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Article URL: https://eclecticlight.co/2024/12/23/will-that-hub-or-dock-slow-your-ssds-or-even-make-them-faster/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42494723

Points: 72

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https://eclecticlight.co/2024/12/23/will-that-hub-or-dock-slow-your-ssds-or-even-make-them-faster/

Hello Hackers, Happy Christmas to all.

Recently I have not been able to find time to work on some side projects or to try something new. Sometimes I slack off after returning from the office. Often it leads to bedtime procrastination and endless scrolling on the phone just for the sake of me-time.

From your experience, what tips or practices would you suggest to keep disciplined?

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Article URL: https://medium.com/@bdratings/all-your-models-are-destroyed-the-rise-and-future-fall-of-microstrategy-5916dd3c0021

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42508668

Points: 20

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https://medium.com/@bdratings/all-your-models-are-destroyed-the-ris

As a grad student (and an ADHDer), I had trouble doing literature review systematically. To combat this, I made a website that finds similar papers using the meaning of the thing I am looking for.

I used MixedBread's [^1] embedding model to generate vectors from the abstracts. I store and search similar vectors using Milvus [^2] and finally use Gradio [^3] to serve the frontend. I update the vector database weekly by pulling the metadata dataset from Kaggle [^4].

To speed up the search p

Article URL: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/NEWS_md.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42507134

Points: 11

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https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/NEWS_md.html

Article URL: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/12/25/ruby-3-4-0-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42507312

Points: 28

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https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/12/25/ruby-3-4-0-released/

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/21/travel/united-pilot-reunites-bone-marrow-donor/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42506041

Points: 9

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/21/travel/united-pilot-reunites-bone-marrow-donor/index.html

Article URL: https://blurbusters.com/crt-simulation-in-a-gpu-shader-looks-better-than-bfi/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42506211

Points: 39

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https://blurbusters.com/crt-simulation-in-a-gpu-shader-looks-better-than-bfi/

Article URL: https://innocenceproject.org/how-curb-your-enthusiasm-saved-an-innocent-man-from-death-row/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42506289

Points: 16

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https://innocenceproject.org/how-curb-your-enthusiasm-saved-an-innocent-man-from-death-row/