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herodoturtle

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    I recall we got it running pretty decently on an upper end 486 (DX4 100). That, and Winamp. Good times.

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    Apologies for the ambiguity, I was referring to the selling or donating of meteorites - and only because I've never heard of such a thing in my part of the world.

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    > In the US, if a meteorite lands on your property, it's yours and you can sell or donate it as you please. Does this happen often in the US? I mean often enough that folks happen …

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    Not just you. OP strikes me as quite childish. I’m guessing he’s quite young, nothing wrong with that. And yeah, the circumstances aren’t great (the stressful move to SF in particu…

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    Argentina

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    I found this comment/question deeply intriguing. I’m no expert at this and was wondering what you meant by the following: > In real organisms behavior may be controlled by short or…

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    Love this comment For those of you that are wondering, Mitch Hedburg was a relatively famous stand-up comedian whose special went viral. In said special was this classic: “I like a…

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    So great to see WebGL stuff featuring on the front page. It was OpenGL that got me into graphics and games programming from a young age - NeHe's tuts in particular (anyone remember…

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    Heya, from the page I linked (her boat is named "Lily"): > Lily is a Rannoch R25 built in 2019. More info on Rannoch R25: https://www.rannochadventure.com/boats-2/r25 There are sev…

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    Fellow rower here, affirming the above. Thought folks would be interested in her boat, built for ocean rowing: https://yourowkelsey.com/about/

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    > and contains significant embedded carbon emissions Hi - thanks for the insightful comment - could you please expand on the above? Genuinely curious :)

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    Ask HN: What does your journaling framework look like?

    Hi folks, I've started journaling routinely and I'm hoping to crowdsource journaling layout / format ideas. I've done some research online, and layouts like the Habit Tracker look …

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    Publishing by necessity I wonder? American labs on the cutting edge pioneering the way forward, so Deepseek open sourcing what they’ve got is to help even the playing field. Hopefu…

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    Comment #48684065

    Woah! You got a picture?

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    Ask HN: Optimal Journaling Book Choice?

    The journaling bug has bit! ^_^ I like the idea of standardising my book choice for the long run, and Moleskine is easily available in my part of the world. I currently have 3 diff…

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    Comment #48656650

    Thank you for taking the time to reply with a really insightful comment. I wonder if open source / open weight models will reach the point where we can run them locally on our mobi…

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    I’m curious (and please forgive my ignorance if it’s obvious), are open weight models practically feasible? I mean from a financial and sustainability standpoint, assuming they’re …

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    Came here to say this. And I suspect that one day we might even think of LLMs as "low tech AI", assuming we move on to more advanced forms of AI (here's hoping).

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    28 years of vi and TIL about ZZ. Thanks friend! ^_^

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    It's been years since I heard the term "Throwback Thursday", funny that reading it here felt like a throwback in its own right ^_^