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Re:Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012) on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @11:35AM (#47780579)
do you exercise?
The problem is it always hides your voice. Always
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>Surprised this perplexes people

Is just really funny. Peak HN, thank you

Re:Zen of AI Coding on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @04:06PM (#47238996)
>Velocity without feedback is chaos.

>Direction without oversight is reckless.

>The constraint is no longer tokens. It is cognition.

Can we stop upvoting LLM slop please. Jesus, dead internet theory is so real.

4k OLED text is great.
Re:I Pitched a Roller Coaster to Disneyland at Age 10 in 1978 on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @11:30AM (#47139094)
makes me sad nowadays kids just want to watch short form video instead of create
They absolutely help my eyes not be so strained. If its placebo, its a working placebo.

>Are people actually using Night Shift? >Aggravatingly, yes.

What is the authors problem lol? It feels a lot better on eyeballs to use warm light things. Why does he care?

I love magic. Can these do politics or is it just board state?
Re:LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers on Friday February 06, 2026 @09:47AM (#46913470)
Can't we just turn the temp down to 0?
I'm an audiophile and very happy with one of their portable speakers. I wouldn't buy Bose monitors, though
Re:Dogalog: A realtime Prolog-based livecoding music environment on Thursday December 18, 2025 @11:11AM (#46314529)
Volume warning on that demo, lol
Re:My six stages of learning to be a socially normal person on Monday November 17, 2025 @04:15PM (#45958388)
He seems like an odd duck.
Woah.
Re:Bertie the Brain on Friday October 31, 2025 @10:12AM (#45772184)
Man Canada used to be so impressive. We need to get back there
Probably negatively correlated cause you have someone to interact with in your old age/better chance of community :)
But its not... real.
no it doesn't
Re:Jane Goodall has died on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @04:11PM (#45442793)
crazy how you can just be this alive one year and then dead the next. I get 91 is old, but still
Re:iPhone dumbphone on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @11:40AM (#45183562)
Woah this is nice! And pretty generous free app
Re:The beauty of a text only webpage on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:05PM (#44914087)
What do you like about reading this? Its so hard to read for me on a 27 inch monitor in a full screen browser window, lol
Re:Why LLMs Can't Build Software on Thursday August 14, 2025 @01:19PM (#44903095)
Huh, interesting. Though I do wonder if the best possible thing an AI could help code would be another AI tool
Re:Study mode on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @02:28PM (#44726771)
even chatgpt is just a chatgpt wrapper
Re:You can't outrun a bad diet on Thursday July 24, 2025 @02:59PM (#44674684)
Yeah it's not terrible, but having 10 extra pounds of muscle burning almost 100 calories a day extra, thats like a pound of fat every month and a bit.
Reminds me of this drug company I was pitched a while ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibe_Therapeutics

Cause apple is famous for tasteless ads, right
Re:What Is HDR, Anyway? on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @09:48AM (#43984504)
For gaming, definitely. An HDR Oled monitor is so immersive.
Re:More Everything Forever on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @06:11PM (#43777206)
If you like optimistic Sci-Fi, I would recommend the Culture Series. It really changed me when I read it in university.