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trevett

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About trevett

trevlovett@gmail.com

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    That's funny I'm also setting up a home lab and buying a vintage microscope (state of the art 1999 from auction) to look at the creatures living in my pond. There are always new av…

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    I've accepted that we kind of lost the net to the money people and bureaucrats. Mid-late 90's it really was a frontier full of adventurous nerds. I would spend entire weekends on E…

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    Ask HN: Post-LLM's, do you create web applications much more quickly?

    How much shorter is development time, on average?

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    I agree, talent needs to catch up, and new UI concepts are needed (the current VR web browsers feel very awkward). One app that was built very thoughtfully for VR and nailed it imh…

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    Comment #25577426

    Sounds like you might like this book: https://www.deeplearningbook.org/

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    Comment #25560190

    Better UI's for navigating browsing history. The current approach is 10-20 open tabs, self-categorized bookmarks, and a history feature that lacks full-text search of content.

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    Search query: https://bit.ly/3n5cRRt Result is hosted on who.int domain: https://extranet.who.int/chemical-risk-assessment-toolkit/no...

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    Comment #24094048

    True the film is captivating on the aesthetic layer, with manufactured landscapes appearing as beautiful as the natural ones. Sounds like some viewers pull a positive (or neutral) …

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    Comment #24093541

    It's been a while. I'll rewatch it and see if I can take your view of it. Yes, humans have been driven to refine systems and tools since day one.

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    Koyaanisqatsi (1982) - made me realize the degree to which society has been mechanized, how our alienation to nature and each other is almost guaranteed if we give ourselves over t…

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    Re: Ghost Dog, I was also obsessed with that beautifully shot driving scene (with Killah Priest in the background). I was listening to a lot of hiphop at that time. Usually a burne…

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    Comment #24078765

    Can I take a look at your product? I would be curious what a minimal ArcGIS would look like and how long it would take to build. GIS is super edge-casey, I think.

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    Comment #24078418

    ArcGIS has a formidable feature-set to clone and users will want them all. I believe that's their moat?

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    I've met startup founders who pay for this data to help in writing their go-to-market strategy for series A. I really wonder how much friction there is in using a market research f…

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    I agree, we may have reached peak level of Seth Godin-approved consumer startups. Re: 1, it does bother me producing all that plastic when a cardboard structure with sterile, swapp…

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    Comment #24078169

    I think someone should start a thread asking about all the one-offs people have written and see how much duplication there is.

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    Comment #24076984

    Curious which applications require logging at high sample rates vs. doing event-based?

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    That's awesome, congrats. I can't tell what your secret sauce is from your website. I'd love to ask you how you marketed this service if you want to shoot me an email (see profile)…

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    I would love to have such a tool. I was quietly waiting for others to validate the idea.