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by christiangenco 4y ago
Wow! I hadn't heard about this leak and used to live in downtown Dallas so when I saw the first few street names I thought "huh, Commerce, Griffin, and Main must be pretty common street names." That "sci-fi overlay of st
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by christiangenco 4y ago
My high school english classes would upload any papers students wrote to a site that would check for plagiarism. I figured out that if I inserted random zero-width no-break spaces in the middle of words my plagiarism score would drop to zer
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by christiangenco 4y ago
HN comments.
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by christiangenco 4y ago
> The capacity of recognition memory for pictures is almost limitless To my understanding this is the core mechanism memory champions use to memorize huge amounts of arbitrary information like digits of pi[1]: encode the data as a pictur
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How my indoor air made me sick and dumb (and how I fixed it)(christian.gen.co)
3 points by christiangenco 4y ago|0 comments
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by christiangenco 4y ago
I had this problem living in Dallas: it'll hit 108°F just about every day this week. I also couldn't spend thousands on an energy recovery ventilator (ERV) installation because I've been living in rental properties. My soluti
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by christiangenco 4y ago
Oh sweet! I had a similar idea in undergrad in ~2012[1]. I love the retroactive timeline so you can see the rough balance of who was talking when—this is a really useful graph. 1. https://christian.gen.co/conversation-monito
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by christiangenco 4y ago
I'm surprised to see Paypal only uses 0.26 TWh/yr (compared to Bitcoin's 200 TWh/yr and Ethereum's 112 TWh/yr) which includes their offices and data centers[1]. I've heard the argument that if you take int
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by christiangenco 4y ago
This is amazing! This tech unlocks some impossible card effects (ex: "shuffle the deck, pick your favorite card from it, hand the deck back to me, your card is the Ace of Diamonds"). While reading through this repo I was reminded
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by christiangenco 4y ago
I've recently realized I'm uncharacteristically productive on airplanes. I did a deep read of the first 8 chapters of a book I've been meaning to read on my last long flight. I had every intention of continuing at the same pa
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by christiangenco 5y ago
I had a quick back-and-forth with Derek on HN a few weeks ago about applying this philosophy to a personal CRM system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30329475#30334269
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by christiangenco 5y ago
This mistake is so interesting to me. Here's a great explanation of what's probably happening: https://youtu.be/6egeUxIEQnM tl;dr: mentally we take off "millions" as a unit, do the calculation, then add
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by christiangenco 5y ago
That's fair. I suppose instead of "plain text" what I mean here is "minimally formatted plain text files that live on my hard drive."
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by christiangenco 5y ago
You bet! You're also one of my heroes so I'd be absolutely delighted to chat with you more about this problem on a call or something.
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by christiangenco 5y ago
Hi Derek! My implementation of your system is just a bunch of markdown files. The title of the file is a friend's name, the frontmatter at the top keeps info about them that doesn't change too often (ex: birthday, address, kids na
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by christiangenco 5y ago
Preaching to the choir! I'd be surprised to find anyone on HN with an argument against writing your blog/book in markdown with vim. Now what I'd be interested in seeing is an argument for traditional publishers or WordPress u
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by christiangenco 5y ago
If you don't happen to have your 2000s-era iMac or iBook running OS 9 currently in arm's reach here's an online version of the same sort of game: https://www.unixpapa.com/floodit/?sz=14&nc=6
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by christiangenco 5y ago
I modeled my Wordle solver[1] after Donald Knuth's Mastermind strategy[2]. An optimal guess is found by looking at the list of possible solutions and for each of those possible solutions checking how much each possible guess would narr
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by christiangenco 5y ago
My solver at wordlesolver.com plays the same 5-move game each time: ARISE, BLUDY, COMET, CHUNK, CHUCK. It looks like optimal play is 4 moves: https://twitter.com/zwegner/status/1480037275803308034
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Wordle Solver(wordlesolver.com)
3 points by christiangenco 5y ago|1 comments
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by christiangenco 5y ago
Check out Paramotoring. It's self-powered Paragliding that opens up way more places to fly.
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by christiangenco 5y ago
I love Hammerspoon. It's one of the first must-have-for-a-usable-laptop tools I set up when I get a new MacBook. Here are the top ways I'm using it right now: 1) Hide/show apps similar to how iTerm lets you bind a hotkey to h
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by christiangenco 5y ago
It's interesting to me to see that the outlier in time to become refurbished is the Late 2016 MBP (the first version with the Touch Bar). I would've thought the new design would've meant more broken laptops sooner which (I wo
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by christiangenco 6y ago
YYYY-MM-NN, or ISO-8601, is objectively the best date format[1]. 1. https://xkcd.com/1179/
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by christiangenco 6y ago
Goodness, that random zettel is hard to grep. My own zettelkasten of random thoughts and casual ideas that pop into my head certainly aren't going to be compiled into a chapter of a sociology book, but I still find value in being able
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by christiangenco 6y ago
Could you go into more detail about how you're using xargs? I'm having trouble understanding how it can be used for concurrency.
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by christiangenco 6y ago
Hah, I just followed your guide after stumbling on it on Google yesterday to set up a Canon M50 on Linux Mint! It works incredibly well—heads and shoulders above the video quality from a webcam, and now that I'm piping video through ff
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by christiangenco 7y ago
Whereby[1] gets proper convenience right on the first and Nth installs. It sacrifices some of the power of Zoom (max of ~16 participants, no dynamic backgrounds) to run entirely in a browser. IMO it's a much better solution for video c
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by christiangenco 7y ago
> I’m interested in how they combine AI with EEG for better sleep tracking. I'm not super well versed in how this works technically. My understanding is that even with raw EEG, accelerometer, and heart rate data it's not a stra
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by christiangenco 7y ago
I've had debilitating sleep onset insomnia (1-2 hour sleep onset latency) for my entire life, and I cured it with the Dreem 2 headband[1]. Unlike accelerometer-based sleep trackers (fitbit, Apple Watch et. al), the Dreem 2 is EEG-based

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