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by bigyikes 3y ago
I built a smart treat dispenser for my cat using an ESP32. The best feature is the little speaker inside that plays the Meowmix jingle when dispensing. My cat is now conditioned to come running when she hears that sound. I connected it to m
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Phillip K Dick has many short stories that take place in SF. The Minority Report collection is a good read. The titular story is not in SF, but several others are.
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I bet you too could’ve produced Star Wars and landed on that list a few times. It’s /Star Wars/.
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Having listened to Musk speak on the topic: he seems to believe in community notes as an effective way to suss out truth in a less biased way. He sounds like a fan.
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On my personal Facebook feed recently, I have seen a few spam posts where the content is hosted on Digital Ocean servers. I actually reported one of these to DO myself and the account was terminated. I wonder if there’s been an uptick in DO
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I wonder how hard it would be to make a scaled up version of JWST to take advantage of the extra space? Exact same design, but with an origami mirror 5x (?) the size.
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I have a bike that I kept on the patio of my 2nd floor apartment. Woke up one morning to find it disappeared. The thief must’ve been in pretty good shape to hoist it up and over my patio railing, down from the second floor, while balancing
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by bigyikes 3y ago
Step 1: Acquire small beachfront property Step 2: Put property on the market, listed as having a mile of beach Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit There's no way this could backfire, unless the buyer asks how big your ruler is. But a true gentl
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This is how I’m developing my application with Rust. The UI is completely separated from the core of the app, and the core can be compiled natively or target Web Assembly. I’m building the UI with HTML and JS (by the way, Web Components fee
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by bigyikes 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman > Samuel Harris Altman > April 22, 1985 (age 38)
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by bigyikes 3y ago
SpaceX regularly takes large, tangible steps towards achieving their stated goal. See: Starship launches. The company continues to rapidly change.
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Citation needed...
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This is not obvious. We should not discount the data collection and training infrastructure that Tesla has created. It’s very possible that their massive fleet of robots on wheels gives them a significant leg up.
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The analogy doesn’t hold and this comment won’t age well. Photoshop doesn’t take photographs, so of course it hasn’t displaced photographers. It replaced the “shop” but the “photo” was up to the artist. The irony is, Photoshop can generate
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by bigyikes 3y ago
Many would disagree with your premise. Governments are not for curing all diseases. Governments are for protecting my rights, enforcing the law, and providing basic services and a safety net.
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Zuckerberg has undoubtedly paid billions in taxes, far more than practically any of us ever will. If everyone else paid taxes like Zuckerberg, we’d have a lot less money in our pockets. Moreover, the US government collects more than a trill
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by bigyikes 3y ago
Where do you find better rewards for general purposes? I know there are plenty of better cards for travel, and I think there’s a few that are better for dining and other misc stuff, but Apple Card (w/ Apple Pay) seems to be the best in
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Now I wanna know how you make thousands of transactions a month. Even 1000 per month would be 30+ transactions per day?
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>They didn't drink or do drugs or consider themselves victims, and it didn't help one bit. Are you saying that your family would have been the same had your parents done drugs or considered themselves victims? If so, why do you
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Ah dang… wish I would’ve known that the thing I get immense value out of every day was a grift… Maybe Apple’s iPhone grift will end soon too!!
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If one tanker is refueling multiple aircraft, coordination via the tanker would be easier, maybe?
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Nice, my first thought was to use LocalStorage. Didn't know about BroadcastChannel. Sounds like OP wanted to use sockets for fun though. >The original work by Bjorn Staal used localStorage, but I found sockets more fun, because if t
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> Also my gaming PC in the winter. It feels like free compute given I’m heating anyways. Totally. If it's cold and you have an idle rig, you might as well use it to run a crypto miner before reaching for an actual heater.
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This one is pretty cool and definitely surprised me. > Motor Humming or Whirring when Navigating to a Supercharger … > In some circumstances (such as cold weather), it is normal for the motor(s) and components to make noise, such as h
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Fun game, cool idea. Being able to backspace and replay my selection makes it too easy. I can just keep changing my first guess until it sounds the same. Hard mode seems a little too hard. Can I have a kinda-hard mode? :)
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Definitely raster to svg conversion. The giveaway (besides complex SVG generation being too difficult, as you say) is the splotchiness of the images, since the vectorization doesn't work super well with gradients.
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Ad-supported services account for the fact that some users block ads. If users blocking ads is enough to make the service unprofitable, the service should switch to a paid model or shut down. It's an adversarial relationship. The servi
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Everyone laughed at Tesla for their gung-ho, vision-only approach. Only Waymo and Cruise will make it, they said. Will be very interesting to see who is left standing. Maybe Tesla will never crack self-driving, but an insolvent company defi
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From the first article from 4 years ago: >Last month, we had 1,209 cars drive a little over 1,000,000 miles Let's say they've had zero growth since then, so 48,000,000 conservatively? Actually, from their website [1]: >100+
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Not saying you're wrong, but the analogy is easy to draw. Both are CEOs, both were ousted, both are charismatic, Apple is the most valuable company in history, and OpenAI is among the fastest growing in history.

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