i deserv it"
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by NiloCK 3y ago
(modulo assumptions based on your being a reader of this site) - installing a dual boot linux on your existing Windows machine will take you a couple of hours. 2 <<< ∞
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by NiloCK 3y ago
> The fact that a single car can even cause this much harm is a sign of a much larger problem: car centric transportation is NOT scalable. This is an interesting to me. From the perspective of an internet builder, systems vulnerable to
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by NiloCK 3y ago
I owned and loved a KindleDX for a while, but it broke falling off a nightstand. That said: a tablet wins out where I need to sit down with the docs of some technical monstrosity for a dedicated hour.
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by NiloCK 3y ago
At the time of my first daughter's birth, my local government gifted me an ipad mini. Three use cases: 1. I find it extremely useful for one specific thing: chess. I can't effectively play blitz timed games with a mouse, and w
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by NiloCK 3y ago
I'm outing myself as an ignoramus* here, but could the title be edited to indicate that this belongs to twitter? I glossed past this on first read because "some url shortener has shitty behavior" wasn't interesting to me
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by NiloCK 3y ago
> a CAPTCHA has to be something that is easy for humans and hard for bots Do you know of any such things? Because I routinely find captchas difficult now.
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by NiloCK 3y ago
It's maybe telling that even imaginary radicals own smartphones.
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Bananas(paritybits.me)
1 points by NiloCK 3y ago|0 comments
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by NiloCK 3y ago
High integrity move for quanta magazine to allow space for this opinion.
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by NiloCK 3y ago
I have new heat pumps in a very old, under insulated, and leaky house. I didn't use my oil furnace last winter (the first since two additional pumps). My costs were about half of the previous year, and I'm sure my carbon footprint
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Luxury balls, bargain babies.
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Not having a convenient and current publishing path shouldn't stop you from writing. Start your drafts folder!
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by NiloCK 3y ago
paritybits.me The best time to start a blog is thirty years ago. The second best time is today. This blog went active a couple of months ago. Writing for myself and for the sake of it, to make a habit of collecting thoughts concretely. I ha
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by NiloCK 3y ago
... and if you fail the class?
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Generation Gap Inflation(paritybits.me)
1 points by NiloCK 3y ago|0 comments
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Why is your HN topbar blue? Are you better than me or something!? Harumph.
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Ask HN: Could we decorate links to toots somehow?
2 points by NiloCK 3y ago|0 comments
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by NiloCK 3y ago
See also https://enlinko.com/ . The calculations here are snappy. I do not know which one was created first. "Relatedness" here is according to ... something ... Approximately but not exactly the likelyhood that wo
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Gmail feels like a walled garden. Anecdote: Years ago I owned a one bedroom condo, had a baby, and moved to a larger rented space. We were ~10 emails deep with a prospective tenant in our old place. I was using fastmail through a private do
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by NiloCK 3y ago
When slow response times are because of software, they not only slow but variable. If you're accustomed to 90ms delay and the adjustment doesn't come in 250ms, then it pulls your attention, and even your eyes. "What's wr
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by NiloCK 4y ago
Sorting here by top comments, 1 month, shows about 50% of posts are GPT doomerism. Yikes. I wonder how many occupationally linked subreddits show similar trendlines.
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by NiloCK 4y ago
I don't know how much this sort of thing is frowned upon here, but I wrote an article about this scenario recently. http://paritybits.me/disposable tldr: the gpt services will eventually (maybe soon) recognize opportun

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