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by rpozarickij 2y ago
I use an air filter for that. I have a Levoit Vital 200S and it allows to set up an automatic filter power schedule so I don't have to think about that when going to bed. Mine switches to the white noise mode at 9:30pm and then back to
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
I'm still reading it, but the book Material World by Ed Conway has been very informative and enjoyable to read. It's a book that I've been looking for for a long time. It explores how different common natural resources are in
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
People tend to cling to what is familiar even if it causes hardship/suffering. Switching into a new and unfamiliar area often looks harder than doing something you've been already doing.
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
> isn't all "real" earth still gravitationally bound to the Earth Another (sub)level of pedantry: earth will always be bound to the Earth because gravitational force never really reaches zero no matter how far the objects
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
I think "charge points per EV" (or similar) would also be a useful metric to have.
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
> literally nothing in the observed universe does There are many things on earth that don't exist anywhere else in the universe (as far as we know). Life is one of them. Just think how unfathomably complex human brains are compared
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
> "AI security" It looks like the aim of SSI is building safe AI, not just working on safety/security of AI. Both the article and their website [1] state this. [1] https://ssi.inc
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
I've just updated my Firefox and I got the options in about:config to enable vertical tabs. sidebar.revamp and sidebar.verticalTabs need to be set to true.
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
I haven't see the movie (only a few clips), but I enjoyed hearing this analogy from Steve Jobs himself in many of his interviews [0]. Just checked the part [1] of the movie where Michael Fassbender talks about the bicycle of the mind.
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
Smartphones in the same class as the S24 Ultra are marvels of engineering. The fact that we no longer think how amazing modern technology is and instead focus solely on their intended functions is a testament to how much we as a civilizatio
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
Given the size of Apple and the amount of business they are likely to generate for OpenAI, they might be one of the (if not _the_) most non-regular customers of OpenAI.
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
> it's iOS only It's available on macOS as well: https://kagi.com/orion/#download_sec
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ChatGPT(chatgpt.com)
1 points by rpozarickij 2y ago|0 comments
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
> junk (i.e. non-functional DNA) Perhaps people should use the term "non-functional DNA" instead of "junk DNA" more often. Calling something as "junk" has unnecessarily dismissive connotations.
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
I wonder whether there might be a bidirectional connection between the ear and the brain. For example, the brain creates some internal activity, which in turn stimulates the more outer components of the auditory system.
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
(Another potential buyer of this camera from outside the US) By the way, some users might be unwilling to provide credit card details without knowing whether the product can be shipped to their country. Knowing that in advance IMHO is a muc
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
In addition to Unhook, I also use SponsorBlock [1] and Return YouTube Dislike [2]. While SponsorBlock is something that some people might not want/need, I find Return YouTube Dislike to be particularly useful because the like/disl
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AutoBlink: Monitor your eye blink rate on macOS(autoblink.app)
3 points by rpozarickij 2y ago|0 comments
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
Perhaps a day will come when tools like Siri will ask for a confirmation whether you meant "fifteen" or "fifty" instead of making a guess when they aren't fully certain that they heard you correctly.
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
The next big breakthrough in the LLM space will be having a way to represent goals/intentions of the LLM and then execute them in the way that is the most appropriate/logical/efficient (I'm pretty sure some really smart
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by rpozarickij 2y ago
I have never seen a solar eclipse in person, but I wonder whether this type of feeling has similarities with the overview effect [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
> Hisense TV is probably maliciously changing their UUID so users cant block their telemetry, or their ads, etc. I'm not defending Hisense and I'm not saying that this can't be the intention but it's a good idea to ke
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March marks yet another record in global heat(reuters.com)
14 points by rpozarickij 3y ago|5 comments
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
I'm used to situations when systems do all sorts of things to my last name, given that it contains a non-Latin letter. So far I've encountered such scenarios: - The system accepts my original last name just fine. - It says that a
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
Credentials don't have to leave the car and they can still enhance security quite significantly. For example Face ID in iPhones works pretty well, and your face data is stored on the phone only.
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
I'd think that the brain isn't the only part of the human body that needs sleep/rest. Becoming immobile for such a long amount of time must have a much larger systemic purpose given that this is how our bodies evolved.
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
I can't stop finding such intense competition between the world's top experts in a single area truly fascinating. I wonder whether witnessing the space race felt similar. It's just that now we have more players and the effort
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
> Au Large Does anyone have an idea what does "Au" stand for here? Translating "au" to French gives "at", but I'm not sure whether this is what it's supposed to mean. And "Au" doesn'
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
The sad reality is that the humanity probably needs some type of big climate-related event that would act as a wake up call when it comes to the urgency of climate change. We need something that people can relate to with their senses or emo
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by rpozarickij 3y ago
I've never seen (M) in LMGTFY. What does it mean?

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