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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
Yes, if the Cro-Magnons had guns they’d say “wow, hunting meat is WAY easier” and then experience massive-scale death in the future. But that kinda happened anyway in various places, just using much more primitive tools. Humans gonna human.
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
+1 good call out. Definitely I love some SomaFM stations!
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
yes definitely, don’t even need a VPN. I can stream/listen from anywhere in the world on radio.garden I’m sorry the UK cripples your streaming. That really sucks.
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
> radio.garden (and many others) got neutered in the UK courts by Sony Do tell more, I’m very curious— am I unaffected in the US? I haven’t noticed a big change in the past several years. What happened?
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
for electronic music di.fm has some great live sets. I wish they had more tho
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
how many live local shows have you been to in the last month?
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
it’s only less diverse at the top. go down a couple of layers and various genres of music are experiencing renaissance’s like you would not believe. pop music has always (mostly) sucked [EDIT] Bring on the downvotes. You never bothered to e
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
Similar experience and I would never trade it in a lifetime. For the “me” today, new music discovery is all about live radio. and I don’t mean pop/satellite/corporate programmed radio. I mean radio where a human still cares . I
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
yeah that’s the “different frontier LLM” I mentioned. Frontier LLMs are decent at making powerpoint files, but can I point it directly at gdrive and tell it write a slides doc? a slides doc I can open on the web, share, etc? maybe if I moun
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Ask HN: How useful is Gemini for Google Apps?
3 points by cobbzilla 3mo ago|5 comments
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
Watch if there's a carve-out for business apps, or it only applies to consumer apps. Then watch as your enterprise apps adopt infinite-scroll sidebars of "useful" stuff...
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
HN hug of death? seems to be back now. fwiw, expo seems solid; the uptime of expo.dev won't affect an app built with it.
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
Yeah, can't disagree, but at least that guy had a prominent "DO NOT" warning tattooed on his forehead.
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
Oh got it. Very fun, great work.
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
Fun game! How do I “eat” on mobile? I tried tapping the # on the tail, to no avail
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
You’re definitely right — the tech stack travels through time along what’s called a “path dependent” trajectory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
We have microwave ovens. They’re pretty safe. Imagine something as safe as that. We can do it. But I can’t disagree that it’s more exciting to imagine terror dreams.
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
It’s everywhere. It’s in the shed in your backyard. Nobody knows it’s there. Lots of people have them. It’s an appliance. The worst thing an evildoer can do is blow up your own house and the few around it. and no one does that because you
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
have you never heard of tamper-proof containers? mess with it, it’s useless and you go to jail for a long time? Plus, they’re ubiquitous, you don’t know who has one, max damage is minimal even worst case — go fish!
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
Around the time that I became a parent, I remember a friend’s wife emphatically telling me why one should never ever give fruit juice to a child. Later in the evening, she recounted an anecdote where a bout of constipation was cured with pr
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
have you never visited a rural neighborhood? or an affluent neighborhood? there are still many neighborhoods where people leave their doors unlocked because it is actually that safe. not every location is rife with criminal activity, and ma
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
Cheap ubiquitous distributed power systems will change the world in many weird ways. Watch small modular nuclear offer home installation for ~$reasonable and getting cheaper every year. Fast forward 20 years from the advent of essentially i
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
The cost of code production is trending to zero. Therefore, the things that come before it and after it become much more crucial. On the “pre” side, the specification of the problem becomes much more important. On the “post” side: QA and ve
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
Reminds me of a line from Tron, where the other programs ask Flynn in disbelief: > You fight for the users?
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
> Treating anti-micro-plastics as a "religion" rather than a subculture based on a meme deserves a bit more nuance. Agreed, and I think we satisfy your two conditions and many more. If I read you right, question 1 pertains to i
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
here’s to you mrs robinson
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
> I don't get this whole attitude. Sorry if I offended you; fwiw I was describing a phenomenon that I observe. My own attitude about this whole situation was left unspecified, so I’ll add a few notes here: I do actively pick up litt
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
> requires buying a whole new set of things that distinguish them from their peers No, it requires buying a whole new set of things to fit in with and be accepted by their peers, to distinguish themselves from the outgroup , the plast
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/splc-financia...
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
For sure, there is a premium on youth, but I did meet many career-switch types who were older and equally accepted.

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