sporadicallyjoe | 1 year ago | on: No one buys books
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sporadicallyjoe | 2 years ago | on: Quantum computing's reality check
That's correct. Comments become grey when they receive multiple downvotes.
sporadicallyjoe | 2 years ago | on: The CEO and the Three Envelopes (2010)
Add to the final envelope: "Take your golden parachute and do it all over again"
sporadicallyjoe | 2 years ago | on: Population.io
I'm a 100yo man from Kyrgyzstan
sporadicallyjoe | 2 years ago | on: Disney invented two colors (2022)
Looks like Disney's marketing team is hard at work!
sporadicallyjoe | 2 years ago | on: How to Roman Republic 101
You could use a free text to voice application e.g. https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/?s=V3715efd32dc2c47409...
sporadicallyjoe | 2 years ago | on: Microsoft's AI shopping announcement contains hallucinations in the demo
Is anyone shipping AI products that DO NOT contain hallucinations? I thought that was pretty much a given.
sporadicallyjoe | 2 years ago | on: WormGPT – The Generative AI Tool Cybercriminals Are Using
sporadicallyjoe | 2 years ago | on: Chiptune.app
Great app. Though the files for 'The Elder Scrolls - Arena' seem to be missing.
sporadicallyjoe | 2 years ago | on: ‘I know about lying, I do it for a living’: Ben McKenzie as crypto critic
Ben McKenzie claims the entire sector is a ponzi scheme. This is disingenuous at best.
sporadicallyjoe | 2 years ago | on: Docker Acquires Mutagen
Oh no, they're curious about his salary. Who could think to ask such a heinous question?
sporadicallyjoe | 2 years ago | on: Power companies fight Maine’s proposed non-profit utility
All basic human necessities should be not for profit.
We all lose when corporate greed meets basic necessities.
sporadicallyjoe | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
I created a service you can text to get fun conversation starters based off a topic, or an observation. I used Twilio + ChatGPT to build this so I could come up with interesting questions anytime, anywhere.
Simply text 1 (434) 404 6822 with an observation.
sporadicallyjoe | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game
Tons of fun aiming for the different types of high scores. Here are mine:
131 point crash - https://i.ibb.co/YdJ1c8B/131.png 426 max speed landing - https://i.ibb.co/5k5Csjt/Max-Speed426.png
sporadicallyjoe | 3 years ago | on: Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success (2014)
The Human Development Index is another good alternative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
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They're not new, but that's a feature not a bug. The books are more affordable, you're consuming sustainably, and who really cares if a book has been read before?