mehrzad

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by mehrzad 23d ago
AI music and art are terrible but somehow there are even worse use cases of these AI models, imo. 100% realistic AI video has basically no legitimate use case other than misinformation. Yes some AI videos can be humorous but these are gener
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by mehrzad 1mo ago
There are very serious mathematicians who refuse to use AI because they rightfully are concerned about the skill loss and harm overall. If anything it makes more sense for a mathematician to avoid AI than a software engineer though personal
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by mehrzad 4y ago
Windows Store individual links don't seem to work for me. I have to search them up in the home page.
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by mehrzad 4y ago
If you put multiple images in an Apple Notes note, it’s insanely slow and also it only exports as txt files so no images afaicr
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by mehrzad 4y ago
Apple Notes unfortunately does not let you export notes with the images attached, not always relevant but it really hurt me once.
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by mehrzad 4y ago
Interesting to see this now, I was thinking of switching to a new platform for tasks and notes because Evernote’s free tier is quite limited and Apple Reminders often doesn’t even show the correct reminder if there are multiple open. I was
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by mehrzad 4y ago
>What basis do you have for this claim? People make these claims constantly so confidently, but wherever I look all I see is that dictators have always been willing to make their nations incredibly poor. Iran lost $17 billion in economic
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by mehrzad 4y ago
I've been looking for something like this because sometimes it's hard to verify movie and TV quotes unless they are already very famous.
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by mehrzad 4y ago
Japan has high stomach cancer rates and sodium is implicated https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1860129/
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by mehrzad 5y ago
I would guess that the problem only appears if it's the same artist and same album ID. Not sure if techno artists use "Untitled" multiple times on the same album, haha.
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by mehrzad 5y ago
A funny edge case I've found in one of the most popular music services (Last.fm). There is an instrumental post-rock ish band called Collections of Colonies of Bees and they have an album where almost all the tracks have the same name;
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by mehrzad 5y ago
The only popular social app that claims to do this is Hinge.
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by mehrzad 5y ago
Feeling slightly peeved that they call a square a space.
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by mehrzad 5y ago
As an LA native, I had no idea about this. I know Hollywood has a reputation of being a tourist trap, but things like this make me think, how could you not be romantic about this city?
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by mehrzad 6y ago
Not a website, and this may be obvious, but if you are doing research on Wikipedia on a topic from a non-English speaking country, sometimes that nation's language features a longer and more in depth article. I am currently learning Ge
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by mehrzad 6y ago
Back when I had cancer in 2015, I read about this effect but I also read there was some potential danger in the cancer cells adapting to ketosis and accelerating their growth, so I thought it seemed too risky. It seems like the research may
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by mehrzad 6y ago
Funny how people always bring up this quote and not the one from Federalist 58 where Madison warns against requiring supermajorities for general legislative work which many defenders of the EC also support (i.e., the filibuster rule). &quot
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by mehrzad 6y ago
The implementation of referendums needs serious reform in many democracies. My home state of California is still dealing with the effects of several propositions from generations ago but at least we get to revote on them sometimes by petiti
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by mehrzad 6y ago
You're right that cars are more reliable today but I follow a lot of mechanics on YouTube (Car Wizard, Kilmer, etc) who say that cars were easier to work on back then. These days (at least in the luxury segment) there are a lot of elec
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by mehrzad 6y ago
Can you name such places? Someone mentioned Houston, but I honestly don’t know if their zoning laws are more liberal than ours (LA).
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by mehrzad 6y ago
Yes, that's a much better way to put it. It just seems ironic to me that after decades of policies leading to a wealthy California the same detractors are claiming that the liberalism was the problem. My most charitable interpretation
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by mehrzad 6y ago
The high cost of living in California has almost nothing to do with liberal politics or whatever you're trying to insinuate.
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by mehrzad 6y ago
It always seemed to me that the claimed benefits of wine also exist in grape juice.
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Ask HN: False advertising on stock vector websites?
2 points by mehrzad 6y ago|1 comments
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by mehrzad 6y ago
It's fascinating to me hearing about how Hong Kong and Tokyo have similar cost of living to even some of the most expensive metros in the US, but the pay isn't as competitive. It makes me wonder why the market hasn't adjusted
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by mehrzad 6y ago
A mild annoyance of mine is how the potential benefits of cryptocurrency (decentralized verification, cloud storage, etc) are often lost among discussions of why Bitcoin is bad, which it is. Many of Bitcoin's flaws (energy usage, easy
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by mehrzad 6y ago
Like the other replier, I also found NixOS very difficult to install and my hardware wasn't supported as well as Debian was.
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by mehrzad 6y ago
Not completely related but I decided on my latest GNU/Linux distro install that I much prefer the macOS model with slow updates for the major stuff with optional use of Homebrew and other updating mechanisms for the add-ons. One of the
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by mehrzad 6y ago
That's understandable, but they didn't clarify that at all in the upgrade instructions, which say to just use "npm install tailwindcss" to upgrade. edit: And it also broke PostCSS somehow. What a mess! edit 2: I just not
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by mehrzad 6y ago
Using `yarn upgrade tailwindcss` only brought me up to 1.9.6. I had to specify the version to get it to upgrade.

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