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Sosh101

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Sosh101··on Yishan Wong: "Google's Gemini issue is not about woke/DEI"
God I hate these pages-long twitter threads.

"This is not an unreasonable thing to do, given that they have a global audience"

Clearly that was not their motivation. In fact I'd argue that it's the global audience that were most annoyed by this.

Sosh101··on Flat lenses made of nanostructures transform tiny cameras and projectors
Thin, frenzel-free VR goggles in the future then?
Sosh101··on Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops
More like highly criminal behaviour like fraud and extortion.
Sosh101··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)
That's not very sound logic.
Sosh101··on Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
I have exactly the same thing. Most tinnitus is caused damage to the hair cells in the cochlea from loud noises for extended periods of time (as is mine). My theory is that the brain basically turns up the gain to compensate for the poor performance of the sensor. I think tinnitus is basically interference, or cross-talk from other nervous processes that normally are low level background.

Last time I went for a hearing test the doctor asked me if I had been in an explosion (not to my knowledge).

Sosh101··on Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman
"according to a person familiar with the situation."
Sosh101··on Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman
They'd bring to the table having been CEO and CTO of OpenAI. That's a lot of relevant knowledge and experience (the latter being the more important in this case).
Sosh101··on Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman
Sounds perverse somehow.
Sosh101··on Psychedelic Mushrooms Hit the Market in Oregon
Sherpa?
Sosh101··on Ozone hole goes large again
If the CFCs were not in the atmosphere, the natural occurrences would not have had this effect.
Sosh101··on Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator
Are there examples of YC investments that have become successful after a pivot?
Sosh101··on Death by a Thousand Microservices
Ditto.
Sosh101··on Death by a Thousand Microservices
Please don't blame Microservices insanity on JavaScript and Node.
Sosh101··on The new Polaroid I-2 instant camera
That's true for any product.
Sosh101··on What are dreams for?
Perhaps the dream is just pressing the buttons that make you think you are looking at a fully realised magazine article.
Sosh101··on What are dreams for?
But it's a process, and one that presumably consumes quite large amounts of energy. Doesn't sound like a simple byproduct to me.
Sosh101··on What are dreams for?
I'm not seriously proposing this, but what if the "subconscious" (whatever came up with your obstetrician names without you perceiving it) is actually another consciousness, "locked in". Perhaps there is another story here, where a dream was had about a party, and the observer felt they were coming up with humorous names for an obstetrician.
Sosh101··on What are dreams for?
Perhaps another "Paul M. Out"
Sosh101··on Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021)
I have experienced this too.
Sosh101··on Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better
In a similar vein, I find trying to explain something to someone gives you a good feel for how well you understand it. Often I find that I don't understand things as well as I thought after such an exercise.
Sosh101··on Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the music industry waged war on the cassette
Tapes gave us the mix-tape - a beautiful thing for sharing.
Sosh101··on Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks
I think Von Neumann suggested what might be needed to engineer a complex self-replicating system. He didn't suggest a process that might incrementally lead to that though (abiogenesis in the case of biological life), which might be able to rely on simple chemical behaviors to start accumulating complexity.
Sosh101··on Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Thanks to Microsoft
The letter X, brought to you today by Mr X (Elon Musk).
Sosh101··on The Fall of Stack Overflow
That's a very short sighted business strategy if true. Simply liquidating their reputation. Those junk AI results have certainly led to me using Google less.
Sosh101··on The Fall of Stack Overflow
Thanks, I needed a laugh with my morning coffee.
Sosh101··on The Fall of Stack Overflow
Those answers are >50% total junk though.
Sosh101··on Why I do not use psychedelics
I'm not sure that really explained much.
Sosh101··on Show HN: My Pen Plotting Journey
Looks like that plotter is quite pricey. Can anyone recommend something cheaper to experiment with?
Sosh101··on FTC warns board game content creators, publishers to disclose relationships
Personally I don't see most synth content creators as reviewers, but more like demonstrators who have taken the time to understand the device a bit and can show you around it. There are some examples where they are quite candid with criticism though (e.g. loopop). Edit: And also some that are a bit too enthusiastic some times (naming no names).
Sosh101··on Ether/Or – The story of black holes, and how I temporarily lost my mind [video]
> But youtube videos of this genre, they grind it down to a dozen. It's impressive.

True. Diluted in memes, bad jokes, and stock video imagery.

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