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rubitxxx6

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rubitxxx6··on Building my childhood dream PC
Your dad was awesome.

I tried to get my kids into computers, but it didn’t stick. It’s not the same today as it was then.

rubitxxx6··on Show HN: A platform to find tech conferences, discounts, and ticket giveaways
Relying on others to submit events seems like it could be difficult to maintain.

Why not use apis to search engines to find events, then use an LLM to evaluate which need to be added, and automatically maintain a database that identifies events in various languages, then automatically uses contact information from those sites to work with those managing the events?

rubitxxx6··on New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC
> This event establishes a new worst-case scenario

This person’s definition of “worst-case scenario” is much different than mine.

We don’t know with certainty what the universe will throw at us.

We just do the very best we sensibly can.

Why should we assume that the worst thing that could happen to us happened within the past 20K years?