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by cal85 3y ago
Every wonder of the world was built without todo apps. Every enduring work of literature, every renaissance painting, every leap forward in sanitation and medicine, every architectural triumph, every breakthrough in our understanding of the
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Quivr(github.com)
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Look Around You [0] is little known even in the UK, but I think a lot of HN readers might love it. It's a surreal but perfectly observed parody of the 80s/90s educational videos we used to watch in school science classes. [0] Epis
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by cal85 3y ago
Surely those two things go hand in hand? Brands direct their spend according to reach.
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Can anyone spell out exactly what it means to ‘sign up’ to Threads? Are these users who heard about Threads (from a friend or the news) and actively sought it out, or are they users who just tapped “OK” on a dialog that popped up when they
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For me it’s the “Do X” phrasing that’s the problem. It’s like barking unsolicited, universal life advice at the world. Especially when peppered with instructions like “don’t listen to anyone who tells you different.” It feels as if a lot of
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What I said does not occur is finding oneself in a situation where someone is about to die and the only available food that can save their life is junk food. In the analogous situation, someone is just about to die of loneliness and the onl
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This analogy is not even wrong. Yes, if someone was suffering starvation I'd give them whatever food was available, but that is not a situation in which we find ourselves ever – it does not occur, nor does the analogous situation o
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Not sure if you’re being entirely serious but is there any truth in that? Just curious.
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I think a more reasonable argument could be “If a site provides an API for fetching user-generated content, it should be free”. (But just as a moral argument, not something to be enforced with regulations.) The issue is that if they provide
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Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)(jsomers.net)
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Misleading headline based on this quote: “At aggregation sites, water users were found in proximity to sharks 97% of the days surveyed” (An aggregation site means a place where lots of sharks cluster.) So what it means is a shark is seen ne
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Adobe will cover any legal bills around generative AI copyright issues(fastcompany.com)
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It’s the world of instant information and social contact that makes phones distracting, not the screen dimensions. Actually I’d say the small screen form factor makes this problem even worse - makes it socially acceptable to be half-present
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Can anyone see a date on this post? Is it recent? This 2014 Guardian article seems to report a very similar revelation: https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/21/carthaginian...
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Why AI Will Save the World by Marc Andreessen(twitter.com)
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How do you know the resolution is too low, and what do you think is needed? I find the Oculus Quest 2 (1920x1832 per eye) to be passable for working on virtual monitors. Not great, but feels 60% of the way there. I would expect 4K per eye t
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Interested to know any technical details you're willing to share about how you have this set up. I'm a nix noob trying to get my head round its various parts, and interested to hear real world examples of how people are using it i
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This sounds like a good solution to the problem described in the article. Are there any issues with it?
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The heritability of human traits based on 50 years of twin studies(nature.com)
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I don’t find global central state easier to reason about. It’s inherently more complex managing the state of a component far away from it in some other place. But I think it’s often worth doing because it enables you to make better UIs. The
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Quantum computing could break the internet(ig.ft.com)
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Implementing LLMs in the Browser(matt-rickard.com)
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Fair point, enduring wasn’t the best word. But point is, the British one is a standout successful one, and also a standout ostentatious one. Every time there’s some big royal thing going on, people talk about how it’s too ostentatious and i
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I’m not sure. The most successful, enduring ‘royal family’ in the world appears to be the one that has been the most careful to conserve all the ostentation.
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The problem with this xkcd is it often gets used to suggest there’s no point taking security measures. Which is like saying you shouldn’t bother locking your front door because they could just get in by breaking the windows. A more valid in
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Why should they dial the ostentation back?
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Yes, it’s possible to alter the meaning of something by quoting a sentence out of context. If you continue reading to the next sentence, it becomes explicitly clear that he is addressing the comments here.
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Repo Chat: Ask questions about any GitHub repo(github.com)
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I know the small ones exist, and I use many, they’re often much better than Twitter for specialist interests (HN is just one example). But I also scroll through Twitter daily, for something the small ones can’t provide: it’s the big one whe

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