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lowdose··on Human gene linked to bigger brains was born from seemingly useless DNA
Git commitments to your autocomplete library?
lowdose··on Google wants to take on Dolby with new open media formats
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.
lowdose··on How many people can Earth handle?
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?

lowdose··on macOS now scans for malware whenever it gets a chance
Don’t forget many bad faith actors are financially not able to cough up the $200 fee.
lowdose··on Are GPUs Worth It for ML?
Not to mention AWS has had a GPU cloud offering monopoly because Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure were publicly available until 2019.
lowdose··on Copilot: Realtime programming language and runtime verification framework
I think we had metaphors before that?
lowdose··on An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
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.
lowdose··on Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants?
Do you exercise? It releases a ton of hormones that are other artificially replicated.
lowdose··on Mac Studio M1 Ultra Teardown [video]
Never hear my Mac Mini. Value for money it is the best product from Apple.
lowdose··on Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)
There is not enough competition in automower market. I have still yet to meet an owner completely without complaints.
lowdose··on Startups push ADHD meds through TikTok, concerning Doctors
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.
lowdose··on Ask HN: What are some good keyboards?
Logitech MX for mac it is awesome, it’s like the mx mouse. Wireless for weeks without charging.
lowdose··on Ask HN: I realise data science is not for me and feel depressed
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.
lowdose··on YouTube-dl is under new management, will be happy to see new PRs
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.
lowdose··on Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young in protest against Spotify
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.
lowdose··on Companies that had successful pivots
I didn’t see TomTom in the list. After Google stole Maps TomTom successfully pivoted to health.
lowdose··on How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API
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.

lowdose··on Gigantism is a never-ending temptation
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.
lowdose··on Ask HN: Remotely helping elderly parents?
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.
lowdose··on ADHD Accommodations Guide
Just get th mix of chemicals right. I know the upper limit for an adult is 4x 20mg dexamphetamine retard (20x tintin) + 4 x 80mg of Elvanse. To relax my doctor prescribes 2x 20mg of Xanax. That’s per day. For me it works to smoke some kush in the evening. With this combo I’m in hyperfocus all day which means I can read a book a day. I do not recommend this mixture to everybody. But my impulsiveness is gone which included the need to take mdma and party in the weekend. If a specialist is referring to current academic research that is solely based on children. You can remove the glass sealing by saying you didn’t expect communistic politics in balancing your productivity multiplier from a professional is highly effective. This is also called the Deutsche Bank recipe.
lowdose··on “Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019)
I still don’t get why Asperger is seen as a subgroup of Autism.
lowdose··on Trade-Offs in Automatic Differentiation: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jax, and Julia
You could do a code search on GitHub. I’m pretty lazy in the aspect of coding. I always seem to find a repo that has implemented an MVP with what I already had in mind. There are some gold nuggets on GitHub like Googles DDSP implementation they have academically published anonymous.
lowdose··on Why are German numbers backwards?
In Dutch it is the same way. We even have another word for billion. Billion in dutch means 1000x more than the English version. Compounding is translated as combined interest.
lowdose··on Facebook ads told me to become a certified cryptozoologist, so I did
Just enjoy the show!
lowdose··on Access Any IMAP Account via REST API with EmailEngine
Does that problem solving thinking ever stop?
lowdose··on Teen rescued after showing domestic violence hand signal known on TikTok
But it is also satisfying having read the article want to give your hot take on the matter and the top comment nails it already. Saved me at least a half hour.
lowdose··on The metaverse is bullshit
We just don’t have the compute to render a full universe experience in God mode.
lowdose··on 20Y study finds little evidence religiosity leads to greater life satisfaction
It is the normalization of men having one partner. By setting up this rule more men are able to marry a partner. On Tinder the top 2% handsome men get most dates.
lowdose··on 20Y study finds little evidence religiosity leads to greater life satisfaction
It is the normalization of men having one partner. By setting up this rule more men are able to marry a partner. On Tinder the top 2% handsome mej
lowdose··on Google’s apps to embrace iOS on iOS
The Santa Claus effect by design makes everything made by “adults” obsolete.
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