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by bwb 5mo ago
Is Gitlab doing better at this point? Or where do they stand?
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by bwb 6mo ago
Just to note, I made the site to interview authors and get their 5 favorite books on something they are passionate about. And I promote their book alongside the list to help them bump into readers. Authors generally just want to share somet
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by bwb 6mo ago
ya, there were a bunch of trade routes along this path to all the different regions/cities. We just named the entire concept the "Silk Road" in the 1800s (it was coined in 1877 by Ferdinand von Richthofen).
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by bwb 6mo ago
Ah great to hear :), thanks! Did you do it solo or with someone or a group?
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by bwb 6mo ago
Hah, I read his book, it is fantastic and worth a read -> https://www.amazon.com/Trail-Genghis-Khan-Journey-Through-eb... It also makes my butt hurt just to think about.
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by bwb 6mo ago
Nice picture :) The nice thing about going with a group is that it comes with a support vehicle and water/food/bag carrying. Doing it on my own would be about 10x more intense in terms of prep, I think. I've watched a few bik
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My favorite hard science fiction books by old masters(bookdna.com)
5 points by bwb 6mo ago|1 comments
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by bwb 6mo ago
Some great picks by an author we love talking to.
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An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road(bookdna.com)
93 points by bwb 6mo ago|32 comments
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by bwb 6mo ago
Great list by an absolute expert on the subject :) I'm hoping to do the Silk Route by bike in the next couple of years. TAD Global Cycling puts together yearly runs, and it looks amazing: https://tdaglobalcycling.com/si
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A trainspotter's dream: our own station on England's most scenic railway(ft.com)
2 points by bwb 6mo ago|1 comments
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by bwb 6mo ago
I love trains and this was a beautiful article :)
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by bwb 6mo ago
Science is amazing :), just fascinating!
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by bwb 6mo ago
Np, 2 years is harder for me to tell. We need to get more of that data public and organized, and are looking at how we can do that... We are working on some big improvements to the backend and should have some cool stuff to share later this
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by bwb 6mo ago
Agreed, I hope they can have some strong enforcement teeth with GIANT fines.
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by bwb 6mo ago
ya I gave up and blocked their ASN. No trap yet, but thinking about it. Everyone else is a good internet citizen, but this has happened again and again.
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by bwb 7mo ago
Honestly, downtime has gotten way better as one of the people behind ( https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com ). Compared to 10 years ago things are so much more redundant and harder to take down.
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by bwb 7mo ago
We had a ton of traffic coming in to check them: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/anthropic Not one of the usual ones that has service problems :)
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Ask HN: My website is being attacked by Facebook's bots. Anyone have a contact?
1 points by bwb 7mo ago|2 comments
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by bwb 7mo ago
I ache for the day we were governed by people who were competent and wanted to govern.
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by bwb 7mo ago
I think if you dig into it and play with it, you will find that it is doing some really cool stuff. I started playing with it a few weeks ago, and I am having a blast messing around with it. Hoping to hook it up to a robot kit next month to
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by bwb 7mo ago
I'm blown away by the comments. This is a cool project someone created with clear warnings about its current state (beta), and the community is being utterly disrespectful. They are building something that many people find useful/
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by bwb 8mo ago
I agree with you, but I don't see these things as possible. Maybe the D party will enact campaign finance rules if they got a super majority. Given gerrymandering I'm not sure that is ever possible though.
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by bwb 8mo ago
Sometimes they do, but yes, I am worried about the flip side as well.
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by bwb 8mo ago
It will have to get a lot of worse in order to get better. Voters have to be in a lot more pain to give the non-crazy party control to actually fix fundamental problems. Note: I'm an independent, but the current administration is incom
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by bwb 8mo ago
Hah, I read that as well and made a big "hmmmmmmmmm" sound... The last time I talked to someone about OpenClaw and how it is helping them, they told me it tells them what their calendar has for them today or auto-tweets for them (
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France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.(twitter.com)
900 points by bwb 9mo ago|780 comments
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by bwb 9mo ago
Ya please, ben@shepherd.com I'd love to chat about API etc
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by bwb 9mo ago
I read Careless People, and it was great. I'm glad I quit FB in 2016 after the Cambridge Analytica scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana... My wife read it and quit as well this yea
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Readers' favorite nonfiction reads of 2025 (voting ongoing)(shepherd.com)
2 points by bwb 9mo ago|1 comments

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