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gregschlom

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Hi, I'm a geek and an entrepreneur at heart.

French, born in Brazil, currently (2016) living in San Francisco. I've previously lived in Bali, Cape Verde, Saigon, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro.

I love programming, reverse-engineering, tearing things apart to understand how they work, and designing beautiful software.

I was the founder of a failed startup (BetterInbox, an attempt to make email a better place), and I'm an avid reader of "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

More recently, I made this: http://flowandwonder.com

I love to get email from people I don't know! Get in touch: gregory.schlomoff@gmail.com

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abc.xyz 1mo ago

Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute

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www.nytimes.com 2y ago

In Poland, Testing Women for Abortion Drugs Is a Reality

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www.nytimes.com 4y ago

Something Has to Give in the Housing Market. Or Does It?

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arstechnica.com 4y ago

Show HN: I hacked my microwave with keyboard switches (and Ars wrote about it)

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www.nytimes.com 4y ago

Why Does Coffee Sometimes Make Me Tired?

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wtamu.edu 6y ago

Can radio antennas emit visible light? (2015)

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en.wikipedia.org 7y ago

Tupper's self-referential formula

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mymodernmet.com 9y ago

Spectacular Visualizations of Brain Scans Enhanced with 1750 Pieces of Gold Leaf

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gregschlom.com 9y ago

If your phone gets stolen, chances are they can log into your Paypal account

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www.youtube.com 9y ago

Making of Loving Vincent (fully painted feature film about Van Gogh)

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www.ft.com 9y ago

A global anatomy of health and the workday lunch

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

Liam – An Innovation Story

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iamthecu.be 10y ago

CSS Rubik's cube simulator

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www.thisiscolossal.com 10y ago

Beehive Fences in East Africa Protect Farms from Elephants

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aeon.co 11y ago

The very laws of physics imply that artificial intelligence must be possible

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www.wired.com 12y ago

The Ferocious Bug That Sucks Prey Dry and Wears Their Corpses

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scitech.au.dk 12y ago

Humans, not climate, to blame for the disappearance of large mammals

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www.naturenorth.com 12y ago

Freeze Tolerant Frogs

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www.smithsonianmag.com 12y ago

A tower that pulls up to 25 gallons of drinking water from condensation

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www.wired.com 12y ago

Voracious Worm Evolves to Eat Biotech Corn Engineered to Kill It

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www.sealandgov.org 12y ago

Sealand - a "country" on an abandoned British platform

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www.bio.net 12y ago

How Insects Fly in Space

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www.esquire.com 12y ago

The Falling Man

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www.theatlantic.com 13y ago

The Strange Beauty of Salt Mines

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

The Vestas Sailrocket becomes the fastest sailboat on Earth (65 knots average)

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www.gigamonkeys.com 13y ago

Beyond Exception Handling: Lisp's Conditions and Restarts

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www.smashingmagazine.com 14y ago

Japanese, a Beautifully Complex Writing System

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www.maxunderground.com 14y ago

The History of 3D Studio (2009)

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www.youtube.com 14y ago

Money as Debt II [video]

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www.technologyreview.com 14y ago

Eye Ball - A ball that captures a panorama if you throw it in the air

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I made it back to the surface and started feeling that familiar dizziness / light headed sensation. Not sure how to explain. Similar to when you stand up too quickly sometimes and feel like you're going to pass out.

I started swimming towards shore, pulled myself on the rocks there and rested. It felt weirdly wonderful. Warm rocks heating up my body, and a great sensation of calm. Only after a few minutes did I understand the gravity of what had just happened.

I love freediving. But I almost blacked out and drowned once when I was doing it alone, hours hike away from anyone. Sure enough, I was using hyperventilation, which I didn't know back then was a big mistake.

When I think back about it, it's crazy how close I was to death. Learned my lesson that day. As she says in the article, don't do it alone.

Six Characters 3 months ago

I suspect it's this part:

"This ticket was priced in GBP, not INR. Because the journey originated in Manchester, the fare is denominated in the currency of the origin country: the United Kingdom."

So: the currency is the one for the country of origin.

From the post:

"Having been able to attend these events by hoarding airline miles and schmoozing certain cybersecurity vendors, Gal Nagli, Sam Curry, and I thought it would be fun to try and hack some of the different supporting websites for the Formula 1 events."

I know you're being facetious but I wanted to say, a friend of mine's kid recently got diagnosed with elevated lead levels in his blood, likely caused by eating contaminated dirt from their backyard. So... test before you try it, I guess?

Find SF parking cops 10 months ago

As far as I know you only get a ticket if you're actually parked there when the sweeper comes by. There's a parking cop car following the sweeper and ticketing the cars. You're allowed to re-park in the street after the sweeper has done its job, even if it's still technically street sweeping time.

So if you've got a ticket, there almost certainly was a sweeper that came by at that time.

Not necessarily. Youtube makes extensive use of third-party CDNs. A lot of the videos aren't coming from their servers at all. I believe that's also why it's so hard for them to embed the ad directly in the video. They instead having to rely on splicing the ads client-side, which makes it possible to block.

Disclaimer: I work at Google but not at Youtube and have no idea how things work really. This is just based on some info I read online.

I'm a big fan of Everything (and recently donated to the developer). I tried this Google app and was pleased to see that it seems just as fast as Everything for local file search. Presumably they use the same underlying mechanism for searching files (something about hooking into the NTFS index). I might give it a shot.

(disclaimer: I work at Google, but nothing related to this app)

It's a joke. People often have conspiracy theories about Big Pharma trying to prevent access to novel drugs that could disrupt their cash cows. The parent was jokingly talking about "Big Reality" as an imaginary group of people who hate to see "reality" disrupted by psychedelic experiences.

Absolutely awesome! I know nothing about music production but I want to play with it just for fun. Maybe a very simplified, web-based version for people who just to play a bit? Would be awesome.

Congrats on the hard work and the launch, in any case!

Edit: I see you have a demo mode, that's great! Exactly what I was looking for

I was actually meaning to post this as an Ask HN question, but never found the time to word it well. Basically, what happens to new frameworks and technologies in the age of widespread LLM-assisted coding? Will users be reluctants to adopt bleeding-edge tools because the LLMs can't assist as well? Will companies behind the big frameworks put more resources towards documenting them in a way that makes it easy for LLMs to learn from?

Collatz's Ant 1 year ago

You lost me here: "visualize it by just looking at the even and odd steps like so: 5->10"

Where does the 10 come from?

Making Software 1 year ago

I think it's a cool little easter egg. Goes well with the technical illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk at the top and the pixelated font for the titles.

Also, maybe the author meant to say he started thinking about this book since 1990, too.

Either way the copyright year doesn't matter. You can put anything