tbran
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 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?
Comment · 2 years 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...
Comment · 2 years 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.
Comment · 2 years 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....
Comment · 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.
Comment · 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.
Comment · 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
Comment · 3 years ago
This sounds like how most of us develop anyway. Then we fix that stuff.
Comment · 3 years ago
Put your resume up on job sites!
Even not-so-great-sounding contracts pay 50-65/hr, might be a confidence boost. Level up your skills on udemy, if necessary (wait for courses to be 80% off or whatever, happens regularly).
Could also go corporate at a non-tech for low stress and a decent salary.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's due to the March 2023 Google core update. Basically, they do these updates periodically, which can cause swings in organic search traffic.
Not a great article, but explains a core update: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-rolls-out-march-2...
Comment · 3 years ago
Dude! I just did that search and now I'm reading Miguel's blog. Good stuff! Thank you!
Comment · 3 years ago
Just pick one to support. You can still visit all 5.
Preferably a local paper.
Comment · 3 years ago
Along the lines of surveillance I heard this one:
When you pass mass surveillance laws you are trusting the people in power now, but also the future people in power.
This framing can make you think about many laws differently.
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.