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by hvs 12d ago
I'm also aphantasic and dream normally. The only time I've been "awake" and been able to visualize anything was the few times when I briefly woke up in the middle of the night and when I closed my eyes I was able to see
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by hvs 1mo ago
Unfortunately radiology is also one area of healthcare being highly targeted for AI replacement of humans.
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by hvs 1mo ago
A private organization that is tied into governments and police departments across the country have cameras everywhere that can track license plates and have 24-hour video for tracking people and it is completely unregulated.
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by hvs 2mo ago
The "Great Man" theory of history is considered debunked. The idea that visionary leadership in a single organization can make a difference is very true.
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by hvs 2mo ago
Yes, I do. And it wouldn't take you that long to learn, either.
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Halcyon Dawn(madgoatlabs.com)
3 points by hvs 2mo ago|0 comments
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by hvs 3mo ago
One of my great regrets in life is not knowing anything about how to rebuild an engine (and various other car parts). It's not exactly a cheap hobby, so it's probably for the best, but I have the feeling I would love working on ca
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by hvs 3mo ago
That was discussed in the article.
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by hvs 3mo ago
And DraftKings/FanDuel
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by hvs 3mo ago
There was documentary about this in the 80's: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088933/
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by hvs 3mo ago
The Patriot Act is perfect example of the adage, "Never let a crisis go to waste."
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by hvs 3mo ago
"Usury" is still a word in use but now, for legal purposes, it means "interest that a lender charges a borrower at a rate above the lawful ceiling on such charges" rather than just any interest at all.
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by hvs 3mo ago
My wife, who honestly tries to avoid technology at all costs, was working on her business site and said, "It's almost impossible to find any good stock photos with all the AI slop out there." AI, among non-tech people means t
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by hvs 3mo ago
As someone with extreme phone anxiety to begin with, long waits on phones are deal breakers for me. If you are a company that answers your phone quickly by a real person you've earned yourself a lifelong customer.
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by hvs 3mo ago
I used Rokus for years (happily) but they slowly began to degrade the experience with ads on their home screen (that were often not appropriate for children). Due to an unrelated project that required me to purchase an AppleTV I was quickly
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by hvs 4mo ago
I know that as technologists we tend to think of this as "treasure" but most other people think of it as "large metal objects that are expensive to store or landfill." Maintaining, storing, and restoring them on top of t
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by hvs 4mo ago
HN Hug of Death: https://web.archive.org/web/20260522134016/https://robida.ne...
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by hvs 4mo ago
A byte is always 8 bits. The word you're looking for is `word-size` which, in this case would be 4 bits.
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by hvs 5mo ago
In Minnesota they tend to be (or were) owned by companies in the construction / maintenance industry and plastered with full body advertisements for said services (not actually used by construction workers).
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by hvs 5mo ago
Came here to say that a lot of these LLM posts make me feel like I was hit by a hammer and I can't understand the world anymore. Thankfully, the HN comments confirm that this is as insane as I thought it was.
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by hvs 5mo ago
If you want to get depressed about all the problems with trying to colonize Mars, I recommend A City on Mars: https://www.acityonmars.com/ It's by the cartoonist of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and his wife (the o
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by hvs 6mo ago
It's not that they made more money from merchandise, it's that they sold more t-shirts than albums. Implying that more people were interested in the "image" of punk rock than the music.
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by hvs 7mo ago
Because Worse is Better. /s It's the incentives and everything is a trade off. Time to market, performance, features: none of these choices are made in a vacuum. Oh, and people like to go home and see their families once in a whil
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by hvs 8mo ago
Everyone made personal computers in the late 70's and early 80's. It was the latest corporate fad.
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by hvs 8mo ago
"Animal Farm" is a satire of the Russian Revolution.
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by hvs 8mo ago
* ANY consumer-grade home appliances.
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by hvs 8mo ago
I'm so old and out-of-touch that all I could imagine this was about was an ancient version control system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_Control_System
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by hvs 8mo ago
And also why a large percentage of the "content" on YouTube is YouTubers reactions to other YouTubers.
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by hvs 8mo ago
I'm a strong supporter of the "I did it because I wanted to see if I could do it" ethos. So this isn't a criticism of the project itself, but I'm pretty sure a snap gun will beat this almost every time.
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by hvs 9mo ago
Hug of death? https://web.archive.org/web/20260110140341/https://elliotmor...

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