derwiki

31 ms·

331.
by derwiki 1y ago
There are a few but I use directmailers.com!
332.
by derwiki 1y ago
Yep, totally — the OG advice was founder-focused. I just couldn’t resist twisting it a bit, because the line itself is too good not to repurpose.
333.
Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale(derwiki.medium.com)
516 points by derwiki 1y ago|207 comments
334.
by derwiki 1y ago
Really? I used to have one and it always killed my battery looking for signal. It also prevented me from making calls to the phone.
335.
by derwiki 1y ago
There’s always Faraday cage bags for cell phones
336.
by derwiki 1y ago
WSDL has entered the chat
337.
by derwiki 1y ago
No no—the CDs were coasters, the floppies you could put a piece of tape over the protection window and reuse
338.
by derwiki 1y ago
This orange site is fine but I wouldn’t hold my breath on any others
339.
by derwiki 1y ago
It picks a bad path forward and keeps doubling down on it
340.
by derwiki 1y ago
I reach for ChatGPT, but if I’m on a Google property and they shove Gemini in my face, I use Gemini. Memories are the biggest pull for me to keep coming back to ChatGPT, but I can’t imagine that’s a big moat.
341.
by derwiki 1y ago
Not a solution for this instance, but if you use a Privacy.com card you can set a limit (eg $20/month) and a charge mistake like this will just fail
342.
by derwiki 1y ago
I’d meet Keanu. Hope there continues to be no skeletons in his closet.
343.
by derwiki 1y ago
Before he joined the nWo, I remember Hall/Nash referring to it as Blunder in Paradise, and that really made 13 yo me giggle.
344.
by derwiki 1y ago
I use Goodreads to track what I’ve read/listened to and my ratings, and then I dump it into LLM chat and ask for more recs. It’s not perfect but I get better recs than Goodreads itself.
345.
by derwiki 1y ago
IIUC you’re asking for a sleep timer? If so, built-in timer on iOS can “stop playing” instead of an alarm sound. Not sure about Android.
346.
by derwiki 1y ago
Siri has access to sooo much on my phone though. It’s going to be way easier to improve Siri than to create an iPhone replacement.
347.
by derwiki 1y ago
3rd grade, sure. This seems like a great fit for my 3 year old and her friends who don't have unfettered iPad access.
348.
by derwiki 1y ago
Several comments in this thread give "Dropbox is just rsync" vibes. I'm curious how many of the commenters suggesting to DIY understand that having small children means essentially no free time to hack on something like that.
349.
by derwiki 1y ago
I wouldn’t call it an ad because I’m unaffiliated. I thought it was a neat techie gadget that other HN readers might enjoy.
350.
Tin Can – The landline, reinvented for kids(tincan.kids)
197 points by derwiki 1y ago|132 comments
351.
by derwiki 1y ago
Great idea! I will now be Michael Bolton for the purposes of restaurant reservations.
352.
by derwiki 1y ago
I know I sound like a broken record at this point, but Privacy.com cards for everything to minimize the blast radius
353.
by derwiki 1y ago
School buses have inertia on their side Also, as an SF parent: I drool over the idea of school buses—prop 13 has basically eliminated them
354.
by derwiki 1y ago
I guess not; but I also use Privacy.com cards and have never ended up in collections when I pause a card to cancel a service.
355.
by derwiki 1y ago
One “low tech” solution would be to get a Faraday cage bag and out your phone in it when not in use
356.
by derwiki 1y ago
AIUI, they try to offset this with lots of money
357.
by derwiki 1y ago
A startup I worked at a few years ago used Azure. In theory it’s _fine_ but I wasted many hours tracking down phantom issues because the Azure admin UI was super buggy.
358.
by derwiki 1y ago
Why?
359.
by derwiki 1y ago
I presume it was the order the respective ships were built/launched. NB: the streets are named after ships that are named after states
360.
by derwiki 1y ago
Well it _has_, but sure you can bring the value of the certifications into question

More ›