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by andersco 5y ago
I am no AI scientist, but as a humble software engineer it seems to me that machine consciousness is not viable within a binary computer paradigm. However, if quantum computing, which much more closely resembles the analog nature of neurons
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by andersco 5y ago
The Technics SL-1200 turntable. The fact that the design has not changed except for minor tweaks since the product was released speaks for itself. I used it both as a DJ many years ago and now kept one of the turntables just for listening.
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by andersco 5y ago
The answer, obviously, is 42.
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by andersco 5y ago
Very close but not quite human. A text book example of the uncanny valley https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
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by andersco 5y ago
Vermont’s law is a great first step, but also a very kid gloves approach. It appears their disclosure requirements are minimal, basically that the company exists and how to opt out. What I would love to see is a requirement to notify the pa
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by andersco 5y ago
My email includes a common Swedish first name so I regularly have people mistakenly use my email address for Klarna orders. What’s most annoying/troubling is that, at least last time I checked, they don’t verify an address before sendi
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by andersco 5y ago
I grew up in Stockholm and can definitely relate. People are super reserved, except for when drinking or traveling abroad.
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by andersco 5y ago
It bothers me for the same reason that any form of unsolicited email is a nuisance. It's one more irrelevant email notification, one more irrelevant email to have to archive, deal with, etc. If it were very occasional, I would not ca
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by andersco 5y ago
Great suggestion, though how would I construct such a rule? I want to make sure I don't mistakenly delete legitimate emails.
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Ask HN: How do you handle recruiter spam?
9 points by andersco 5y ago|14 comments
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by andersco 6y ago
The meaning of and technology needed to build a “basic web app” is in a continual state of evolution. Therefore, googling is not so much required due to a lack of knowledge but rather due to that this knowledge needs to be continually kept
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by andersco 6y ago
My strategy is to just wait a bit and not respond immediately, to see if they get the message that their initial greeting was useless, and then post what they actually have to say.
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by andersco 6y ago
Except you are imposing your “manifesto” on others by forcing an extra response.
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by andersco 6y ago
Hi, is it ok if I post a comment?
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by andersco 6y ago
Soft drinks generally refers to sugary soda drinks like coca-cola. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_drink
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by andersco 6y ago
The article states that there are 130,000 dogs and 125,000 cats, which sort of begs the question, why is the focus on the number of cats, when there are even more dogs?
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Secret “Man Cave” Discovered Under Grand Central Terminal(gothamist.com)
43 points by andersco 6y ago|11 comments
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by andersco 6y ago
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say. One big missing piece here is context. Attractive to whom? And in what context? My site is all about minimalism - https://www.anders.co/ - it got an average score. And I gue
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by andersco 6y ago
Clicked on try it out on my phone, and allowed camera, but it did not seem to work. Just sitting here waving my hand at my phone and feeling a bit dumb :-) Is there some step I’m missing. Or maybe does not work on mobile?
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by andersco 6y ago
When I saw “favorited” I thought that was referring to what I guess is “upvoted” - as others have mentioned, I didn’t even realize that was a feature. Is there a list of most upvoted HN stories of all time?
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by andersco 6y ago
Great list. Adding one of the most common mistakes I see during interviews: Not saying “I don’t know” when you clearly don’t know the answer to a question.
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by andersco 6y ago
It seems what is being called “hard work” here really is “expert work” which often can be no work at all, in that it rests on the shoulders of likely thousands of previous hours of long work, and can sometimes feel effortless. One seminal e
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by andersco 6y ago
Thanks for the quick reply. Works now!
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by andersco 6y ago
I went through a multi-step process of trying to access Journal on my phone: being redirected to desktop, checking my inbox for an invite email, going to journal.com, having to download a desktop app, signing in, and then...after all that,
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by andersco 6y ago
A related annoyance is people who hit return after every statement, so that you end up with multiple alerts for the same message, and worse, the alert you see first is for the last statement that was posted.
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by andersco 6y ago
I had a colleague at a company that would always start his Slack chats with “Hey” and then wait for a reply. My “response” was to not respond until he finally got the message and would continue with what he actually had to say. Worked for m
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by andersco 6y ago
When arriving at the site I thought what I saw had been written by sudowrite - you really should make clear what has been written by a human.
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by andersco 6y ago
This seems to imply that “tech expert” is someone all-knowing regarding tech. In my mind “tech expert” is about literacy. You may not know the specifics of all technologies but you have the mental toolkit for understanding them conceptually
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by andersco 6y ago
Is a newsletter not the same thing as a blog? If so, is this really a new trend? And if not, how is a newsletter in this context different from a blog?
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by andersco 6y ago
I almost wish this attack had been perpetrated by sophisticated govt hackers. The fact that it was some kids still living at home is almost more scary. But the silver lining is this was hopefully a wake up call for Twitter.

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