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by npunt 6y ago
Interesting thanks for the insights! Then would the few second delay be more a matter of time it takes to decompress the contents, or that files are stored on disks which are being accessed a lot, or something else? Always been curious abou
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by npunt 6y ago
I get the impression Wayback Machine data is stored in powered down drives and they only spin them up when someone accesses the data. That would explain the several second delay and it'd make sense that an archive wouldn't need 95
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by npunt 6y ago
Old-school MUDs are alright, but I'd love to see a modern reinterpretation of them that rethinks the interfaces and offers more democratized tools. For instance, I'd love rooms that could be populated with sounds, images, environm
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by npunt 6y ago
Reminds me of this quote: "I don't know of any expedition that ever went looking for [Noah's] ark and didn't find it" [1] When the foundation of a field is taking things on faith and built up on layers and layers of
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by npunt 6y ago
I have a friend who has lived in the same place for 20 years and has built a family there. They've never missed rent and have been excellent tenants, but nevertheless they're being pushed out and the property is being sold to deve
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by npunt 6y ago
The beauty and danger of web frontend is how deceptively simple it looks, and how devilish the details wind up being. It's kind of a rite of passage in web dev to roll your own design and eventually discover a bunch of little things t
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by npunt 6y ago
Cool site. Some UX feedback: 1. 'Double click to close' is very non-standard web UX, I'd recommend not trying to innovate on UX and simply supporting the back button as sites always have. Double click also breaks text highlig
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by npunt 6y ago
I never said or implied radicalization was exclusive to recommendation algorithms, so I’m not sure what you’re arguing. You seem to be confusing the existence of radicalization in history, almost exclusively by large groups with mass media
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by npunt 6y ago
> Social networks reflect society. This is well worn territory and no they do not. Society never has had recommendation algorithms pushing radicalizing content/communities for engagement. Nor has society been so interconnected or sh
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by npunt 6y ago
Yeah, referred pain is weird. When people have hand RSI the root cause is much more likely to be a shoulder/neck/postural thing rather than a hand thing. Its unfortunate 'carpal tunnel syndrome' has become such a widespr
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by npunt 6y ago
Except that compound pharmacies provide ketamine in various forms like nasal sprays and troches today, and availability is rising as evidence mounts and the field of psychiatry gets onboard with it as a mainstream antidepressant.
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by npunt 6y ago
Oh please. It's a generic drug on the list of WHO's most essential medicines manufacturable by hundreds of labs worldwide for pennies a dose. Meanwhile it's a step change in both efficacy and speed of antidepressant effect re
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by npunt 6y ago
Unsustainable projects like these dams, which do give temporary benefit, also encourage both migration closer to a point of failure and unsustainable population growth. In our attempt to alleviate life's challenges for ~100s of people,
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by npunt 6y ago
Seems we've painted ourselves in a corner in several ways. We figured out how to build dams and then quickly built a ton of them, without the know-how to assess their safety nor decommission them. And since we built dams so quickly, we
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by npunt 6y ago
Clockwise is excellent and pretty much purpose-built for this problem.
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by npunt 6y ago
Probably can cut that down further due to : * People's vision getting worse with age * Each OLED pixel consists of 4 subpixels, so may only need to reach that acuity at sub pixel resolution * Acuity drops and eyestrain increases at the
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by npunt 6y ago
Great work! It makes me wonder if a few things could be possible: 1. Make the surface of the ball a multitouch trackpad surface so you could pinch zoom in and out and two finger scroll up and down, all on the ball itself. Make it only work
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by npunt 6y ago
I got sucked into that one as well and then went to the internet archive to watch some others. It was called the Computer Bowl: http://tcm.computerhistory.org/computerbowl.html
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by npunt 6y ago
Secret was a vector for harassment and innuendo via friend of friend connections and deserved its fate. This on the other hand feels like early internet, overly personal in a charming way.
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by npunt 6y ago
Yep, in hardware this is picking a new material to work with, try it out in some smaller part that's easier to work and isn't critical, and then see its failure rate in the wild. Get used to using it before you bet on it.
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by npunt 6y ago
Your faith in free markets may be a bit misplaced. There's a long history of semiconductor shortages followed by markets being flooded due to lack of demand predictability and the capital costs and lag time of scaling manufacturing. DR
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by npunt 6y ago
Unfortunately I'm limited in what I can do overhead due to an old neck injury, so pullups are out. Most upper body stuff causes me pain so I have to be extra careful dialing in the right movements, weight, and reps. I've heard dea
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by npunt 6y ago
This is a fantastic effort of 100+ volunteers [1] that are calling pharmacies and other sites offering vaccines throughout California and getting their eligibility requirements and daily updates on their vaccine availability. I imagine they
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by npunt 6y ago
Thanks for building this! I love that this exists, and want to encourage you to continue. Like a lot of people working in tech, I've had persistent neck and posture issues for years. I'd love to see you expand to cover those, focu
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by npunt 6y ago
Ben missed an important part of the geopolitical difference between TSMC and Intel: Taiwan is much more invested in TSMC's success than America is in Intel's. Taiwan's share of the semiconductor industry is 66% and TSMC is th
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by npunt 6y ago
I appreciate your response and the nuances you're striking. Nevertheless, this still feels like splitting hairs and/or not seeing the forest from the trees. Powerful people have always had extra influence over societal changes. So
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by npunt 6y ago
Very cool to think about the spatial properties of composition like hand position changing as Beethoven went deaf. It suggests there's broader discoveries to be made in finding the patterns underneath things we thought we already under
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by npunt 6y ago
I think you're splitting hairs here and, correct me if I'm wrong, it seems you're saying privilege does not exist?
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by npunt 6y ago
Agree. If we're to peg Hella to anything, it should be as an intensifier to the one's expectations. E.g. 'there's hella people here' would indicate there are say ~5x the number of people that the listener expects th
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by npunt 6y ago
I'd put it a bit differently: people with very little power banded together to create a movement that together has some power and was making incremental progress over the decades, but allies were needed to accelerate it and make big

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