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I'm glad you asked this. I had a small project on the weekend to build a persistence of vision toy and thought I'd give this "vibecoding" thing a try and work with an LLM. I learne…

This reminds me of the workshop tool scavenger hunt from Scope of Work. Even as an adult I still encounter new machines and tools that I've never heard of... and it's /fascinating/…

There are times when I'm masked (ie: 3M respirator) and gloved at work for 10+ hours at a time. I wonder if speech recognition would be possible without breaking the face seal duri…

It sounds like you're describing sites with a userbase that displays unexpected behaviors compared to expectations from visitors. A business would call this institutional knowledge…

I am here because it feels like the last place to enjoy insightful discussion among a diverse group of strangers. I really enjoy when someone fresh out of college asks a question a…

Or a credit card processor.

When I write, it comes out like this. Pulling your attention to and fro across a scene to construct "brain pictures", letting your imagination fill in the gaps as the fragments bec…

What's newspaper? ;)

Clinical trials still ongoing. https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

In Toronto regulations were put in place required coordinating with Police, Fire, Ambulance, and submitting applications to use ANY private space for an intended "rave party". The …

The protest/rally at Toronto City Hall in 2000 was a one-of-a-kind event which united ravers across the city. Organizers set up a mobile stage with sound and lights, had DJ lineup,…

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It's generally recommended to add a meat-gap interface between AI systems to reduce unexpected results. Meat-gap. We have your back.

If you fail at online dating, you are lonely. If you fail at job hunting, you end up homeless. And lonely.

I hope you'll address a few points: 1.Job hunting is dehumanizing: Most of the time you will receive no response to a carefully worded cover letter. There is no option to speak wit…

What is a beamer? A video projector?

I share on hacker news because: 1. I want the knowledge/experience/anecdotes/opinions of others. 2. I want to share my own knowledge/experience/anecdotes/opinions with others. 3. C…

"I am assuming that the reader is familiar with the terms metric, metric space, topological space, and compact set." On behalf of the math-declined folks, I wish math articles had …

I cancelled my Prime account. Amazon (the website) is already littered with Featured(ads), Sponsored (ads), and questionable reviews. If the Prime option is not selected, the shipp…

She spoke softly to no one, "Like chiseled spam." Crowsfeet wrinkled deeply as a wistful smile spread across her face.

Labour is often most costly part of running a business. Once people can be reliably replaced they will be. One can only guess that cost, availability, or proficiency, of machines i…

Started a film career 5 years ago... and I have to start a new /new/ career now.

Nice clips, but I really want a math-knowledgeable person to examine and talk about the equations! I love math, just can't seem to grasp it. Going on 40 years now....