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by vapemaster 5mo ago
wow I hadn't heard of this but it's quite cool. aka Nano-Thermite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano-thermite
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Gmail / Google Workspace Incendent Underway(google.com)
8 points by vapemaster 6mo ago|2 comments
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Sonnet 5 (Full Text)(folger.edu)
12 points by vapemaster 8mo ago|1 comments
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Verizon Is Down(macrumors.com)
7 points by vapemaster 9mo ago|4 comments
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by vapemaster 9mo ago
Thought I was going insane today.
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by vapemaster 11mo ago
You guys need to work on harder problems.
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Claude Opus refuses to answer biotech questions
2 points by vapemaster 1y ago|0 comments
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X is blocking links to Signal(theverge.com)
4 points by vapemaster 2y ago|1 comments
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by vapemaster 2y ago
since this is a bit of a catch-all thread, i'll toss Anton into the ring: a whole bunch of custom ASICs to do Molecular Dynamics simulations from D.E. Shaw Research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_(computer)
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by vapemaster 2y ago
not hating on the great amber - but why LEaP on the front page of HN with no context...? happy to see some light shown on the grim state of comp chem file formats and their shockingly lossy interconversion but I'm not sure that was the
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Hot Take: Prompt engineering isn't engineering. It's discovery
2 points by vapemaster 3y ago|2 comments
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How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis(nature.com)
202 points by vapemaster 3y ago|178 comments
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by vapemaster 3y ago
long time windows user that switched to mac due to Apple Silicon dominance on the laptop experience. This, 1000x this. It's utterly bizarre that the window management paradigm is "let 'em all stack up and make it easy to spre
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Griptape – a modular Python framework for LLM workflows, tools, memory, and data(github.com)
4 points by vapemaster 3y ago|0 comments
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by vapemaster 4y ago
this was an awesome, non-snarky, explanatory comment. thanks for this.
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by vapemaster 4y ago
touché
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by vapemaster 4y ago
except that you still use command to copy and paste in the terminal
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by vapemaster 4y ago
agreed, the fold under makes me use the side of my thumb on command which is much less natural or tactile than stretching my pinky to use the pad.
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by vapemaster 4y ago
I immediately had to get Karibiner to at least give me my home and end keys back on a external keyboard. I've been to aggressively remapping that I don't then create a similar problem when using another machine I don't own bu
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by vapemaster 4y ago
well [ctrl] + <down arrow, F4, F5> are used for window management by default
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by vapemaster 4y ago
agreed, I'm almost to muscle memory with it so it's not the "i have to think about it" annoyance, it's that my whole hand has to move to make it work... noticeably slower than my windows workflows..
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Mac's command key is worse than Window's ctrl
8 points by vapemaster 4y ago|29 comments
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by vapemaster 4y ago
just me typing too quickly for my own brain, thanks for the correction!
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by vapemaster 4y ago
cool i'll check out raindrop, thanks for the tip! but i just wish there were some talented engineering teams at the leading browser creators (cough couch google, mozilla, MS, apple, etc) that would integrate this as a first class featu
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by vapemaster 4y ago
savage. but case and point!
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Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
271 points by vapemaster 4y ago|263 comments
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by vapemaster 4y ago
i always heard it called the birthday problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem [weirdly, someone discovered an birthday overlap today at work and i just re-google/wiki'd this today]
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by vapemaster 4y ago
> If someone criticizes your paper, and it gets pulled from publication, then thats the same as having never published anything in the first place. Therefore, the technique to survival is to write your paper in such a way that repels cr
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by vapemaster 5y ago
When I read web3 co.'s product/ tech description it almost always feels like some form of tech. literacy gaslighting. I always feel initially like there's something elusive that I'm not grokking b/c I'm not a
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by vapemaster 7y ago
So where is the geographic location that does fund hard problems? SV $ is far from perfect but it is surprisingly audacious and fault tolerant. A few examples old and young: Genentech SpaceX Joby TAE Technologies

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