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by thinkling 8mo ago
Ideally, ethical buyers would cause the market to line up behind ethical products. For that to be possible, we have to have choices available to us. Seems to me Anthropic is making such a choice available to see if buyers will line up behin
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by thinkling 8mo ago
The WF store I frequent has lousy cell reception, so add th step “open Settings app and get on store’s wifi” (and who knows what all that lets them track).
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by thinkling 10mo ago
Yes, cement absorbs CO2 as it sets, there are reams of "green cement" startups based on that premise like CarbonBuilt. This paper presents new estimates on how much is actually taken up and what factors matter, but the abstract do
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by thinkling 10mo ago
See discussion elsewhere in this thread on updating to 15.7.3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264741
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by thinkling 10mo ago
The #1 problem I have typing on my iPhone is that I hit letter keys (mostly 'n') instead of the space bar and the phone just doesn't anticipate this as a possible typo and doesn't offer the right corrections. (I have Aut
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by thinkling 10mo ago
Claude Code usage probably isn't counted as "chatbot" use. Also, I think you're overestimating how many people program vs. how many people are using AI chatbots as the new websearch. Orders of magnitude more of the latte
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by thinkling 10mo ago
The one current paying user of the app I've seen in this discussion called it "Wanderlog". FYI on the stickiness of the current name.
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by thinkling 10mo ago
Only summary available, full content is paywalled.
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by thinkling 10mo ago
I was just reading about an app in the iOS App Store called Seeing AI that "narrates the world around you". (All disclaimers apply, this is exactly all I know about it.)
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by thinkling 1y ago
> So unlike a normal e-bike, when its battery dies it turns into a stationary bike. Maybe you pedal the generator on the kickstand for a minute to give it enough charge to operate the electronics, and then away you go working hard like o
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by thinkling 1y ago
Instagram tip: if you click the wordlogo “Instagram” at the top (in the mobile app), you can select “Following” and get a feed of only posts from accounts you follow, with no suggested posts and no reels. I end up going through that feed in
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by thinkling 1y ago
You're saying roughly "you can't trust the first answer from an LLM but if you run it through enough times, the results will converge on something good". This, plus all the hoo-hah about prompt engineering, seem like cle
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by thinkling 1y ago
If you find this interesting, I strongly recommend the book _The Light Eaters_ by Zoë Schlanger [0]. She discusses this finding as well as other sense-abilities of plants. Recent science has found pretty amazing things. If I recall correctl
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by thinkling 1y ago
TIL that .me is the TLD for Montenegro and not, as I had thought, owned by Apple for its MobileMe platform.
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by thinkling 1y ago
Impromptu prompting
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by thinkling 1y ago
I thought embeddings were the internal representation? Does reasoning and thinking get expanded back out into tokens and fed back in as the next prompt for reasoning? Or does the model internally churn on chains of embeddings?
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by thinkling 1y ago
I find the wording ambiguous, but this: > Eink mode is not a closed-file format reader but rather a form of responsive web design (RWD) integrated into the website itself. suggests to me that it's a display mode you have to enable i
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by thinkling 2y ago
Reportedly [0], SoftBank is looking to invest $40B for a share of OpenAI.com that would value it at $260B. Given that OpenAI.org currently wholly owns OpenAI.com (doesn't it? even Msft didn't get a stake?), I have trouble seeing (
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by thinkling 2y ago
Wikipedia says his great-grandfather’s name was also Elon. Compelling as the other theory is, this seems much more plausible as the reason for his name. > Their first child, Elon Reeve Musk, was born in 1971, named after Maye's gran
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by thinkling 2y ago
CodeAcademy: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/computer-architecture-assem... MIT open courseware: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-004-computation-structures-spr...
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by thinkling 2y ago
> I think there is great power in just having a screen that doesn't vibe with the oversaturated video and image based distractions we are so used to Similarly (easier but less drastic) I’ve seen people turn their phone to grayscale
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by thinkling 2y ago
I think the argument is that American consumers have never before signed up in droves for a Chinese-owned site hosted in China and mostly used by domestic Chinese users, and that the content posted by the Americans is likely to change the c
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by thinkling 2y ago
By the time Access came out, Ashton Tate had already declined and been swallowed up by Borland.
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by thinkling 2y ago
Saw another recommendation for that book in this discussion and will be reading it. Thanks.
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by thinkling 2y ago
> Most of their genes, the code for their structure, are in the nuclear DNA. Are they? I was under the impression that mitochondria are closer to pseudo-cells living inside human cells. Wikipedia seems to confirm this [1]: > Although
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by thinkling 2y ago
Good point. FWIW, the "It's just" product claims to be tested for heavy metals, microbiotics, and "purity". (Not associated with the brand or with any vendors, it's just the brand I've been buying.)
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by thinkling 2y ago
If you don't need isolate, It's Just Whey Protein is $40 for 3lbs or discounted for subscribe & save on Amazon. Made in the US, 1 other ingredient.
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by thinkling 2y ago
Seconding this. Variables I care about are packaging, sweetener additives, and country of manufacture/origin.
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by thinkling 2y ago
I figured they needed a bit of friction to not move around in my ears. Two small patches (dots) of bandaid material solved the problem. (From the end with the sticky back, not the center). Works great. If you place them right they won'
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by thinkling 2y ago
I use markdown for note-taking. I do as much reading as editing, and they're generally intertwined. I don't want to switch between "view mode" and "edit mode". I want to be able to embed links but not have the

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