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by albert_e 3y ago
the 3D camera should be a separate device. Don't need a head mounted monster for it. I am actually surprised that with prevalance of all the big powerful smartphones with cameras being a flagship feature, we haven't seen 3D camera
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by albert_e 3y ago
For all they know their next version of chatGPT already scraped the said article form its website before removal and internalized the content :)
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by albert_e 3y ago
I am not from the states but my IT career involved working on teams with US clients and also working in the US for a few years. I find it very hard to say "I did X" for anything except for personal projects that I did myself from
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by albert_e 3y ago
this scenario sounds somewhat similar to what is described in The Matrix movie. in trying to prevent bots from dominating, we end up making life very difficult for ourselves. In the movie it is said that humans have scorched the skies in a
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by albert_e 3y ago
Sharing some favorites ... Deep Focus - Music For Studying, Concentration and Work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPVte6aMprI (will add as I locate more from history)
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by albert_e 3y ago
Tip for those who are doing this (and wasting internet bandwidth) just to prevent their locked-down work machine from going to lock/sleep: Open a PPT, F5 to enter slideshow mode, optionally press B to blackout the screen to prevent bur
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by albert_e 3y ago
without soft paywall https://archive.ph/JYLKQ
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by albert_e 3y ago
The discovery itself is more than a century old now :) No doubt this is one of the most fascinating topics that touches science and math and astronomy and anthropology. But this being described (title) as if it is a new discovery leaves me
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by albert_e 3y ago
Off topic: First time seeing this spelled as "combatting" (HN title, differs in original linked post) Curious if this is a common spelling that I missed noticing all along.
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by albert_e 3y ago
Last time I remember they were fined INR 1337 Crore. Waiting for an interesting number this time.
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by albert_e 3y ago
Thanks. Luckily I have LinkedIn Learning through my employer subscription. Found his time management courses, bookmarked, and started one.
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by albert_e 3y ago
Indeed. Like many people say, starting something is half the battle. For example I am currently postponing for days, a 5 minute phone call that I am supposed to make to a colleague. Not even big stakes -- just a new topic i am supposed to i
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by albert_e 3y ago
Great! I would like to know which brand or service it was for. Curious to know what they ridiculed as the absurd future -- and how far/close actual biometric security has come in these two decades since. Sorry it is off-topic, just my
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by albert_e 3y ago
> "drink verification can" This reminds me ... There was a video ad many many years ago (2004 or older) that showed a future with strict authentication and access controls ... where employee has to "submit a DNA sample to
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by albert_e 3y ago
Thanks -- you have a good point. Next time I look at my HN threads, I should have already set the first appointment.
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by albert_e 3y ago
Interesting. May be i am old fashioned but shouldn't hardware appliances be designed as standalone devices that have minimal external dependencies. If there was no firmware update or patch applied -- the functionality of the device sho
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by albert_e 3y ago
I searched for "Banganapalli" / "Banginapalli" -- and see zero mentions in this thread (!) so far. Here's fixing that :) One of the most popular varieties of Mango from southern part of India.
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by albert_e 3y ago
This sounds like good advice -- but I am also trying to figure out why I still procrastinate hopelessly on projects that I do enjoy. Is it merely that I want/enjoy the "result" (feeling of accomplishment) more than the "
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by albert_e 3y ago
Is there a visual map of how densely distributed various languages are geographically? Current day metropolis like NYC will obviously have peaks. But the general distribution of number of languages spoken would also be interesting to see. E
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by albert_e 3y ago
excellent is there a simple / Lightweight software tool that will let kids get into drums and music..using this book as a starter?
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by albert_e 3y ago
if you open the printer's IP address in your PC browser ..you get a webpage with a lot of settings for the printer. I recently found that there is a setting in printer admin page called "Replace Toner". By default the printer
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by albert_e 3y ago
Also, among these 2M customers there are surely a few high-profile ones that have implications for politics/crime/forensics/espionage ?
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by albert_e 3y ago
When I got my very first introduction to computers and programming as a middle schoolkid in the early 90s India ... I got home the set of textbooks for BASIC programming language from the institute -- the classes had not yet started. So I k
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by albert_e 3y ago
Slight tangent: what is the current favorite tool to inject CSS into web pages in our browser? Greasemonkey/ Tampermonkey ?
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by albert_e 3y ago
> It's about as hard to remove a single data point from an LLM as it is to remove a single memory from a human brain. Sounds like there is a decent story that can be written about the right-to-forget in GPT/LLM era ... similar
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by albert_e 3y ago
I have a junk drawer with easily 12-15 old unused phones that I just ignore. I am sure today's kids can easily get their hands on a junk throwaway phone to use as an "attendance" marker if that is really the rule (while still
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by albert_e 3y ago
Indeed! https://www.google.com/search?q=%22An+astronaut+riding+a+hor... The internet is already flooded with images generated by these common prompts. It would be fun to have a space agency do a photoshoot of a real astrona
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by albert_e 3y ago
Off-topic: I find it interesting that the blog post accepts "comments on github". Bookmarking this idea.
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by albert_e 3y ago
Shouldn't there be an article on the Defenestrations of Russia as well?
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by albert_e 3y ago
That's oversight

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