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New comment by lowdose in "Human gene linked to bigger brains was born from seemingly useless DNA"

lowdose — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 17:27:36 +0000

Git commitments to your autocomplete library?

New comment by lowdose in "Google wants to take on Dolby with new open media formats"

lowdose — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 06:51:32 +0000

This is unbundling of all royalty taxes, it is the same for fonts. It’s cheaper to purchase a made-to-order font than pay per use.

Why SurrealDB is going to kill Elasticsearch

lowdose — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 08:28:58 +0000

Article URL: https://surrealdb.com/why

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32807472

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by lowdose in "How many people can Earth handle?"

lowdose — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 20:33:50 +0000

The only animals that are going to survive are domesticated cats and dogs. In the USSR an experiment with foxes successfully transformed foxes to behave as dog within 60 years. The snout became shorter, curly tail and doglike friendly playful behavior made it possible to keep these foxes as a pet. The last century lions living in the wild decreased from 240.000 to 20.000. You could argue it will take another 100 or 200 years but they will go extinct within this millennium. I wonder if lions could be domesticated by an extensive breading program to save them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox

Orca’s, our equivalent in the water has a hard time finding fish. In captivity we can make them do tricks no human can perform in the water. Orca’s hunt on white sharks by flipping them upside down in which sharks are in a paralyzed sleep mode. The pod of orca’s then snatches the liver out of the shark and leave the carcass for other sea creatures to feast on. Orca’s have not discovered the breading ground of white sharks around the Easter Islands. Would it be possible to transfer this knowledge to them?

New comment by lowdose in "macOS now scans for malware whenever it gets a chance"

lowdose — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:56:31 +0000

Don’t forget many bad faith actors are financially not able to cough up the $200 fee.

New comment by lowdose in "Are GPUs Worth It for ML?"

lowdose — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 23:02:34 +0000

Not to mention AWS has had a GPU cloud offering monopoly because Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure were publicly available until 2019.

New comment by lowdose in "Copilot: Realtime programming language and runtime verification framework"

lowdose — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 16:18:47 +0000

I think we had metaphors before that?

New comment by lowdose in "An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email"

lowdose — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 20:45:47 +0000

I have been tinkering to use chrome auto filling form to sign up for random services with the email address of the current director of the CIA Bill Burns. Haven’t tried it though.

New comment by lowdose in "Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants?"

lowdose — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 03:27:56 +0000

Do you exercise? It releases a ton of hormones that are other artificially replicated.

New comment by lowdose in "Mac Studio M1 Ultra Teardown [video]"

lowdose — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 03:41:39 +0000

Never hear my Mac Mini. Value for money it is the best product from Apple.

New comment by lowdose in "Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)"

lowdose — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 22:05:45 +0000

There is not enough competition in automower market. I have still yet to meet an owner completely without complaints.

New comment by lowdose in "Startups push ADHD meds through TikTok, concerning Doctors"

lowdose — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 21:47:03 +0000

It is gatekeeping everyone should be able to get the supporting dope to be in mach 1 from 9 o clock when the daily recipe kicks in. I would like to order 5 gram of real columbian cocaine from the local pharmacy.

New comment by lowdose in "Ask HN: What are some good keyboards?"

lowdose — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 02:29:44 +0000

Logitech MX for mac it is awesome, it’s like the mx mouse. Wireless for weeks without charging.

New comment by lowdose in "Ask HN: I realise data science is not for me and feel depressed"

lowdose — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 17:38:51 +0000

Migrate to bigquery, twitter runs on it. No storage cost and you can plugin google datastudio, bigqueryml and automate a lot with cloud-functions. Show them how to do better and graduate on that. They will thank you for it because of the complexity you have removed for all your colleagues.

New comment by lowdose in "YouTube-dl is under new management, will be happy to see new PRs"

lowdose — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:49:10 +0000

Used it today for downloading some of Red Bulls content showing human pushing their body to the max. Those base jumpers in flysuits are so crazy I actually think about doing it myself. Flying as a pink elephant in the weekend.

New comment by lowdose in "Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young in protest against Spotify"

lowdose — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:44:57 +0000

Joe Rogan has been right a lot, he can’t be right about everything. I think this is an ego problem of an icon turned to insignificance, irritated he doesn’t get an invite to the biggest show of the world.

New comment by lowdose in "Companies that had successful pivots"

lowdose — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 21:51:21 +0000

I didn’t see TomTom in the list. After Google stole Maps TomTom successfully pivoted to health.

New comment by lowdose in "How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API"

lowdose — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 21:48:45 +0000

Yandex image search is superior to google image search because it does not interpret the content to a string and searches for this “one liner” but searches actually for similar images.

Yandex also has Papiamento in their text translation. Which Google doesn’t support at all.

New comment by lowdose in "Gigantism is a never-ending temptation"

lowdose — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 19:26:20 +0000

The Egyptians where the first to figure out if you want to build something permanently you have to make the components so heavy 4 persons can’t take it with them. Otherwise someone eventually will and it is just a matter of time someone actually does.

New comment by lowdose in "Ask HN: Remotely helping elderly parents?"

lowdose — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 18:11:26 +0000

I gave my mom a Nest Hub en she controls Spotify from Google Assistant to Play music on her Sonos. Every piece of hardware she bought is hooking in on this ecosystem. My mom has dyslexia thus a keyboard input device increases the friction while voice removes this entirely.