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jcdny commented on 210 IQ Is Not Enough taylor.town/iq-not-enough... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

Viliam1234 · 4 months ago

> 210 IQ will never be enough. $20M dollars will never be enough.

At least, $20M dollars exists, while 210 IQ is mathematically nonsense -- it means "one out of several trillions", which exceeds the human population. You would have to colonize the entire galaxy, and then be the smartest human in that galaxy. If even that is not enough, I am giving up.

jcdny · 4 months ago

Or the distribution could be leptokurtic like almost everything in the real world. Also galaxies are bigger than you think.

jcdny commented on Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists? · Posted by u/PirxThePilot

jcdny · a year ago

I really like the work Kenny Vaden has done (mostly written in R of all things). His website is https://vadenart.com/ and instagram https://www.instagram.com/kenny.vaden

He also posts on the r/generative reddit and is really responsive to questions/feedback.

jcdny commented on Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists? · Posted by u/PirxThePilot

Zak · a year ago

Almost any website with an image gallery is a better source than Instagram for browsing images available on both even for those with Instagram accounts; the image quality is almost always better elsewhere.

jcdny · a year ago

There are also pretty active facebook groups where she and others post remarkable slime mold photos ("Slime Mold Identification & Appreciation" and "Ascomycetes of the world").

jcdny commented on The electrostatic world of insects wired.com/story/the-secre... · Posted by u/noleary

BoxOfRain · a year ago

You'd have to really try.

10 milliamps across your heart can kill but using Ohm's law we can calculate 3V / 0.010 A to get a resistance of 300 ohms. This means you're probably still going to have a bad time if you apply it directly across your heart during open-heart surgery but other than that 3 volts just isn't enough to drive a lethal current through your skin.

jcdny · a year ago

Which is why if caught in a lightning storm you should crouch with feet together and why I try very hard to only use one hand when doing something that might have the potential to shock me.

jcdny commented on Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013) audioasylum.com/messages/... · Posted by u/Paul_S

an-unknown · 3 years ago

> Some songs were harsh and sounded too airy.

Chances are you hear production mistakes/errors in these songs that you simply couldn't notice on the "worse" headphones. And if you produce music yourself, such "better" headphones might allow you to avoid making such mistakes/errors.

jcdny · 3 years ago

I have a friend who bought a pair of magneplanar speakers which he then sold because he could hear the pianists fingernails hitting the keys in one of the pieces. I think he decided there was such a thing as too much fidelity.

jcdny commented on How to lose $950 quickly on Airbnb chriskiehl.com/article/ho... · Posted by u/goostavos

jrootabega · 3 years ago

I think "Claire" is a fake persona.

jcdny · 3 years ago

The photo of "Claire" is a crop of a stock photo listed as "close-up-portrait-of-a-young-beautiful-blonde-woman-summer-outdoors.html". So yeah, there's that.

jcdny commented on Vuescan – Software support for 6500 abandoned scanners hamrick.com/... · Posted by u/unixhero

NaOH · 4 years ago

Well said. Also in the Mac world—I can't speak to other platforms—I'd say your description of Hamrick the person and business also applies to Peter Lewis, the person behind Keyboard Maestro.

jcdny · 4 years ago

My license from 1999 is still valid. I originally purchased it for doing slide scanning on an LS-2000 and once I stopped shooting film I did not use vuescan until a few years ago when I needed to do a bunch of flatbed scans. I was pleased (and rather surprised) that it still worked. I then purchased a standard edition license as a thank you for what to my mind was a remarkably principled commitment to his promise of a lifetime license.

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