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by npilk 1y ago
Good point. Although the book isn't any sort of adaptation, so I could see including an allusion to the Polonius character even in a slightly different role. (I'd also forgotten about the janitors, who are clearly a reference to R
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by npilk 1y ago
I've seen a theory that the mistakes Pemulis makes are intentional, and signal that he isn't as smart as he thinks and that he doesn't really have everything in control. I'm not sure; clearly DFW had some math aptitude b
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by npilk 1y ago
Not exactly what you're after, but similar: https://what-if.xkcd.com/116/
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The Inner Game of Tennis (2022)(gatesnotes.com)
3 points by npilk 1y ago|2 comments
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by npilk 1y ago
The Xreal glasses are going to be the near-term winner for AR/VR form factor. A “personal screen” you can carry around with you and use to look at whatever is on your phone in a much larger, private format. This just adds more value mo
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by npilk 1y ago
"Transcranial focused ultrasound amygdala neuromodulation" https://xkcd.com/2326/
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Show HN: Chattergories – a category-guessing game, judged by AI(chattergories.com)
1 points by npilk 1y ago|0 comments
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by npilk 1y ago
If business books are just entertainment, then better to read more fiction!
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We don't notice slow improvement(notes.npilk.com)
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by npilk 2y ago
Exactly :-) Unfortunately you can’t really show ads if you take someone directly to the destination without any interstitial content like a list of links…
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by npilk 2y ago
Agreed. I think of these as two different types of searches - “page searches” where you know a page exists and want to get to it, and “content searches” where you have a more open-ended question. Really, for many “page searches”, a good sea
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Living New Deal Map(livingnewdeal.org)
4 points by npilk 2y ago|0 comments
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by npilk 2y ago
This feels a bit like AI image generation in 2022. The fact that it works at all is pretty mindblowing, and sometimes it produces something really good, but most of the time there are obvious mistakes, errors, etc. Of course, it only took a
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A Color for Every Day(notes.npilk.com)
1 points by npilk 2y ago|0 comments
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by npilk 2y ago
I believe HN's algorithm tends to relatively downrank stories with a high comment-to-upvote ratio, because they are more often flamewars on divisive topics.
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by npilk 2y ago
Sounds like you'd be interested in the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges - your comment brings Pierre Menard to mind.
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by npilk 2y ago
I think in general it's easy to get distracted by optimization instead of focusing on the highest-leverage decisions. Tax and legal structure is a good example. It doesn't matter how good your tax situation is if you have no path
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If you have to optimize, it isn't good enough(notes.npilk.com)
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If you have to optimize, it isn't good enough(notes.npilk.com)
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by npilk 2y ago
Their website and app are not working either. Outage has been going on for over an hour now.
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Spectrum internet is down across Texas(old.reddit.com)
13 points by npilk 2y ago|7 comments
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by npilk 2y ago
For what it's worth, the most productive people I know seem to do basically no planning, but respond to almost everything immediately in the moment. Replying to emails as soon as they see them, making a phone call to have the conversat
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by npilk 2y ago
FYI - there are plugins that can help you easily order your frames by position or in other ways that make sense (I think the one I use is called Sorter). But that's another example of the sort of hacky 'workaround' that shoul
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by npilk 2y ago
What I think a lot of the comments are missing here is that many companies who use Figma are already using Figma to create and present slide decks. (The company I work for is a perfect example.) It's maybe not the intended use of the
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by npilk 2y ago
> Imagine being kept in jail with the pretext "you are not yet fully informed of what is out there, so we're not letting you go out for your own good". Isn't this basically what school is for children? I don't th
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by npilk 2y ago
I'm not disputing your point about prestige, and I'm sure that people whose 'daddies make 7 digits per year' would be interested in more prestigious roles and less interested in pay. But I really doubt that most professo
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by npilk 2y ago
Cool website! But I hope titles like these don't become common on HN - I really appreciate the 'no clickbait' policy here.
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by npilk 2y ago
I think the difference in demo style between OpenAI’s GPT-4o (yesterday) and this is interesting. Google’s videos feel more like a mixture of brand marketing and pandering to shareholders. OpenAI’s videos yesterday felt much more like a cas
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by npilk 2y ago
Seems like the classic form of this contest would be for the radio DJ to pull a bill out of his wallet and read that serial number over the air...
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by npilk 2y ago
> You might want to use a contact form to collect structured data, so it saves you time processing requests. For example, making sure the customer provides the right identifiers for you to find them on your systems quickly, or automatica

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