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ddgflorida

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Creator of convertcsv.com, convertjson.com, prepayloan.com and a few others. Reach me at ddgflorida@gmail.com
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ddgflorida··on Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?
No.
ddgflorida··on Cervical Cancer incidence drops 65% in women who benefited from HPV vaccine
What was opposed was forced vaccines on teens using a new vaccine. Our own family doctor recommended we wait until a few years had passed. A few years later - we got the recommendation.
ddgflorida··on How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020)
Dream on
ddgflorida··on Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white noise
I like the UI and the ease of use.
ddgflorida··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
ddgflorida··on RONIN
What???
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: How Do You Get over Worthlessness Feeling After Restructuring?
Count your blessings - you could've been laid off. Start looking for another job.
ddgflorida··on SVG Tutorial
I love focused tutorials like this!
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: How can my mom downshift as a SQL developer?
Agree.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: Pypipe – A Python command-line tool for pipeline processing
Reminds me of awk from long ago.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: Practice technical interviews with an AI mock interviewer
Nice. See https://www.mockinterviews.ai/ also.
ddgflorida··on I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
It's been a decade ago, but I remember the nightmare of using Taleo to apply for a job. I always thought I could write something better in about a week.
ddgflorida··on The Forgotten Piece of Evolutionary Theory
There's nothing unfortunate about living under capitalism. Capitalism has reduced poverty more than any other economic system.
ddgflorida··on Young people are flocking to astrology
Based on experience, highly intelligent people can and do believe in things that are absurd.
ddgflorida··on The Fall of Stack Overflow
With AI we have no need for Stack Overflow - it borrowed all the answers.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: AIHealthQuery – get summarized articles for any health-related question
I can see this being helpful but when I asked about a particular disease the results contained a lot of unrelated topics. The response took about about 2 minutes to return.
ddgflorida··on Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories
We can hope.
ddgflorida··on I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough
Right - quite surprising how long it takes to get one of these up and running.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: What databases are you working with day to day?
SQLite, Oracle, MySql, occasionally SQL Server
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Are You a Materialist?
Agreed, thanks for the thoughtful answer.
ddgflorida··on Shell admits 1.5C climate goal means immediate end to fossil fuel growth
A few more degrees won't hurt anyone... I mean everyone.
ddgflorida··on Roger Penrose claims our Universe has been through multiple Big Bangs
Intelligent design makes sense to me.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Is ChatGPT (free) extra terrible this morning?
Yes - I noticed the same thing over the last few days. I asked for HTML code generation and it starts out well, but then out of nowhere it generates Python. ?
ddgflorida··on IPCC climate crisis report delivers ‘final warning on 1.5C’
I lived through the 70s with dire warning of overpopulation and pollution killing us all. It's very difficult to predict the future and scientists has failed miserably in this area. An economist will out-predict a scientist any day.
ddgflorida··on PLATO: An educational computer system from the 60s shaped the future
I recall Plato being installed at Florida State University (FSU) in the early 1980s. Never was given the opportunity to use it though.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Are people still using Pascal?
Reminds me of my Turbo Pascal days in the 80s.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: My50sTV – Nostalgic TV Simulator
Great job!
ddgflorida··on Show HN: Yobulk – Open-source CSV importer powered by GPT3
Besides the commercial CSV importer mentioned, there are several more. I won't name them but if you google it - you'll see 4 or 5 right away.
ddgflorida··on Show HN: Dynamic UI Generation with GPT
That's a nice starter project for interacting with GPT and demonstrates the capabilities of this tool.
ddgflorida··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
Nice work. When I change the version after a search, it resets to Genesis. I think it should keep the search results.
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