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dotancohen

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About dotancohen

You are invited to contact me. My Gmail username is the same as my HN username.

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #49218645

    Thank you!

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    Comment #49218408

    I'm that way too. So are most people. That's why you shouldn't listen to your pop celebrities for political advice.

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    Comment #49218363

    I just looked up recent numbers. - Niger: 6.7 births per woman - Somalia: 6.0 - Chad: 5.5 So it seems only Africa.

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    Comment #49214001

    Are you certain they are the correct answers? No other AI tool halucinations so confidently for me as does Gemini. And I get them across so many topics.

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    Comment #49213843

    Overpopulation is not solved. Many African and Middle Eastern cultures continue to have half a dozen children per wife.

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    Comment #49213805

    That's what I thought too. The sudden stop is actually two phenomenon compounded. One, the mountain of ice contacts bottom. Two, the video speed changes from ~8x to 1x.

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    Comment #49213770

    Lots of things change density when temperature changes. Water is unique that below 4°C, it gets less dense as it cools - and that trend continues even through the phase change. Tha…

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    Comment #49213652

    Especially the spine. If you had shown me a portion of the video with that thing moving as such, I would have believed it to be some leviathan. Which brings us to the video itself …

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    Comment #49213492

    In the general case of weak parents, I agree. In the specific case of covertly trying heroin, I'd say that would likely lead to a preferable outcome than the child thinking that he…

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    Comment #49206796

    Yes, actually. I regularly discuss with my son what he watches and views online. I also share with him what I view. I'm sure that he hides some things from me, but we have a very o…

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    Comment #49192549

    > I wish there was a place I could go for tech news that just didn't talk about AI. Just write an agent to parse HN. Oh wait...

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    Comment #49180663

    The website is the sex. The ads are the chlamydia.

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    Comment #49180653

    I used Tree Style Tabs until recently, and never experienced this. Also now with the native vertical tabs I've never seen this.

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    Comment #49180516

    I think that I saw somebody take your advice about five hours ago at the beach.

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    Comment #49180468

    This might actually be useful as some people do their maintenance facing either Jerusalem or Mecca.

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    Comment #49180409

    Using Firefox (mobile and desktop) is going far out of one's way?

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    Comment #49175290

    > Going online without an adblocker just feels like playing with fire, especially nowadays. It feels more like having casual unprotected sex. Easy to do in the moment, easy to igno…

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    Comment #49155857

    Are kids the target audience of this tool?

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    Comment #49153857

    From that perspective Org mode offers everything every other note taking app does. Except a nice interface. Except syncing between devices. Except cloud backups. Except third party…

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    Comment #49141565

    This one posted above looks fine to me, even after five decides of looking at human generated content: https://xcancel.com/CuiMao/status/2058458683781365873 Honestly, it is frighte…

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    Comment #49141551

    For first of us without twitter: https://xcancel.com/CuiMao/status/2058458683781365873 I can not believe how good the AI video has gotten. In one spot the written letters were obvi…

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    Comment #49135206

    ^pepper^upper Though I have replaced pepper control arms on a vintage Mustang once. Rust does that.

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    Comment #49135127

    Thank you. Maybe I'll read Dune again (or listen to an audiobook) then watch. That sounds exactly like the type of experience I'd enjoy.

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    Comment #49128648

    Have it summarise the week overnight for the meeting in the morning. Then have it summarise the meeting transcription overnight for the report tomorrow. Then someone else will have…

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    Comment #49128551

    The only movie I've ever enjoyed after reading the book was Jurassic Park. I've never seen the Dune movies or most other book-based movies, but honestly The Martian and Project Hai…