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GimbalLock··on I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats
That's great. I'll keep that in mind from my front row seat to the climate catastrophe, and as every day, ~19k people die from man-made air pollution. [1]

It is all a net positive somehow... Sure.

1. https://ourworldindata.org/data-review-air-pollution-deaths

GimbalLock··on I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats
Ah yes the industrial revolution, which had no far reaching negative consequences at all. What a great metaphor to go along with your LLM promotion.
GimbalLock··on I am trying to find a post about avoiding the news. It was on HN last night
Great advice. I wasn't aware of showdead. Someone else already found the link I was after but I will keep this technique in mind in case I need it in the future.
GimbalLock··on I am trying to find a post about avoiding the news. It was on HN last night
YESSSS thank you!
GimbalLock··on I am trying to find a post about avoiding the news. It was on HN last night
Unfortunately that is not it. Thanks for the suggestion. I did read that one but the post I saw last night was more broad and covered general news instead of mainly social media.
GimbalLock··on Ask HN: Coping with cancer in the family
Hi there. I'm so sorry you are having to go through this. I went through it myself not that long ago. It is awful and very painful. The best you can do is be there for your mother and make sure she knows that you're there no matter what. If you have to take time off work to help her, do it. Consider informing your supervisor of the situation and let them know that you may need time to be with her and help her and you'll do your best to communicate with them regarding your availability when that happens.

Things can be very difficult when you're waiting on and interpreting test results. It can be hard to wait as the anxiety will be massive. Meditation seemed to help me, but only to a degree. Try to find things that help you be OK with not knowing, because there may be a lot of that. Walking also helped me.

I'd recommend picking up A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine as well. He discusses a concept that I was so thankful to know during that time: how to really, truly cherish the people you're with when you're with them. Give your attention to them totally, and understand what they're feeling, what they're wanting, and how you can make them feel loved and make yourself feel like you did the most with the time that you had.

Good luck, I hope things go well for you. Let me know if I can provide any more information.

GimbalLock··on Ambient Chaos
Wow. Thanks for making this. I love that it is open source, and the clips you chose are so relaxing. The passenger car is so chill.
GimbalLock··on The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to Fly
You’re not far off. The Snapdragon is monitored by some more radiation tolerant hardware (FPGA if I recall correctly).

Great talk about it from the FSW Workshop in 2019.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mQu9m4MG5Gc

GimbalLock··on Telegram, Apple, Belarus, and Conflating ‘Irrelevance’ with ‘Inconvenience’
You might consider System76 laptops.

https://system76.com/

GimbalLock··on Coronavirus: A draft decree to 'quarantine 10 million people' in Lombardy
Only fatal for the elderly seems a bit over-simplistic. The link you provided doesn’t indicate how many cases the younger population has. Also, why is it an overreaction? Elderly people should be protected too.
GimbalLock··on Inside Bill’s Brain
They could’ve told it honestly without making it seem like sleep deprivation is noble. Great things can be achieved with proper sleep and not falling asleep at your keyboard just to wake up and keep coding “right where you left off” as they claim.
GimbalLock··on Inside Bill’s Brain
I found it pretty surprising how much they romanticized his years of working instead of sleeping. That’s a dangerous thing to promote.
GimbalLock··on Words that do Handstands
The “e” in “Bride” is absolutely masterful.
GimbalLock··on [dead]
Very strange definition of "best." Justin Beiber? No. 3Blue1Brown? Yes.

Who is upvoting this obvious spam?

GimbalLock··on Traveling to the Sun: Why Won’t Parker Solar Probe Melt?
Hello! FSW dev from NASA Langley here. We do try to do reuse as much as possible, but small satellites (CubeSats) are starting to change that. There are so many new pieces of hardware and so much experimentation going on to see what’s feasible in space. There are new RTOS frameworks being developed both by commercial and government (CFS, F-prime). If you’re interested in this in particular there is a conference called SmallSat which hosts the talks from previous years. https://smallsat.org
GimbalLock··on Traveling to the Sun: Why Won’t Parker Solar Probe Melt?
Hello! I’m a FSW dev at NASA Langley. As others have said, the talks from the FSW workshop are a great start. If you want to see a well-used framework, check out CFS (https://cfs.gsfc.nasa.gov)
GimbalLock··on Diamonds Suck (2006)
No need to baselessly suggest autism. There are people who don’t care about these things. Find one of them. It’s not hard. I’ve known several.
GimbalLock··on Diamonds Suck (2006)
Powerless? No. Just don’t buy it. It really is that simple. You don’t have to change everyone’s mind. Just stand up for yourself.
GimbalLock··on Meal frequency and timing in health and disease (2014)
Full text PDF (works on mobile) http://www.pnas.org/content/111/47/16647.full.pdf
GimbalLock··on Yum is dead, long live DNF
"X is dead, long live Y" is dead. Long live original headlines.
GimbalLock··on Code.nasa.gov
I just interned with the guy responsible for libSPRITE last summer at the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville. Kind of awesome to see he open sourced it. He really was hoping to get approval to do so.

I used his library for my internship. Cool stuff. And he was a great teacher.

GimbalLock··on Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app
Any chance of stopping the automator workflow menu icon from popping up every 5 seconds?
GimbalLock··on Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app
Thanks!
GimbalLock··on Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app
What in the world does the start up message mean? I bought the app and when I opened it, I got a message about needing to open some folder. Was I supposed to go find that folder on disk and open it, or just click "Ok!"?
GimbalLock··on Just had a heart attack
Just wanted to say thanks for this post. I read it this morning, and after lunch had the worst allergic reaction I have ever had. Luckily I already had epipens, just in case.

I had never used one, but when it came time for it, I just did it. It probably saved my life. My airway was closing up. I dialed 911 and injected while the phone was ringing. All is okay now.

Anyway, thanks for the PSA.

GimbalLock··on Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire
This is so gorgeous.
GimbalLock··on Game about squares
I like the comments. I look forward to them after each level.
GimbalLock··on Tails 1.0 is out
Okay. I got you now. Thanks. I just didn't know how exactly the USB drive was going to get modified by an attacker.
GimbalLock··on Tails 1.0 is out
Interesting. Do you mean by physically accessing the USB drive and changing it, or software that waits to modify the USB drive once connected? Thank you!
GimbalLock··on Tails 1.0 is out
Could you expound on why?
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