infectoid (u/infectoid)

infectoid commented on They make USB-C cables with displays now ounapuu.ee/posts/2024/06/... · Posted by u/transpute

moneywoes · a year ago

How do we know if these are doing something else?

infectoid · a year ago

If power is all you are looking for you can always play it safe with a USB Condom.

e.g https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=PortaPow

infectoid commented on Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally github.com/reorproject/re... · Posted by u/samlhuillier

sigmonsays · 2 years ago

serious question: when do you ever have your own notes and can't find the answer ?

i would call it bad note taking to not be able to recall an answer you put into your notes.

I like the idea of something like this but i've struggled to find a real use case.

infectoid · 2 years ago

You underestimate the number of bad notetakers.

I’m one of them.

This tool might actually make me take better notes.

Maybe.

infectoid commented on Religious 'Nones' are now the largest single group in the U.S. npr.org/2024/01/24/122637... · Posted by u/geox

davewasthere · 2 years ago

Now they just need to organise effectively.

But how do you organise a disparate group whose only common characteristic is that they don't believe in imaginary deities?

infectoid · 2 years ago

Start a subreddit.

I don’t think I’m actually joking.

infectoid commented on World’s first octopus farm stirs ethical debate reuters.com/business/envi... · Posted by u/hhs

ogig · 4 years ago

> I did not eat octopus prior to this but I became firmly in support of encouraging everyone to avoid eating octopus and related creatures after this experience. Not only do I think they're immensely intelligent animals, I am firmly convinced that this particular specimen was smarter than a number of humans that I have met.

Where I live octopus is a very popular food, representative of our gastronomy. I love everything about eating it. But, as you said, the notion that these are highly intelligent animals has been creeping into me. I've also experienced over this last decade how much more intelligent birds are than previously thought, so I can connect the dots. Also, pigs.

Still, I might die with this moral debacle active, for much I want to respect life in general, I don't think I can give up the party surrounding octopus gastronomy. Time will tell.

infectoid · 4 years ago

I'm trying to cut meats out of my diet slowly. All seafood was easy as I was never that into it. Pig meat on the other hand... Bacon, Ham, Pork, etc. I knew that it had to go. So I started with that.

Currently I'm an opportunitarian. Chicken is the meat of choice if I can't handle the vegetarian option, otherwise beef. But pig and all seafood is gone from my diet. My hope is that plant-based or cultured meat improves to the point where I don't have these ethical dilemmas anymore. Until then I'll do my best.

I know it's not perfect but it's something. I think more people need to understand that eating and culture are hard to seperate and we need to accomodate that. Making meat a sometimes food is the first step.

infectoid commented on Free Wordle wordle.nyc/... · Posted by u/jbegley

praveen9920 · 4 years ago

Any noticed that “Share” is sharing garbage characters?

infectoid · 4 years ago

Looks like the code got pasted into an editor that wasn't too interested in keeping that character encoding.

infectoid commented on Free Wordle wordle.nyc/... · Posted by u/jbegley

rcy · 4 years ago

How did the original author manage to get "low 7 figures" for something that could so easily be cloned?

infectoid · 4 years ago

I guess I'd like to ask the same question about NFTs.

But I'm guessing it's the social licence NYT are paying for. The owner says it's theirs.

infectoid commented on Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results · Posted by u/babuskov

ghostcluster · 6 years ago

They should definitely drop Pinterest from Google Image Search results.

infectoid · 6 years ago

Gee the numbers of times I've had to add "-pinterest -quora". I wish there was just a permanent filter I could add in my Google serach settings.

infectoid commented on Tim Berners-Lee unveils plan to save the web theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/edward

infectoid · 6 years ago

What happened to TBL's other project where everything was supposed to be decentralised?

https://solid.mit.edu

Is it dead?

infectoid commented on OpenAI Releases Largest GPT-2 Text Generation Model openai.com/blog/gpt-2-1-5... · Posted by u/epoch_100

parksy · 6 years ago

Just an afterthought, but you could probably cobble something together that asks someone for some basic prompts, like names, locations, etc, then uses a series of templates to generate a chapter of text that's reasonably coherent and tailored to an individual.

infectoid · 6 years ago

So.

1. Feed in all the Game of Throne books

2. Generate final book

3. Profit?

infectoid commented on One Tether Trader Didn't Cause the Bitcoin Bubble bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/felixbraun

k__ · 6 years ago

I can remember Bitcoin going to $200 thinking it was nuts.

I can also remember it going to $700 thinkin it was nuts.

Now it's over $9000.

So when was there really a reason to get out?

infectoid · 6 years ago

When it hit around the $30 mark I was thinking that was going to be where it levelled off and I was actually excited for it to become a stable currency.

I was pretty wrong, both about it being a stable and a currency.

As another commenter mentioned, I'm also excited to have been here for it all and stille excited to see where it leads. Ultimately, whether you love it or hate it, Bitcoin has made its mark on history and has kind of become the giant shoulders that the next generation can stand on.