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deathgripsss··on Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
Still have a liquid scintillation counter running on DOS with raw data printed on a dot matrix
deathgripsss··on Ask HN: What are all the bad things that AI companies have done which we forgot
Yes, most definitely.
deathgripsss··on Why it’s impossible to measure England’s coastline
Side anecdote, as a kid growing up I watched a documentary about the coastline problem on the BBC and I started thinking about the paradox and infinity and it made me incredibly scared and unwell and then threw up. Has anyone else ever experienced this?
deathgripsss··on Ask HN: What are all the bad things that AI companies have done which we forgot
Stealing copyrighted material by scraping databases like Anna's archive.
deathgripsss··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2024
As someone who was mid-diamond around HotS I couldn't disagree more :D. I started playing the piano this year and my blood pressure is significantly lower, still get the dopamine rush of successfully playing a piece without the rage of getting cannon rushed
deathgripsss··on Show HN: Tinder, but to Decide What to Eat
A good strategy that works for us is the first person picks 5 places to eat, the second person narrows it down to 3 of the 5 and the first person then decides out of the 3 the place to eat.
deathgripsss··on Ask HN: What's the best YouTube lecture you've seen recently?
I don't understand where people see the optimism at the end of the video?
deathgripsss··on Ask HN: Do you use the Pomodoro technique?
Yes but not for anything requiring deep thought as the intervals don't lend itself to that style of work for me.

But any admin tasks, emails, etc work great.

deathgripsss··on Ask HN: What's the best book you've read so far in 2024?
I finally got round to reading The Passenger and the companion piece Stella Maris. Cormac McCarthy still had it even in his late 80's. Not quite as good as his earlier novels but still very sharp.
deathgripsss··on Scientists tame chaotic protein fueling 75% of cancers
If an assay can be made based off this compound i could imagine some sort of screening tool that could be made. You would just need some sort of linker that could fluoresce or produce a signal.
deathgripsss··on Ask HN: Programmers and Technologists in Scotland
You can't mention Scotland without talking about James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest physicists of all time.
deathgripsss··on Android 14 adds support for using your smartphone as a webcam
This is the sort of thing android should lean into heavily to differentiate itself from apple as I can't see apple supporting this kind of thing outside of their écosystème.
deathgripsss··on Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear
But we will need baseload power for a long time to come. The UK is not investing in battery technology and on still winter days the UK needs to be able to spin up a lot of power generation quickly. That role is currently filled by natural gas. Nuclear should have taken its place.
deathgripsss··on Why Britain doesn’t build
Britain moved away from being a manufacturing to a service based economy which uses significantly less energy.
deathgripsss··on Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica hits new record
Is there anything to even be remotely positive about with regards to climate change? It's getting very depressing.
deathgripsss··on UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition
The UK isn't even scrapping the "bendy banana" law https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bendy-bananas-brexit-uk-e...
deathgripsss··on Amazon Is Being Flooded with Books Written Entirely by AI
Ah yes SBF, the paragon of intellect. Edit: I just saw your username... Fuck me
deathgripsss··on Liz Holmes Wants You to Forget About Elizabeth
I don't think any of that happened. It's all a narrative.
deathgripsss··on Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years
There's always enough food to feed the hungry... Until there isn't. What makes you so sure that there will continue to be enough food indefinitely?
deathgripsss··on Permafrost engine – An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C
For some reason this made me think of Frostpunk, not quite an RTS game though
deathgripsss··on GNU+Linux laptops with Libreboot preinstalled, based on coreboot
My guess is a data center that heats a swimming pool. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/technology-649...
deathgripsss··on Study hints at the promise of non-hallucinogenic LSD for treating mood disorders
Can you explain this example?
deathgripsss··on Our reality may be a sum of all possible realities
Quanta really is one of the best science websites around these days
deathgripsss··on Ask HN: Who else is working/on call over Christmas?
Very grateful for my clusters right now
deathgripsss··on Vega C fails after launch with two Earth observation satellites
Ouch, a €600million satellite onboard. What is the timescale to replace and relaunch a satellite like that?
deathgripsss··on Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics
How narrow minded, there is a wide range of themes and topics in rap that isn't gangsta rap
deathgripsss··on The situation at LastPass may be worse than they are letting on
The person in question is very wealthy. I know at one point his portfolio was 9 figures. That may have been at the peak of the bull market but I imagine path is still very rich. Is it worth a 0day, still not sure.
deathgripsss··on Who knew the first AI battles would be fought by artists?
This is the dictionary definition of appeal to nature fallacy.
deathgripsss··on Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for fraud
If it's a federal sentence I don't think they will be that lenient
deathgripsss··on Z-library founders arrested in Argentina
I didn't even realise there was a limit. I used to get a couple of books a month. Never close to 10 a day.
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