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Re:Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies on Saturday March 28, 2026 @05:28PM (#47558252)
This story and the guy curing his dogs cancer leads me to believe what's missing is a jurisdiction that allows people with money to do whatever experiments they want/need to move medicine forward.
The real question is why? How does this make meta more money?
I'd be curious to see. Probably requires a fine balance on how interrupting happens.
I am wondering why no one is using the wonderful LLM coding tools to cut branches of open source apps rewriting them for consistent UI. From my experience with them so far this is a task that they would be really good at especially if the underlying codebase has decent test coverage.
Re:CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @10:22PM (#44058177)
2 decimal places is the difference between employment and ownership. 100k vs 10MM. That is the comparison you really want to think about.
Does this exist for Android TVs, I'd love to get rid of the garbage on them.
I think whatever "linguists" did this "research" must be undergraduate internet searchers. For example in Russian the words "fignya/fignyushka" or the less polite "huynya/huynyushka" are used in a very similar way. They are a noun representing an abstract "thing" that the listener would understand from context.
What about the diesel fuel burned hauling the additional weight of the batteries and panels on those trucks? Is it actually a net win?
It'd be a really cool if there was a browser plugin that showed you the provenance of any news you read. Like first appeared here, then here then here....
Let's chat. I founded a profitable energy business. You can find me in the YC investor list.
Let's chat, I founded a profitable energy business. Find me in the YC investor list.
Re:78rpm Records Digitized on Saturday February 13, 2021 @02:03PM (#26125798)
Is apples lidar resolution good enough to scan an LP?
they "sold it" because they owed a lot of money to svb. silicon valley does not understand debt. this is one of the reasons hardware is hard. actually making stuff is hard and expensive.
Reach out to me, I'd like to test it on 100 person sales floor. I have years of recordings.
Re:Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets on Monday February 13, 2017 @01:59AM (#13633601)
I'd fund that
Re:What If Evolution Bred Reality Out of Us? on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @09:48PM (#12440512)
there are some concrete examples of this though. we see the visible spectrum, a particular subset of EM spectrum that's a pretty good enough abstraction to get around in the world, it's a heuristic for the spectrum that's "good enough". we hear a subset of the audio spectrum, it's "good enough". etc etc...
In case you want to know what the procedure is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_counterpulsation
why not generate all possible brackets and submit?

Personal responsibility in customer service

Ask HN: I spent 1.5 hours on the phone with Dell today trying to get a downgrade from windows 8 to windows 7 for 4 comouters we bought for our call center today because windows 8 sucks. but that is not the problem. I talked to 4 different people in customer service and tech support all on one long phone call and they presented me with policy based responses that when i asked them if they would...

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Re:What are Business Co-Founders and Business People for? on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @08:56AM (#5594767)
The thing that most annoys me about this article is its lack of articles.
Acunote
Been using it for a long time. Great product. Going to be using it to manage contractors building my house too
Re:Gijit: It's like Rapportive for Google Calendar on Thursday May 10, 2012 @11:04AM (#3953855)
pretty nifty start
Re:I'm Sure It Will Only Take You A Few Days To Code on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @01:11PM (#3798567)
Knock on the walls, scream and see if anyone hears you, listen for sounds through the walls, if you do this for enough houses before you got a chance to open the door and walk around you might be able to make order of magnitude estimates. Always assume the house is bigger than you think.
Re:Poll: How long have you been programming? on Monday April 02, 2012 @10:44AM (#3788333)
Answering this question made me feel old