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lqueenanon The Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun

Reminds me of this far side comic, https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/...

lqueenanon YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design

When I think of AI in chip design, optimizations like these come to mind,

https://optics.ansys.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042305274-Inve...

https://optics.ansys.com/hc/en-us/articles/33690448941587-In...

lqueenanon Apple Watch Series 10

Check your weight in the health app. I’ve entered a very low value by mistake and had this happen.

lqueenanon Former Hiroshima Branch of the Bank of Japan

Another great book (by an American but from the Japanese perspective) is The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 by John Toland. One of the books referenced by Dan in his podcast and contains many first hand accounts of Japanese soldiers, citizens, and leadership.

Much more nuanced account of the history and mindset that lead to the war and sustained it than most of the responses here would indicate.

lqueenanon Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch

The Dexcom G7 (not yet released) is supposed to be able to connect directly to the Apple Watch. The current G6 requires the phone but does have a watch complication that displays your current trend and trend graph.

lqueenanon Windy.com: See the wind, temperature, rain and air quality around you

For sailing, I prefer PredictWind for the mountainous coast and inlets of Vancouver BC. The NAM and HRRR models give most accurate results here.

lqueenanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)

Lumerical | Software Developer | Vancouver, Canada | ONSITE | Full Time

Lumerical is a leading developer of photonic simulation software – software which enables research and development professionals to predict how light behaves within complex structures, circuits, and systems. Photonics unlocks many possibilities for the world’s most innovative companies who increasingly rely on virtual prototyping to explore new product concepts and optimize designs. Our customers are developing the technology of tomorrow – things like LiDAR systems for autonomous cars, virtual reality headsets, cellphone cameras, communications equipment for data centers and new platforms for quantum computing.

As a Software Developer, you will contribute to the development of software applications that meet high standards for accuracy, user experience and performance, and run on the latest Desktop, Enterprise, Cloud and High-Performance Computing systems.

Apply at https://lumerical.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=46 (posting says intermediate but we're also hiring senior) or email me at lqueenan AT lumerical.com to chat!

lqueenanon If your iPhone is slow, try replacing the battery

The four port models have reduced bandwidth on the right hand side ports.

https://arstechnica.com/video/2016/11/the-2016-13-and-15-inc...