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RandomWorker

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I'm currently at the intersection between computer science and engineering based out of Vancouver bc. Christiaanse.ca
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RandomWorker··on Hyperpaper Planner: fully interlinked dayplanner for e-ink tablets
This is great, it's a big PDF? How do all notes get stored (as annotations)? What does a file size look like when it's all filled up?
RandomWorker··on I still use Flash
Have you tried processing it gets close to action script and canvas. We just need to put processing on a time framed canvas. With a Figma like editing experience.

https://processing.org/tutorials/gettingstarted

RandomWorker··on Investigating Logan Paul's biggest scam [video]
The billions run up quickly.. you have 1,000,000 people pay one dollar for a coin. And one person pay 10,000, suddenly it’s a $10bil scandal. Just because one person paid the final value doesn’t mean there is a bil in value. Technically 100 people can exit at 10k, then the pool is empty. That’s the story of crypto over and over.
RandomWorker··on Is anyone else getting cold/sick much more often these days?
I had covid this year and definitely a cold or two. Had the influenza vaccine and COVID booster(Pfizer) in September and haven’t been sick since then so, I can recommend that.

Also, once I start feeling something come up I drink a sachet of vitamin C booster (which has an array of other stuff including b12 and zink) that seems to really pick me up.

Running outside versus the gym. I run 2-5km every other day, but I go outside. I just have like a shirt/sweater/down jacket on as layers to keep warm since it gets between -10 and 5C during the day. Extra sweating makes me feel great.

RandomWorker··on Forward-Forward Algorithm, an Alternative to Backpropagation for Neural Networks
So the best part of backwards prop is that you need very little memory to complete the training which matters on GBs of data. FF seems to allow for more parallel computing but you will need to keep at least one more set of coefficients more in storage to deal with scheduling conflicts? Definitely merits more work.
RandomWorker··on How the Netherlands became a narco state
This is really a sad state of affairs. I’m from the Netherlands (from Rotterdam) and the death of Peter R de Vries (crime reporter) was a real turning point for me to realize that things have gotten out of hand. Now, reflecting on this story makes me think how we get out of this situation.

This looking away is very Dutch but the underlying sense was that there was always this idea that crime kills crime, and people not involved were never damaged. Once a guy got shot and killed down the street of my place, and soon reports started coming that they were involved in the drug trade. Most of the people on my block were like “oh yeah.. that guy.. not an issue was selling all the time.”

With the recent murders on innocent people, we can see that this is no longer the case and something has to be done. But even in high profile cases key witnesses are being murdered days before they take the stand. It’s clear that the government doesn’t have a grasp on this situation and the massive security required for everyone involved is the consequence of this idea. This particular trial seems to be going in the direction of a conviction which is good, but these guys have made enough money to bend anything to there will, and going to prison is not going to stop these guys, especially the type of prisons we have in the Netherlands, and how violent this guys have shown themselves to be.

All that said, we have a long way ahead of us. I can see the digitizations and improvements is labeling making things hard in the port of Rotterdam. But this is one of the largest ports in the world, and it’s easy to pick up something unseen even with the best measures. Demand side management could be an option, but the upper classes love their cocaine apparently.

I can see it getting better, to the old state of things… but the crime will always get smarter as long there is money to be made.

RandomWorker··on I've asked Stable Diffusion to generate 250 pages of 1987 RadioShack catalog
General mastodon question here, I click login but I can login with my credentials because I’m on mastodon.social. How do I login from this interface to comment in this thread or is this not possible?
RandomWorker··on [dead]
I'm just seeing a bird logo. How do we find out what is going on?
RandomWorker··on Low-quality sleep increases glaucoma risk, new study suggests
Whelp, kids are worth it though ;)
RandomWorker··on Productivity has fallen, and experts are puzzled. I’m not. We’re all just tired
People are retiring, work force is smaller, ergo network effects of productivity are smaller.
RandomWorker··on The PDSA loop – Plan-Do-Study-Act
My PhD in a nutshell, only learned to close the loop in year 3 when I went from one paper in 2.5 years to 3 papers in 1.5 years.
RandomWorker··on Ask HN: AI is really exciting but where do I start?
With data
RandomWorker··on Meta's Shares Plunge by 25%, Zuckerberg Asks Investors for Patience
My sense is that meta currently reflects the value in the market it should have. Generally markets expect during a down turn, slimming of staff, focusing on the core fundamentals, and improving net operations. Mark is doing the exact opposite. Continues to move away for core add business, no big firing drives, no efficiency improvements (or even announcements of said action), but retaining of staff(mostly), lots of the cash on hand going to new (unproven) profits. The announcements on firing people have been weak and don’t show up on the balance sheet because meta keep hiring for the new project.

