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by blfr 3y ago
OP is largely about Facebook which is genuinely terrible, very much unlike Twitter. I spend 1.5 hours a day on the Twitter/X app, follow over a thousand accounts. However, none of them are the NRP/CNN/BBC/Economist-type
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by blfr 3y ago
Yes, I miss its threaded structure and wish there was something like this for projects still.
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by blfr 3y ago
I have not found any solution that even approaches Google Photos. That is: a reverse chronological feed with shared and private albums around events or interesting sets. Google also identifies people and pets which is useful but not terribl
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by blfr 3y ago
I highly recommend AntennaPod[1]. If you need/want sync, it can be achieved though gpodder[2]. [1] https://antennapod.org/ [2] https://gpodder.net/
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by blfr 3y ago
No. Local translations and blurred video calls background are (unironically) very important.
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by blfr 3y ago
While not a continental hub like the Netherlands, Portugal has excellent consumer Internet access: 700 Mbit 5G, 300 Mbit wifi in basically every cafe, apartment, and hotel. You step off the plane and can expect an absolutely rock solid Inte
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by blfr 3y ago
OK, so I guess I will have to learn about these passkeys. Which source do you recommend to tell me what it actually is without marketing hype from one of the providers and honestly lays out whether it's better than my current firefox p
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by blfr 3y ago
Interestingly, you can't. Although to be fair, plenty of managers still believe they can. Imagine a job where results seem fairly easily quantifiable: sales. You want to hire a great salesguy you know. His current salary is 168k and he
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by blfr 3y ago
There is no such thing as "same work" outside of a production line and the like. You learn this in the initial weeks of your career. In every tech company there are programmers, project managers, and sales people who have the same
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by blfr 3y ago
I have never worked in a job where you can give a reasonable pay band and routinely made 1.5-3x what other people with the same title did, before bonuses. This really only works for well-defined jobs in production, retail, and seems to brin
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by blfr 3y ago
Popular subjects, soft disciplines, frequent contradicting results.
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by blfr 3y ago
The big one is > Use fake profiles / identities. All the journos, mods, and celebs lobbying against, complaining about, and trying to eradicate anonymity/pseudonymity online are acting against your interests. I would even like
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by blfr 3y ago
First, shoddy research getting published because it matches authors' and reviewers' bias is not some immanent part of the scientific method. Second, that is not what the comment was about. It was about repeated debunking of realit
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by blfr 3y ago
Usually until someone bothers to check. Like the field of psychology which surprisingly often produces results about very successful liberal-endorsed interventions (head start programs or growth mindset) that reliably return weaker results
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by blfr 3y ago
It's not the more they know, it's the more credentials they have. Which is not the same, often wildly so.
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by blfr 3y ago
> It would be quite easy for us to forget how to build a nuclear weapon (much less a nuclear reactor) or a microprocessor. Sure you can learn the conceptual framework and think you know how to do it, but when it comes time to actually pu
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by blfr 3y ago
If the climate warms significantly, we are getting millions of kilometers of previously unusable taiga in what is now largely empty regions of Canada and Russia. And the population in most countries is already in decline. We will need less
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by blfr 3y ago
This is article is wrong on both sides of its reasoning. On one, yeah, people built grids and started farming, this is how our civilization came around. These people were more numerous and more dominant, pushing hunter gatherers out. Howeve
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by blfr 3y ago
I have been using LibreOffice Draw to fill out forms, not interactive ones but those they expect you to print and pen in.
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by blfr 3y ago
At least for the DC compromise, you can multihop through servers from different providers.
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Ask HN: Best book/resource on modern UI/UX
10 points by blfr 3y ago|7 comments
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by blfr 3y ago
it seems that it has actually become less common for cafes to offer WiFi again In touristy places wifi is usually available in cafes and there's a correlation between the quality of coffee and the quality of the Internet connection.
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by blfr 3y ago
Samsung Galaxy Tabs have OLED screens and fresh Snapdragons. While I don't have a tablet (yet? let's see the S9) both my laptop and phone have OLED screens and I am never going back. So yeah, budget tablets are not great but there
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by blfr 3y ago
While I dislike the elecronification trend, cars are definitely better than they were 30-40 years ago, in a completely different league when it comes to reliability. Plenty of people also like the touchscreens or seemingly superflous featur
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Yale researchers deanonymize EJMR users(karlstack.com)
3 points by blfr 3y ago|0 comments
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by blfr 3y ago
This question has been (very unsatisfyingly) answered, or at least resolved: > When the model is recast to represent realistic distributions of uncertainty, we find a substantial probability of there being no other intelligent life in ou
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by blfr 3y ago
Great app from the UX/UI perspective. The progression from saving in the browser and only requiring an account later is very nice as well. Perhaps the only thing missing is a start over button. As for exercise selection, it returns a l
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by blfr 3y ago
"Choosing to enjoy life" is not how most people get fat. It's not meals with friends and family but rather scrolling tiktok and eating potato chips.
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by blfr 3y ago
To some extent. Others can ingest your work, quote it, talk about it, criticize it, summarize, etc.
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by blfr 3y ago
Most people expect more from being in shape than just not being fat. I expect to look good without my shirt on and have at least some endurance. For that you probably need at least 3h of decent training per week. After you add changing, sho

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