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tbran commented on Can hunters' donations help deliver high-quality meat to Colorado food pantries?   collective.coloradotrust.... · Posted by u/mooreds
JoeAltmaier · a year ago
Try to read the rest of the comment before shooting off.

It was clearly represented as a caloric measure. Then instantly worked into a reasonable diet of 10% meet, using much the same numbers you just did.

Everything I wrote was completely accurate. Please work harder to post reasonable, non-slanderous helpful comments.

tbran · a year ago
Assuming a deer with 43,000 calories, your math approximates to nearly 2700 calories/person/day, which seems like an awful lot for a family of 4.

And the attitude in your comment toward the program seems to be "Why bother?" But this program:

- connects people together

- provides hormone/antibiotic-free meat

- is low cost

What's wrong with that?

The pedantic negativity on HN towards good things, in comments like yours, is a real bummer.

tbran commented on Can hunters' donations help deliver high-quality meat to Colorado food pantries?   collective.coloradotrust.... · Posted by u/mooreds
JoeAltmaier · a year ago
I doubt it will matter. Here in Iowa, where deer are almost a pest, there are maybe 100 per section. There are several families per section, by and large.

A deer can feed a family of four for four days. That's all the calories there are in there. Now, you don't eat just meat. But say, 10% meat. So that's 40 days, that's 9 deer per family per year at least.

That means all the deer will be gone in a few years. If they let hunters shoot them all, which they don't.

I don't think it can matter. Folks have some romantic idea about hunting your own food, but that hasn't been practical for a century by now.

tbran · a year ago
> A deer can feed a family of four for four days. That's all the calories there are in there.

This is so wildly inaccurate that I can't believe you'd make this claim.

You think a 90-150 lb animal has something like 10 lbs of meat on it?

30-60 lbs is much more accurate. Here's a chart from the PA Game Commission: https://www.pgc.pa.gov/Wildlife/WildlifeSpecies/White-tailed...

Why even post if you have no idea what you're talking about? Do you think everyone at the food bank is on the carnivore diet?

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tbran commented on Speech Dictation Mode for Emacs   lepisma.xyz/2024/09/12/em... · Posted by u/adityaathalye
tbran · a year ago
To run text-to-speech on my laptop, I've been using Justine Tunney's downloadable single executable Whisper file.

I use it transcribe audio then copy into an LLM to get notes on whatever it is. Helps me decide to watch or listen to something and saves a bunch of time.

Her tweet: https://x.com/JustineTunney/status/1825551821857010143

Instructions from Simon Willison: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/19/whisperfile/

Command line options: https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/issues/544#issueco...

tbran commented on Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick   techcrunch.com/2024/08/26... · Posted by u/gemanor
generalizations · a year ago
Claude has been pretty great. I stood up an 'auto-script-writer' recently, that iteratively sends a python script + prompt + test results to either GPT4 or Claude, takes the output as a script, runs tests on that, and sends those results back for another loop. (Usually took about 10-20 loops to get it right) After "writing" about 5-6 python scripts this way, it became pretty clear that Claude is far, far better - if only because I often ended up using Claude to clean up GPT4's attempts. GPT4 would eventually go off the rails - changing the goal of the script, getting stuck in a local minima with bad outputs, pruning useful functions - Claude stayed on track and reliably produced good output. Makes sense that it's more expensive.

Edit: yes, I was definitely making sure to use gpt-4o

tbran · a year ago
I installed Aider last week - it just started doing this prompt-write-run-ingest_errors-restart cycle. Using it with git you can also undo code changes if it goes wrong. It's free and open source.

https://aider.chat/

tbran commented on A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily   freepublicapis.com/... · Posted by u/abhas9
tbran · a year ago
Using Hugo to make a read-only API would be a great way to make an always-up API with minimal maintenance. Host on any static site host.

- https://web.archive.org/web/20180530151717/https://forestry....

