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vapemaster

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    Comment #48155664

    wow I hadn't heard of this but it's quite cool. aka Nano-Thermite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano-thermite

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    Comment #46626653

    Thought I was going insane today.

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    Comment #45893397

    You guys need to work on harder problems.

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    Claude Opus refuses to answer biotech questions

    Claude Opus has started refusing to answer any moderately detailed question regarding biotech / drug discovery related tasks. Sonnet will still answer but at it's usual level of in…

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    Comment #41132811

    since this is a bit of a catch-all thread, i'll toss Anton into the ring: a whole bunch of custom ASICs to do Molecular Dynamics simulations from D.E. Shaw Research https://en.wiki…

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    Comment #40972119

    not hating on the great amber - but why LEaP on the front page of HN with no context...? happy to see some light shown on the grim state of comp chem file formats and their shockin…

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    Hot Take: Prompt engineering isn't engineering. It's discovery

    I'm in the drug discovery space, and for all the "engineering biology" talk that's around these days, I find a bunch of parallels to drug discovery in the AI, particularly LLM spac…

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    Comment #36399925

    long time windows user that switched to mac due to Apple Silicon dominance on the laptop experience. This, 1000x this. It's utterly bizarre that the window management paradigm is "…

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    Comment #34716636

    this was an awesome, non-snarky, explanatory comment. thanks for this.

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    Comment #34580908

    except that you still use command to copy and paste in the terminal

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    Comment #34580892

    agreed, the fold under makes me use the side of my thumb on command which is much less natural or tactile than stretching my pinky to use the pad.

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    Comment #34580830

    I immediately had to get Karibiner to at least give me my home and end keys back on a external keyboard. I've been to aggressively remapping that I don't then create a similar prob…

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    Comment #34580777

    well [ctrl] + are used for window management by default

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    Comment #34573111

    agreed, I'm almost to muscle memory with it so it's not the "i have to think about it" annoyance, it's that my whole hand has to move to make it work... noticeably slower than my w…

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    Mac's command key is worse than Window's ctrl

    Long time windows + occasional linux user. Switched to Mac for the M2 Mac Book Air. It's a phenomenal piece of silicon + hardware. Fairly shallow learning curve on the switch since…

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    Comment #32510652

    just me typing too quickly for my own brain, thanks for the correction!

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    Comment #32505564

    cool i'll check out raindrop, thanks for the tip! but i just wish there were some talented engineering teams at the leading browser creators (cough couch google, mozilla, MS, apple…

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    Comment #32505557

    savage. but case and point!