anvil-on-my-toe

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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
If you're a slave in antebellum North Carolina, you have rosin on-hand and an open fire, no oven. You can cook your potatoes on the hot coals and ash or boil them in water in a pot. This method might have been more thermally efficient
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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
Is this the introduction of native call recording on iPhone? I've always had to use an app to record calls.
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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
It's either smell, body heat, or easy access to skin. Maybe you sweat more than your wife, or the compounds in your sweat are more attractive to mosquitos, or maybe her hygiene is better. The smelliest parts of people are the sweat gla
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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
Better to whole-ass one thing than half-ass two things. Sleep allows a focused effort on cellular repair, garbage collection, memory consolidation, and learning. The 24-hour dark-light cycle on Earth is the most energetically significant th
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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
No, purchasing power is down. Costs of living have gone up more than median wages. How much gold can you buy with USD today vs. 10 years ago? Less because the USD is worth less than it was. How much housing can you buy with $100,000 or with
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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
Phrases like "the American economy is booming" or "America is out-performing Europe..." are simplistic and ridiculous. My least favorite part of getting a degree in economics was the endless story-telling that pretends t
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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
How does that compare to the CEO's annual comp?
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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
More like having a drug dealer in your AA group.
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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
I wonder if you need to account for body language to get that figured out. A technical conversation on the phone is usually not as fluid as in-person.
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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
Advice and verbal axioms like "eat more vegetables" probably don't work because they don't operate at the level of emotions and imagery, they're just words. People are not as rational as they like to think they are.
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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
That cave location looks like such a prime piece of real-estate for a Paleolithic hunter group.
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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
A legal fiction.
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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
I meant it as a matter-of-fact observation. The headline was changed after my comment, but it was "Why We’re Deeply Invested in Making AI Better at Math Tutoring". The "why" is obvious, it's cheaper than paying peop
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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
Because it's cheaper than paying people.
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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
I've definitely noticed it on meat that has gone off, and previously was not iridescent. I wonder if bacteria create surface gratings.
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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
What difference does it make if I meet him? Our lives and access to resources are still impacted by mega wealthy people. I pay taxes that build roads and schools which enable commercial tycoons like Bill Gates to reap enormous profits. Bill
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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
That looks really close to be a useful farm hand. $16k for a device that can dig a trench, spread mulch, pick weeds, and harvest stuff off the ground would be pretty awesome.
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by anvil-on-my-toe 2y ago
It's cool as an academic exercise, but there are things in life where the struggle is kind of the point. The messy learning process, asking other humans for help, is better for your growth.
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by anvil-on-my-toe 3y ago
Penalize tech companies for damaging children and put the money towards rehabilitation.
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by anvil-on-my-toe 3y ago
And 3 days after another HN submission on a self-powered sensor that harvest energy from soil microbes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39046697
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by anvil-on-my-toe 3y ago
I think managers in tech companies are very often just really untalented as leaders. Good leaders create more leaders. Growing talent and getting the best out of people should be the goal for any leader, and I've seen so little of that
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by anvil-on-my-toe 3y ago
That is not correct. AI safety is a subject on which serious books have been written, serious scientists have published research, and serious organizations have spent tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars on researching it. Who are
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by anvil-on-my-toe 3y ago
Well, humans aren't machines. Why would a definition of AGI need to apply to humans? On the other hand, as we gain the ability to edit our DNA, I think recursive self-improvement over generations is on the table for our species. I gues
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by anvil-on-my-toe 3y ago
Recursive self-improvement.
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Salmon are vanishing from the Yukon River(grist.org)
2 points by anvil-on-my-toe 3y ago|0 comments
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by anvil-on-my-toe 3y ago
I wonder why the Navy or Core of Engineers can't make civilian nuclear systems. It arguably would have made us safer as a country to have energy independence by investing dollars in reactors for domestic use instead of for warheads an
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by anvil-on-my-toe 3y ago
> Google...peaked at 398 million requests per second...surpassing the 2022 record of 46 million requests per second.
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by anvil-on-my-toe 3y ago
The crocodile looks like the lowest effort one, but I could see a bird landing on that.
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by anvil-on-my-toe 3y ago
As we get older it's harder to remember what it felt like to be a kid and how we perceived feedback from adults. I appreciate this kind of science that reminds us of things that might be obvious to young people. The goal of praise shou
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by anvil-on-my-toe 3y ago
Denver (and the rest of the Front Range) has a proposal on the books to ban the sale of gas lawn equipment, and tax incentives to buy electric. > Further regulations would limit the use of [gas] equipment during the summer ozone season.

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