- https://web.archive.org/web/20180525154607/https://forestry....

tbran commented on Why Self-Checkout Is and Has Always Been the Worst   gizmodo.com/why-self-chec... · Posted by u/nickwritesit
warrenm · 3 years ago
That you've managed to have problems does not negate the fact I have as many bad experiences per year as you've had total experiences this year (this yer alone, I've used self-checkout at least 80 times ... probably a lot more)

Dislike self-checkout you want, but still sounds like a "you" problem, and not a "self-checkout" problem

Neat fact! You don't have to self-checkout at any store I've been to in the last 5 years (unless it's super weird hours ... and even then - you're probably there by yourself, so the attendant's likely to come over to "help" just to have something to do)

tbran · 3 years ago
1st problem: Scan gun for home center materials did not work as the system was momentarily down.

2nd problem: 2 barcodes on the product.

Not sure which one of these is a "me" problem. You also misread my comment.

Sounds like you just want to throw around low-effort personal insults instead of addressing anything I said. This is HN, you can do better.

tbran commented on Why Self-Checkout Is and Has Always Been the Worst   gizmodo.com/why-self-chec... · Posted by u/nickwritesit
warrenm · 3 years ago
>I have literally never, as in not one single time, successfully completed a checkout at a self-service station in a grocery store without having to call a human employee over.

Sounds like a "you" problem, mate

I average maybe 3 or 4 calls/year (and I self checkout substantially more frequently than not (and across multiple stores that offer the option))

tbran · 3 years ago
I disagree with you.

I've used self-checkout 4 times in 4 different stores in the last week and had a problem 2 out of 4 times. 50% success is not success.

Every store is different:

- Do they weigh stuff in the bagging area?

- Do they scan produce bar codes?

- Does it take cash, or card only?

- Is there annoying lag? (Frequently, yes!)

- Is it going to scan something twice because I hovered, because it lagged?

Also, let me ask:

- Why isn't there space for my cart?

- Why am I juggling stuff in a tiny bagging area?

- Why do the bagging area hooks suck?

- Why is there only one attendant in the stores that have really sucky systems?

- Why are half the self-checkout kiosks closed?

Self-checkout is not made for shoppers. I prefer self-checkout, but I wish good systems were more common.

tbran commented on Why flying insects gather at artificial light   biorxiv.org/content/10.11... · Posted by u/Luc
orbisvicis · 3 years ago
Regarding common disease vectors in insects, what is going on with ticks in the eastern US? 20 years ago I could go hiking in thousands of acres of pristine national forest and catch maybe one or two a year. Now I catch one or two per hike from local trails, picnicking, or even from the turf at a soccer game.
tbran · 3 years ago
Here are a few factors:

- Deer populations are increasing.

- There are no winter killoffs due to warming temperatures.

- Invasive plants like Japanese barberry are becoming extremely common and create microclimates that support mice that ticks live on before attaching to deer.

I believe some tick-borne diseases are becoming more common - I know two people that have had babesiosis, and one person and one dog with anaplasmosis. One of the babesiosis cases was not caught by the hospital in the first go-around and required a blood exchange and almost 2 months in the hospital and rehab.

There is a new invasive insect called the deer ked [0] that crawls like the girl from The Ring and may be a new vector for tick diseases (and they fly!).

Highly recommend checking out the CDC on tick-borne diseases [1], using DEET/permethrin [2] (no permethrin with cats, though), and doing tick checks if you spend time outside.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/tickbornediseases/index.html

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipoptena_cervi

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permethrin

tbran commented on AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects   simonwillison.net/2023/Ma... · Posted by u/duck
withinboredom · 3 years ago
How do you know it is even close to correct? When I’ve asked it for code, it has been subtly wrong, or worse, correct but missing important edge cases that it doesn’t even seem to be aware of.
tbran · 3 years ago
This sounds like how most of us develop anyway. Then we fix that stuff.

u/tbran

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