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Why Simple Everyday Objects Are Impossible to Make [video](youtube.com)
2 points by areoform 10mo ago|0 comments
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by areoform 10mo ago
How did you get used to Solidworks, btw? Any advice? It's an awful experience.
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by areoform 10mo ago
> "As Forbes reports, a whopping 1 billion PCs are still running Windows 10 - despite half of them technically being eligible for an upgrade. During PC maker Dell's November quarterly earnings call, the company's CO
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by areoform 10mo ago
I spend 8 hours a day on Sequoia and I haven't seen any adverts in any native app?
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by areoform 10mo ago
It is incredibly user hostile. And it's not even free. This is an ecosystem you pay for. They're treating folks shelling out $200 for an OS as if they were cattle on the adtech train.
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by areoform 10mo ago
I'm a macos / linux user who bought a second-hand windows PC last year for CAD and games. Windows 11 is worse than you think it is. It's worse than the data harvesting (which required two hours to turn off), irritating ads (f
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Direct Memory Access Cheat-Anticheat Evolution Timeline(isdmadead.com)
3 points by areoform 10mo ago|0 comments
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by areoform 10mo ago
How do you learn it then?
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Warren Buffet Archive(buffett.cnbc.com)
2 points by areoform 10mo ago|0 comments
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Riot's Vanguard Security Update: Closing the Pre-Boot Gap(riotgames.com)
1 points by areoform 10mo ago|0 comments
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by areoform 10mo ago
This project gave me so much joy! I loved it! Here's mine, https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/areoform But I do have one gripe, I'm a woman. I wish the XKCD comic was accurate. TwT.
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A giant ball will help this man survive a year on an iceberg(outsideonline.com)
55 points by areoform 10mo ago|52 comments
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by areoform 10mo ago
I'm replying to your central thesis, information is never divorced from a person (sometimes it's a programmer). You're not smart enough to evaluate knowledge unless you have expertise yourself A few loosely connected
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Powder and stone, or, why medieval rulers loved castles(1517.substack.com)
57 points by areoform 10mo ago|22 comments
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Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024)(medium.com)
292 points by areoform 11mo ago|54 comments
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Limnic Eruption(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by areoform 11mo ago|0 comments
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by areoform 11mo ago
The push to expand repressive copyright laws because machines can learn from human produced text, code and art is going to hurt us all in the long run. People usually say contemporary media sucks because of commercial pressures, but those c
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by areoform 11mo ago
Did you fine tune GPT 5, Sonnet 4.5, or any of the other models? Or, were the models able to do this "out of the box?"
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by areoform 1y ago
Except two large corporations aren't people. They're something more and less. Corporations don't have morals. They have objectives. In the abstract, I agree that we shouldn't tell two people whether or not they can ass
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by areoform 1y ago
If you are a capitalist, you should be pro-acquisition (i.e. of smaller firms) and anti-merger (for larger firms), because mergers are a form of crony capitalism that leads to reduced product quality and market dysfunction. First, mer
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Royal Investigations of the Origin of Language(researchgate.net)
1 points by areoform 1y ago|0 comments
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by areoform 1y ago
Yes! Mars has enough of an atmosphere for sound to propagate. And sound is incredibly information rich. With sound alone, they're now able to diagnose the state of the rover, extract incredible amounts of information about the martian
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by areoform 1y ago
I have had the privilege of having spent time with NASA's former Chief Scientist, Dr Jim Green, and hearing him call me a friend. (In case you ever read this, thank you for everything Jim! You'll always be our space grandpa <3)
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Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?(animebythenumbers.substack.com)
2 points by areoform 1y ago|0 comments
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Joseph Bazalgette(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by areoform 1y ago|0 comments
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Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS)(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by areoform 1y ago|0 comments
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by areoform 1y ago
Then what stops this "counter-measure" from "working?" Could they not just "flash with a different ROM or something" to allow the part to work normally? I genuinely doubt that the level of theft ever rose to a
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Laurie Spiegel's Expanding Universe(crackmagazine.net)
2 points by areoform 1y ago|0 comments
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by areoform 1y ago
From the article, Those are all fictional examples. But in 1963, that barrier was breached for real. Taking a sledgehammer to a wall in his basement, a man in the Turkish town of Derinkuyu got more home improvement than he bargained f
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A renovation project in Turkey led to the discovery of a lost city (2023)(atlasobscura.com)
90 points by areoform 1y ago|28 comments

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