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by mckn1ght 3y ago
I have a personal belief that I can’t quite articulate in rigorous scientific terms that there is some information-theoretic barrier for us to understand the “true nature” or “essence” of our own intelligence, and so if we can’t get to that
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I'm like you in that I hate notifications, but I love this idea at the same time, so I think I'll set up an email filter that sends them all past the inbox, right to a dedicated folder, where I can periodically review them all tog
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
Huh, TIL. So is this the same principle used in an induction stove top to heat the pan, just applied to water molecules instead of metal?
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A better link was surfaced in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39046841 , but I can’t edit the URL. Maybe dang will come along and help with that.
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Yeah, I too was annoyed that they don’t talk about the how at all. It’s a really long page, about 3x longer than it needs to be. My guess is infrared, but I was hoping someone more knowledgeable could chime in.
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The Miele Dialog: cook a fish in ice without melting the ice(reviewed.usatoday.com)
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Wait until you try Marketplace. For something with so much monetization potential, it still looks and feels like it was slapped together by an intern. Using it is an exercise in frustration.
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For the last year my father has been in a similar state, after suffering a massive stroke. You articulated some of my feelings in a beautiful way, even though our circumstances are quite different. Thank you. I wish you peace and joy.
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> contemplate alternatives, imagine things being different, or daydream of a different life I lost my mother over 23 years ago, and one of the the hardest things for the longest while was anytime I would travel somewhere amazing, whether
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Imagine being able to make in app purchases for boosting your posts, or ad campaigns, facebook marketplace items (think meta brand items just like amazon brand items) or tiktok shop items. Now imagine those companies paying a percentage o
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I saw another one of his gems the other day in another thread: > “The performance of the prime manufacturer can never exceed the capabilities of the least proficient of the suppliers,” Hart-Smith wrote. “These costs do not vanish merely
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> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling… https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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First thought: bounds checking. What happens if d = INT_MAX / 2 + 1 ? Second thought: good job posting this, now it will be accepted into the corpus for GPT5
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They wanted to make a point about the usages on that page, I simply provided more usages from the page that run counter to their argument. I’m not arguing the merits of the usages on the page in general; I think it’s not very relevant. The
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> I have no idea what kind of destruction it does This is really all you had to say, but since it doesn’t really add to the discussion, my recommendation would have been to avoid replying at all, especially considering the rest of the co
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My mind goes to the question of what chemical byproducts come out of the manufacture of batteries or PVs. Maybe it’s not CO2, but something else. Maybe it’s easier to deal with. And maybe it’s a good tradeoff, or just in certain quantities,
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
> No one wins a drone war. A non sequitur with no justification. If you are being attacked with drones, and you don’t have any, you are definitely going to lose that war. This is like how people say nobody wins a nuclear war. Ask Ukrai
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They also break out the awards per platform. There are best apps for iPhone, iPad, Watch, TV and Mac, same with games. I seriously doubt that simple grammatical usage examples from a page like this would be enough. More likely the structure
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
In The Design of Everyday Things Donald Norman mentions the swiss-cheese model, whereby multiple layers in a process need to align correctly for a mistake to lead all the way to an incident: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki
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> Do you think companies randomly decide merge? Do you think antitrust investigations are random? The SEC flips a coin every morning? Of course not. But the people that can actually gain from such knowledge presumably aren’t able to use
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Casino games have known probabilities, so the expected value can be used to project long term earnings. The more games people play over time, the more their projections will converge. Nobody knows the odds a company will profit or lose mone
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> How do you install Android or some other OS competitor on an iPhone, or install iOS on a Samsung or Google device? You don’t, you either choose to buy an Android or an iPhone. This is like asking why I can’t go to Princeton but have my
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Google posted almost $60B profit in 2022. Samsung posted $3.2B profit in Q4 2022. Extrapolate that to $12.8B yearly. And they're one of several Android device makers, with about 1/3 of that market share. Apparently Samsungs profit
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They did address it by explaining why it's not only not worse, but different. Microsoft to OEMs: you can only put our OS on the devices you sell if you make IE the default. Without Windows, PC makers knew they had no market to sell to
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Apple does use Swift in their IDE, Xcode. Several years ago they rewrote the text editor component in Swift. It’s taken them a while to get all the features back that the old one had, and has had a fair amount of bugs as well. I often wonde
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
This seems like it could fit somewhere in Santa Claus: an Engineer’s Perspective : https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~andrew5/cute/engineer_santa.txt
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I think you’re right. At first I thought “crawlers are actually creating large amounts of spam requests” but this is just the way a searchable web functions. The crawlers are just building the index of the internet.
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I feel this comment. I did a masters with a thesis option because I was not hurting for money with TA and side business income, so figured I could take the extra year (it was an accelerated masters). Loved being able to work in that heady m
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"Please subscribe to my monthly mail newsletter, I accept payment in the form of check or money order, or even trades"
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“All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.” – Clarence Darrow “a new scientific trut

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