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I wouldn't think code dictated the alarm type. (I just replaced all nine sensors in my home due to age and went with all photoelectric this time and it was less than six months before I had my first false alarm. Never had any false alarms with previous ionizing type.)

Comment · 2 days ago

> I'm wary of them, partly due skeptism about their accuracy, but also because it rather misses the point.

Here, this reader wondered whether "to" was omitted intentionally to emphasize lack of LLM involvement. Then, on a second read through to find the sentence again, I noticed the first paragraph is also missing a period on its final sentence. Which just goes to show: we can all use editors and proof readers. (According to the acknowledgements section, nine humans read drafts.) Now, I don't want to intentionally leave typos in my writing, but for me it's preferable to LLM-voice no doubt.

> But I also would prefer rather a genuine human's clunky prose to the smooth but soulless LLM.

Amen. This reminds me of a bit from Kitchen Confidential about how Anthony Bourdain would prefer a simple and plain home cooked meal over an ornate restaurant meal any day of the week. I read because I want to hear what a human has to say. It's the errors and malapropisms and style that give a unique and human voice. Doesn't this contradict my earlier statement about not leaving errors in my own writing? It turns out I'm perfectly tolerant of errors in anyone's writing but my own. (I should probably bring that up with a therapist.)

Comment · 3 days ago

(2020). Previous submissions with comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23639294 (Jun 26, 2020 - 96 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28844872 (Oct 12, 2021 - 108 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34210508 (Jan 1, 2023 - 6 comments)

This submission is from 4 days ago, so it must've been placed into the second chance pool.

Comment · 5 days ago

The Highway Trust Fund which pays for the IHS is funded by its users through taxation on gasoline and diesel. I wouldn't call that a weird parallel construction.

Comment · 6 days ago

Looks like it. I was working at a startup in Sunnyvale in the early 2000s and a some of us would meet before work for a run at the bay trail. Wouldn't be too unusual to do that at lunch hour either.

That said, these photos look a bit staged.

Comment · 7 days ago

This isn't true. Here's the guys who invented the game appearing on Jon Stewart in March, 1994:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMn3B4LAP48

They don't mention it on the Stewart performance, but they had just seen Bacon in two films on TV back to back:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/the-exact-history-o...

Now, maybe they named the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" because it sorta rhymes with "separation", but they didn't pick him to rhyme with the phrase.

Comment · 8 days ago

Colossus: The Forbin Project is not obscure.

Comment · 8 days ago

At one point, it was north of a billion dollars. 660 (nee 666) Fifth Avenue.

Comment · 9 days ago

I first heard her a couple decades ago when she was at the start of her career and appeared as a guest singer at an NC symphony outdoor summer concert series. Her voice took my breath away then and still does. She's a remarkable talent.

Just came across this documentary on the Carolina Chocolate Drops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg8nXPFU7go

Comment · 10 days ago

This article could use some videos:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QnO5TH6I-wQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC3zoCoK4ZU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Z-CpXQiAc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94AYKVibjaQ

> Over time, Scottish fiddle tunes evolved, as oral traditions do, and began to mix with the musical traditions of enslaved Africans, who had brought with them gourd instruments that would evolve into the American banjo, along with rhythms the Scots had never heard before.

If you haven't heard Rhiannon Giddens you have no idea what you're missing. Here's a decade old interview where she talks about the blending of the instruments and traditions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H7DtIh8akk

She lives in Ireland now. Here she is preforming The Wayfaring Stranger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Z4PAZX9Bs

Comment · 10 days ago

> Just the windows shattering from the massive subwoofer

That's a respectable subwoofer but let me introduce you to massive:

https://www.avsforum.com/posts/64557995/

That would be 8x SI HS-24’s in 4 sealed GSG cabinets, with cabinets placed around the corners of the room, two in front behind the screen:

https://www.avsforum.com/posts/64778927/