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by gcanyon 2y ago
Given the size of their camera, you could glue it to the center of another camera’s lens with relatively insignificant effect on the larger camera’s performance.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I'll shout out his book Postsingular, which is a real head-trip and available under a Creative Commons license here: https://www.rudyrucker.com/postsingular/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I’m a product manager, not a developer, although I used to be a developer a long time ago in a language far far away. A few months before my last interview I had taken up Python by solving about fifty projecteuler.net problems. I’m not flue
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by gcanyon 2y ago
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I love this! I can't believe I've been a math person basically forever and this is the first time I've heard this.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
This feels a lot like the debate about whether Pluto is a planet: what we're really trying to figure out here is whether we can figure out a definition for a concept that includes all the things we think should be included, and exclude
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> The hard part is finding time and having the motivation. As I've said here several times: the best exercise is the one you'll stick with over the long haul. Put another way: anything you'll still be doing in 2026 is bett
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by gcanyon 2y ago
...if you close your eyes...
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I came to post this video! But I think it's clear that this isn't the design being describe in the original article: that mentions a double-boiler, which is not in evidence here and TC even mentions the double-boiler aspect of ear
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I owned an SE/30. I watched my first computer video on that thing, marveling that it was able to rasterize (not the right word) the color video real-time. I wish I had hung onto that computer.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I am extremely fond of Pixelmator -- I bought the original maybe twelve years ago, and Pixelmator Pro as soon as it came out. I had access to Photoshop for years before that, but the UI always pushed me away, with too big a hurdle just to g
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by gcanyon 2y ago
We'll find out -- I just submitted a form to HN to collect some QA pairs to try it out.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
About twenty-five years ago there was a web site that claimed a better Turing test was to ask a large number of relatively easy yes/no questions, with the idea that a human could answer virtually all of them correctly. Toward the end o
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Ho, boy, you should read about the 1919 Motor Transport convoy -- the military sent a team across the United States by truck and car. It took them almost two months, and over 10% of the vehicles and many of the men didn't complete the
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by gcanyon 2y ago
It literally runs a month on an hour's charge. A design that allowed charging the Apple Watch while wearing it would be much more advantageous.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> a single American Hi there, nice to meet you! I've take the train: San Diego to Redding D.C. to New York and back St. Louis to Chicago and back St. Louis to Little Rock St. Louis to Kansas City and back
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Not arguing against your "majority" characterization, it's certainly true, but throwing out there that my wife and I travelled by train: Oslo to Stockholm to Copenhagen to Hamburg to Amsterdam to Brussels
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Wow, something I didn't know was in my brain, and you found it. Snarf!
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by gcanyon 2y ago
This is pretty amazing: I asked it to build a single-page app to accept and parse a PDF and give it back in a JSON structure I provided, and it did exactly that! The parsing was terrible, but it worked at all , which is impressive. It sugg
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by gcanyon 2y ago
My personal laptop and my work laptop are identical, down to the amount of memory and the color :-)
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by gcanyon 2y ago
How would you compare this to https://www.marblism.com
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I wrote a bunch of goofball AppleScript apps back in the late '90s. One of them would wait a certain period of time, and then use new folders created on the desktop to spell out a message.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Anyone have a sense of how much money/electrical power is being spent to discover these primes? I'm not about to argue for bitcoin calculations over this, I'm just curious how it compares.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Sorry :-( I'll try to remember this.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
The observational limits described here remind me very much (albeit that I read it 40 years ago) of Blood Music by Greg Bear. The ending (as I remember it) has nano-scale intelligences observing the universe so closely that the fabric of sp
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Good lord that was awful to read. Text popped into existence half-off the screen, disappeared just as it was entering the screen, etc. I'm operating on a 15" MacBook with a reasonable-sized window, and yet I had to scroll carefull
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I'm not sure I'd trade the fake DVT for the cat bite -- something moving that fast is serious.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I worked in the Century City Twin Towers about twenty years ago. There was a firefighter who would come out to the building every month or so and climb the stairs, basement to roof, with 100lbs of gear/hose on his back. Twice. That&#x2
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Shout out for Slow Horses, one of the best shows on TV. “So you're in charge of the rejects.” “They don't like being called that.” “What do you call them?” “The rejects.” -- Jackson Lamb
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by gcanyon 2y ago
US-one-hour guy here: > fortunate outlier Not exactly how I would describe it :-) I: - Hit the ER with two collapsed lungs in an ambulance after a motorcycle accident: saw the docs immediately (I assume, I don't remember it)

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