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by com2kid 9mo ago
For awhile now I've had in mind a locally ran AI ADHD assistant. Using always on ASR for interactions (removing friction) it would keep track of todos, help refocus from distractions, and work as a personal knowledge base to aid with m
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by com2kid 9mo ago
My portfolio site is at https://www.generativestorytelling.ai/ though bit rot has set in on quite a few of the projects. I need to move my personal blog ( https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/ ) over there
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I had forgotten about Sony. They were indeed going back and forth with Bose on who could make the highest quality ANC. I actually had a pair of Sennheiser noise cancelling headphones and they had a really good BT implementation, super low l
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by com2kid 9mo ago
Until the rest of the market caught up, Bose's noise cancelling algorithms were top notch. As soon as Apple entered the fray a bunch of money was thrown at the problem, the bar was raised, and now good quality noise cancelling is the n
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by com2kid 9mo ago
"Bose blows" is typically in regards to their price/performance, and especially with how they marketed themselves throughout the 90s and early 2000s. Bose used to advertise that they were the best sounding speaker out there
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That question is, honestly, kind of stupid. It is akin to asking why eat healthy or why go outside in the sun. But hey, here we go. 1. Intense physical exercise is the only known way to increase IQ. (Admittedly pure strength training is not
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Because American men average around five nine and given the average lean muscle mass needs on that frame size, something within 60-90g (which is a huge range!) will work for most American men. Like if someone is a 6 foot 10 body builder, th
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Chatgpt helped me solve a side effect I had with a medication just by suggesting a changing to dose timing. Solid improvement to my QoL just from one small change. My doctor completely agreed with the suggestion. When I got worried about an
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by com2kid 9mo ago
I started tracking everything I ate, every single bite. The average western diet may over consume meat, but I have to work my butt off to hit my protein goals for strength training. A slice of bacon has 3g of protein. 150 calories though. E
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This is very true, and something that people pushing keto (myself included) had to learn the hard way. There are satiety indexes for different foods but they are not universal. I can eat almost unlimited carbs and never feel full. I'll
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by com2kid 9mo ago
Newspapers always made their money from commercial and classified ads. Craigslist killed journalism decades ago, LinkedIn and Facebook Marketplace are the modern successors to CL. Google adwords finished the job. Newspapers subscription pri
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by com2kid 9mo ago
Authors and publishers have written on this topic extensively. Blog posts about it periodically gets posted to HN. Most of the cost to publish a book is upfront. Editing, laying, cover art, diagrams, etc. It costs less than $2 to print a bo
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The economics on making an ebook are roughly the same as a print book. The marginal cost of production of a cheap paperback is marginal, the upfront cost is large. The few pennies that are saved with digital distribution are not a huge game
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by com2kid 9mo ago
Plasma doesn't crash for me but it definitely bugs out and I need to log out and log back in to fix things. That said I'm running a shader as my desktop wall paper on Nvidia drivers so I don't feel like any of my complaints a
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by com2kid 9mo ago
I haven't worked at Microsoft since 2015. Currently running Linux on my home PC because I can't stand windows 11.
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I've never had a pixel phone last more than 3 years before it stopped turning on, all the way back to Nexus devices. I'd stop buying them but everything else is bad in some other way. It is hilarious that the official Google phone
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by com2kid 9mo ago
I have no idea how the 2 major smart watches (android wear, apple watch) have such horrible battery life. Microsoft Band had a 3 day battery life that would've been 5 days if we weren't forced to use a trash accelerometer that dra
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by com2kid 9mo ago
First they jumped the gun on tablets, listening to the tech media that was saying tablets were going to replace computers. That resulted in Windows 8. More recently they've freaked out about ads, app stores, and SaSS revenue, which has
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by com2kid 9mo ago
It is huge around Seattle. Nothing else exists for selling goods. There are also private sales groups on FB as well for specialized interests, including illicit home meal delivery services. It seemed like shef.com was going to enter that sp
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by com2kid 9mo ago
For a couple years I did a super low weight time under tension routine. Almost no hypertrophy, but I was able to step into a BJJ gym and roll for hours , I was still ready to go long after everyone else had gassed out. The adage that you g
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by com2kid 9mo ago
Facebook marketplace has completely taken over the used sales business in my area (Pacific Northwest). Craigslist is dead, offer up is dead, FB marketplace won.
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by com2kid 10mo ago
I still have a few of the old illustrator files laying around. The sheets were horrifically over made. They also benefited from my being fairly near sighted. You can fit a lot more in when using a 4 point font!
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One quarter I made a cheat sheet so good the prof asked for a copy so he could use it as an overview sheet to teach the class next year. I had used Illustrator to lay it all out. Lots of well type set diagrams and graphs alongside the equat
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by com2kid 10mo ago
> Same level of ragebait as things like vegetarian “meat”balls. There is some amazing vegetarian food out there. Both Buddhist and Hindu cultures have been making amazing vegetarian food for literally thousands of years and they are
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by com2kid 10mo ago
Fake leather is such an annoying scam. Real leather can last for a century if taken care of, fake leather lasts a handful of years before it literally flakes away into nothing. Though that reminds me of the time I bought a real leather couc
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by com2kid 10mo ago
Distros like bazzite launch into steam upon boot. Steam is the OS, everything happens through steam. Give people chrome and most won't be able to tell the difference from Windows. Windows 11 was a large change to the UI, arguably just
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by com2kid 10mo ago
> I'm not sure that 3% of the steam user base really qualifies as a 'mass' exodus. Major tech reviewers are talking about Bazzite. Reddit gaming forums are full of people talking about Win11 vs Linux. Microsoft only has tw
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by com2kid 10mo ago
I joined a compiler team out of college because it seemed like fun and I'd never worked on compilers before. I went from C# to embedded engineering and reading clock and wiring diagrams because there was a job that needed doing and I w
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The mass exodus to Linux gaming is already causing a push back against kernel level anti-cheat. People who 5 years ago didn't give a hoot about computing outside of running steam games are now actively discussing their favorite Linux d
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by com2kid 10mo ago
Except in technology where the gains come from my personal investment in skills. I'm spending hours every week keeping up with the field of software engineering. I've been investing in learning my craft since I was 14 or so. I&#x2

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