blfr

45 ms·

601.
by blfr 6y ago
Concurred. I have had checking out Notion.so on my TODO for over a year now while simply using Google Keep despite all of its problems.
602.
by blfr 6y ago
This is really not some controversial discovery. Providers already know this and take full advantage. It's common for multi-tenants buildings to be wired by 2-3 ISPs and even nearby single family housing to have only one with serious i
603.
by blfr 6y ago
There's a little more to it. It apparently allows Project Veritas to do discovery, depose NYT writers, etc.
604.
by blfr 6y ago
But it's less expensive per subscriber (and therefore more profitable and more expected to be delivered) when you have higher pop density.
605.
by blfr 6y ago
In Eurasia railway companies often run fibre because they already have rights to the tracks. More importantly, one stop from a central station is basically city centre with high population density.
606.
by blfr 6y ago
What surprises me about habits like watching news or scrolling Facebook is that people don't get bored by it. Because this is our failsafe mechanism for not falling into repetitive loops. And I get the appeal of most of these things. W
607.
by blfr 6y ago
Pretty much this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pothole And more seriously, people actually do adopt animals and bring them home or to some enclosure. There are supposedly more tigers in captivity in Texas than in t
608.
by blfr 6y ago
"Adoption" is fine on the foundation website with context. Here my first thought was that this is some crazy Tiger King scenario.
609.
by blfr 6y ago
That's in the Netherlands Haha, GP specifically assumed US in the first line of his comment and then got responses from the Netherlands and twice from UK. Yeah, it's largely an American phenomenon so far but I wouldn't be t
610.
by blfr 6y ago
What is the average number of streams per user on Spotify? According to Last.fm, I listened to 55k songs last year, vast majority of it through Spotify.
611.
by blfr 6y ago
From what I understand, the EU has done poorly in the both in the negotiations and actually provisioning vaccines and it's not strictly an issue with leadership in any particular country. Beyond delegating their responsibility of cours
612.
by blfr 6y ago
> Exercising sucks. Running sucks, rowing a little as well. Lifting weights, swimming, walking are all great almost from the get go. Lifting weights is by far the best. You can keep a leisurely pace, have plenty of time to talk to peop
613.
by blfr 6y ago
The real scoop is Netflix.soy. Excellent. https://tinyprojects.dev/posts/i_bought_netflix_dot_soy
614.
by blfr 6y ago
The banks also don't seem to be all that interested in interacting with their invidual customers in the flesh. The feeling's mutual! I have been using the same bank for over 15 years and only visited once and by accident.
615.
by blfr 6y ago
How the f can they provide better information on the pandemic unless you have actual virologists and public health experts actually working on it there? That's a good question. I don't really know what kind of failure causes mai
616.
by blfr 6y ago
I too would like people to work to provide content for me for free, which is what you are asking. The problem is that paid content is bad. It's almost universally a signal of low quality. My Twitter timeline, HN comments, IRC channel
617.
by blfr 6y ago
Frankly, I want less commercial content. I want to read and watch stuff put out by hobbyists, people who are excited by what they're doing, who would do it without compensation anyway. I see very little upside to professionalisation of
618.
by blfr 6y ago
NNTP is basically dead, maybe abused* for piracy in some corner of the Internet, while Reddit ate half of the web that Facebook didn't eat. * To be clear, I'm rather ok with piracy. NNTP is just really poorly suited for it.
619.
by blfr 6y ago
This idea suffers from the same problem federation does. It's harder to move a whole ecosystem. Makes it harder to innovate. Leads to centralized platforms outperforming these BYOC/federated/open options. Basically how Reddit
620.
by blfr 6y ago
Food surveys and food diaries are hilariously bad[1]. I'm surprised any studies based on them are still getting published. There was literally a reality TV show in England based around how terribly inaccurate food diaries are. It'
621.
by blfr 6y ago
So what actually happened? Neither OP nor linked press articles seem to really explain it. (There's a joke somewhere in here about how readable Perl is.)
622.
by blfr 6y ago
Reminds me of this tweet. https://twitter.com/HedgingChaos/status/1364675046191546377
623.
by blfr 6y ago
Catch-all support starts at €8 at ProtonMail. https://protonmail.com/pricing
624.
by blfr 6y ago
Bitcoin allows people to make transactions online with no authority okaying them, donate to banned platforms and cancelled friends, order pharma grade drugs off the Internet, and it all works because of magic of mathematics... sure, it&#x27
625.
by blfr 6y ago
How good are these shoes exactly to justify all this effort and $220 price tag? You can get speciality shoes like Adidas Powerlift for maybe hundred bucks. Adidas AG produces just 40,000 pairs of each Yeezy release, which are priced at $22
626.
by blfr 6y ago
In the future, you'll get to choose whether your phone vendor sells your data or censors what content you can access on it. It's gonna be great.
627.
by blfr 6y ago
You can speed up videos on Youtube. Both natively and with yuotube-dl then play locally with mpv or your (lesser) favourite player.
628.
by blfr 6y ago
> Firefox now supports simultaneously watching multiple videos in Picture-in-Picture. Is Adderall the new Aspirin? Or is there some WFH use here that I'm missing.
629.
by blfr 6y ago
This has been the case long ago and for a long time. The American colonies led Great Britain in purchasing power per capita from 1700, and possibly from 1650, until 1774, even counting slaves in the population. That is, average purchasing
630.
by blfr 6y ago
Yeah, once it was even a two-parter: why Linux sucks, and why Linux rocks. I can't find it right now. Although to be fair, the newer editions are quite a bit more pessimistic.

More ›