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    Comment #44147056

    Seems like some of those problems could be partially addressed. Such as a retractable metal nozzle that is sanitized with heat or steam after use, not using warm water, reducing sp…

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    Comment #44051299

    Feel free to share resources, but I am speaking purely in terms of practicality related to my day to day.

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    Comment #44050553

    I guess it probably depends on what you are doing. Outside of layers on top of these things (tooling), I personally haven't seen much progress.

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    Comment #44050472

    Are people really doing coding with agents through PRs? This has to be a huge waste of resources. It is normal to preempt things like this when working with agents. That is easy to…

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    Comment #44050359

    Seems like that is taking a very long time, on top of some very grandiose promises being delivered today.

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    Comment #43563884

    These rodents were huffing vaporized ethanol for 16 hours a day at ~.2 BAC on weekdays and then they left them on weekends for four weeks straight. That is quite the bender.

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    Comment #42999659

    Or just small specialized search engines for categories of knowledge with some shared advertising / revenue model.

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    Comment #42999488

    Can always go back to the days of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_directory

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    Comment #42999380

    In my experience, OneNote syncs more reliably than Obsidian. Although, I still prefer using Obsidian for other reasons.

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    Comment #42999295

    LLMs will read it, and it will be distilled into the great pool of knowledge until the end of time.

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    Comment #41485283

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    Comment #41485120

    A terrible typescript

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    Comment #41484515

    > There is an unwritten social contract here. There isn't, no matter how many times you say there is. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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    Comment #41484456

    Still, the author is making a deterministic leap by stating that they wouldn't have been X if Y.

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    Comment #41481197

    > That said, the arXiv is rolling out an experimental LaTeX-to-HTML Some history: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/

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    Comment #41480347

    A lot of disease has environmental and intrinsic causes. Categorizing disease as having a set of characteristics in the body doesn't make it solely rooted within those characterist…

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    Comment #41480214

    > I wouldn't have gone down any of that path Yet, if you actually believe in biological determinism, there is no way you could have taken anything but that path.

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    Comment #41480113

    I have been using the internet since 1995, and I have yet to see the cycle. From where I sit, it has been more of just a steady trend toward compartmentalization and aggregation. (…

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    Comment #41474574

    It sounds interesting, but it really feels like they are downplaying the risks here. I'd be hesitant to put anything mixed in a DIY device with off the shelf peristaltic pumps into…

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    Comment #41467003

    I have burned out at least 10 times in my career. The last time, it was like I lost half a decade, even though it didn't last quite that long. It was as if I had amnesia. I fell in…

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    Comment #41466484

    It looks like you need special sensors and a lot of light in certain wavelengths. Would like to read the paper.

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    Comment #41444812

    Around June of this year.

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