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reportgunner··on Incidence of heart attacks and strokes was lower after Covid vaccination
Wasn't that because they claimed that the cause of death was COVID-19 ?
reportgunner··on Which country consumes the most coffee?
Yeah I was kind of trying to hint at that.
reportgunner··on Which country consumes the most coffee?
This doesn't seem right, I've never heard about Luxembourgers drinking a lot of coffee.
reportgunner··on A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
I've been using Klara for years, I especially like the detailed daily forecast that shows hourly weather.
reportgunner··on I Worked for MrBeast, He's a Fraud [video]
You can just block all images on youtube using ublock origin and then you won't see thumbnails at all.
reportgunner··on Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera Data Set for Academic Use
This is not even necessary since current cheaters seemingly can't be detected anyway.
reportgunner··on We need visual programming. No, not like that
It gets very messy with scale and keeping it not messy as it's scaling up is hard.
reportgunner··on Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur
So if I upload a pic and send a link to that pic to my friend does my friend also have to sign in ?
reportgunner··on Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from Windows 11 guide
Why not just use Win10 LTSC ?
reportgunner··on Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites
If you don't want to outright block all JavaScript you can just block 3rd party scripts, it usually lets you see if the website uses some fuckery or not.
reportgunner··on Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites
That's a problem of ads/comments being even there.
reportgunner··on Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites
Also 0 mentions of reader mode.
reportgunner··on Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites
I knew the horrid progress bar is gonna be in the article, yikes.
reportgunner··on Ask HN: How to deal with memory/cognition slowing down as an engineering leader?
Do you really believe those ?
reportgunner··on The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets
I was living under the impression that the Oyster card already solved this problem years ago.
reportgunner··on Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM
That sounds disgusting.
reportgunner··on Ask HN: What is the most challenging programming course you have taken?
I guess the first one ?

A course being challenging is not a good indicator of its quality I think.

reportgunner··on I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers
What if we had like a fridge with glass window and drinks or snacks organized in rows with identifiers for each. You could enter the identifier and make your payment to the fridge and it would drop the corresponding drink/snack to a slot on the bottom of the fridge.
reportgunner··on A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material
Sounds to me like you are trying to plug a hole by making a hole. I don't think AI is a perpetuum mobile for intellect.
reportgunner··on Show HN: Thread – AI-powered Jupyter Notebook built using React
It's a twitter competitor from facebook.
reportgunner··on Glish: A version of English where every word is only one syllable
Agreed, I dont understand why some words are replaced by new words instead of using one-syllable synonyms - "understand" to "get" or "better" for "more" for example

"I get glish more than glish"

You might as well play with the way words sound and use "in glish" for English instead of "glish"

reportgunner··on Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
Oh yes it's time to shoot the messenger.
reportgunner··on AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway
Which part makes it non fakeable by AI ? Do you think it's the blockchain ?
reportgunner··on Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep
I have this and what helps me to wake up is to have a conversation with someone. Have them ask you if you dreamt, if you want to eat something or about plans for the upcoming day.
reportgunner··on A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material
Been reading too much slop lately eh ?
reportgunner··on I was denied tenure – how do I cope?
We dont know because author did not speak about it at all.
reportgunner··on Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?
Junior level role product owner ?
reportgunner··on I was denied tenure – how do I cope?
Sounds like they didn't get the tenure because they can't analyze the situation.
reportgunner··on Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?
Both work in python:

        variable = something() if sanity_check() else None


        do_something() if not dont_do_that else None
reportgunner··on Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?
You can do the same in python if you're not new to programming.
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