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genericone

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About genericone

tech, robots, bikes, running, code, insight

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    Comment #49127261

    Sid Meier's Elevator Manager was such a great game... so much nostalgia.

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    Comment #49103120

    User: what is the shortest route from my home to the super market? AI: the user wants to know, how do I make the super market my new home. Failing that, how do I make my home a sup…

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    Comment #48634212

    This looks pretty neat, it looks like the shape of something I want to use. I'm having trouble managing my entire project, and from reading Buzz' project description, I think I und…

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    Comment #48390021

    Typescript is also hugely represented. My projects are TS in a big way, where I have no experience with it at all.

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    Comment #48154262

    I believe there's room for a short-form, raw, AI-free, audio-only platform organized around continuous streams of 5-10 second audio clips. But before I build the real thing, I'm ru…

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    Comment #47536174

    And to all a good tax-writeoff.

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    Comment #47313832

    The accounting only works if you assume the counterfactual is "same industrial civilization, minus fossil fuels." But there's a strong path-dependency argument that cheap hydrocarb…

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    Comment #45880440

    Excessive speeders in the absence of speed-limit enforcement just creates neighbors that don't mind their neighborhood being consumed by speed bumps/dips, I think there's an analog…

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    Comment #44122332

    May 30th, just a few more days!

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    Comment #43637914

    "Why don't you just read my mind and do what I wanted you to do in the first place?" Rule by law rather than rule of law?

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    Comment #43575408

    Thinking of it in terms of vector similarity does seem appropriate, and then definition of similarity suddenly comes into debate: If you don't get Harrison Ford, but a different we…

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    Comment #43403423

    I struck a column in a multilevel garage while reversing out of a parking spot, my mistake completely, resulting in damage to the driver door, door hinge, mirror, and front quarter…

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    Comment #42499838

    These topic-adjacent expert responses just reek of point harvesting by an LLM, I didn't do any such downvoting, but in the last year I've changed to this viewpoint.

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    Comment #42177955

    Yeah, especially if this breaks Chrome Remote Desktop in any way, seems like that capability would be tied into the Google ecosystem... I wonder how long we will have to say goodby…

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    Comment #42150945

    Since the statistic applies to the whole US, it's biased towards urban population centers. E.g. the lack of K-12 kids in SF almost caused the shutdown of 11 schools due to the lack…

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    Comment #42097513

    Interpreting that to mean that the person said 'it's not for white guys' and parent thinks they meant 'not "just" for white guys'. But the damage had been done regardless of origin…

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    Comment #41628550

    For the absolute worst case, see: Bodies: The Exhibition "Concerns have been raised by human rights advocates that the bodies are those of executed Chinese prisoners, and that the …

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    Comment #41382830

    a la eagle scouts? https://www.scouting.org/skills/merit-badges/eagle-required/

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    Comment #41344712

    Keurig for microgreens. A system whereby the user provides power, water, and proprietary seed cartridges to a device to manage scheduling, succession, water, light, and other envir…

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    Comment #41253358

    Asianometry video on Moutai, I recall it being quite informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnOIKAEDv9I&vl=en-US

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    Comment #40262471

    First, attempt to build a $10 billion dollar fab.

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    Comment #39973735

    C'mon HN, I'm counting on you...

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    Comment #39796049

    Whatever it is, its down now with "This page can't be displayed".

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