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by pkdpic 5y ago
Agreed on all counts. Responses like this are why I continue to find HN an inspiring community. I wonder sometimes why there arent more grassroots non-toxic (?) social platforms for more localized communities. For instance what is preventin
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by pkdpic 5y ago
> A futuristic dystopia. A place where the real world sucks. Where people consider talking to someone a chore. Connection, closeness, ambition are replaced by detachment and dogmatic slumber. Society is satisfied with shallow thoughts an
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by pkdpic 5y ago
I still definitely use it for teaching big O comparisons in a live / malleable way. Not sure I know of a comparable resource for that but maybe someone out there in the HNstroverse does?
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by pkdpic 5y ago
I lost my mother a few years ago to an abrupt cancer diagnosis. Just being by her side every hour I could was all that mattered in the end. I went to work, kept eating and being present for my wife etc to honor the life and love that she ga
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by pkdpic 5y ago
That sounds about right, but I assumed there must be some hard criteria from a doctors perspective.
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Somebody might know better than me but based on everything Ive observed with the crypto bros at my job (and they are always men for some reason) it seems like the outward behavior might literally meet most if not all of the medical criteria
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by pkdpic 5y ago
No worries, but seriously once theyre sculpted I can crank out the concrete casts by the dozens. And theyre 1:6 (Barbie) scale so no insane space cost. In any case I really want them to go to folks workin in tech but no pressure : )
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by pkdpic 5y ago
But I mean, they could partially bypass the carbon cost associated with transport and installation if it was woven in place. Even more so if they could weave without costly respiratory equipment etc.
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by pkdpic 5y ago
As someone who didn't get to live through that era I'm always inspired by stories like this. Would love to send you one when Im done!
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Excellent, thank you!
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Omg yes, those are the best resources when people have gone full tilt on accuracy. Unfortunately I found several that ended up not being very accurate when I tried to confirm with relative photo measurements. But yeah if you know of any mor
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Definitely concerned, especially since the first gen iMac is forsure on my todo list. But I generally find you can get curves without too much trouble by getting the endpoints and the climax of the curve measured in a triangle and then wing
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Heck yeah, plus a concrete cast of the sculpture!
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Absolutely, that would probably be more fun too in terms of dialogue too ;) Upon further reflection it might be even cooler to donate it to a computer museum.
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by pkdpic 5y ago
This has been my general approach after doing a very long brick phone break and it seems to work.
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Did it for years with no real issues until I wanted to get a dev job. My friend said "you cant walk into a software interview with that" and immediately bought me a used iphone. Having one after a near 6 year break hasnt really bu
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Mostly random aficionado sites confirmed by separate sites and / or relative photo measurements. Surprisingly very few contradictions ended up occurring. But I intentionally started with extremely popular hardware with thousands of pot
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Ask HN: Anyone want to buy me a TRS-80 so I can make a sculpture of it?
18 points by pkdpic 5y ago|18 comments
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by pkdpic 5y ago
heck yeah --> https://tombetthauser.github.io/societyofobjects/images/
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Im slowly "working" on a few. A couple web platform projects just for fun and some concrete sculptures of old computing hardware. Cool question to put on HN, might get increased attention with the "Ask HN:" in the title?
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Sculpting scale models of computer history hardware, putting weird faces on them, casting them in concrete and leaving them in the woods.
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Valid questions for sure, tried to put more context in the question but it got too long for HN. Ive been making art for a long time but just switched careers to software. I guess Im just trying to make some work that embraces / engages
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Ask HN: Any ideas for a painting / drawing / sculpture?
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Just wanted to say this was super inspiring, practical, unpretentious and to the point. My favorite HN read in a long time.
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by pkdpic 5y ago
TLDR, seems ant evolution suggest individual brain size decrease with rise in social / cooperative intelligence / capabilities. Very interesting...
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Aren't we already allowing / building increasingly large homeless refugee camps?
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Excellent article, thank you for sharing it!
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by pkdpic 5y ago
Spoiler, it does!
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by pkdpic 5y ago
nice quick read : ) synopsis: we are all playing the squid game except we get to try again if we dont win
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Does a morality AI think I should watch more anime?(delphi.allenai.org)
3 points by pkdpic 5y ago|2 comments

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