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New comment by huppeldepup in "UK electric car drivers should be charged per mile, say campaigners"

huppeldepup — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 17:16:07 +0000

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Exhibit: When cigarette filters were made of asbestos

huppeldepup — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 19:43:36 +0000

Article URL: https://cancerhistoryproject.com/article/the-history-of-the-asbestos-cigarette-filters/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41475971

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New comment by huppeldepup in "NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture"

huppeldepup — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 04:30:12 +0000

That’s amazing, thank you very much.

New comment by huppeldepup in "U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming 'unhealthy' amount of American news"

huppeldepup — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 04:23:32 +0000

No advance without a trade-off.

New comment by huppeldepup in "Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?"

huppeldepup — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 04:13:48 +0000

If only the ad quality went up with the efficiency with which they syphon the data. I don’t have a driver’s license and I’m in a relationship yet a considerable amount of personalised ads on my devices are about dating sites and car dealerships.

New comment by huppeldepup in "NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture"

huppeldepup — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:25:38 +0000

At 32 min she talks about a book called "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Microcomputers, but didn't know who to ask" by Slater. I found a reference on archive but nothing more, also nothing on the author.

Leland W. Slater, "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Microcomputers," Computop i cs . 3/82, pp. 38ff.

New comment by huppeldepup in "AI predicts earthquakes with unprecedented accuracy"

huppeldepup — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 07:25:25 +0000

Machine learning is AI?

New comment by huppeldepup in "Astronomers think they've found a plausible explanation of the Wow signal"

huppeldepup — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:39:20 +0000

John Michael Godier released an interview with the scientist from Arecibo who’s at the root of this story, Prof. Abel Mendez:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mCKuA8P9HOw

New comment by huppeldepup in "NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1M Miles per Hour"

huppeldepup — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 16:45:38 +0000

Apparently no longer in pre-print:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad6607

New comment by huppeldepup in "NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025"

huppeldepup — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 13:58:54 +0000

We should coax them into using coax instead.

New comment by huppeldepup in "USB Sniffer Lite for RP2040"

huppeldepup — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 16:34:16 +0000

If anyone has surplus bare PCBs for sale for the Cynthion please let me know.

New comment by huppeldepup in "The Danger of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think"

huppeldepup — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 07:51:58 +0000

I used to know one philosophy student in my student years and this was exactly the beaf I had with him at every single discussion. I believe this is part of the training, dissecting sentences.

New comment by huppeldepup in "The Delusion of the Polygraph"

huppeldepup — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 09:12:09 +0000

I’d compare it to the sobriety test of being asked to walk in a straight line. someone who’s drunk will put a lot of effort in it, which is the giveaway.

New comment by huppeldepup in "Nokia 6600 vs. Samsung S24 Ultra"

huppeldepup — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 09:46:07 +0000

We’re hampered by the limits of engineering, not those of physics by a long shot.

New comment by huppeldepup in "CO poultry workers test positive for bird flu after outbreak at egg facility"

huppeldepup — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 09:43:57 +0000

You know those youtube videos where a puppet in an arena is shown and it’s iteratively selected/respawn/retrained for getting across an obstacle field? This is exactly that. First obstacle has been cleared and now the population is waiting for a mutation that gets them compatible with the human cell wall.

New comment by huppeldepup in "If AI chatbots are the future, I hate it"

huppeldepup — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:59:31 +0000

…so they’ll disconnect at the 9m59s mark?

New comment by huppeldepup in "At the Mountains of Madness"

huppeldepup — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 06:34:46 +0000

What you’re describing is called the law of conservation of misery. Misery is like a water-filled party balloon. If you squeeze it in one place it expands in another, often between your fingers.

New comment by huppeldepup in "The Race to Seal Helium HDDs (2021)"

huppeldepup — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:45:06 +0000

Cody’s lab on youtube did a video on this, with balloons

New comment by huppeldepup in "A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M Banks (1994)"

huppeldepup — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 18:29:49 +0000

My gut tells me that elimination of scarcity is going to be a piecewise proces, whereby each step is countered with a lock-in of scarcity rules.

New comment by huppeldepup in "A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M Banks (1994)"

huppeldepup — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 20:11:40 +0000

We have recently developed a system that eliminates scarcity for all digital media. The results is not an ideological re-alignment but a crowbar that locks down the rules of scarcity.