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deegles

11,871 karma · joined May 29, 2013

Alexa Skill and voice apps developer

github.com/deegles

(diego at vokkal dot co)

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deegles··on Europium UltraGlow Powder – Green
ah I missed that, thanks!
deegles··on Europium UltraGlow Powder – Green
the description says you can mix it with glaze... do they mean ceramic glaze? would the glow in the dark properties survive firing in a kiln?
deegles··on Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery
I don't agree that your RL identity is a "minor" thing. It's right up among the most important things.
deegles··on YouTube has become the world's nanny
I think the solution wrt youtube would be supervised browsing and then adding approved videos to jellyfin/plex. or even a folder on their device if you don't want to get fancy.

above all, I would try explaining how media sites try to capture your attention and helping kids recognize when it's happening. easier said than done of course.

deegles··on GPT3 Is Just Spicy Autocomplete
Yes, GPT-3 is not better than an expert at the same task. But most people don't have access to an expert's time, so a good-enough solution being widely available is game changing.
deegles··on $6.96B was raised by private longevity companies in 2022
He only needs to live like that until less extreme interventions are available (and proven to work).
deegles··on VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
I can think of one... podcast cleanup app:

1. Speech to text

2.fix up/edit text with GPT-3

3.text to speech in the original speaker's voice(s), preserving prosody and inflection with Vall-e.

If done with every participant's consent I don't see how it's not legitimate.

deegles··on My Age+Yubikeys Password Management Solution
Do the contents of a qr code get logged anywhere on iOS even if you don't search?
deegles··on EmailTriager
dystopian would be if the receiving party is also using a LLM to summarize their emails.
deegles··on Ask HN: How to start a public identity from scratch in late 2022?
Also you don't pick the first one, keep generating until it's something you like.
deegles··on Ask HN: How to start a public identity from scratch in late 2022?
Here's how I would do it:

1. Use a pronounceable password generator to find a short, memorable name. Like this one set to all lowercase characters: https://www.lastpass.com/features/password-generator

2. Plug it into https://www.namecheckr.com/ (or similar tools) to see if it's available everywhere

3. Buy the .com, .co, any other domain that interests you and register on every social site you can (even if you don't plan on using it)

4. self host a blog on your primary domain and make the other ones redirect to it

5. set up google workspace email on your primary domain and alias the other ones to it as well

If you're publishing a tweet or blog post, post first to your site and then on social media, linking with a canonical tag if available.

deegles··on Deepmind’s AlphaCode conquers coding, performing as well as humans
> c) Embrace it

asking "here's a chatgpt solution to the problem... what's wrong with it?" would be a solid process imo.

deegles··on GPT based tool that writes the commit message for you
Love the concept, but don't run this on company code without approval!
deegles··on Twitter Office Supply Auction
What would you have chosen to put in place of that sofa?
deegles··on Stripe’s real pricing: a primer
It can be up to 30% if they freeze your account for "suspicious activity." This is currently happening to someone I know who's had all of their November sales frozen. They say Stripe might return 70% of the funds... in February. They're trying to reach a human but no luck so far.
deegles··on Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries
The second study shows that the mice were fed chow with up to 8% sodium by weight... is it fair to compare that to a Beyond Burger?
deegles··on Liquid and immersion is the new cool at Supercomputing '22
Last time I looked into this the best available coolant was the 3M Novec line, but it was around $400 usd/gallon. Is it available anywhere else for less?
deegles··on Notion AI – waiting list signup
Not sure what Notion is using under the hood, but it makes me think about how good GPT-3 is... What will it be like in 10 or 20 years when this tech is dramatically better and is commoditized, available everywhere? It's hard to grasp.
deegles··on AWS IAM Roles, a tale of unnecessary complexity
What are the best resources for getting better at working with IAM? Already pretty experienced but I feel like my mental model could be better.
deegles··on Flu and colds are back with a vengeance
I believe the increased hospitalization rates are due to is the immune system damage damage caused by Covid.
deegles··on Engineered ‘Superplant’ Cleans Indoor Air Like 30 Regular Plants
In 2019 I emailed a professor at UW working on a similar project asking for a cutting of their genetically engineered pothos but they said they couldn't send me one because they were still looking for partners for regulatory approval and commercialization. Glad to see someone did it!
deegles··on Tesla devs at Twitter misunderstand Slack privacy; leak fire lists based on LOC
Write code? Fired. Refactor code? Fired. Delete code? Believe it or not, fired!
deegles··on Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf]
Many are still furious about Google Reader.
deegles··on Whatever Happened to Those Self-Service Passport Kiosks at Airports?
As of today there are 391 deaths per day, 2,737 per week according to the official stats in the New York Times. It's not a thing of the past.
deegles··on Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan
If the person sitting next to you in a sauna has it, that's plenty of time to catch it? Also, there isn't enough heat to kill it in the locker rooms or rest of the gym (where I have access to one.)
deegles··on Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan
I used to love using the sauna but I don't have faith that I can avoid catching Covid in one.
deegles··on Google is shutting down Stadia
I predicted July 2022 when it was announced, off by a couple months :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19434347

deegles··on Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
There's already software that can imitate a person's voice, so we have all the pieces already to do speech-to-text, clean up with GPT-3, and back to text-to-speech in the original person's voice. Maybe with a style transfer to keep the person's inflections etc the same?
deegles··on The 'Quiet Quitting' Phenomenon
I saw a few tweets talking about "quiet promotions", where employers give you more work and responsibility without a raise in pay or title. They should look into that phenomenon as well.
deegles··on Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra
Are the battery packs with a solar panel on them worth it?
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