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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
This is true, but sadly for very large spreadsheets, it kind of stops working at a certain point. You get timeouts when loading cell history or the version of the spreadsheet version history.
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
That is only true for employees, ignoring anything but work circumstances and also reducing returns purely to take home salary. I've personally saved a lot of time because of LLMs already, and that's worth quite a lot to me.
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
I admit I do have a little bit of old web nostalgia, but I know that we live in a very different world now and web platforms and the types of interactions we have online are much more complex now. That said, specifically for the type of inf
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
Understood! I know the onus for how the words are interpreted are primarily on the author, so that's all fair for you to raise and I'm glad for that feedback.
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
I may need to talk to my hosting provider :) Thanks for pointing this out. The site is indeed statically generated (Hugo), so this should not be happening.
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
This is very much true, and one of the downsides of RSS is that you need to make effort to discover new sources, or make sure that what you're consuming is at least somewhat balanced. However you have no guarantees of the latter when y
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
I see now - your issue is with the "controlled feeds of information" part? I am not claiming they are "feeds of controlled information" (which is how you seem to be interpreting it). Of course, all the sources you subscr
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
Author here. I do not necessarily think algorithmic feeds are the only thing wrong with social media, but it's certainly one of the major problems. More so if the platforms don't even allow me to revert to chronological feeds, or
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
Indeed, Patreon has private feeds for patrons for exclusive content. That's a decent solution but it's platform-specific, which is both a bad thing (not easily used elsewhere) and good (backwards compatible with good old RSS).
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
Heya, author here. I don't necessarily agree with the statement "chronological feeds incentivises spam-posting, posters compete on quantity to get attention" - if someone spam-posts, I am very likely to unsubscribe. This woul
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
I don't use it personally but have heard good things! Thanks for mentioning it.
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
Good tips! I have two busy feeds (which are my country's equivalent of Reuters or AP) but I keep them in a separate folder and if I wanted, I could exclude them from the main feed. Sources that post way too often can be a burden and i
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
I can't and won't argue that AI is currently overhyped and that there are people whose lives are miserable because they're being forced to use bad AI implementations. However, I see a lot of people around me who pay for LLMs
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In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information(blog.burkert.me)
358 points by curioussquirrel 1y ago|149 comments
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The Case Against Anthropomorphic AI(blog.burkert.me)
4 points by curioussquirrel 1y ago|0 comments
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
My guess is: part of that itch is scratched by social media, especially for people who don't have the time or knowledge to set something up. At the same time, you have platforms like Medium or WordPress which could be considered succes
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
Do it! We need more of that energy. Setting up a website or a blog in 2025 is super easy, regardless of what avenue you choose.
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
This! Not many people will reach out to a blogger to say thank you or give their take on a post. That's the first building block to a thriving community.
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
I've moved over to hyprland but Cosmic is a pretty good upgrade from Gnome already in my opinion. Great to see so many viable desktop environments!
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
I always switch to sorting by most recent, that way you avoid seeing the same 3-week-old post 50 times. Unfortunately, LinkedIn implements a lot of dark patterns, so it "forgets" that I selected reverse chronological order and res
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
Friedman's arguments sound like it's 2023 and everyone is freaking out about ChatGPT and the imminent doom of everything. I thought we had moved past that!
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
I love the batteries-included nature of Helix. Especially for people with no prior experience with modal editors, it has a much nicer learning curve compared to vim.
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
Loved the article! > Here’s one example. If your mental model of reading is “transmit facts into my head”, then reading an AI summary of something might seem like a more efficient way to get that task done. Once I tried one of the servic
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
This, plus the parser in Excel gets thrown off by some multiline edge cases very easily. Also, the file has to be UTF-8-BOM, not just UTF-8.
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by curioussquirrel 1y ago
If you're hell-bent on headless, I can personally recommend 11ty ( https://www.11ty.dev/ ) and hugo ( https://gohugo.io/ ). That said, for non-technical admins, you probably want a user interface. For that