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madmod··on Unlocking the secrets of myelin repair
The fact that these are fatty tissues in the brain makes me concerned that ozempic might cause long term myelin damage.
madmod··on On a Tesla: Don't
Yeah this article is so full of weird issues I have never had. The whole bit about full self driving makes no sense to me. You are using the keycard instead of the phone key which misses the point completely. Its not as if other cars don’t have plenty of issues at any price point.
madmod··on Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch
I genuinely don’t understand why this is a problem for some people. It charges in under 15 minutes while I shower each morning. When I’m traveling I do always forget the charger however.

Robot vacuums on the other hand are awful for me. I always leave small cables and things on the floor like a jacket on the back of a chair. Also it does a poor job of transitioning from a hardwood surface to a thick rug. It frequently fails to charge even sitting on the dock. Also it is louder than even my shop vac.

madmod··on ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users
I just used this to practice my Japanese and it was really helpful having a judgement free correction of my grammar. It definitely takes longer than English because it’s using more tokens but the feedback is very thorough. I wish I could make the pause before sending automatically a bit longer. (I know I can hold to do it manually but the automated send is nice.)
madmod··on Show HN: CheckAnyPlate – Free License Plate to VIN Decoder
It says my 2018 tesla is 2023 years old
madmod··on Show HN: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative
This looks great! Reminds me of crank.js in that it leverages native language features (generators) to greatly simplify interactive html.

Please add a mailing list to the homepage so I can keep up to date with your progress. A blog with smaller updates would be nice also.

madmod··on Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?
I made an instructable on how to hack the sonos ikea speaker to get a line level aux out. What do you think of it? Imo its probably wrong electrically speaking summing the low and high frequency lines, but it sounds pretty good after truplay tuning.

https://www.instructables.com/Cheaper-Sonos-Architectural-Wi...

madmod··on Khoj: An AI personal assistant for your digital brain
It is impossible for me To read this site on my iphone because the header size keeps changing with the typing animation so the text is moving up and down every second.
madmod··on Self-published Ansible book – 87k copies, 300k revenue, 41 revisions
I bought this and it was very helpful!
madmod··on Ask HN: Dev productivity tools you would pay for
Wallaby.js is so nice for instant as you type evaluation of unit tests. Its magical and improves my productivity immensely.

Vitamin R is a great hack for the ADHD brain.

madmod··on Translating Akkadian clay tablets with ChatGPT?
This whole thing reminds me of Snow Crash. Its like Hiro talking with the librarian ai that comes with the infocalypse stack from Lagos. Too bad I don’t have any problems that interesting to solve!
madmod··on I found the best anagram in English (2017)
Link didn’t work for me. Here is a mirror:

http://archive.today/vyp1c

madmod··on Show HN: I was frustrated with pricing of PagerDuty et al., so made one myself
You should have a status page with alerts to build trust about your uptime as a new company.

I love your simple design in the app and the site.

madmod··on Why is there a voltage on my HDMI and coaxial cables?
I now know why I got shocked by the ground at my grandparents house
madmod··on Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
Would there be some way to “launder” the model to make it plausibly viable for commercial use? Train a new model with the weights of this model with some kind of noise added to make it hard to tell what it is based on?
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http://archive.today/lHJsH
madmod··on Turris Omnia WiFi 6
“Omnia sends information about suspicious data streams to the Turris headquarters. The data recieved from thousands of routers are compared and if an attack is identified, updates are sent to all Turris devices.”

That sounds like a privacy nightmare. Anonymized or not I think most people would not like this feature.

madmod··on MagSpoof: Wireless Magstrip Spoofer
I followed the plans to build one of these years ago but couldn’t get it to work for some reason.
madmod··on Extism: Make all software programmable with WebAssembly
I wonder how this compares to https://suborbital.dev/
madmod··on Tesla.com/.gitignore
I found a bug in the tesla model 3 reservation system that allowed anyone to get a reservation for free. Reported it via hackerone (or maybe it was bugcrowd dont remember) and got told it was of no consequence and would be filtered out later or something. Got no bounty for hours of work.

I accidentally ordered my model 3 with a free reservation, not the one I actually paid for.

madmod··on Ask HN: What music do you listen to while working?
Kawaiicore playlist on spotify, Aphex Twin, Rezz, No Mana, lots of jpop, Alison Wonderland.

I have a subwoofer in my office and sometimes having a driving deep beat (Rezz) helps me focus much better. For me when I am able to physically feel the music there is a significant boost in my focus. When I can kind of dance or nod to it a bit while typing is a sign that I am at peak focus.

Aphex Twin really is magical for me. Sometimes the discord of something like syro u473t8+e[141.98][piezoluminescence mix] on a loop really helps me zone. Sometimes a more relaxed track like To Cure A Weakling Child works well. The ambient stuff like Xtal and Heliospan are great for relaxing and doing more creative tasks.

Jpop really improves my mood and something about interpreting the lyrics and singing along especially to the kind of repetitive cute nonsense of kawaiicore improves my creativity a lot. Its a good way to cleanse my musical palette.

madmod··on If you die in the game, you die in real life
For others searching for it the short name of this anime is Bofuri. It is one of my favorites and the second season is coming out Jan 2023. Really funny plot showing unintended consequences of the protag accidentally breaking the game design to become op and some fun side scenes of frustrated developers.
madmod··on Music Labels Win $46.7M Judgement in Thexas Internet aprovider Piracy Trial
I thought I was having a stroke reading this title
madmod··on Ask HN: Working in a VR Headset?
Thank you for this comment! I never made the connection between my Aphantasia and my seven monitor setup!
madmod··on Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI
The mobile safari hack may not be working for me. I’m on the latest iOS and had the issue in the browser and in the PWA home screen version. It might be an issue with the first sentence only but I haven't tested enough to be sure.
madmod··on Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI
As someone who is studying Japanese intensely with a tutor this is absolutely perfect for me! Being able to do some speaking and listening practice instantly at any time is exactly what I need!

A few feature requests:

- save conversations and come back to them

- history of past conversations

- auto speak the sentence

- larger buttons particularly for the microphone

madmod··on Avoiding homework with code and getting caught
In high school I was trying to make an app to scrape my grading system Skyward and ended up finding a trivial auth bypass that let me see anyones grades. Knew the school would turn me into a villain if I was discovered even though I was on student council and an honor student so I emailed the principal and got a meeting with him. For some unknown reason my poc didn't work in the meeting so during the meeting I found a second auth bypass. They paid me $75 for finding the issue and told me to try to hack the teachers side of the system next. Lots more to the story if anyones interested.
madmod··on Watching 'Spirited Away' again, and again
It is my all time favorite movie. Its something of a joke in my family that we always watch it on my birthday.
madmod··on “Logistics”, an 857-hour movie, tracks a pedometer from shop back to factory
Can I please buy a copy?
madmod··on Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions
What domains do I need to out in my hosts file to block their updater?
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