arcadianalpaca

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Matching a photographed book page to a position in an audiobook(earleaf.app)
1 points by arcadianalpaca 6mo ago|0 comments
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by arcadianalpaca 7mo ago
Yeah I've been doing this more and more. The friction of keeping dependencies updated has gotten worse than the friction of just maintaining the (often times) 20 or so lines you need to write yourself. Not to mention the pain you'
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by arcadianalpaca 7mo ago
The part about open source projects needing years of sustained work rings true for sure, but it kind of skips over why a lot (most?) projects die. Sometimes the author gets bored, sure, but maintaining something used by strangers is a compl
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by arcadianalpaca 7mo ago
Right, though looking at the release notes it seems like the AI part at least is opt-in... for now.
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by arcadianalpaca 7mo ago
Yikes... sending prompts to a third party by default with no disclosure in the setup flow is a rough look for a tool that positions itself as the open sources alternative. "Open" loses meaning fast if the defaults work against th
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by arcadianalpaca 7mo ago
Cheers! Yeah, I've been switching between both mediums for a couple of years now, and this feature has really made things so much easier! I've actually been surprised at how smoothly it works.
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Show HN: I built an audiobook player that syncs with your physical book(earleaf.app)
1 points by arcadianalpaca 7mo ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Earleaf – An audiobook player that syncs with your physical book(earleaf.app)
3 points by arcadianalpaca 7mo ago|0 comments
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by arcadianalpaca 7mo ago
The filler word idea is interesting but I suspect the uncanny valley risk is super high. A mistimed "mhm" from a computer would probably feel way worse than just silence, because now your brain is pattern matching against human co
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by arcadianalpaca 7mo ago
Just like real life. Sit still, touch nothing, and watch everything fall apart all on its own ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by arcadianalpaca 7mo ago
Yeah the squash question is the whole thing. If your commit history is "do X" -> "no, not like that" -> "closer" then your final commit message is just "do X" with no trace of why certain approa
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by arcadianalpaca 7mo ago
True, can't even be taken for a real safeguard to begin with. It's there so Meta can say they tried :)
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by arcadianalpaca 7mo ago
That's basically the problem. If the shortcut produces something passable 95% of the time and nobody is checking, it just looks like you're faster. Journalism just has a more public failure mode than most fields.
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by arcadianalpaca 7mo ago
The European Parliament voted to end clock changes in 2019 [1] but it got stuck and nothing happened. Meanwhile, BC just goes ahead and does it. I suppose one can still dream... :) [1] https://www.timeanddate.com/news/t
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by arcadianalpaca 7mo ago
The recording light argument keeps coming up but I don't buy it. I can't tell if someone's glasses have a tiny LED on from across a room, and neither can anyone else.Under GDPR it's a on Meta to handle consent, not on me