Yawrehto

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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Ah, I used to be that. Now I start gazillions and finish very few. I think it's related to the shift from primarily print books too primarily ebooks. And also how I've been getting into more social media after trying out Mastodon.
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
So far? It could be (read: is) recency bias, but I recently finished Silent Spring by Rachel Carson and found it fascinating and relevant, although some of the one-off science facts are outdated. I'm planning on reading her other boo
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
I have several emails, roughly categorizable as "work/personal", "main side email/google account", "notifications from social media sites" and "email tjat doesn't sound like a name". If
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Do you have any suggestions on RSS readers?
13 points by Yawrehto 2y ago|18 comments
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Honestly, most of them are still better than I could draw.
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Assuming I don't get distracted (a very big assumption), going down a rabbit hole on the history of the golem of Prague and golems in general.
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
I think both of those are correct, although they appear to be the paperback, as the hardcover has the front illustration on the inside and is otherwise plain. The electronic version does feel rather odd, though. It's much harder to ope
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
I have a 1944 World Almanac. It's incredibly detailed on World War Two - by my count, page 31 and 35-113 are mostly or totally devoted to it, in addition to the various bits on armies scattered throughout. Sometimes I look at it just t
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Even if they didn't they'd be a hell of a lot cheaper. If, say, Microsoft can replace Satya Nadella with something that costs effectively nothing, is constantly available, and is even 95% as good, I'd think it would be a good
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
I was able to get Perplexity to hallucinate very easily. Once it even cited the article where I got the prompt idea (I forget the URL, it was about teddy bears in space and published by the Signpost .) That was a while ago and I assume the
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
There are a few categories here, ranked in rough order of how much I want them between and within categories, assuming infinite storage space and the ability to read the format that it's in. Knowledge/Entertainment: A huge subset
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
I don't think so. It might get smaller and nerdier, yeah. But I'm on Mastodon, and there's a strong anti-AI and app (not in principle, I believe, but in practice; they tend to be more privacy-invasive than an equivalent websi
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
As a Pennyslvanian whose entire household has voted, I'd really appreciate if the political ads were spread more equitably across the country.
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
In terms of services the government provides, overall quality of life, etc, I'm not sure how much/if the US is ahead of, say, Botswana. I know that we're basically the wealthiest of the unhealthy (excluding tiny oil states li
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Because the undecided voter, or the one who switches party affiliations, is practically extinct. If in the past about 10 percent of voters were tossups, or even just not 100 percent confident, today a much smaller portion are. So as party l
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
It makes sense. Assuming the average bot toots ~once an hour (24 times a day) and has been tooting for two years, you get on the order (nearest multiple of 5000) of 20,000 toots per user, which works out to 1600 users. Also, there's a
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
I, not yet wanting particularly to extricate myself from Chrome, use Ublock Origin Lite. It works about as well as the original (although it's less good with paywalls and blocking individual site elements, by which I mean 'not goo
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
About housing: I have a few ideas as to why, weirdly none of which overlap with yours. 1) I think part of it is due to our ability to fine-tune the limits. Before, if a company wanted to pass an inspection, they had to be really confident.
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
You might find it easier in primarily neurodivergent communities. In my experience, Mastodon has a lot of neurodivergent people - there are (at least) two servers especially for us, neurodifferent.me and autistics.life. Also, don't use
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
True. But if you look at Harris's platform, it's not very ground-breaking, honestly. It's mostly just par for the course. A fair portion of the reason my family is voting for them is because Trump is a danger to democracy. Fr
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Excellent point, bakugo. Let's test this. First, let's see what proportion of their contributions - measured in total dollars - are from individuals who donated under $200. For Trump, that figure is 29.65 ( https://www.o
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
In my view, money might once have, but the number of persuadable voters is quite low. If someone has decided to vote for Trump, it's unlikely they will change their mind. And if someone is undecided, they'll probably vote for Trum
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Maybe because it's your bank and you're likely to at least moderately trust the bank you choose? But also, more generally, because it says a lot of things, maybe things you're not conscious of, but it still says them. Off the
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
If you want to avoid a hassle, I've found a bunch of sites that have something along the lines of "If you're using this site, we assume you're [13/16/18]+, please don't use this if you're under [13&#x
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
Something that's always bothered me about Kindles is the web browser. Like, I get it, that's not what it's made for. But it should be able to do more than it is currently able to. I don't mean "easily rendering comp
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
I don't know if it's just me, but it feels like a very deliberate choice that this wasn't written in the easy-to-comprehend, easy-to-grasp style that's so prevalent online. It's harder. It requires, to some degree,
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
There will still be a British presence there (an overseas military base if I recall correctly), so you could argue it doesn't, but yep. Randall got it wrong in What If ( https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/ ). The sun'
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
archive.org, assuming their legal troubles don't take them down. Upload it to there, and ta-da! Body of work. If text, collect it into a book and upload it to LibGen or something also - plenty of shadow sites mirror it. (Yes, it'l
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by Yawrehto 2y ago
It's a bit odd people would use this so much, as AACs, text-to-speech apps, do the job, in my experience (my brother uses one sometimes) quite well. I don't see why, except in highly rare cases, like having poor muscle control an
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Ask HN: What websites that were sold/abandoned/don't work anymore do you miss?
9 points by Yawrehto 2y ago|23 comments

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