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Comment · 1 month ago
What's missing for me for each result are the following:

* Explain the result to me as if I'm a 10-year-old. * Create the infographic for this result. * Make a Khan Academy-style video to teach me this result.

Comment · 2 months ago
Maxi Heitmeyer provides the first interesting cause, reason, and justification for brain rot due to doomscrolling that I have come across. But it's not an easy read.

I would really be pleased to read a logical summary of this article!

Comment · 6 months ago
Go to a bar (in America). Sit on a stool. Say "hello" to the person next to you.
Comment · 7 months ago
It bears remembering that all of this was reported by a group of Haitians in Brooklyn who publish and staff the Haitian Times.

They deserve recognition for maintaining the standards of good journalism in what is, by any measure, a difficult era.

Comment · 8 months ago
Posts like this are why I read Hacker News.

My Egg McMuffin will never look the same!

Comment · 8 months ago
Agreed. And the nice thing was that they weren't just illustrations, they were metaphors, even allegories, on human and computer engagements
Comment · 9 months ago
Today's link is an update to an article first published some time ago

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/fixing-retail-with-land-v...

There's a healthy number of comments on SlashDot: https://slashdot.org/story/26/01/26/1637238/fixing-retail-wi...

The comments open up a Pandora's Box of many valid complexities. All indicative of why it has become so difficult to get things done these days.

Comment · 10 months ago
This hack has completely disrupted my afternoon! Perhaps even forever after.
Comment · 11 months ago
Draw a millipede as a dog:

Gemini responds:

Conceptualizing the "Millipup"

https://gemini.google.com/share/b6b8c11bd32f

Draw the five legs of a dog as if the body is a pentagon

https://gemini.google.com/share/d74d9f5b4fa4

And animal legs are quite standardized

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

It's all about the prompt. Example:

Can you imagine a dog with five legs?

https://gemini.google.com/share/2dab67661d0e

And generally, the issue sits between the computer and the chair.

;-)

Comment · 11 months ago
The math was beyond me. So, I asked Gemini 3 for help. I share what they replied to my many questions here:

https://gemini.google.com/share/1a6663a83898

Schrodinger and Penrose: pro. Einstein: con.

My favorite part is the debate between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and President Donald Trump on Maria Strømme's interesting effort.

Comment · 1 year ago
Nearly sixty years of coding under my belt here.

The OP proposes a valid and reasonable pattern.

Nonetheless, not all of us are so wise.

There are dozens of frustrating all-nighters and near all-nighters in my timeline.

And, dotted in and about, there are those several times when, half-asleep, you press the enter key, look up and gasp "OMG, it's working!"

Comment · 1 year ago
>"Even for those relationships that were negatively strained, over time, the strained relationships mended," she says.

I was 54. my wife called it quits on me.

These days, my former wife and our three daughters are probably as happy and as communicative as we've ever been.

Mutually, putting our children as a high priority helped.

Comment · 1 year ago

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