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tandron "No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel

Sounds like a good plot for a (short) sci-fi story.

tandron Anabolic response to protein ingestion has no upper limit in humans

So you haven't seen me WFH yet... phew

tandron Airlines will make $118B in extra fees

Pretty much all big flights searching sites (flights.google.com, Bing, etc) allow to specify that you have luggage, and the search results changes (sometimes quite drastically) depending on that checkmark.

tandron Terraform Cloud Pricing Changes Sticker Shock

Probably it is a "Zero Interest Rate Policy"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_interest-rate_policy

tandron Pentagon fails audit for sixth year in a row

Are there any SA tools, that would understand COBOL?

tandron Microsoft is removing Maps and Movies and TV from Windows 11

I suspect that continuous support (software devs, planning, customer support hours, map's updates, etc) is a noticeable money drain.

tandron Ask HN: Which recent research paper blew your mind?

>Surfactants safely take down mosquitoes without using insecticides https://newatlas.com/science/surfactants-safely-take-down-mo...

Curious - what would happen to a spider or an ant that ate a couple of mosquitoes with that spice on top? Will they also suffocate?

tandron First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan

"Do not swim if you suspect there could be even traces of blood in the water."?

tandron First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan

(In reaally small letters below)

Consumer warning: might cause drowsiness, or anxiety. Teeth growth is guaranteed, but the location of newly grown teeth is not. Consult your doctor if you have high blood pressure, pregnant, or breastfeeding. Do not take with alcohol.

tandron Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development

This is insanely good, thank you very much for the link! Should be a great tool to "bootstrap" some diagrams during brainstorm meetings, or just to put into documentation, and be able to change them later.

tandron U.S. Rep. Angie Craig drops college requirement for staffers

Is this a reference to "Idiocracy"?

tandron Study finds new pathway for clearing misfolded proteins

Great comment, but... Now they will be afraid to go outside. ;)

tandron End-of-Life Dreams

Thank you very much for sharing this. Without going much into details, you are not alone with this - there are people that have the same abilities. It is scary sometimes, and rarely can be used beforehand. Maybe you and these who has this experience often, are wired differently, and are more tuned to the Universe's radio than the rest of us...

tandron Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4

I am terrible sorry, but I fail to see the logic in your 2+1=1+2 explanation of that answer. Would you be kind, and ELI5 it, if possible?

tandron An Aperiodic Monotile

These articles should come with a warning "Giant rabbit hole ahead" on them...

tandron Dalai: Automatically install, run, and play with LLaMA on your computer

...yet?

tandron GPT 4 coming next week

My thought exactly. Gpt-4 will be asked to create gpt-5, which will create special hardware as prerequisite, etc...

tandron Improving Signal's Sealed Sender (2021)

Did Signal fix the protocol, or at least responded with something?

tandron Moonwalkers: Shoes that make you walk faster (pre-order)

Battery life is going to be a very serious limiting factor. It's one thing to walk all day in a new city you are visiting, and think only about recharging yourself. But walking an hour in these, and then carry them (and they should be heavy, relatively speaking) until next charge - I think it would not be worth it.

tandron GPT-4 could pass bar exam, AI researchers say

Maybe it understood "odd" in a different sense of the word? As in "unusual", whatever the "unusual" is for an AI...

tandron Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification

Not emeralds?

tandron The Social Recession: By the Numbers

Sorry, I think you meant "Exit Through the Gift Shop"

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1587707/

tandron What happened when my wife died

Would someone be kind, and explain what PPO, ENT, HMO means? Thank you in advance.

tandron “If plan A is for you to take multiple rounds of .308 in your back...” (2000)

What a surreal read... The most surreal part is that it appears to be a completely serious question and discussion...

tandron Physicists rewrite a quantum rule that clashes with our universe

What is "process-physics", what does it deal with, sorry?

tandron Java’s Cultural Problem

Yes, 100 times yes! Looks like we posted similar thoughts at about the same time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32896598

tandron Java’s Cultural Problem

Learning Java once is easy. Understanding it is fine too. But learning new framework every time you switch projects - not so much. Because every time it becomes a gargantuan task, with all the dependencies that it pulls. And the moment you wants to do a tiny step aside, you need to learn intricacies of internal working of said framework just to something oh-so-slightly different than original authors envisioned. And then add couple more libraries, and endless conflicts, and stubs, and injection debugging nightmare. The maintenance of the dependencies becomes a full time job...

Yeah, Java is simple. Everything else around it makes it almost unbearable with mental load that you need to keep just to move forward with a simple change.

tandron Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and 16GB storage

Thank you very much!

tandron Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and 16GB storage

What phone do you use, that allows that many choices of android variants, sorry?

tandron Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

What would you recommend to watch instead?