garyrob

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by garyrob 2y ago
My hobby is songwriting. (Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjng3UoKkGk ) I play guitar, but I'm not much of a guitarist or singer. I really like songwriting, not trying to be polished as a performer. So I interm
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Neutron star jets move at one-third the speed of light(phys.org)
11 points by garyrob 3y ago|4 comments
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by garyrob 3y ago
This is totally new to me, so let me ask an extremely basic question. The way I'm hearing what you're saying is: Lapdev sets up a remote environment that I access with my terminal via SSH, and do editing in using something like VS
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Apple in Talks with Google to Bring Gemini AI Features to iPhone(macrumors.com)
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by garyrob 3y ago
Sorry to ask this here, it's bit off topic, but I'm looking for AI that can accept a chord progression that I write and make a track from it that someone can sign over. I'm a songwriter, but not that great a guitarist. It wou
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by garyrob 3y ago
I was wondering exactly that same thing just yesterday!
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Aging Voyager 1 sends back surprising response after 'poke' from Earth(cnn.com)
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Laser air defense for $13 a shot?(cnn.com)
4 points by garyrob 3y ago|3 comments
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On popular online platforms, predatory groups coerce children into self-harm(washingtonpost.com)
15 points by garyrob 3y ago|5 comments
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by garyrob 3y ago
I was wondering what it meant to "organize less acreom".
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by garyrob 3y ago
One of my favorite Asimov stories.
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by garyrob 3y ago
Thanks! Let me ask you another question. I'm making a CLI app that could run in wasm (it's written in Rust). Normally, users will run it on their own machine in their own terminal. But I also want them to be able to access it whil
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by garyrob 3y ago
So, the cloud storage isn't a decentralized system where all users contribute disk space; rather you are providing the cloud storage in boxes you control? It seems like you must have some storage limits to prevent abuse, yes? Could you
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by garyrob 3y ago
My own experience was that I was a mediocre high school student due to my ADHD-Inattentive, but then the SATs were interesting enough to me that I was able to really, really focus for the length of the test. And I did far better on that tes
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by garyrob 3y ago
"Only something like The Q on Star Trek would be sufficiently advanced, and there is no scientific explanation for Q." Your point of view makes the same assumption that would have been made by almost anyone in the 18th century. An
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by garyrob 3y ago
I couldn't disagree more. Imagine shipping an iPhone back to the 18th century. It wouldn't seem like an advance in technology over the kinds of devices that existed then. It would seem like magic. To me, this is just utterly obvi
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by garyrob 3y ago
I'll be sad if this is the beginning of corrupting Clarke's Law in the popular imagination from "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" to "Any sufficiently crappy research is indistin
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by garyrob 3y ago
"Don't let your mind speak louder than your heart" I always thought he was referring there to compassion.
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by garyrob 3y ago
"I have an idea! You know how we make structures to sleep in? How about if we made a REALLY BIG structure where we can go when there's an attack, that would protect us from people just coming into our camp, and that arrows couldn&
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by garyrob 3y ago
Pretty happy here with Apple Mail. It uses MacOS' Spotlight for indexing. It's just more applike, quick and responsive than the web version.
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by garyrob 3y ago
It seems like it will be robots and AIs doing that building. I just wonder whether humans will exist at all in a form we can recognize.
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by garyrob 3y ago
Wow. I had HNSCC years ago, had surgery, had it recur a couple years later (same region so I think they didn't get it all the first time), had surgery, had it recur yet again five years later (again same region), had more surgery. (And
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by garyrob 3y ago
His point seems to have been that while version .4 had those missing pieces, the problems he mentions have now been addressed in .5. Maybe Full stack web with rust is more imaginable now. In any case, I plan to try it.
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by garyrob 3y ago
Absolutely! But I didn't know that at the time of the loan. It turned out it was a test of character, a test whose results were demonstrated when he eventually spent a year in prison.
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by garyrob 3y ago
That's great. In my case, the person said he needed the money because of a rent payment deadline, but then something else happened such that he could make the deadline anyway, so he spent the money I'd lent him on jewelry for his
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by garyrob 3y ago
It may be obvious, but it's still worth stating! I loaned $1000 to a friend in my 20's, and ended up losing both the friendship and the money (though one was not wholly causal of the other).
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by garyrob 3y ago
Not arguing with you, but asking: have you compared the price of the cheapest iPhone + AppleCare with the price of a corresponding Fairphone plus the cost of parts for likely repairs?
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by garyrob 3y ago
"The counterargument is that you have to pay for AppleCare. I don't pay for anything for my phone " But you have to pay for the new parts, don't you? What I'm saying is that I don't know of a head-to-head compa
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by garyrob 3y ago
Another helpful response, thanks! I tried to mention it in an update to my original question, but that's now closed to editing.
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by garyrob 3y ago
Yes. I can see that having inexpensive, repairable devices could be good for people who can't afford iPhones or AppleCare, whether in the US or elsewhere. What I'm wondering about is the enthusiasm for them among the HN crowd. May

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