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technological··on We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
Since you never had any sense of smell, would this help you in developing memories about smell ? I am curious on how your brain react to smell sensation when it does not have any memory associated with it.
technological··on Why making friends as an adult is harder
I notice that as we grow older patience in growing a friendship is less, usually at at adult change we look for a perfect person or someone with way less difference in tastes.
technological··on Saffron: The Most Expensive Spice
Where to buy the bulb ?
technological··on FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
can you post link to the device which you brought
technological··on Wanna team-up with an SRE to build a product and/or company?
I am very much interested. Can we have a quick meeting?
technological··on Show HN: Cheq UPI – India's first UPI payments app for foreigners
Is there any plan of having verification centers or online verification services in US itself ?
technological··on How to find time to learn after work (2017)
Anyone with 2 kids or more can share there experience please
technological··on Guide to running Llama 2 locally
Did anyone build pc for running these models and which one do you recommend
technological··on Zoom fatigue unpacked
One thing people need to stop is having office hours where people just join the meeting and do their work. Anyone interested will be looking at it
technological··on Tor is not just for anonymity (2022)
Just curious - Does VPN help in this case ? Or do you prefer Tor
technological··on Ask HN: What one skill are you proud of developing on your own?
Being happy even with small things. For example buying a new pen or using new tool makes me happy like a kid receiving candy. I can be happy being alone or in group of people. Slowly I am trying to have zero expectations and not to get effected by anyone actions or words.
technological··on Mental Liquidity
I think it is hard to change your beliefs is because of the discomfort that is associated with that change.
technological··on West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile hike in Vancouver Island (2021)
Nice write up. Enjoyed reading it
technological··on Gpt4all: A chatbot trained on ~800k GPT-3.5-Turbo Generations based on LLaMa
Can someone answer this - is it possible to train this model ? Like can i feed my own data so that it aligns to my liking
technological··on A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)
If you realize that how hard you try you won’t able to do certain things, do ppl keep trying or accept the limitations ?
technological··on I bought a CO2 monitor and it broke me
How did you find the leaks ?
technological··on Buy hi-resolution satellite images of any place on earth
What is the usecase for common man ? I cannot think of anything, so asking to understand how one will use it.

Thanks and awesome website

technological··on Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?
1) I want to be organized, I have learned this hard way many times but still fail to be organized. 2) Think big not small. For example solving any problem where I should think how does my solution impact overall system 3) learn about my strengths and weaknesses. I know I am not gifted coder but I should be using my strengths to overcome this weakness 4) write daily journal. This is to see if I can stick to an habit or routine for long time 5) record lot more podcast episodes
technological··on Ask HN: Products/Services you swear by – Dec. 2022
Iron skillet and Bitwarden
technological··on Ask HN: Products/Services you swear by – Dec. 2022
I have similar story. I have interfered and made my wife buy other brands like shark and eventually we got Dyson and very satisfied
technological··on Tell HN: Everyone should have a holiday dinner this year
If you are not comfortable talking with someone else because you do not want to burden them then you may wana record what you wana share and post as podcast or any other medium where we can listen and post comment or at-least you would know listening to you.
technological··on Researchers find that a simple “talking to strangers” intervention is effective
This is what I liked about commuting in public bus during my undergrad in india. I could easily start conversations with strangers and learn so many things
technological··on I built a wildlife pond [video]
None of these animals which come to drink water do not try to eat fish ?
technological··on Ask HN: What's your proudest hack?
Use kitchen scissors to cut and any herbs . At our university we cannot park closer to our classroom building because that parking was reserved for only professors. However I observed that the people who check if any students parked in that parking area come at specific times . I made note of their schedule and used to park and remove when they about to come
technological··on Intentionally making close friends
I feel it is relatively easy to make friends during engineering (under grad) when there is no financial responsibilities and you have lot of patience, high level of tolerance. When compared to age where you have more financial responsibility and certain age where you no longer have patience to let go some of things which you do not like in other person. It comes to point where I feel why do I need to compromise on so many things to make friends.
technological··on High-documentation, low-meeting work culture
Personally I feel documentation wont be such hard thing to do if ppl are not very particular about formatting and making it look good.
technological··on Avoiding homework with code and getting caught
Definitely interested. Would you mind if we had a call or discuss over email and I can post it as blog or podcast
technological··on BMW heated seats subscription costs $18 per month in South Korea
I wish instead of subscription they make car more modular (I mean certain features). So I can opt out things I don’t want and add later
technological··on I should have loved biology
Do you suggest any starting material or steps on how to get started
technological··on Ask HN: 30s and “senior” software engineer, but I suck at programming
which book do you recommend ? and can you describe preparation process
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