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If 1 in 8 kids experiences food insecurity, then it's likely that there are at least some, maybe 1 in 100, who are starving, however you define it.

Also, there are two kinds of starvation: in one case the quantity of food is insufficient, in the other its quality is. Eating fries with soda in great quantity every day could still starve a growing kid.


Exactly. That's what patents are for. No need to be secretive.


Put the Free Speech Flag on your website. Its colors represent an illegal number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Flag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number


Alt+space brings up the window menu. Press R to resize, or M to move the window with either the arrow keys or by moving the mouse pointer. Finalize with Enter, cancel with Escape.


Can you resize a window with only the arrow keys? For example hit r+up and raise the upper border upward, then s+left, and shrink the window by moving the right border leftward, or something like that?


Yes. After pressing Alt+space then R, the first pressing of an arrow key selects the border you want to move, let's say the left. You can then move that with the left/right arrows. If you press up or down in this state, it will, again, select the corresponding border to work on.


> So much time wasted could be recovered by a simple RMA form.

Maybe that's the goal? To discourage the return of merchandise? They think customers rather write off the loss, than waste half an hour.


Someone should write a browser plugin to automate the chatting with an llm , beat them at their own game .


ChatGPT, your task is to return my item with these DETAILS, you will be talking to a bot for COMPANY.

I agree though, it's like finding the support email address. It's hidden on purpose. Use our Contact page. Please search our FAQ before talking to our Bot!


The authors write this in the conclusion of their paper:

> Thus, we anticipate that our results and conclusions are valid for a broad class of systems and may open routes to many future enterprises including the structuring of fluids, the visualization of chemical traces, the assembling of functional objects like actuators or drug carriers, information storage, and numerous artistical applications. Finally, our results could also be used to prepare desired initial states for future colloid experiments, e.g., on collective diffusion. Drawing fine lines, durable patterns, and individual letters into water was only the first step.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202303741


I think if you start consider what it does to enthalpy and entropy at the microscale and then consider how to use that to modify dynamics (i.e. reactions in progress) you can start to do some pretty fun things.


The first winner didn't even have a computer!

    Q: What if I can (significantly) beat the current record?

    A: In this case, submit your code and win the award and/or copyright your code and/or patent your ideas. You should be able to monetize your invention beyond the HKCP. This happened to the first winner, a Russian/Ukrainian who always had to cycle 8km to a friend to test his code because he did not even have a suitable computer, and who now has a lucrative job at QTR in Canada.
http://prize.hutter1.net/hfaq.htm#fame


>lucrative job at QTR in Canada

Google failed me on this one. What company/entity is QTR?


Quantum Technology Recruiting Inc. (https://ca.linkedin.com/company/quantum-technology-recruitin...)

Our guy, Alex Rhatushnyak, is listed as employee.

BTW, this is the first result on DuckDuckGo. (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=qtr+company+canada)

Is it time to switch? ;)


You can just prop the door slightly open, and use convection, if possible. It sounds energy inefficient, but when you are drying, not just heating, you also have to replace that humid air in the oven.


Copying a comment of user cperciva from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8411614:

> more than once I was approached by people who wanted me to help implement their projects. But I have always refused just because I think I'm not good enough. [...] have you ever done that?

Absolutely. I'd say that 90% of the time that I've been offered consulting work, I've turned it down because I know it would require some skills -- web design, graphics, SQL, linux, ruby, C++, etc. -- which I know I don't have.

I have a reputation for being very good at what I do, and it is certainly true that there are some things I am very good at... but a large part of that is that I don't do the things which I'm not very good at.

> how do you deal with self-doubt?

If you're a generalist, there's almost certainly going to be someone else who is a better generalist than you. If you specialize, it's not hard to find a niche in which you are one of the leading experts in the world -- because the group you're being compared against is losing the 99.9999% of people who never looked at that particular niche. So I'd recommend looking for a niche; because once you're the world's leading expert on something, it's pretty hard to doubt your competence in that area.


How do you find a niche though. I can definitely go looking at jobs and find things that intrigue me, but they’re so rare, that if I waste my time trying to specialize, there will be no jobs by the time I’m “good enough”. I find it incredibly rare to see specialized work that isn’t very senior.

Most niches seem accidental, and most people I know who are highly skilled in a particular one are there solely because they were in the right place and the right, narrow time.


The galaxy is on Orion's belt.


This reference took me back, it's been a minute hahah


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