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by nomilk 2y ago
How do you suppose an intelligent 16 y/o Australian should get their news? Twitter / Bluesky / Mastodon / Youtube / Reddit are this generation's Guardian / NYT / Der Spiegel / Le Monde / Reu
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Social media ban for children under 16 is introduced in Australia's Parliament(apnews.com)
17 points by nomilk 2y ago|7 comments
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by nomilk 2y ago
The utility of test flights doesn't come from delivering a payload; but from collecting data. For example today's test involved intentionally weakening starship's heat shield to see if previous estimates of required shielding
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Paul Graham on Startups, Innovation, and Creativity (2009) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by nomilk 2y ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 2y ago
Not to mention the opportunity cost: victims of real violent/urgent situations who couldn't access timely protection, as well as the cost to society of perpetrators who marginally escaped while law enforcement were occupied tend
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by nomilk 2y ago
I considered reading SICP recently but this changed my mind: > It's old and feels old. originally in scheme, they recently re released the book in JavaScript which is more approachable to today's audiences and there are still g
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by nomilk 2y ago
To be brutally honest if it’s a choice between pixelated and constantly buffering, pixelated is way less bad. Constantly buffering is incredibly annoying during live sports. (but this doesn’t negate your main point which is that if people p
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by nomilk 2y ago
It will never not annoy and amuse me that illegal options (presumably run by randoms in their spare time) are so much better than the offerings of big companies and their tech ‘talent’.
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by nomilk 2y ago
As a former user of in-trade and more recently of poly market, it is so annoying that there are laws against these sites. They serve an incredibly important function: letting people learn what’s happening in the world around us by observing
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by nomilk 2y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. As the plot doesn’t display the correct date for the release of ChatGPT, it’s either based on incorrect data or mislabelled (it might intend to mean some release of GPT). In any case deleting this HN post as th
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Plot of Stack Overflow Web Traffic vs ChatGPT Release(twitter.com)
3 points by nomilk 2y ago|2 comments
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by nomilk 2y ago
Fun fact: both Linus and Wolfram have walking desks! Wolfram said he didn't exercise much before age 40, but his wife convinced him to, and he's now resolved to not walk less than 10000 steps per day. He does his first few meeting
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by nomilk 2y ago
Where does your data reside, is it on an attached EBS volume, or in S3, or somewhere else? I had some spare time and tinkered with duckdb with a 70GB dataset, but just getting the 70GB on to the EC2 took hours. Would be pretty rocking if du
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Ask HN: Which browser extensions could you not do without?
8 points by nomilk 2y ago|20 comments
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AI Cracked the Protein Folding Code and Won a Nobel Prize [video](youtube.com)
1 points by nomilk 2y ago|0 comments
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Candid interview with SpaceX engineer about stage zero for F9/Heavy and Starbase [video](youtube.com)
2 points by nomilk 2y ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 2y ago
The contrast in Sacks's hobbies made me laugh. Amusing to see a neurologist, who's complemented for being > a brilliant and vivid mind, a man whose intellectual appetite was vast, and whose professional and creative passions –
888.
by nomilk 2y ago
> Letters represents a mere fraction of the total in his archives, which runs to more than 200,000 pages whoah. Sacks averaged about 11 pages per day for 50 years (that are known about).
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by nomilk 2y ago
Curious to learn which lifestyle factors correlate with extremely regular sleep patterns. Of my friends who have very regular sleep patterns, they tend to be very stable, long termists, career focussed, good in relationships, at least moder
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Is "adaptive" Wi-Fi speed a thing on modern machines?(superuser.com)
4 points by nomilk 2y ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 2y ago
Really appreciate informative comments like this, basically explaining from first principles and not assuming people are idiots for not immediately understanding the implications. It also made me realise what a cushy, insular world I live i
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by nomilk 2y ago
Reminds of the Spelling Bee scene in the Simpsons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWyYTJKOtDU
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by nomilk 2y ago
pretty_git_log() looks great, but using kitty on macOS it gives me this: pretty_git_log column: line too long * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * |\ | * | * | * | * | * | * * | * | |/ * * * * * * * *
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Rapid Dragon [video](youtube.com)
1 points by nomilk 2y ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 2y ago
> $30 Million Is All It Took to Shift the Odds in Trump’s Favor on Polymarket > The huge buy is further proof that predictive betting sites are only a reflection of what degenerate gamblers are willing to spend. This is incredibly dis
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What is the use of Mersenne Primes in cryptography?(crypto.stackexchange.com)
1 points by nomilk 2y ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 2y ago
How do mathematicians come to focus on seemingly arbitrary quesrions: > another asks whether there are infinitely many pairs of primes that differ by only 2, such as 11 and 13 Is it that many questions were successfully dis/proved
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by nomilk 2y ago
Hi @dang not sure why but when I click Share -> Copy Link in the Reddit iPhone app, and submit the url to HN, the URL seems to get messed up (this submission is a good example). I tested the URL before submitting to be absolutely sure it
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2020 Reddit post discussing Musk's plan to catch booster with launch tower arms(old.reddit.com)
4 points by nomilk 2y ago|1 comments
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by nomilk 2y ago
Ha! > Holy flying fuck, look at that thing! Gold.

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