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by ulnarkressty 2y ago
Did you get custom molded ones or are there more comfortable generic earplugs?
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by ulnarkressty 2y ago
An experiment from an old physics textbook: trace a convex shape on a piece of paper, wet its contour with a brush and drip some water on it until it beads up. You then place the paper on a still water surface and touch the surface of the b
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by ulnarkressty 2y ago
Germany as well, this year there are huge swarms of mosquitos everywhere on the hiking trails. In the past you could find them deep inside forests, now they are even around the fields in broad daylight. It's unprecedented. Not sure wha
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by ulnarkressty 2y ago
There are no exercises that restore joints which are degenerating. Most likely you would have gotten 5-10 more pain-free years without the running, but it would have come anyway at some point. The increased cardio health and bone density do
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by ulnarkressty 2y ago
+1 for fanless. I got one of these optiplexes as they were recommended everywhere. They are indeed more powerful but very closed down. For example one cannot even control the fan speed on them and I hear it whine at idle all day long. If I
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by ulnarkressty 2y ago
You wouldn't be the first to think of this https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/07/fl...
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Soft Electronics(soft-electronics.com)
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
Storing heat in bedrock sounds like a good idea, but there are risks, e.g. https://www.thelocal.de/20170818/this-historic-german-town-i...
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
As a backer on the original Oculus kickstarter, I have such a sinking feeling in my stomach every time this comes up. My money went to enable Luckey to achieve this and I hate myself for it.
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
Microsoft's takeover of Mistral makes a lot more sense if this lawsuit has a chance to succeed.
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
Take this with a grain of salt until someone reproduces it. Improvements such as these require extraordinary evidence. Not to mention extreme quantization has been tried before.
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
I do hope that they have a documentary team embedded in this company, like DeepMind had. They're making historical advancements on multiple fronts.
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
To put it into perspective, the Will Smith eating spaghetti video came out not even a year ago -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQr4Xklqzw8
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
Oh man, I had this idea a long time ago when I was still commuting to work during sweltering hot summers in trams with no AC. Glad to see someone implemented it. If you want to take it to the next level, use GIS information to account for b
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
On non-accelerated tasks the performance is very close[0] and at half the idle power consumption. For the specific case of a low-power always-on platform, it's still the best. [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hekzp
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
As exciting as it is to design a low power system, it's kind of pointless in the case of a NAS that uses spinning rust as storage media - as the author later writes, the HDD power consumption dwarfs the other system components. If one
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
Why not try it for a month or two, if it's not any better you can go always go back. I read comments here that some take it during the week to get stuff done and go without on the weekends when they want to be more creative or whatever
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
Any ideas on how to help my engineer colleagues write good documentation that actually helps? Most of the problems that I see come from a lack of empathy - they assume the reader has previous knowledge about things that are only inside thei
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
Someone needs to invent something similar for sleeping. I would pay good money to have a completely silent sleep environment. Right now ear plugs are the best way, and not at all comfortable to sleep with. Traffic, neighbors, construction -
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
Successful CEO does successful CEO things. From another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38360906
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
Eh, at this point are there any successful people that don't have these 'qualities'? We raise our children with stories about great men and fair leaders, when reality is nothing of the sort.
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
How would this actually work in practice? Do I ask the user to utter specific words then train on that? How is it different from the traditional speech recognition that I need to 'train' to work better on my voice? The Holy Grail
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
I have improved my deep sleep by taking lavender oil extract capsules. They help relax and give me a 'knock-out' feeling that rapidly induces sleep. I also don't wake up in the middle of the night anymore when I take them. Un
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
> It's not that onerous, except that I assume going under propofol + midazolam comes with cognitive risks each time, and this might be cumulative. Do you have any sources for this? I'm also wary of going under, even if it'
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
I'm curious how the rewards in the "best places" to work look like. There was a famous study that found that developers are happy when they get enough money not to care, but in real life this doesn't seem to be the case.
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
Is there any proof that doing this regularly helps with anything? Not necessarily making one 'smarter', but at least keeping dementia at bay for older folks? All I could find is that playing board games seems to help with cognitiv
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
If it's 'composite' then it most likely contains some binding material apart from wood, which will still get into your food.
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
More targeted ad campaigns, as per the article. The interests will always be there.
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Most of the improvements apparently come from training larger models with more data. Which is part of the problem mentioned in the article - the probability that the model just memorizes the answers to the tests is greatly increased. AI is
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by ulnarkressty 3y ago
They look interesting but are they durable? I can see the bolts ripping through the plastic if riding in rough terrain. All panniers that I've used have the mounting points reinforced so that they are not loaded in only a couple of pla

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