Definitely Mark defies markets and people are pulling out. Estimate forecast revenues are used to determine future value in the short term. That 100 value are the people believing in the long potential and existing value.

If Mark is right and the browser is the past, and googles are the future (what does a future like that smell like? - unbox therapy) he could become even more wealthier, if he is wrong (most certainly he is, 3D tv didn’t make it) fb will continue to decline. Until the value is the core business minus ceo risk minus fun projects.

RandomWorker··on World Energy Outlook 2022
I would say this favour renewable in some way. Spurring over investment in terms of government subsidies and taxes on fossil fuel because the uptick in renewables is not fast enough.
RandomWorker··on World Energy Outlook 2022
Oil and gas will always exist. At some point when fracking leaves the picture we will get net zero fuels from recovered co2. It will never end.
RandomWorker··on World Energy Outlook 2022
We are really bad at understanding exponential growth. Look at Texas for example solar is taking off there: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Texas

Growth is basically exponential because once payback times hit a certain threshold people start buying. A friend of mine is making 10/12k in sales commissions every month going door to door selling solar. This is a very lucrative business.

RandomWorker··on World Energy Outlook 2022
I think they are being conservative with their estimates and being pessimistic on announcements.
RandomWorker··on Emulator Performance: WebAssembly vs. JavaScript (2021)
>UPDATE > An earlier post described performance problems on Firefox and Safari, which were related to the Proxy object. This feature is used to read values from WebAssembly into JavaScript. > After changing to Object.defineProperty() all browsers are equally fast on WebAssembly, beating JavaScript in all cases.

The update at the bottom is kind of interesting. All browsers are equally fast, which makes sense because wasm should speak directly to the hardware more easily than javascript.

RandomWorker··on Show HN: Record voice memo, receive transcription in email
It going to your email is quite useful for those that have that email be the primary method of collecting work and notes. It's like that old blackberry concept of the universal inbox, everything just goes to one thing, and get's collected there.

For those with that work flow this is really cool app.

RandomWorker··on EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers
Yeah! Just share through BitTorrent, this is the perfect example where it can be useful. To be honest I’m not sure why this isn’t built in to browsers yet Oracle browser has one.
RandomWorker··on Portugal's finance minister calls for 28% tax on capital gains from cryptos
That doesn’t sound too bad. After that it’s free and clear.
RandomWorker··on Study links omega-3s to improved brain structure, cognition at midlife
Depending of what is the content probably you only needed 1 spoon every month. The level of spoon of fish oil can be up in the 10.000s.
RandomWorker··on Feel the power of the Manifest v3
Maybe not all ad blocking. There’s already v3 ublock, but maybe just enough for people to keep adopting Chrome but not enough to switch.
RandomWorker··on Fasting diet cycles reduce neuroinflammation to attenuate decline in Alzheimer’s
Check Walter longo fasting book
RandomWorker··on ‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s sizzle fizzled in the US
Generally what I find is that the bean burgers that are vegan, are just if not more tasty. While the fake burgers try this weird meat taste that doesn’t come close to beef texture. Both bean and meat burgers need to be prepared fresh for optimal taste. It’s like fresh burgers are like the 10x of frozen/pre made burgers. While choosing burgers among the pre-made will always be marginal in gains.
RandomWorker··on Silphion: a miracle plant thought to be eaten into extinction 2k years ago
I’m fascinated by the medical properties. They should extract the chemical and see what effects they have.
RandomWorker··on Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B
That increases the budget of the eu parliament with 2.2% on a yearly basis if paid out in one go.

[1082B for 2014-2020, 4B/1082B*6y~2.2%]

A loss of 4B is a decrease of revenue by 1.5% for google.

[googles revenue was 256B in 2021 4/256~1.5%]

RandomWorker··on Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in?
I find reading a book to be a very meditative experience so many of the books I’ve read I enjoyed from that aspect and don’t consider it an investment with returns. That being said..

Sapients was absolutely mind blowing and before it’s time. Many ideas in that book still resonate through the zeitgeist. Still worth reading.

RandomWorker··on The term ‘quiet quitting’ is worse than nonsense
I think this guys right. You shouldn’t build your business model on rushing things out of the door by overworked employees. A calm cool efficient process where people clock in and out and are measured at their output builds long sustainable companies. Nothing is more expensive to a business (especially growing small startup) is losing that key person.

I recognize that as a manager at the a rising startup. Even if the pressure is high, saying no to this weeks deadline but hitting it 100% next week, and not have it come back 2 months later as an issue ultimately gets you further.

RandomWorker··on Europe gas storage reserves – by country, updated daily
There is an emergency plan being executed and expedited to reduce total gas demand by 30%, which just happens to be the amount Europe imports. With half of that 15% this winter.
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