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by xtracto 3y ago
Ooh I have some nice book chapter summaries that ChatGPT generated for me when it first came out. I got them in a Google doc. If you ask GPT to give you the same thing now, it wont , no matter how hard you try. That's like hard evidenc
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by xtracto 3y ago
What's up with that uh? I read about the swore statements during the depositions, and all the mainstream media news, but for some reason HN had radio silence. Is there something I missed that shows it's all shenanigans?
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by xtracto 3y ago
That's what bugmenot was for... but they started blocking all sites and hasn't been useful for years now. There should be a "distributed "replacement" that cannot be bought out.
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by xtracto 3y ago
This LK99 thing all sounds to me very similar to the Podkletnov Gravity Shielding experiments of the 1990s . There may be something, but the mainstreet media is blowing it out of proportions. Some scientists may get hurt for this.
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by xtracto 3y ago
Outstanding piece. If true, it is an interesting window to the intervention of the 'Pax Americana' of our era. I wonder who will be next?
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by xtracto 3y ago
I agree with you and I think it's the main point of the article: cities need to push to make public transport a "first class transportation medium" so that people from all Socioeconomic levels take it. The same thing happens
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by xtracto 3y ago
Not OP but I had terrible covid at 38y old around march 2020. My chest xray showed one of my lungs was really bad , and during 3 months I was feeling like crap (includingthe brain fog and all the stuff people mention). Fast forward 3 years
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by xtracto 3y ago
Anecdote time. Ten years ago I (Mexican, living in Mexico, a bit "white-er" than the average Mexican skin color) worked for a Silicon Valley startup with HQs in Mountain View. One time I was visiting said HQ, I met several peopl
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by xtracto 3y ago
Ha! In the 80s I was the remote control. We had one of those TVs with rotary channel switch. And 7 year me had the important task of changing the channel whenever needed, and adjusting the antenna as well.
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by xtracto 3y ago
And then you will find an answer that is like 10 years old for a version of the technology that is no longer maintained. Seriously, try to find something relevant say for Ionic Framework , and most of the answers in StackOverflow are outdat
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by xtracto 3y ago
I started using "low sodium" salt, which basically is Sodium + Potasium, which both are electrolytes needed for the body. I grew up eating without salt (mom cooked with no salt at all) and using this low-Na-salt was amazing .
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by xtracto 3y ago
In Mexico and Singapore, Nissan introduced the Epower technology which is a hybrid in which the combustion part only serves as generator. All the driving machinery is electrical, and both the mpg and range are great. In hindsight I think
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by xtracto 3y ago
>Given labor costs and labor shortages, expect even more I cant accept this. Labour cost is as cheap as it has been, as it can be seen in those inflation vs salary increase historic charts. Similarly with labour shortage: population is j
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by xtracto 3y ago
That's how it works in Mexico. You only need prescription for antibiotics (makes sense as their abuse would create a public problem) and psychologic related drugs (I dont agree with some of them like amitriptyline... ) . But other tha
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by xtracto 3y ago
When I read the original story and this metformin one, I'm so glad I live in a country where I basically can walk to a pharmacy and by most drugs without a prescription. I can buy 60 slow release 500mg tablets online for about $10 usd
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by xtracto 3y ago
Great stuff! Back in the msdos/win3.11 days I experimented with TSRs and viruses (following tutorials and the like) . At one point i borked my (Dad's) computer running some stupid "virus" I created that infected COM file
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by xtracto 3y ago
Yes!! Why dont they do reboots , sequels, prequels , or even shitquels of the films I loved as a kid?
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by xtracto 3y ago
Aah this brought me back memories! Waaaaay back in the day (90's) I would implement my own methods I stead of say including stdlib.h or other libraries because I had the (wrong) idea that including it would bloat my C programs (didn
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by xtracto 3y ago
These models have been explicitly nerfed since their first release due to copyright considerations. I've mentioned in two previous cases both for [1] code generation and [2] book summarizing. From my point of view, it is sad that thes
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by xtracto 3y ago
I would pay good money for an AI generator of Children of Bodom music featuring Alexei, or an AI rendition of his style. It's the only way I'd be able to hear new things of his very specific style now that he is dead.
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by xtracto 3y ago
This happened in Mexico a lot before ebooks/internet: If a book was excessively expensive for people, they wouldn't steal it. They'd get it from the library, Xerox it and bind the photocopies . Copying a pdf is just the digit
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by xtracto 3y ago
Those two read a bit "Indian" to me; that is, like English that someone from India would write. Something similar happens when someone from my country (Mexico) writes an email/letter: You usually have to read it from the mid
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by xtracto 3y ago
I learned it from an early age while I was finishing my BSc: I needed some "referral" letters from professors that I have worked with. They all told me to write something in Word, print it and they would sign it (it was back in 2
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by xtracto 3y ago
The usenet I remember was anything but praceful haha
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by xtracto 3y ago
I have a very small and simple Samsung laser printer I think I bought it 9 years ago. It's been amazing for the odd printout I do every year. No dry ink, fast and no frills connecting it to any OS through USB. I should use my arduino o
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by xtracto 3y ago
I just recently wanted to print a 250 pages pdf "book" that we did for my grandma with her recipes. we wanted to print all pages in color but oh my god, printing services were EXTREMELY expensive at around $0.70 usd per page!! It
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by xtracto 3y ago
Reminded me of this article I read the other day: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/12/04/silent... "The Library of Congress conducted the first comprehensive survey of silen
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by xtracto 3y ago
Right, your example got me thinking about Dwarf Fortress, which was initially released on 2006 (according to Wikipedia). By GP's assessment they would have to pay $100,000 a year to preserve their copyright? Seems a bit harsh, I thi
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by xtracto 3y ago
I love my morning infusion of green tea with stevia leaves. I take the first cup hot and then prepare a 2 litter jug with "cold infusion" and ice for the rest if the day . Some people loathe the flavour of stevia leaf, but I am co
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by xtracto 3y ago
Thanks for this explanation! :) (as someone without knowledge of the hardware process I appreciated it). It is SO amazing that we have such a driving force (LLMs/consumer-AI) for this (instead of stupid cryptocurrencies mining or high-

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