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by athenot 1y ago
oh thanks for the tip! I'll look into it.
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by athenot 1y ago
I love this! It's really a mindset of taking seemingly common things that we take for granted, and reconsider them under a fresh look to appreciate how amazing they actually are.
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by athenot 1y ago
Before Facebook bought Instagram, the later was the main way people posted images on Twitter, since it was text-only at the time.
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by athenot 1y ago
My wine fridge uses Peltier and is super quiet. It's the perfect application for this because wine doesn't need to be as cold as a normal fridge, and noise is a consideration. It's not completely silent though, there's a
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by athenot 1y ago
We still have world fairs, the current one is in Japan. A friend of mine just came back from seeing it and it's apparently quite impressive. https://www.expo2025.or.jp/en/overview/purpose/
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by athenot 1y ago
June and July have the most amount of sunlight so that makes sense. The numbers look a bit different in December. Still, diversity of energy production is a good thing. There's no one silver bullet. Solar + Wind + Nuclear + Fossil + Hy
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by athenot 1y ago
The difficulty here is professional skill entails money, money entails risk management, risk management entails legalities. The only way in the US is to have a powerful lobby that can fight to ensure broad waivers stand up in court, like th
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by athenot 1y ago
Thank you for the correction.
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by athenot 1y ago
Yes, this is the pragmatic answer. Apple's HyperCard had a French dialect, and AppleScript followed with one too. It was short-lived but did provide a window as to how these programming languages might have looked like had they origina
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by athenot 1y ago
Let's not be too hasty...
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by athenot 1y ago
I've seen legitimate businesses outside those areas use that as a dark pattern. Basically you go to unsubscribe from the mailing list and they throw another hurdle at you, hoping you'll give up.
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by athenot 1y ago
On the same note: https://xkcd.com/980/ (from 2011 when Bezos "only" had $18b)
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by athenot 1y ago
Whether or not they eventually fuse, I don't know—I doubt it. But the approach they've taken over the past 15 years to gradually increase the similarities in user experience, while not trying to force a square peg in a round hol
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by athenot 1y ago
I’ve had a similar experience. If it’s a “I must do” with high stakes, I get a fear of failure, fear of disappointing and if left unchecked it unfortunately becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. However, challenges that start with “I wonder i
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by athenot 1y ago
> there just has to be a risk that consumers think that this is somehow associated with Waffle House More than risk ; some of the tweets could be actual evidence of that confusion. I think if the general branding vibe of the site was mo
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by athenot 1y ago
It's also a Product issue: "fast and snappy" is almost never on their list of priorities. So product managers will push devs for more features, which satisfy the roadmap, and only get concerned about speed when it reaches pai
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by athenot 2y ago
This is not entirely true. For example, Calendar.app does the same by locally extracting the .ics out of Mail.app without ever sending anything to Apple. I don't think Telegram's UX is tied to their permissive privacy, but they
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by athenot 2y ago
CSV is awesome for front-end webapps needing to fetch A LOT of data from a server in order to display an information-dense rendering. For that use-case, one controls both sides so the usual serialization issues aren't a problem.
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by athenot 2y ago
This is true, however getting it funded is the difficult task. For it to be effective, the money can't come from the provider, meaning it's either from the payer or the patient. The payer doesn't really care, costs are contai
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by athenot 2y ago
Both are needed. You can appreciate the energy you have by being around older people. You can be inspired in energetic ways by being around younger people. Diversity is a good thing to cultivate.
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by athenot 2y ago
Tell them you can't use your phone for whatever reason, and then ask them to just tell you what they have. I think enough people must have done this already because I've seen paper menus return in many places. (This fall under the
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by athenot 2y ago
The point is that the monkey was only the trigger . But the full cause of an outage is much more than just the trigger. It's a monkey this time, could have been an operator or a storm... Digging a bit deeper, they appear to be running
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by athenot 2y ago
A good use for home-cooked software is a UI layer over something clunky, or a glue layer over several systems that are cumbersome to use. For me, that's the best use of time without re-inventing the wheel—though this is specifically fo
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by athenot 2y ago
I would rather != stay the way it is, and have the language support ≠ as a synonym. 30 years ago, on the mac's HyperCard, the language supported ≠ as an inequality comparator (as well as ≤ and ≥ for <= and >=, respectively). On t
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by athenot 2y ago
Fruit drinks have a neat trick to increase sugar content. Take apple juice for example: you can evaporate water out of it till it's a sugary syrup, then add it to regular apple juice, and it's still called "100% pure apple ju
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by athenot 2y ago
About 15 years ago, I stopped drinking soda. Not out of a desire to be healthy or loose weight but simply because it dawned on me that for the same amount of sugar in one soft drink that I drink without any afterthought, I could enjoy a rea
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by athenot 2y ago
Thankfully that part has vastly improved with STIR/SHAKEN, combined with number reputation management.
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by athenot 2y ago
This. Also healthcare providers, though they seem to have finally wised up. They would call me from poorly configured phone systems (so unrecognizable caller id) and the first thing they would ask is to confirm full name and date of birth.
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by athenot 2y ago
These things still exist, but they sometimes take time to discover and even longer to gain a sense of belonging. I like to call them "tribes" but really it's just a community. Sometimes the intersection of your { interests +
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by athenot 2y ago
This is because the US is not one homogenous system of thought, but rather a mosaic of people with differing views. (This goes for any other country or population for that matter.) A more constructive observation would be to consider the ov

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