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miika

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    Well.. feelings have never been a good way to measure quantities.

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    Sometimes procrastination means I’m not even suppose to do it. Maybe I just overheard an idea that sounded something “I should do” but there is nothing more to it. How I hack this:…

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    Comment #47396103

    Yes but.. Amyloid-beta may be part of the innate immune system https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/03/alzheimers-as...

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    Comment #46452471

    It would be great if every major browser would add some kind of content policy settings in the preferences. Such as how do I like my cookies. Then web site developers could ask the…

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    Show HN: Cloud Piano – Piano with MIDI Keyboard. Instant and Effortless

    For long time I have been observing how people buy a MIDI keyboard for just playing piano. The challenge is that keyboards often ship with lite version of a professional DAW, which…

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    Comment #45178322

    This is how I cured my social media addiction. I turned my iPhone into pure utility device by uninstalling all the entertainment apps. I only allow music and podcasts as those don’…

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    Comment #44465138

    I’m thinking what I could offer for the world if there was no computers or even electricity. I don’t have too many ideas and this article didn’t help. To continue working without c…

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    Comment #43066199

    There was this super interesting new research.. https://www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-may-not-actually-be-... Alzheimer's may not be primarily a brain disease but rather an autoi…

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    Comment #41272547

    I used to explore similar stuff and prototyped something I call “Vanilla Components” but then in the end I fell in love with Web Components and quit React (and all other frameworks…

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    Comment #41118449

    I see it like this: after I have seen some colors and a ball I can then imagine a ball in any of those colors. In other words, everything I have experienced and memorized becomes t…

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    Comment #41099078

    Sometimes it seems to me that many of us are in a state of permanent entertainment. It has become our default mode so any break from it may trigger even anxiety.. In my life I find…

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    Comment #40982834

    If security is top priority, to me it starts from deciding what kind of data actually needs to be stored. Then the service is designed from that perspective. More sensitive data I …

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    Comment #40959002

    This Jelly thing is the first Android phone that makes me think about switching from iPhone to Android. I have been waiting for iPhone Nano for years. At this time Apple could make…

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    Comment #40864193

    What about this? Accurate and Infinite Prime Prediction from Novel Quasi-Prime Analytical Methodology https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08570

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    Comment #40846626

    Ever since LLM’s came out many of us has been wondering these things. It would be easy to say that perhaps our attention and senses somehow come together to formulate prompts and t…

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    Comment #40756475

    How do you define “thinking”? To me thinking is primary tool of communication between I and “me” and it’s entirely based on sound and language. Can you think without using language…

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    Comment #40618490

    Maybe they shouldn’t be looking for the smallest particle. If space can be divided down to infinity then maybe there may be always smaller bits as you go deeper, but nothing as fun…

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    Comment #40552553

    I quit using Oura ring and it took almost two years until I didn’t have that feeling in my finger that something was missing. With Apple Watch it took half year. Makes me wonder ma…

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    Comment #40520025

    I took part in a test where they gave me three drinks which I tasted while listening to three different songs. In the end they told me all drinks were the same and I was very surpr…

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    Comment #40489254

    Our entire nervous system is neural network, gut has more neurons than brain, heart has neurons and it talks to brain more than brain talks to heart etc. It’s hard for me to accept…

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    Comment #40432250

    Anyone can already make music

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    Comment #39484904

    I asked from ChatGTP how many people would be required to lift 1000 ton block (if we consider slaves). “It would require approximately 19,753 people to lift a 1000-ton granite boul…