vroomik | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?
Could you elaborate on that? Do you mean bigger possibility of apps containg malware or what?
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vroomik | 1 year ago | on: Solar energy breakthrough could reduce need for solar farms
Just yday learned something about microwaves (kitchen appliance). First produced by Raythreon in 1947 were big and expensive ($68,000 in 2023 dollars). By 1986, roughly 25% of households in the U.S. owned a microwave oven, up from only about 1% in 1971. Same goes with solar - it's so cheap now everybody can get small installation. So it's breaktroughs, then incremental improvements in efficiency and production cost. Commercial availability allows scaling and further fall in production cost. It takes time...
vroomik | 1 year ago | on: Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)
Memory is sometimes considered as a network where "pieces of memories' are pulled together to create a memory for "present you". Traumatic memories from the past aren't that traumatic after many years after, and are being changed every time when being recalled (that's one of the theories).
You can lisen to recent Lex podcast with Charan Ranganath, i got it timestamped when talking about child memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iuepdI3wCU&t=885s
vroomik | 1 year ago | on: Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)
a bit of sidetrack, but i think interesting;
there are some people with aphantasia (which is lack of mental imagery), and they seem to be doing fine (Craig Venter is one of those people).
On this distinction, what exactly is abstract shape? I can imagine cube quite easily, but tesseract is a lot harder. Would it be helpful not to have this visual preconceptions in the mind?
vroomik | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in computer science?
I'd really like to see more eye pleasing version of this, but those symmetries are wild - Quasi-periodicity 17 fold symmetry - https://www.goldennumber.net/quasi-crystals/#jp-carousel-988...
vroomik | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
One of the channels I check frequently is Closer to Truth. ~10min interviews with scientists about physics, neurobiology and religion. Quite stimulating if you ask me...
vroomik | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How worried are you about the upcoming recession?
I recommend watching videos from juice media, funny and informative, showing corruption and shitfuckery in Australia - https://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia/videos
vroomik | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What technology is “cutting edge” in 2022?
Photonic processor is coming out this year, claiming to be up to 10x faster than nvidia A100 in BERT and using 90% less energy - https://lightmatter.co/products/envise/
vroomik | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you RSS?
Moved to inoreader - free tier for up to 150 feeds, works on mobile too
vroomik | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
I use Inoreader too, care to explain how do you use it for ebay? I've tried to add sub from ebay url to no avail..
vroomik | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What, if anything, do you listen to while coding?
I found plenty of nice background music in here(50 playlists) http://musicforprogramming.net/
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