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by benterix 7mo ago
> Do you want issues of Nature and cell to be replication studies? Of course I do! Not all of course, and taking (subjectively measured) impact into account. "We tried to replicate the study published in the same journal 3 years ago
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by benterix 7mo ago
It's useless, but I'm ashamed to admit I found this tiny piece of trivia interesting.
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by benterix 7mo ago
Nice but at $5000 I wonder if there exists something more affordable for someone interested in tinkering with small boats/subs in small ponds.
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by benterix 7mo ago
nRF52832 are famous for their low energy usage, it's hard to compete with them. However, ESP32 is much more universal.
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by benterix 7mo ago
Do you have an example of such a setup handy?
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by benterix 7mo ago
You said "vibecoded", maybe it triggered someone. I upvoted you as I just learned YouTrack exists, and it has 10-users free plan, I'm going to give it a try,
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by benterix 7mo ago
I don't have any perspective, just state a fact - DARPA did contribute to things we find useful. The core issue itself is terribly complex because in an ideal world we would never need military at all, and at least in Europe we had thi
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by benterix 7mo ago
"Half" is obviously an exaggeration but apart from time-sharing operating systems, the Internet, what is now CSAIL and (partially) GPS, they sponsored a ton of open source projects. They used to maintain a catalog[0]. The Web Arch
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by benterix 7mo ago
>> This makes them AMD’s first desktop chips to qualify for Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC label, which enables a handful of unique Windows 11 features like Recall and Click to Do. > This is not the selling point they think it is. I'
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by benterix 7mo ago
This is not true: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls
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by benterix 7mo ago
Yeah but this itself doesn't necessarily have to mean anything, e.g. DARPA sponsored half of the nice things we're using every day.
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by benterix 7mo ago
This ship has sailed a long time ago. The idea of "low contrast is good for the eyes" was popularized among designers well over a decade ago, together with another one that tiny fonts are elegant (I read HN at 120% and I don'
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by benterix 7mo ago
> making it a gray area for corporate users and a headache for its most famous consumer. Who is its most famous consumer?
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by benterix 7mo ago
It's already important, for various reasons. E.g. I love older electronics books where they explain things in a very thorough manner (maybe because they had more time?). But of course reading older books is full of traps, in some subje
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by benterix 7mo ago
> Nobody except people on HN cares about RAM. They might not care but they do call us saying "Oh you are good with computers, why is my computer so slow?"
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by benterix 7mo ago
Why would I trust Mullvad VPN?
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by benterix 7mo ago
> "Only for your own good!™" Very few things trigger me more than this doublespeak.
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by benterix 8mo ago
> And I’ve come around to agreeing with Anglo protestants that food is a distraction. It’s for survival not enjoyment. So it doesn’t make society better to have a diversity of food. Oh I'd love a heated argument over that! And I&#x2
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by benterix 8mo ago
> The feel of photos back then, was at least 100x stronger than now. I dare say, the feel of photos from back then is much stronger than of the photos taken today. See e.g.: https://plfoto.com/zdjecie/413363/bez
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by benterix 8mo ago
It means blood tests might qualify, too.
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by benterix 8mo ago
> You could, for reasons I never entirely understood, make so much more money doing the same job in the US than anywhere else. [...] e.g. Europe. It really, really depends. First, not every SE works at top companies, and even there the s
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by benterix 8mo ago
> highly focused on racial identity for obvious reasons This is something I get but it always buffles me. Shouldn't it be the opposite? Shouldn't they, in their own interests, and the interest of groups they aspire to represent
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by benterix 8mo ago
We do things, but it doesn't feel right
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by benterix 8mo ago
Would you like share one small funny thing? I find these models anything but funny.
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by benterix 8mo ago
But what's the point? Trump is a person that can say just about anything and people stopped being surprised a long time ago.
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by benterix 8mo ago
A good point. I noticed that every time I see a condescending comment like "The war in Ukraine is totally the fault of the West, NATO should have stopped expanding..." etc., some neurons in my brain get activated and I feel oblige
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by benterix 8mo ago
That's true but it's just like with ICOs, the so-called Web3.0 and so on - there is a percentage of people aggressively promoting these, with a part of the community getting fascinated like with everything new, then with time nove
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by benterix 8mo ago
At first I thought why is this truism on HN, and then I realized this comment is from a prominent LLM influencer.
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by benterix 8mo ago
Unfortunately things are going in the opposite direction with media platforms creating an encoded blob impossible to edit by hand so that you (or a tool) cannot strip tracking etc.
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by benterix 8mo ago
This is the experience of many of us. But just like with social media, it doesn't give deep satisfaction and always leaves me a bit frustrated.

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