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by jrussino 4y ago
I know we're all playing around here, but surely the answer must be that there's a limit rooted in the specific biological/chemical implementation of memory in the brain that our hypothetical "infinitely-long-lived, but
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by jrussino 4y ago
I've had a Roomba for years and love it; I was considering upgrading to the newest model this year (mainly for the self-emptying bin) and getting one of the mopping models as well. Now after hearing this news I'm hesitant. A few y
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by jrussino 4y ago
I think the recent electric scooter boom and subsequent pushback by communities shows that: - There is (IMHO huge ) pent-up demand for last-mile style electric transportation: scooters, bicycles, etc. - The electric drive technology is sta
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by jrussino 4y ago
There was recently a proposal to send rovers to explore them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Diver_(spacecraft) Check out the video on this page for a ton of details: https://www.kiss.caltech.edu/le
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by jrussino 4y ago
I could use some help with hip flexibility - would you be willing to post some links?
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by jrussino 4y ago
That Macaulay book was a favorite of mine at a certain age! I gift the newer edition to elementary-aged kids whenever I find the opportunity.
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by jrussino 4y ago
A lot of NASA's stuff also points this way: https://earth.jpl.nasa.gov/estd-missions/satellite/
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by jrussino 4y ago
Did you still enjoy it? I loved playing this game with my Dad when I was a kid and I'm wondering if it still holds up.
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by jrussino 4y ago
> In real life, I don’t like guns, war or aggression. But when I play games, I often go for FPS or other, violent games An old friend of mine is working on a game called “Air Hares”, motivated by a very similar concern to the one you’ve
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by jrussino 4y ago
Wow, I'm jealous of the control panel in your first link. In contrast, my 2014 Chevy Volt-with-a-"V" has an absolutely aweful interface. It's a combination of small, laggy touchscreen and a bunch of also-laggy, haphazard
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by jrussino 4y ago
There was a discussion here a few years back about this interview/documentary with the creator of the original KidPix: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25108875
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by jrussino 4y ago
One thing I'd love to do with this, but which I don't think is possible - clone my car key. My family has two cars and I just wish I could have one device that is able to unlock & start both of them so that I don't have t
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by jrussino 4y ago
Maybe there's something interesting here: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Careers_at_ESA/Professionals ?
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by jrussino 4y ago
Off-topic, but I always assumed there was some consistent disease naming convention in use here and that there must have been earlier instances of "COVID-YY", given that this isn't the first coronavirus disease that has been
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by jrussino 4y ago
Yes! We started with these two as well. My girls are currently 3 and 5, and my wife and I had been eager to introduce them to some of our favorite movies from our own childhoods. We started watching the Lion King once without putting much t
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by jrussino 4y ago
Agreed! Did you know NASA provides a real-time visualization of the communication happening via the Deep Space Network? Here's a link for anybody who hasn't seen it yet: https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
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by jrussino 5y ago
Doesn't Chemex use a paper filter?
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by jrussino 5y ago
One glaring deficiency that is common among chat bots like this is the lack of any sort of learning/memory. I can get pretty convincing answers to some questions, but I can never get an appropriate answer to questions like "what w
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by jrussino 5y ago
I found Scott Alexander's review to be very informative: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...
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by jrussino 5y ago
I was with you until the second paragraph. Aren’t we having a kind of apple renaissance right now? Admittedly I know very little about apples, but when I was a kid the supermarkets basically just had red delicious and Granny Smith. Then cam
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by jrussino 5y ago
I totally get the fun and satisfaction of doing it yourself, but if you have any interest in an off-the-shelf WiFi trap I’ve had a pretty good experience with these: https://www.victorpest.com/smart-kill-electronic-mouse-tra
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by jrussino 5y ago
This comment reminded me of a post that appeared on HN few months ago, which may shed some light on why the questioning is structured the way it is: "Effective Deposition Strategy and Dealing with the Evasive, Non-cooperative Witness&q
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by jrussino 5y ago
Already received a reply from Dr. Cormen: "I’ve been tweeting out differences between 3e and 4e here: https://twitter.com/clrs4e " Also, from the description on purchase pages (Amazon, etc.): " New for the fou
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by jrussino 5y ago
Is there any published information available yet about what the major differences are from the third edition? I couldn't find much so I posed the question on quora: https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-are-the-maj
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by jrussino 5y ago
>10:32 AM PDT We are investigating connectivity issues in the US-GOV-WEST-1 Region. >11:45 AM PDT The issue is affecting network connectivity from the Internet to EC2 instances in a single Availability Zone (USGW1-AZ3) in the US-GOV-W
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by jrussino 5y ago
I'm a relatively new govcloud user and this is impacting my work today. Does anybody here have a sense of how long outages like this typically take to resolve?
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by jrussino 5y ago
I bought a kindle years ago and love the convenience and compactness of having all of my reading material on that little device. Now I have two young children, and I've gradually started to build up a collection of physical books at ho
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by jrussino 5y ago
At the risk of venturing too far off-topic from the linked article: isn’t it in poor taste to be citing this author using his real name, given that he recently went so far as to take down his blog in protest of a rumored NYT article that wo
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by jrussino 5y ago
Like many Americans, we have a mix of electric and natural gas appliances. Historically, natural gas prices have been significantly cheaper than electricity prices, and that's an important factor to take into consideration when trying
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by jrussino 5y ago
Couldn't agree more. I feel the same way about the Oculus headsets.

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