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by sowbug 3mo ago
Hopefully it would be less of a criticism of the system, and more spurring people to ask questions like "Wait, why did you leave a hunting knife on the coffee table?" Design a scheme that equips parents with better tools to be bet
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by sowbug 4mo ago
It makes more sense to focus on its value as a console platform than its price as a PC. The lower the price, the more boxes sell, hopefully making the platform large enough for publishers to target. The higher the price, the better specs th
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by sowbug 4mo ago
It works only once per civilization, but Steam could run a dutch auction, then surprise! sell to the winners at list price.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Rick Beato has at least one child with absolute pitch, with stunning ability to name chords and the discrete notes in them. Here's the short video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Cb1qwCUvI I'm not a musician, but
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by sowbug 4mo ago
That's right. This requirement makes a little sense if you don't actually know the signer and could conceivably end up in court with a forensic handwriting analyst testifying whether the signature was a forgery. Anything involving
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by sowbug 4mo ago
I think they compared the first signature to the second and saw that they were too similar. They wanted the sequence 1. Download PDF 2. Print PDF, 3. Find pen, 4. Use pen to scribble name on paper, 5. Scan paper to PDF, 6. Upload PDF. Witho
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Charles Schwab, the brokerage, didn't like that my signed form retitling an account looked too perfect (I had scanned my signature and then inserted the JPEG into their PDF form, which is absolutely 100% legal as a signature). So I pri
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by sowbug 4mo ago
I suspect there's just a bit of training data on the other side of the Great Firewall that western companies can't access.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
I want Scrabble rules for HN AI challenges. If someone finds an AI-generated comment, the commenter has violated HN guidelines and the comment should be deleted. But if the accusation is wrong, there should be a penalty for the often massiv
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Doesn't the UK already have geo-targeted age verification infrastructure in place? A website or app could require the user to submit a live video of themselves quaffing a local beer.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Maybe "few words" means your larger vocabulary lets you use a single word to represent a concept that someone else would need several words to say. But the conversation ends up longer when the other person asks you to define the o
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Plus a scroll on mobile because the submit button is below the fold, though it seems to stay in the right place after the first scroll.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
I checked this thread for an expansion of that initialism, which I didn't recognize. It likely stands for "low-dose naltrexone." https://ldnresearchtrust.org/what-is-low-dose-naltrexone-ldn "a prescripti
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by sowbug 4mo ago
You could make a similar argument about voting in democratic elections. It's still important to vote.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
You should flag it. That's much better than polluting comment threads, and it'll help dang identify polluters.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
We're saying the same thing. The bootloader unlocking process includes a step that destroys the FDE key.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Just nausea for me. What you're describing sounds like the recovery phase of sea legs.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
If it's any consolation, the wipe* requirement before unlocking the bootloader is generally a good thing, even if it's inconvenient. Someone who is targeting your personal data gets access to your encrypted phone, either by steali
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by sowbug 4mo ago
I suppose you could design an experiment that mucked with proprioception but not the vestibular system. Count me out as a test subject.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
:) it's the price of progress.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Are you asking me? The rule is in the guidelines at the bottom of your screen. "Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans." I see trivial variants of your comment on almost every long-
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Once it starts for me, it's not stopping for at least a couple hours, even if I immediately get back on solid ground. But I used to get sick playing Quake, so maybe I'm in the 11 group.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
You're correct, but there's a good reason: they need to draw over other apps to do what they do. So it's not necessarily nefarious. But it is an excellent reason to build the functionality into the OS. (The reason the permiss
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by sowbug 4mo ago
You might ask why motion sickness even exists in the first place. Why do nausea and vomiting make sense when your body is in a car or on a boat? Nobody knows for sure, but there's a convincing theory. Zillions of years ago, we were for
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Have you (or anyone else) tried letting agents compete? For example, give the same coding task to two models, or to the same model with a different seed, and have the reviewer choose the better result. Some think the human brain works simil
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by sowbug 4mo ago
If you're younger, having the condition is less likely, but it's possible you have a nonspecific injury that behaves similarly. One weird trick to try is a "heel drop": https://www.modernapothecary.org/bl
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by sowbug 4mo ago
The MoE variant was perfect for speedily generating hundreds of vocabulary mnemonic flash cards for my daughter to study for the SAT. "Ant bait abates our ant problem" and "A droid adroitly fixes things around the house,&quot
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by sowbug 4mo ago
I was recently reading about a phenomenon called terminal lucidity, where a person suffering from mental decline such as Alzheimer's spontaneously improves, recognizing loved ones, retrieving memories, and being able to carry on conver
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by sowbug 4mo ago
It might be coincidence. Hiatal hernia affects more than 50% of the population over age 50, though not everyone shows symptoms.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Then you're really going to love this. The proper term is a shortened form of "hear him, hear him," which was necessary because British Parliament didn't allow clapping or cheering. Instead, if you wanted to show agreeme

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