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by Willingham 2y ago
I agree the webpage is borderline unusable due to the advertisements, I wonder how much an ad blocker would help here?
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by Willingham 2y ago
I’ve thought of LLM’s as google 2.0 for some time now. Truly a world changing technology similar to how google changed the world, likely to have an even larger impact than google had as we create highly specialized Implementations of the te
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by Willingham 2y ago
The pressure to hit quarterly targets seems to, in this case, caused quite the opposite outcome intended. Gotta love corporate America and the overvalued AI sector. (:
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by Willingham 2y ago
I rather enjoyed that I got to make the discovery that the particles were coins, moreover, I enjoyed dropping STRAIGHT into the game without having to read anything or press any buttons. Lastly, this worked flawlessly on my iPhone, bravo to
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The ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see(theregister.com)
11 points by Willingham 2y ago|2 comments
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by Willingham 2y ago
> If you want to write good code, read good code. As a junior in the field working at a small company, I often rely on this community for guidance, and this seems the most sound advice on this thread.
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by Willingham 2y ago
The man had all the knowledge necessary for recovery, but faith without works is dead. Happiness cannot be caught directly, it comes to us only as a byproduct through thinking of others and what we can do for them rather than of thinking of
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by Willingham 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torii
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The Mayan calendar may represent a longer timescale than previously known(2023)(phys.org)
2 points by Willingham 2y ago|0 comments
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by Willingham 2y ago
They speak a seemingly different language to the untrained ear, here is a good reference to better understand their shorthand and phraseology: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html...
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by Willingham 2y ago
Severe thunderstorms this morning https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/02/16/live-updates-tor...
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by Willingham 2y ago
Link directly to Kernighan’s law in the repo: https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws#kernighans-law
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Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug(2020)(github.com)
1 points by Willingham 2y ago|1 comments
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by Willingham 2y ago
Great article, allowed me to learn about multi version concurrency control which I had never heard of, and in researching the topic I learned about optimistic concurrency control which I found even more interesting. It seems these two could
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by Willingham 2y ago
https://archive.is/GVcHb
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by Willingham 2y ago
Researchers Thomas G. Kaye, Gary Gaugler and Zbigniew Sawlowicz found that Schweitzer's samples(The T-Rex soft tissue you mention) contained framboids, and the apparent soft tissue was essentially pond scum. Through carbon dating, the
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by Willingham 2y ago
I imagine it could solve crimes if it watched millions of hours of security footage…scary thought. Possibly it could arrest us before we even commit a crime through prediction like that black mirror episode.
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by Willingham 2y ago
My point is, we have used nukes, so we know exactly what the worst case scenario is, and that’s about 20-50 million lives(hitting Tokyo or NYC). Equal to the number of deaths during the Spanish flu or half of world war 2. I think the compar
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by Willingham 2y ago
The impact to society would be much greater on a sociological scale then on a physical scale, many nukes are more than 8Mt, the likelihood of it hitting a highly populated area is lower still.
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A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors(github.com)
47 points by Willingham 2y ago|8 comments
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by Willingham 2y ago
This reading helped me a great deal in understanding this community when I joined, and it appears it’s been over a year since its last repost! I hope many of you get to read this wonderful educational piece by minimaxir for the first time l
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by Willingham 2y ago
Also works great for low blood pressure issues
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by Willingham 2y ago
Agreed, and whats the story behind the art chosen for the landing page?
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The Evolution of Formula 1 Cars from 1950 and 2023(dive-bomb.com)
1 points by Willingham 2y ago|1 comments
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Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle from his broken car (2012)(hackaday.com)
3 points by Willingham 2y ago|2 comments
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Antarctic bases went from wooden huts to sci-fi chic(2017)(bbc.com)
20 points by Willingham 2y ago|1 comments
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by Willingham 2y ago
Can’t you make these weapons with the magnetron out of any old microwave? I’ve always wondered why these devices aren’t more prolific than they are…
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by Willingham 2y ago
Thanks, I updated the response (:
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by Willingham 2y ago
Sentenced to 1 year and 15 days for stealing the Mona Lisa, what a laughable punishment compared to today’s standards.(also, Picasso was accused and never convicted, Vincenzo Peruggia was the actual thief that was convicted)
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Artificial Intelligence Needs a Brain Transplant to Avoid Imminent Collapse(ai.gopubby.com)
2 points by Willingham 2y ago|0 comments

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