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by austinjp 2y ago
You may be interested in the venerable visidata: https://www.visidata.org/docs/graphics/
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by austinjp 2y ago
Did you ever hear of Zediva? "Zediva thought it could circumvent the need to be licensed by literally renting customers a DVD and a DVD player, with your computer, tablet or Google TV as the remote control. Unlike the other streaming m
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by austinjp 2y ago
Yep indeed, same here. I know "me too" comments aren't generally acceptable here, but I think the wholesale pillaging of the web for LLMs etc is way out of hand.
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by austinjp 2y ago
A well-known "dark pattern" used to suggest impending scarcity. Airlines and fast-fashion outlets are major offenders.
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by austinjp 2y ago
I've been pondering similar regarding data persistence. One half-assed idea I have is simply to prompt the user to save the data regularly. A reminder with a button/link which triggers data serialisation from storage and then trig
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OIL RIG: oxidation is loss, reduction is gain (of electrons). So an electron donor would seem to facilitate reduction. My chemistry-fu is very weak, though, so take with a pinch of NaCl.
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When launching it, the user can just wrap it in 'while true ; do .... ; done' and hey presto, 'q' is the refesh key.
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by austinjp 2y ago
How about the million dollar homepage: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage Edit: Hmm not really what you were looking for, on reflection. But I'll leave this anyway, the MDH had its own cha
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by austinjp 2y ago
Ooh good point. Aaaand now my list of requirements is even longer :(
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by austinjp 2y ago
Because I've lost one laptop (RIP) to a crack in a motherboard brought on by repeated squashing and twisting, and my current notebook is creaking. Quite literally. Although I probably should simply stop tossing my laptop into a backpac
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by austinjp 2y ago
Ha! Love it. Thanks for the readjustment, I'll stop spoiling my laptop.
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Ask HN: Laptop case that is robust but not fugly?
2 points by austinjp 2y ago|6 comments
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by austinjp 2y ago
You're describing self-publishing a business-related e-book. TFA describes the harsh reality of traditional paper publishing of fiction. It also has a section on self-publishing, incidentally.
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by austinjp 2y ago
It's a multi-layered satirical joke. The 'absurd' aspect is the flipping of 'taking over a library' versus starting one, which is amusing given that the motivations of state-sponsored bad actors are to poison and&#x
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by austinjp 2y ago
I take your point, but people certainly do complain about performance and download sizes, they just do it indirectly by describing the side effects. Only recently my partner asked me why her laptop got so hot. An iPhone user I know said the
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by austinjp 2y ago
Typically it's about media and means e.g. embedding media from their site into yours, or linking directly to that media. If you link directly to an image, say, the user won't see the target website's content, which they might
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by austinjp 2y ago
She: "Başak Tuna develops, rethinks and reproduces a project she called DayLight Computer".
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by austinjp 2y ago
Interesting. Have you been using djot for anything substantial, like technical/academic publishing, large projects like entire books, or similar? How does it fare and what is your toolchain? Thanks in advance!
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by austinjp 3y ago
According to DDG's chat itself: Claude says: DuckDuckGo's goal with their privacy-focused chatbot service is to demonstrate that conversational AI can be developed and delivered in a way that protects users' privacy and anony
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by austinjp 3y ago
Hope the link works, there doesn't seem to be a direct link to the chat function unless the search query is non-empty. From the blurb: "All of your chats here are private, and are never stored by DuckDuckGo or used to train AI mod
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DuckDuckGo launches AI Chat beta(duckduckgo.com)
6 points by austinjp 3y ago|5 comments
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I'm curious about the psycho-social factors that have led us here. The vast majority of people just don't care that their data is feeding the surveillance economy. The mechanics of the advertising+surveillance behemoth are built b
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by austinjp 3y ago
You're not alone, I get that plenty :) You may enjoy reading Sapiens by Yuval Harari for his take on human history and collaboration, brief overview here: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/List-the-main-r3qz4dndR1e7
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by austinjp 3y ago
Their 2021 update here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01676... Link to full paper via sci-hub: https://sci-hub.st/10.1016/j.scico.2021.102609 This appears t
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by austinjp 3y ago
Whether advertising is objectively bad isn't necessarily the debate, but at some point it can cross a line. That line might be different for everyone, but most people will have it. You yourself give an example of something you suggest
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by austinjp 3y ago
I would dearly love to "pay attention" somewhere that isn't plastered in advertising. They didn't do it for approval, but they sure as shit didn't ask for approval either. And I'd like to see a breakdown of exa
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by austinjp 3y ago
How dare they put an ad on the moon. We are truly spreading the worst of humanity into the cosmos. Good job it's only us that appear able to witness it. Defraying costs by using ads is a strawman. If you can't afford to do somethi
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by austinjp 3y ago
I remember being pleasantly surprised to find out that the guy who created the screensaver I used to use quit tech to make pizzas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
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by austinjp 3y ago
It's super cheesy to post lyrics on any forum, particularly Beatles lyrics, so scroll past if you're not into it. Whenever I'm in this mood, the Beatles tune You Never Give Me Your Money drifts through my mind. It reminds me
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by austinjp 3y ago
Good luck, internet stranger. Take time to heal, be kind to yourself.

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