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by Zhyl 7y ago
A banner "advertising" a more feature rich version of the same application is a different kettle of fish to the actual paid advertisements that they are currently injecting onto lock screens and start menus. Granted, I wouldn&#x27
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by Zhyl 7y ago
I'd also argue that if there is one product or service that Wordpad has reasonable grounds to recommend, it's Word.
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Quite a lot of negativity from HN so far, so I'll add some counter. I've been using the Firefox preview since it was announced and overall have found it to be a vast improvement on the previous incarnation. Tab management is much
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Some content creators are already doing this. I'm seeing more spinning up their own newsletters or RSS feeds, patreons, direct donations, subscriptions services (or completely independent platforms). There is an awareness of the danger
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by Zhyl 7y ago
>I do believe you should optimize your relationships I agree with your sentiment, but I would reword this to "optimise your responses ". All you can ever control, especially in social situations and interpersonal relationships
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by Zhyl 7y ago
If I need to combine a bunch of files in a 'union' or 'concat' type fashion I will usually use UNIX tools or perl. Ditto for dropping or re-arranging columns or filtering out entries. The syntax is usually very terse and
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by Zhyl 7y ago
What's the status with YaCy like these days? I tried installing it about 7 years ago and the results left something to be desired.
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by Zhyl 7y ago
I find cliqz is very good at natural language queries, but doesn't have the index size a lot of the time. You either end up with 10 results that are exactly what you were searching for or nothing.
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Duckduckgo has seen some pretty strong growth [0]. Given that this is merely an option (most people won't change from the default, or will pick Google out of familiarity), I'd be interested to see how much of an effect this will h
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Because they pay the bills.
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by Zhyl 7y ago
On a related note, I haven't seen any publisher or content producer sell "licence only" i.e. I pay them for the right to be able to own/view the content. This could either be a "buy direct, acquire elsewhere" o
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Yes, in short - peace through not eating pork. "Why not not eat pigs together."
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by Zhyl 7y ago
I'm usually not in favour of posting YouTube links in Hackernews threads, but I don't think there's been a more appropriate time to link to this [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBzetVsiQM
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by Zhyl 7y ago
>What would be a network which allowed for more thoughtful discourse? Or at least the ability to more actively mute topics, threads, and groups of users while surfacing better content algorithmically? I would be interested in a parliamen
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Any newsletter recommendations? I've been thinking of going down an RSS/Email&&Procmail route myself, but haven't done the research on quality sources yet.
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by Zhyl 7y ago
This is a really good book. Aside from being a good tutorial for beginners, what makes it unique is the scope of what the reader is expected to learn to produce: small scripts that will greatly benefit them in their daily life. It demonstra
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by Zhyl 7y ago
They're gaming the system by producing intellectually stimulating quality material aimed at the hackernews demographic!
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Mindful Chrome
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Reminds me of the Nicki Case tool: https://ncase.me/matrix/
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by Zhyl 7y ago
I ran it off of a $5/month 'droplet' from Digital Ocean. As they are the only hosting provider I have ever used I can neither endorse nor critically review the service. I have, however, had no issues with them and find their
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Telegram bot writing is silly easy. If you use the python module you can basically just write the whole thing as a set of functions in a file (with decorators that watch telegram for triggers) and one function that automatically polls and d
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by Zhyl 7y ago
>[…] We're hoping to cover the transition in education from between Scratch and other tools such as Unity This would be amazing. Every child want to make games, especially with a 'proper' engine like Unity (or maybe Godot,
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Counter lemma: saying "yes" to more opportunities [than one would normally say "yes" to] increases the surface area for happy coincidences (such as meeting the person at the gig) to happen which overall will outweigh the
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Maybe not, but it is pretty clear about what the author means by "dice living". I.E a somewhat zen-like destruction of self (or ego as the book puts it). This is also explored in the sequel (Search for the dice man, also the name
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by Zhyl 7y ago
It's interesting to compare "Dice Man"[0] with "Yes Man"[1] (the book, not the Jim Carrey film adaptation). Both books are about people putting their decision making to an external force (Dice man with a die, Yes Ma
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Are there any well known "starter" open source projects? By this I mean "projects who have a good reputation and good documentation which will help induct and develop the confidence, knowledge and skills of new contributors?&
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Yep, would recommend mods rename it to something like "My Twitter account was banned due to Short selling trolls" or something that actually described what the article is about.
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by Zhyl 7y ago
The transphobia isn't related to the 'fact' about Thailand. If anything, the fact that it's a reference point is the reason why the sentiment is distasteful. The implication/joke is: * A person goes into a bar in Th
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by Zhyl 7y ago
I'm amazed that you're defending that comment.
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Nice to see a bit of casual transphobia on hackernews.

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