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by s1mon 9mo ago
All? Yes, there's a lot of garbage and outright dangerous, malicious stuff out there, but there's also moving art. It may take a while to drown out the stupid and evil stuff, but there are examples that amaze me: https:/&#x2
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by s1mon 10mo ago
Agreed. I read the headline as "... US Airlines' ..." not "... US Airline's ..." and it seemed much more concerning. Instead it's a single airline I've never heard of. Looking them up, they are more e
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by s1mon 10mo ago
That was my first thought. When I saw 'Disney' and 'OpenAI' in a headline together I assumed the money was flowing the other way around. Certainly other rights holders like the NYTimes are looking for the cash to flow th
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by s1mon 10mo ago
I found that jarring as well. There's a toggle in the upper right to switch to metric. Even with setting it to metric, it progresses through units based on the scale. I realize that scientists love to work in scientific notation, and p
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by s1mon 10mo ago
I understand why these statistics may be interesting, but all I really want to see is a map of the locations of the ALPR cameras. I would add an easy link to that data on this site.
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by s1mon 10mo ago
HN hug of death? I couldn't get it to load (beyond the grid/circle background) on Safari/Mac, but eventually it loaded in Chrome. Seems to just be a game - use AWSD keys. Not sure why this is "coolest 3D website" in
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OpenAI enables group chats in ChatGPT(openai.com)
7 points by s1mon 11mo ago|2 comments
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by s1mon 11mo ago
In retrospect, an obvious feature, but a good example of OpenAI focusing on productizing AI rather than just adding more power/accuracy to LLMs.
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by s1mon 11mo ago
Adobe makes money by renting software, not selling it. There are many creatives that would disagree with your ranking of who is more malicious or greedy.
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by s1mon 11mo ago
It's not practical for your desktop computer, but a tank of nitrogen and some refrigeration hardware which fits in a single rack and you can run at 3.5K in a data center.
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by s1mon 11mo ago
How will Waymos handle speed limits on highways? In the city, they seem to stick to the rules. A large percentage of drivers in the bay area, including non-emergency police, drive well above the legal limit regularly. Unless Waymo sticks to
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by s1mon 1y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by s1mon 1y ago
This isn’t a unique issue with software developers. In many fields, there’s a distinction between show horses vs work horses. A lot of people who spend time tooting their own horn are not necessarily the best at what they do. Finding the be
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by s1mon 1y ago
Contact lenses used to be a lot more expensive and not disposable. They took a long time to get a new set. It was like loosing a pair of glasses.
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by s1mon 1y ago
I spend way too much time on short videos on Instagram and TikTok. I've got Sora and I've tried a bunch of times and I'm just baffled by its success so far. First of all I almost never use these video services with the sound
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by s1mon 1y ago
It makes sense that this is possible. It's a very high volume item, with limited parts. The raw materials are not unique to any one location. If you have the capital to invest in a highly automated production line (which I'm sure
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by s1mon 1y ago
Having gone through this exercise recently, silver is typically only valuable if it’s not plated and then only for the metal. Unless you have some really special pattern that someone else wants, it will be melted down for other uses. Old Ch
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by s1mon 1y ago
This. Also every encyclopedia is full of things that are wrong. People seem to be forgetting this basic issue. Any given authoritative, well respected source will contain mistakes, errors of omission, and downright lies. Part of a proper ed
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by s1mon 1y ago
And "California" is a huge area. I doubt that the entire state is ideal for solar. I was hoping to see an actual map and zoom in on my neighborhood. I want to know if it makes sense to install on my house. This is zero help.
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by s1mon 1y ago
I've been aware of Craig Mod from a distance for a while, and from what I've seen of his books and other works, he's very thoughtful and deeply sensitive to culture, but somehow it seems pretty hypocritical to write this when
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by s1mon 1y ago
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/04/apple-notes-mar...
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by s1mon 1y ago
As far as I could tell, no. Seems to be fairly stealthy. I even asked ChatGPT with Deep Research, and there's not really much detail out there.
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by s1mon 1y ago
It's a pair of handlebar mounted sensors which show how closely cars have passed by. The biggest difference is in the crowd sourced data about general safety of roads. That's really a feature which could be added to most of the ex
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by s1mon 1y ago
There are a number of commercial solutions in this space. It's weird when there's a press release like this that acts like their solution is completely novel and unrelated to anything else. Roadio has front and rear facing cameras
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by s1mon 1y ago
If you haven't already, I highly recommend reading the Mom Test book [0]. It talks a lot about product market fit, as well as how to get your first customers in order to build the right product. The Path to First SaaS Customers via The
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by s1mon 1y ago
If you're ever in Shenzhen, I recommend going to the Shenzhen Museum. It's pretty amazing to see how quickly it grew (~40 years), and the level of stuff that they were making early on vs now. Another big take away for me was that
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by s1mon 2y ago
Waymo (at this time) is an alternative to taxis and ride hailing services. I've lived in SF for 30+ years and used all modes of transit here. Some of my most frightening moments on the road have been in taxis with drivers who are reckl
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by s1mon 2y ago
I came here to say the same thing. General MIDI defines the sequence of the drum sounds. Unless there's a really good reason to deviate from that, it is a standard.
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by s1mon 2y ago
I love that the company is called Q-Cat. Reminds me of another hyped piece of tech: the CueCat [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
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by s1mon 2y ago
In the world of CAD, Plasticity is only expensive when compared with free tools. The “Indie” version is $149USD, and yes a lot of that cost apparently goes to paying Siemens for a Parasolid license. Shapr3D is also Parasolid based, along wi

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