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sy7ar commented on NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective   simonwillison.net/2024/Se... · Posted by u/simonw
martijnarts · a year ago
"and with over four hundred comments" not quite! Currently 295 comments.
sy7ar · a year ago
Seems like it can also predict the future. Almost 500 now.
sy7ar commented on How different languages laugh online   restofworld.org/2023/how-... · Posted by u/justanotherdot
lbussell · 2 years ago
I’m curious about “L” being a curse world in Cantonese. I looked it up but couldn’t find anything about this.
sy7ar commented on The laptop that won't die   clivethompson.medium.com/... · Posted by u/ShikhaM
Unfrozen0688 · 2 years ago
Even more so with desktops.

I am running a 2014 CPU i7 4790k with 32GB RAM and a 1070ti.

Due to it being a desktop w noctua cooler the temps never get high. Keyboard and mouse you just replace when worn out.

This year I am thinking about upgrading.

But my 2019 Thinkpad already feels slow... so I never got laptops for long use. They suck.

sy7ar · 2 years ago
Like the other commenter said, you haven’t tried Apple silicon if you think all laptops suck.

My M1 MacBook Air is way faster than my iMac with i7 7700. And now M3 pro is probably faster than my desktop i9 10850k.

sy7ar commented on Are the Americans Awake?   are-the-americans-awake.y... · Posted by u/spacebuffer
pluijzer · 2 years ago
This site takes into account that Americans get there 8 hours of sleep though some quick googling revealed that the average American only gets 7 hours and 13 minutes of sleep. Just want to preach to those not getting there 8 hours, getting enough sleep really gives an enormous boost to mood, creativity, productivity and health. Give it a try :-)
sy7ar · 2 years ago
Not everyone's that lucky genetically. I go to bed at the same and I can get out of bed whenever I want and yet I can't get 7 hours let alone 8 hours. And no I'm not the type who can be refreshed with less than 6 hours of sleep (those are the genetically lucky ones).
sy7ar commented on Keyd: Linux Key Remapper   github.com/rvaiya/keyd... · Posted by u/gigatexal
nikivi · 3 years ago
If you're on mac, Karabiner is the best tool for remapping. I use it to remap normal keys to hyper keys. So pressing on `a` key together with `f` will do control + f and things like this.

https://wiki.nikiv.dev/macOS/apps/karabiner

sy7ar · 3 years ago
Doesn't that get triggered if you type "after" fast enough?
sy7ar commented on Show HN: I made CSS Pro, a re-imagined Devtools for web design   csspro.com... · Posted by u/guivr
rcconf · 3 years ago
Honestly the comments are a good example on how difficult it is to sell to developers and why startup ideas that target developers are dangerous to bootstrap.

Developers have high incomes, but are quite frankly, extremely cheap. And I actually mean cheap and not frugal. They will spend 40 hours/week for months to save $5/mo. There's basically no logic apart from that developers have a poor concept of time and money and are spending averse (again, cheap.)

In this case, this tool is $30/mo, or about $360 / year, what is that, 3 dinners for 2 people in a year? The tool may save the developer, let's say 3-4 hours / week and at 52 * 3 or about 156 hours of savings a year. At even 30 an hour, it's saved the developer $4,680, or at 60/hour, close to $10,000, but I can guarantee that 99% of developers will not spend $30/month to make their lives easier.

My only recommendation is try to sell this product to businesses and maybe offer them a deal based on the amount of developers they have. So sell it do a dev shop with 10 developers at $20/developer / per month. Businesses understand the time/money tradeoff and are not cheap.

Developers, my only word of advice, is seriously.. stop being so cheap and spend some money to make your lives easier.

sy7ar · 3 years ago
Unless all your work involves CSS I doubt it saves 3-4 hours / week. Also, saving 3 hours of work doesn't mean you get paid for 3 hours more. It's also a dependency that's not guaranteed to exist as long as the default browser dev tools or available on every machine.
sy7ar commented on A number system invented by Inuit schoolchildren   scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/nathandaly
IIAOPSW · 3 years ago
What did you eat for breakfast yesterday?

Was recalling that from memory "almost instantaneous"?

sy7ar · 3 years ago
Recalling yesterday's breakfast is not the same as multiplication table or some other facts you've memorized. Most people don't memorize their breakfast!

edit: as an example, when someone asks "what's your name", do you not recall much faster than what you ate?

sy7ar commented on Physics and Mathematics Self-Study Project   diegovera.org/projects... · Posted by u/JoeDaDude
melling · 3 years ago
I've been studying MIT's OCW for Probability with a partner. It's a great course.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-041sc-probabilistic-systems-an...

We're 4 months in and on Lecture 15. These do take a while. I feel like I'm not getting everything and will need another round. I've been binge watching Stat 110 too:

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110

"All probabilities are conditional"

sy7ar · 3 years ago
Very nice. Where do you find a study partner?

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sy7ar commented on What happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans?   bigthink.com/the-future/c... · Posted by u/fbn79
sangnoir · 3 years ago
> What lower hanging fruit are governments currently spending on?

I meant what lower hanging fruits governments ought to spend on. However, since you asked, here are some of the things governments are currently spending on, but could bear improvement: eradicating preventable diseases, ensuring kids get good nutrition, better tracking, and hopefully prevention of e. coli/salmonella outbreaks, funding basic research into improving outcomes for patients, reducing profiteering off the products of publicly-funded research, medical pricing transparency, better organ donor policies (universal opt-out)

sy7ar · 3 years ago
Curing age related diseases is permanent fix, and makes curing any low hanging fruits trivial.

u/sy7ar

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