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idiotlogicalon Is there a place on the internet that is appropriate for talking about politics?

For me, disqus feels like the wildwest days sometimes. Sites like mediaite using disqus can be a real goldmine/minefield of back and forth on politics

idiotlogicalon An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker

The term 'nerd' needs to complete its rehabilitation like 'geek' has the last 20 years. It's the most concise term I can think of when describing someone who is enthusiastic, focused, and knowledgable on a subject. I think it's a badge of honor

idiotlogicalon Show HN: I made crowdwave – imagine Twitter/Reddit but every post is a voicemail

Sorry to be that guy. But the UI is more Windows 95/2000 (minus the Icon in the leftmost side of the title bar).

Win3.1x just had a little dash at the far left, and simply an Min/Max on the right.

I love the look btw

idiotlogicalon Jacquard lab notebook: Version control and provenance for empirical research

Am I not smart, or what about the "Subscribe" page won't allow me to get past the "Name" field? I tried a few combos and even an email addresses and it doesn't validate:

https://buttondown.com/inkandswitch

idiotlogicalon CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times", gets more complex from there

>reboot up to 15 times

I see my orgs SCCM admins have been consulted

idiotlogicalon Panic at the Job Market

The inflation from the covid money-fountain came back to bite well after the pandemic. Central Bank sets the rates higher to purposefully chill the economy by triggering a recession, or ideally recession-lite. Making people unemployed is a key goal

idiotlogicalon 500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks

I noticed years ago while feeding my newborn that she would chug some delicious warm milk and fill up that diaper. Since then I always figured the coffee phenomenon was related.

Drinking plain warm/hot water can trigger the same response so it is arguably not just coffee.

idiotlogicalon Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos locally with ML

I use get-video-properties python library for metadata harvesting. Works great

idiotlogicalon Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s

I asked it "What is the oldest known written recipe" and then asked for that recipe. It seemed to repeat the same response a bunch of times (very quickly!) before stopping. Is this abnormal behavior?

idiotlogicalon The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob (2005)

Gave me chills. That's storytelling!