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by axby 5y ago
+1 to pocket. I never liked how aggressively it was pushed in firefox[0], but a few years after ignoring it, I tried it one day, and so far I am surprisingly happy with it. Instead of leaving a ton of tabs open or push notifications for art
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by axby 5y ago
To give a bit of credit to the book (hints of a spoiler ahead), the aliens were different from humans in a few ways, so it made a little more sense than what someone might think from your description. But yes, "contrived" is a gre
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by axby 5y ago
As an extra question: when do we start getting data? Specifically, how long until we can start finding out if planets around other stars have oxygen, or even industrial pollutants like CFCs (my understanding is that if we see CFCs, it'
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by axby 5y ago
Splitting out my other thoughts into a new comment: I also have an awful short term memory, but can usually remember concepts from many years ago in great detail. Also text based content is way easier for me to remember than hearing it-- if
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by axby 5y ago
Interesting. I find that I can relatively easily picture an imaginary beach, and recall mental images from my past of being on a beach. I tried imagining a few different fruits like another commenter mentioned, and I don't have any tro
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by axby 5y ago
Python lets you throw together a GUI pretty easily. I used it to build some simple wxWidgets applications when I was learning how to program. Then trying to build a wxWidgets application in C++ isn't that much of a leap from that. Buil
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by axby 5y ago
I found that using CMake with C++ was a pretty okay process on windows, despite not having much experience with windows. I have to run cmake and then msbuild and I don't really know the details, but I got a simple GUI application runni
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by axby 5y ago
Specifically, he doesn't have any incentive to hype up Bitcoin to get you to buy it, at least as far as I know.
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by axby 5y ago
I really liked this video by 3Blue1Brown explaining how blockchain works: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4 Things that I didn't realize until I watched the video: * "Mining" bitcoin means processing tr
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by axby 5y ago
I have heard that the latest chromebooks make it easier to switch into linux mode. I bought one a few years ago and had to go through some hacks to run linux, and every time I power it on, it would tell me to press space bar to "fix&qu
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by axby 5y ago
I found it was relatively easy to type and tex everything that was written on the board. But I think my comprehension probably suffered a bit, though maybe that would have happened from using a pen and paper too.
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by axby 5y ago
Cool, did it have a physical keyboard? And if so, what was it like when using it like a laptop? That's my main aversion to a tablet, I would prefer a laptop so I could precisely angle a screen and the screen wouldn't be so heavy.
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by axby 5y ago
And despite my love of netbooks from that era, part of what had me switch to Vim/LaTeX was my cheap ~$100 netbook not being very quick with large documents in an editor like LibreOffice. Also a random thought: the netbook had also come
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by axby 5y ago
I did this back in 2011, though I used OpenOffice (and now I believe it's LibreOffice) at first, its equation editor syntax was a lot like LaTeX. I didn't realize MS Word had a text input option for its equation editor. Eventually
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by axby 5y ago
Has anyone tried typing on an 8" keyboard like this? I had a 10.1" netbook back in 2010 and loved typing on it. Otherwise, is there any modern equivalent to a 10" netbook that isn't a super expensive tablet? Ideally some
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by axby 5y ago
But the initial investment required to watch a new video seems much higher: it feels like you'd have to watch it for a minute or so to really tell if it's any good and interesting to you, but I can make the same decision for text
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by axby 5y ago
TL;DR: my best guess (based on not much reading about this) is that perhaps they pitch NFTs as an inter-company form of people paying twitch to send messages to everyone watching the stream? Specifically, beyond all the delusion of the meta
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by axby 5y ago
I hope so, and perhaps to some extent quality content always will be rewarded in some circles of the internet. But I worry about the vast majority just falling prey to whatever is most convenient. Maybe it will always be possible to have &q
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by axby 5y ago
To clarify my comment: obviously text will never be "obsolete". But I worry that some day when you search for something like "how do you reverse a linked list", the most popular results will no longer be well thought out
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by axby 5y ago
Can someone explain why NFTs have anything to do with the metaverse? I heard about browsers easily supporting cryptocurrencies as an important step to it, that kind of makes sense. But do any average people buy NFTs for any reason besides b
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by axby 5y ago
While ultimately text content will always have a place, I do worry that video content could become way more popular, and text content much less so: simply because advertisers have a big incentive to push video content (bigger ads, more fron
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by axby 5y ago
Link to Reddit RSS wiki for more information: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss
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by axby 5y ago
Their wiki uses the slash: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss Personally I feel like the precedence is more obvious with the slash, so it's clearer to figure out how more obscure combinations work, like: https:
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by axby 5y ago
I had no idea this existed. It looks like it's "reutersagency.com", which may be different from reuters.com? These are the results that I get in my RSS reader, they seem very different from https://www.reuters.com
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by axby 5y ago
I have seen this, and just now realized that my client supported both RSS/Atom feeds and I didn't realize there was a difference.
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by axby 5y ago
I like https://newsboat.org , though it is command line and since I started using an android RSS reader, I've stopped using newsboat as much. I also like Feeder for Android, free, no ads, scrapes full articles in a wonderful
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by axby 5y ago
I used Flym for a while and went to download the source one day, in fear of it suddenly disappearing, and apparently updates are blocked by Google, and the dev gave up? I'm very curious to know more about it: https://github.
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by axby 5y ago
It is sad, but some good news for anyone considering trying RSS: * all reddit subreddits can be turned into an rss feed by adding ".rss" after the URL, e.g. https://reddit.com/r/news/.rss * YouTube still
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by axby 5y ago
"Newsboat", a command line RSS reader, definitely has keyword searches and a ton of other functionality for complex filtering and grouping: https://newsboat.org/ I haven't found a good Android based RSS reade
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by axby 5y ago
I would agree until I found: * newsboat (command line) for desktop: https://newsboat.org/ * Feeder on android (which also scrapes the full article content in most cases): https://play.google.com/store/a

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