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by gdubs 3y ago
One of these days I'm going to find the actual quote because I think about it so often, but in his book "iWoz", Steve Wozniak talks about how great it was to come up during a time when you could fit the entire machine in your
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by gdubs 3y ago
Humans and our tools are, in my opinion, a singular thing. We evolved _with_ our tools — they afforded us greater access to food, which led to more intelligence, which led to more advanced tools, and on, and on. A lot of people take this ki
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by gdubs 3y ago
My first computer was a Tandy 486sx from RadioShack. One day I brought home the book "Becoming A Computer Animator". It came with a disc containing a copy of TrueSpace. But I couldn't run it because it required a math coproce
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Show HN: LambdaWiz, a mystical GPT adventure based on SICP(chat.openai.com)
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by gdubs 3y ago
Yes, James Hansen. His page [1] has links to his newsletter posts, but here's a recent example that looks into the shipping emissions reductions and the role they may be playing: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/maili
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by gdubs 3y ago
Shoot, was on my phone and misread. It's called "The Tapestry of the Four Seasons: Plants in the Portland Japanese Gardens". It's almost pamphlet sized – and sadly I can't seem to find a live link on their site. The
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by gdubs 3y ago
Sure thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the...
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You know they did what we called controlled burns too, right? Like, we're not just talking about clearing for grazing land. There were epic forests on this continent when settlers arrived from Europe, free of brush in the understory, w
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I'm re-reading 1491, which explores what the Americas looked like before colonization – challenging the commonly-held belief that the continent was a giant wilderness. In fact, it shows with compelling evidence, indigenous people for c
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by gdubs 3y ago
Have you never used your legs to kind of hold the wheel or even steer in a car when you've taken your hands off for a moment? That's what I'm going to guess was going on here.
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Met Thurston when he came to Bard College back in the early 00s. He did a small poetry thing and had brought his electric guitar and an amp and at the end of his reading he shredded for us for a bit. Then he hung out afterwards for a while.
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by gdubs 3y ago
I'm curious how they hold up. Because, IRL, the Rivian is a beautiful vehicle, but the body has always struck me as 'precious' and for the kind of things I want a truck for, I'd be really hesitant to mess it up. By contr
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by gdubs 3y ago
Great points. One thing that is worth underlying, as unpopular a subject as it may be with this crowd, is the impact structural disadvantages in our society have. It comes down in many ways to, "how many turns at bat do you get?"
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by gdubs 3y ago
One thing I really love about Strange New Worlds is that they finally realized that fans love the beautiful, comfortable looking ships of the earlier series. For a solid decade it was like all Star Trek ships felt like some "alternate
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by gdubs 3y ago
This was a really nice way of browsing someone's music at a house party. This was largely pre-streaming, and during those days a MacBook hooked up to a stereo was a common fixture at after-hours get togethers. Flipping through Cover Fl
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by gdubs 3y ago
Very fond memories for that particular moment in software. Another company in a similar space was Xaos Tools. I was too young to have access to an SGI, but I somehow or another got hold of a promotional VHS tape of theirs. Sadly, I can&#x27
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by gdubs 3y ago
I've been saying this a lot over the past year as people obsess over 'moats' and whether a future model will make an idea obsolete, or whether it's even worth getting into something because Big Co is already working on i
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by gdubs 3y ago
I have a FineWoven case on my 15 Pro Max and, just adding to the anecdata here, have not had a single thermal issue. The only time it warmed up was during the initial data transfer. I'm pushing the phone with a lot of cinematic video r
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by gdubs 3y ago
The main difference here is that GPT4 is truly multimodal, and so the model itself understands images and doesn't require a preprocessor to tell it what's in the image. As you show, that's a viable approach – but it has limit
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by gdubs 3y ago
A lot of these comments reflect never having lived in a rural or underserved area. Like most services in life, if you live a relatively upper class life in a competitive market, things like net neutrality are probably not gonna be very loud
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Check out their linked paper that goes into details around its current limitations and capabilities. In theory, it will be able to look at a financial chart and perform fairly sophisticated analysis on it. But they're careful to highli
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I actually really loved his show. It does a good job of showing how hard it is. He farms a bit conventionally, but he's also keen to try things that are regenerative – from his hedge rows and pollinator crops, to his second season ques
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I think it's fascinating and looks like something an engineer / designer could have a lot of fun with. And on a larger scale, it seems like a really interesting idea that could bring food production closer to where people are – li
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I think modern agriculture is miraculous, don't get me wrong. But we ignore the negative externalities – the cost to our health, and to ecosystems, and to the sustainability of civilization long-term. Even conventionally-minded farmers
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by gdubs 3y ago
We purchased a farm many years ago that had become eroded after many years of conventional farming. In our quest to transition to regenerative practices, and things like organic, we've definitely had the realization that most people ha
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by gdubs 3y ago
I own a farm and while I agree that people generally have no idea what goes into farming, I feel like the "tech workers would cry if they ever had to actually farm" statement that is so common on these types of threads is usually
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by gdubs 3y ago
Sad at the cynical comments here regarding Apple's environmental commitments. Does Apple have a tendency to exaggerate? Sure. But this is also the most ambitious set of climate-related adaptations I've heard from a corporation at
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The Overview Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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by gdubs 3y ago
This is why when people ask me the best way to build an app, I tell them to pick an idea they're excited about, and learn by building it. Then, be prepared to throw out the first version and try again based on what they've learned
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I said this on a similar thread yesterday, and I'll say it again – these farms will become profitable if and when we start acknowledging the negative externalities of industrialized agriculture. The public pays a price in both health a

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