CydeWeys · HackerTrans

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Retiring TO something is important, but ideally it needs to involve a lot of in-person socializing, which many hobbies do not have. Golfing, for example, is pretty much the platonic ideal of a hobby that involves both socialization and old-person-friendly exercise.

CydeWeys

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Or maybe that's just the human condition? Retirement is a pretty recent concept anyway. Back when people were hunter/gatherers or subsistence farmers, you didn't have the option of retiring. You either kept working or you starved, perished from the elements, etc.

CydeWeys

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One other factor that others haven't yet covered is that the different lines had different capabilities, e.g. the T-89 had Computer Algebra System symbolic manipulation meaning it could pretty much solve many types of math problems on its own, so it wasn't generally allowed in school. And then the Ti-85/86 was a step down, but had matrix support that the lower models lacked, so it was necessary for some specific types of classes.

My favorite was always the TI-85/86 line. I loved those F1-F5 buttons right beneath the screen, which made the interface overall better to navigate. The first programming I ever did was on one of those (either the 85 or 82, can't exactly remember at this point which I owned first). And, the only thing of note I ever had stolen from me was a TI-82, taken out of my unattended backpack by another student during gym class :( (And I had even carved my name into the back of it with a knife, so it would've been identifiable.)

CydeWeys

5 tháng trướcdiscuss

What are you envisioning exactly?

CydeWeys

5 tháng trướcdiscuss

I'm not really sure what the point of this article is. Yes, obviously, you need to implement systems that are secure and performant so that you don't get a backed-up line of people waiting an hour just to get into the office in the morning. But that's a notably flawed rollout; millions of employees go into badge-in-required offices every day without issue. And it's kind of hard to imagine running a large office while lacking such basic physical security as "keep unauthorized people out of the building". Having electronic badges and readers is table stakes.

CydeWeys

5 tháng trướcdiscuss

> especially when it comes to dynamic range

You can solve this by having multiple cameras for each vantage point, with different sensors and lenses that are optimized for different light levels. Tesla isn't doing this mind you, but with the use of multiple cameras, it should be easy enough to exceed the dynamic range of the human eye so long as you are auto-selecting whichever camera is getting you the correct exposure at any given point.

CydeWeys

6 tháng trướcdiscuss

Beg for forgiveness, don't ask permission. I got Shingrix when I was under the age of 40, and at no cost to myself even, simply by scheduling a Shingrix vaccine at CVS. It wasn't until I went back for the booster shot months later that the nurse was like "Wait, aren't you too young for this?", but they nevertheless gave me the second dose to complete the vaccine course. You can just so things.

CydeWeys

6 tháng trướcdiscuss

Your average HN reader can absolutely afford paying a few hundred bucks to avoid getting a potentially life-changing disease, and should. I know multiple young adults who got messed up by shingles.

CydeWeys

9 tháng trướcdiscuss

The deorbits are controlled to occur over nonpopulated areas (i.e. the middle of the ocean). I don't think it amounts to much of a concern, compared to, say, the sum total emissions of all factories, power plants, ships, airplanes, and vehicles.

CydeWeys

10 tháng trướcdiscuss

I'm amazed that the article doesn't discuss the end of ZIRP. The bursting of the art market bubble in mid 2022 coincides exactly with when interest rates started rising following the 'transitory' inflation caused by pandemic relief measures. This was also the same time that we started seeing hiring freezes in tech, the bursting of the luxury watch bubble, etc. It's all tied together, and has the same root cause: It stopped being cheap to borrow money, and it started being lucrative to lend it out for guaranteed returns (e.g. by buying Treasuries) rather than speculating on artworks, or NFTs, or whatever.

CydeWeys

3 năm trướcdiscuss

Anthropic isn't publicly traded yet so it can't have too many investors.

CydeWeys

3 năm trướcdiscuss

He's also going to jail to prevent him from defrauding more people. Meanwhile Adam Neumann is still out there starting new sketchy companies taking people's money, most recently some crypto token thing (because of course he would). If Masayoshi Son had been less interested in saving face and more interested in getting justice, Adam might be behind bars too. One could imagine a case for fraud being made there.

CydeWeys

3 năm trướcdiscuss

Do you have some sample chat logs of interactions like this you can share? I'm curious to see what kind of stuff it's coming up with, and how you're prompting it.

CydeWeys

3 năm trướcdiscuss

I see people using ChatGPT, Bard, etc. to answer questions on mailing list threads. It'll be a long thread of thoughtful human written responses, and then someone will come along and say "I asked Bard what it thought about this issue, here's the response". And then out comes five paragraphs of text that I might as well not even bother reading, as it often contains falsehoods that I have to waste time looking up and double-checking. It bothers me so much that these LLMs don't have any inherent understanding of truth or facts, so the only thing they're really good at is writing fiction (e.g. I hear they're pretty good as a DM's assistant to flesh out flavor/scenario descriptions and such). The Midjourney generated images fall into the same fiction category and are generally pretty good too.

But for actual non-fiction usage, you have to spend so much time triple-checking everything they say to ensure that it isn't simply complete nonsense. What's the point?

CydeWeys

3 năm trướcdiscuss

How convenient to make strikes illegal. That disarms the union of one of its most potent weapons in ensuring its members get their due.

CydeWeys

4 năm trướcdiscuss

Here's one example of one without a date or a power reserve gauge: https://www.grand-seiko.com/us-en/collections/sbgy007g

If you do want a date, but it's specifically the font on the date wheels they use that you don't like, then you're probably SoL.

CydeWeys

4 năm trướcdiscuss

To be clear, there are literally hundreds of different models of Grand Seiko watches that are powered by spring drive that have been produced over the past two decades plus, with wildly varying looks across the range. It's not just one watch I'm talking about here.

CydeWeys

4 năm trướcdiscuss

If you want absurd accuracy in a watch powered by mechanical energy (without just resorting to a battery-powered quartz), look into Grand Seiko's spring drive. It's super interesting technology, and the result is a smoothly sweeping second hand (as in it's actually continuous, not merely a higher number of beats per second).

CydeWeys

4 năm trướcdiscuss

> but you need a timegrapher to measure the results in a reasonable time.

This is just an app now. All a timegrapher is is a microphone and software, and, well, your phone has all that. This is the app I use; I highly recommend it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.watchaccur...

CydeWeys

4 năm trướcdiscuss

> Are there other automatics that will outlast a person’s life?

Very unlikely. You do hear the occasional story of a mechanical watch running fine for several decades without requiring any servicing, but there's a lot of survivorship bias at play there. It's extremely unlikely to go ~8 decades without needing servicing. Keep in mind there are lubricants at various places in the movement that are essential to proper operation that evaporate/denature over time.

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