Towaway69

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by Towaway69 2mo ago
> I wish there were reasonable alternatives. CodeBerg ... oh sorry this isn't about GitHub being dead again /s Well I guess the alternative, in this case, is GitHub or have they also changed their ToS/TaC? I've stuck
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by Towaway69 2mo ago
On that note, would we recognise the second coming of Jesus? How many followers on instaX would they need to have for folks too truly believe it’s theRealJesus returning to save us. It might sound silly, but at this stage, the belief in a b
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by Towaway69 2mo ago
If you are living in northern Europe, you can also just go to a sauna. The core conclusion "makes you feel better about yourself" is really a no-brainer if you regularly go to a sauna. Plus, as bonus, it's healthy for your ca
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by Towaway69 2mo ago
Failure lies in listening to the fears of others. Listen to your inner soul, not others. Only then can you create something that truly inspires you.
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by Towaway69 2mo ago
For 2001 fans, Atmosphères by Ligeti[1] also works very well while doom scrolling the endless canvas that is the Universe. [1] https://ubu.com/sound/ligeti.html
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by Towaway69 2mo ago
Just gotta join the dots! ;) Or better still, develop a traveling salesman solution for visiting each star just once. > Bowerick Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged was a being who became immortal after an accident with a few rubber bands
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by Towaway69 2mo ago
If you squint, look at just the right portion, at just the right zoom level, the stars line up and spell out "thanks for all the fish".
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by Towaway69 2mo ago
I wonder how many of the red points/stars are black hole stars[1] [1] https://news.mit.edu/2026/astronomers-discover-brand-new-typ...
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by Towaway69 2mo ago
I agree with your sentiment and all kudos to the author for being so creativity in creating such tool. I like the idea of having a list of "facts" to keep track of characters in the story. Even if I won't use it since I disli
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by Towaway69 2mo ago
> deliberately provocative Is it? Or perhaps it's a point of view that you don't agree with? What makes it "deliberate"? The author takes a different PoV than perhaps the most folks here but that's because most f
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by Towaway69 2mo ago
> It enables working or relaxing while you commute If everyone is on the road, be it "autonomous" or not, then the net result will be traffic jams. It sounds so idyllic if it's only me but it won't be. Make public tra
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by Towaway69 2mo ago
slip, slop, slap front and back[1] EDIT: although I have to say the "front and back" actually came from another campaign[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip-Slop-Slap [2] https://music.youtub
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by Towaway69 3mo ago
> their psychological development, education, fitness, social environments, etc... Wasn’t Elon Musk bullied at his South African school? IIRC, I read something along those lines but might be wrong.
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by Towaway69 3mo ago
I've put my email in my profile, if you want to join the email thread, then send me an email :+1: If anyone else wants to join the email thread for a Berlin HN meetup, ping me an email - no google nor whatsapp required ;)
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by Towaway69 3mo ago
Just sent out an email thread to those that have emails in Berlin!
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by Towaway69 3mo ago
I would counter and say it’s understanding that makes the difference. Having an AI generate 50 lines of code that you assume will do the job is a little different to creating a flow that you understand and maintain. AI is really good at mak
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by Towaway69 3mo ago
I think of myself as a thought hoarder - my anxieties center around not wanting to forget a thought, no thought left behind because I never know when that thought might (or might not) be useful. It becomes a problem of organising my thought
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by Towaway69 3mo ago
> ... [Herzog] once defended his practice of staging or manipulating scenes in his documentaries by distinguishing two kinds of truth. The first is the purely factual kind that obtains when a statement corresponds to a state of affairs,
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by Towaway69 3mo ago
Look up MAD[1] and then think about what Trump/OpenAI are trying to do in limiting access to open weighted models. Then think about how effective such a ban will be. What is the next logical step? Deletion of course. Delete all the mod
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by Towaway69 3mo ago
> viable solution Please define viable solution. It's like a piece of string: how long is it? It's a very subjective statement "6 weeks to find a viable solution" - could just as well be 6 months. Sure you can deliver
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by Towaway69 3mo ago
> But those questions feel slow because they remove the little dopamine hit people get from motion. An AI won't have written that - that would imply that AIs would be criticising their overlords and masters.
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by Towaway69 3mo ago
You mean, Google lasts because it won one.
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Ask HN: Crazy as a Service – does it exist?
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by Towaway69 3mo ago
> And the genius of the Turing Machine (and equivalent) is that at the foundation of things, you do not need a lot of symbols and a lot of rules. I think at the core of our arguments lies this. Turing representation, i.e., the Turing Mac
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by Towaway69 3mo ago
> The power of computers is that they can do the tedious part of symbolic manipulations, repeatedly and without failing. And with peripherals interfacing, they can translate symbols from/to reality. Exactly what I am implying: using
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by Towaway69 3mo ago
Sure, I can use ascii graphics to represent 2D shapes in text but that's not a direct representation of the original object: \ | / .-'-. -- ( ) -- `-.-' / | \ That's a sun
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by Towaway69 3mo ago
My approach is to start out with a 2D programming environment and once that becomes a general programming environment, to scale that up to 3D and explore how to map 2D to 3D. So first map 1D concepts to 2D and then move on. As a 2D represen
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by Towaway69 3mo ago
So the textual representation of the Mona Lisa would actually be more suitable and beautiful? It's surprising that there is any art at all if 1D textual representation is the ultimate way of representing concepts of the world around us
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by Towaway69 3mo ago
Interestingly some of them have socialist/soviet design but are all bad in their own ways. - Birds combined with concrete block builds - dead old people (and grumpy looking in the case of beethoven) combined with concrete blocks - bus
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by Towaway69 3mo ago
Perhaps making the notes as ugly and boring as possible will push folks off physical money onto trackable digital money that is just as soulless as the buildings on the notes.

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