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Post by musesum »

testmasterflex wrote: post #492
musesum wrote: post #490

Digital death cleaning. I want create a digital clone of myself. Last month, I scanned decades of journals and recorded music. Next up: organize a personal corpora and apply some ML. Hopefully, the clone will be more interesting than the original. This is inspired by a conversation I had with Rudy Rucker, who suggested a "headstone". More recently, I read a Wired article where someone used "pullstring" to create an i…

Thank you. Just realised that of course this will be a common thing in the future to talk with your ancestors and the more data the ML has, the more real it will feel.

Yeah I wonder what will happen when robust chatbots based on real personas have a conversation [1]

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/news/viral-video-happens-two-chatbots...

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Post by technothrasher »

frans wrote: post #345
erlich wrote: post #298

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And coffee.

You can say you prefer tea, but when people notice you don't want any alcohol, they get upset and want to know what's wrong with me. Which is surprising because it's basically poison.

I dunno, when I ask for decaf I usually get tons of crap from people wanting to tell me how my choice is wrong and drinking coffee without caffeine is stupid and pointless. Coffee definitely has social pressure attached to it like alcohol.

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Post by nowherebeen »

rakejake wrote: post #94

I am currently in this phase where tech stuff does not interest me very much. I still work a tech job and do a fair bit of coding, but mostly put a stop to obsessively reading every tech article on this website, code up something new in my free time, learn a new language etc. Sometime during the pandemic, I stopped caring, perhaps fell into a bit of anhedonia. Thankfully, reading HN kept me informed about boreout (th…

Same for me. The sense of wonderment is no longer there. It's really just a job for me nowadays. I hope that spark comes back one day.

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Post by Markoff »

js2 wrote: post #293
Markoff wrote: post #265

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In commie times or early 90s in eastern Europe people (or at least my friend) used to have at home extremely simple device soda charger adapter with two PET bottle connectors on top and bottom, where on each end you could screw 1.5-2L PET bottle, I think one filled with syrup water, other empty, in the middle on side you screw small soda charger bomb (see link, think size you could put in small air gun, one small bom…

You can use a carbonation cap and diffusion stone with any 2L PET soda bottle and any CO2 tank with regulator: https://www.amazon.com/Carbonation-Cap-Diffusion-Air-Stone/d... The original version of this was a plastic cap but it doesn't work all that well: https://www.morebeer.com/products/carbacap.html

It was something like this, bottle on top and bottom and you could directly attach/screw small bomb on side in between.

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/4001271603795.html

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Post by brianmorris10 »

oeN wrote: post #164
rakejake wrote: post #94

I am currently in this phase where tech stuff does not interest me very much. I still work a tech job and do a fair bit of coding, but mostly put a stop to obsessively reading every tech article on this website, code up something new in my free time, learn a new language etc. Sometime during the pandemic, I stopped caring, perhaps fell into a bit of anhedonia. Thankfully, reading HN kept me informed about boreout (th…

Pretty much the same here, for the past months I didn’t cared too much but last week I re-discovered Rust and I’m having fun with it. Anyway my time in front of a screen is way less than it was an year ago and it feels good for now :)

Surprised I had to go this far down to find the first mention of Rust on a HN thread

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Post by berniedurfee »

Oooh, a chance to promote my passion work! I’m in the process of producing my second album. It’s a full-length concept album in the spirit of the 70s music I grew up listening to.

I have 2 singles out now that 2 or 3 actual people listen to occasionally, I think.

I’ve been spamming social media trying to find 2 or 3 more people on the planet that might enjoy it.

Social media is an insane place. All the major sites are overflowing with scammers and scumbags. I could only stay on TikTok for 5 minutes before I had to delete it and question the future of humanity.

Anyhoo, I love the process of creating music and am working with amazing professional musicians this time around. All online, which is wild.

Besides the daily trauma of visiting social media dystopia, I’ve found a few really valuable sites that have been immensely helpful, for relatively low cost.

I’m going to get back into blogging and am going to try to document as much of this insane journey to nowhere as I can remember.

I also have a day job in tech.

Thank you for posting! HN feels like the last bastion of humanity left in a burning hellscape of a once glorious world that had such potential.

Eventually our position will be overrun, but don’t fret, the Phoenix will rise again and again. The web is dead, long live the web!

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by jacknews »

Clock design.

I don't know why, as it seems to be an area already hugely dense in expertise. There are numerous famous designers, and designs, and then there's clock history, old clocks, restoration, etc, with many hugely knowledgeable 'greybeards', and then there are the mechanisms either mechanical or electronic, again with incredibly experienced and talented people involved. And then the market is, not exactly some newly opened frontier where anyone can make a fortune. It seems there are a zillion designs, each with a production run of maybe 1000, except for a few 'classics'.

Into all this, for some reason I, an enthusiast, but a complete novice, and not even a designer, believe I might have something to offer, and have come up with a bunch of clock designs both analog and electonic, actually multiple ranges of clocks each based on a concept, an amazing logo which is more a discovery than a creation, and am slowly making progress toward getting things made, etc.

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