dredmorbius

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1. 2071.▲
   by dredmorbius 2y ago

   Save bookmark to home screen.
2. 2072.▲
   by dredmorbius 2y ago

   < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9792046 >
3. 2073.▲
   by dredmorbius 2y ago

   Yes and no. If you follow the Mastodon migration process, your old handle(s) forward to your new one(s). What you lose (at least last I checked) are action notifications based on your forwarded handle(s). This mostly doesn't matter,
4. 2074.▲
   by dredmorbius 2y ago

   Any platform can wipe your account without notice, and so far as I'm aware, without meaningful legal recourse. Your only assurance against this is regular backups. There are tools you can use to automatically mirror your Mastodon &
5. 2075.▲
   by dredmorbius 2y ago

   A chief difference is that the CBC's lite page is the work of the CBC, whereas Neuters, as with Nitter (its inspiration), Invididious and Piped (both YouTube front-ends), Teddit (Reddit), Bibliogram (defunct) and Proxigram (Instagram),
6. 2076.▲
   by dredmorbius 2y ago

   For grins and/or cringes, I'd like to see a similar site for the US. There are a few cities with reasonably good commuter-rail service which might compare with some of the European cities. Other than that distance/hour will
7. 2077.▲
   by dredmorbius 2y ago

   I'm realising that this is CBC's "lite" website, similar to those of CNN (< https://lite.cnn.com >) and NPR (< https://text.npr.org/ >). Mind that these aren't perfect (I've
8. 2078.▲
   by dredmorbius 2y ago

   Or ... a US$1,000 pair of Luxottica spectacles.
9. 2079.▲
   by dredmorbius 2y ago

   Useful, yes, though not universally so.
10. 2080.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    It follows in a similar sense that mechanisation makes the need for physical strength an stamina redundant; that transport networks make walking, draft wagons, and sailing ships redundant; and that digital computers make arithmetic and pen-
11. 2081.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    From May of 2012, as the dateline's somewhat obscure there.
12. 2082.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    For those preferring old: < https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1holbp4/jeju_air_... >
13. 2083.▲
    Big five publishers have abandoned literary fiction, putting it on life support(persuasion.community)

    19 points by dredmorbius 2y ago|1 comments
14. 2084.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    By way of Tildes and another comment in this thread: "The Big Five Publishers Have Killed Literary Fiction" ...Instead of an eye-blackening scrum over who gets to publish the next Tom Wolfe, nobody’s quite sure that his fresh, sa
15. 2085.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    There are some HN-alikes, such as Lobste.rs, which appears to be ~10% the size but often carries similar article selections. < https://lobste.rs/ > There is Tildes.net, which was inspired by Reddit (founder is an ex-Re
16. 2086.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    A post-literate society is a hypothetical society in which multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read or write, is no longer necessary or common.... < https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
17. 2087.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    I don't have a baseline (though can think of a few places I might look...)[1], but I do have some recent data based on a project I've been working on. There's a simplified page for CNN news at < https://lite.cnn.
18. 2088.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    Pretty much any object in featureless space: ships on a flat body of water (sea, lake), aircraft in the sky, objects on flat terrain (plains, taiga, desert, sand, snow), objects in space. Even on other solar system bodies (the Moon, Mars,
19. 2089.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    Gah! So much for my wit.
20. 2090.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    You'll find "zenith" at your feet.
21. 2091.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    You are forgiven for your SIMs.
22. 2092.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    As we're a tech site, the plural is clearly Juliuxen.
23. 2093.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    I'd worked briefly with a "Julius". Unpleasant assignment at a decidedly unethical firm, and frankly often-dodgy industry, my own stay was brief. Technical masters from a top-tier university, had all the toys, flashy wheels,
24. 2094.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    Post hoc ergo prompter hoc fallacy. Actually, it's not even that as most of the modern increase in life expectancy / fall in mortality occurred before the invention of plastics. The former largely concluded by the 1920s. Plasti
25. 2095.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    Nope, though that's interesting and somewhat expected. I remember when web-connectivity test was spelled "Slashdot".
26. 2096.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    You raise an interesting question: when is recorded knowledge actually cultural ? What of the zettabytes of data which today are written but never read? (The old saw of a WORN drive: write once, read never, has never been more apt.)
27. 2097.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    Is stuff online worth saving? This supposes a broader question: what is the purpose of recording information generally? The alternatives are observing the here and now (boys, obIsland), conversing, or musing / meditating / cogita
28. 2098.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    There was a story making rounds a few years back that Wikipedia was being used as a file / media sharing platform, particularly in countries with limited other options for such services. I can't find a link currently, though I&#x2
29. 2099.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    A typical typeset page has ~250--300 words per page. The standard rule of thumb is to assume 250. A double-spaced typewritten page is about half that as I recall. 100 pages is about 25,000 words of text. Obsessing over just how many words
30. 2100.▲
    by dredmorbius 2y ago

    Correction: Both the Freakonomics coverage and the book named above were based on an earlier paper, though both that and the book were by Vann.