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by impendia 9mo ago
Did they let you choose the animal to appear on the cover?
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by impendia 10mo ago
If I needed something verifiable, or wanted to learn the material in any depth, I would certainly not rely on an AI summary. However, the summary contained links to source material by known experts, and I would cheerfully rely on those. The
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by impendia 10mo ago
I was in a research math lecture the other day, and the speaker used some obscure technical terminology I didn't know. So I dug out my phone and googled it. The AI summary at the top was surprisingly good! Of course, the AI isn't
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by impendia 10mo ago
I'm not sure if you're being sincere or sarcastic, but the whole reason that coaching, pestering, and goading works is that I value my relationship with the human who is doing it.
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by impendia 11mo ago
> The point of calculus is... As a math professor who has taught calculus many times, I'd say there are many different things one could hope to learn from a calculus course. I don't think the subject distills well to a single p
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by impendia 11mo ago
I can think of reasons why I might want a local copy, but they didn't apply in my case. Do I have control over my data? I'm not sure I understand the question, but in this case the answer seems like a clear no, as my employer ma
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by impendia 11mo ago
I tried a couple of them, and they both started downloading my entire backlog of email to my hard drive, which I didn't want. I couldn't think of a reason why this would be necessary, but I haven't really kept up with how the
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by impendia 11mo ago
> type one-handed without looking at the screen at all, and have perfect accuracy. A computer that can predict what I'm going to write next with perfect accuracy ? This is the stuff of dystopian science fiction. Indeed, along these
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by impendia 1y ago
An interesting point -- and I sometimes wonder if we would all be happy if romantic partners were decided by lottery, and nobody got to wonder if someone "better" was lurking just around the corner. That said, compatibility may we
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by impendia 1y ago
"Human relationships and expectations have evolved a lot in the last decade" Is this really true? I agree they've changed some, but a lot? In any case, I'll take a stab at your question. Not thinking about how to make mo
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by impendia 1y ago
Thank you very much for your reply. This might sound like a strange question, and maybe not one I can reasonably ask of anyone else. That said -- how can I determine what "rest" genuinely means for me? As opposed to what I would
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Ask HN: However little television you watch, watch less."
6 points by impendia 1y ago|7 comments
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by impendia 1y ago
May I ask how? I'm aware you can disable notifications for a single app at a time. Is there a way to disable them entirely?
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by impendia 1y ago
You can't turn off notifications on MacOS AFAICT, but you can set "quiet hours" to 24 hours a day. So now I only see any notifications if I happen to be using my computer at exactly 10:00 pm. If you have any notifications you
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by impendia 1y ago
One advantage of LaTeX is that it's virtually impossible to generate markup by accident. This contrasts with other platforms which often decide that I'm trying to create a bulleted list, write something in boldface, etc. -- which
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by impendia 1y ago
Your tool library sounds fantastic! Congratulations on your success. That said, although starting a new organization may not take much money, it does take a lot of wisdom and social capital. I would say that you succeeded at something quite
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by impendia 1y ago
You have the disadvantage of operating in a space where a lot of people and companies claim a lot of different things, and where cause and effect is maddeningly difficult to sort out. For example, if you read Slate Star Codex, you can find
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by impendia 1y ago
I'm referring to this website: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ Blog posts from startups who get acquired by big companies, talking about what an incredible journey their startup has been, and thanking their cu
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by impendia 1y ago
I have been on your mailing list for time, and at least semi-seriously thought about buying one. Like other readers, I saw the subscription business and got put off. Especially since it seems that every company eventually either "enshi
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by impendia 1y ago
Very strongly agreed. I can count on no hands the number of times I've contacted a company for support and had any interest in talking to AI. Indeed, the chatbots I've interacted with have all been so comically bad that I wondered
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by impendia 1y ago
What really bugs me is use of the first person plural, which Microsoft (among others) seems to be doing a lot recently. I feel like I'm being talked down to. "Let's add your Microsoft account." No, let's not.
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by impendia 1y ago
The Economist is fantastic for world news, especially for regions that go underreported in US media, but it doesn't sound like what you're looking for.
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by impendia 1y ago
I agree with this criticism. If medical facts can reliably be inferred from RFK's statements, by whatever algorithm (i.e. "believe the opposite of whatever he says"), then it follows that he understands what he is talking abo
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by impendia 1y ago
Is that legal?! I would have thought your lawyer would be salivating at the prospect of raking your HOA over the coals. Or at least of mailing a nastygram with all sorts of colorful threats. I suppose not?
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by impendia 1y ago
I used to live in Japan in 1999-2001, and I was just there again for a month this summer. Anyway, I disagree with you: Japan is still a miracle in terms of the quality and service you get for the money. I saw this many times over. Perhaps n
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by impendia 1y ago
Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle. I'd be happy to pay a modest bit of money to buy a simple app, and see if it helps -- but I'm very reluctant to sign up for a subscription. Perhaps ironically, the less the app claim
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by impendia 1y ago
If we're to take your claims at face value, can we make any conclusions about the past at all? For example, suppose that I were to claim that the universe is exactly one hundred years old. George Washington, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar
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by impendia 1y ago
Take this with a grain of salt, because I'm an academic, not an entrepreneur. That said: when I was younger, being a nerd was uncool. To out yourself as one was to take a social risk, and it makes sense that tight-knit communities form
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by impendia 1y ago
I don't see why you can't reuse whatever mechanics you like. Return of the Obra Dinn was a 2018 mystery puzzle game, where you have to figure out how everyone died in an ill-fated voyage at sea. Amazing game. I searched Reddit f
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by impendia 1y ago
Strongly agreed. Recently, I found a gym with group training classes which I absolutely love. They have a great sense of community, and now that I've found them I find it easy to motivate myself to show up and work out. I have the good

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