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by ericra 3y ago
That is an insane price spike for cocoa. 239% price increase YoY!
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by ericra 3y ago
> Are these Androids actually less powerful than an 11 year-old, base-spec MacBook? Yes. Definitely. a Macbook Pro from 2013 has between 4-16GB of memory for one thing. The lowest spec phone in the article (Itel P32) has 1GB. A 2013
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by ericra 3y ago
Certainly an option for me. But not a scalable solution for the large number of non-tech people with older devices.
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by ericra 3y ago
This is trolling, right? Lemme just give my grandma a list of instructions for doing this so she can get to Facebook. I'll let you know how it works out.
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by ericra 3y ago
As someone with recent experience using a relatively slow Android phone, it can be absolutely brutal to load some web pages, even ones that only appear to be serving text and images (and a load of trackers/ads presumably). The network
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by ericra 3y ago
I can tell you from experience that most overweight people know a lot about nutrition and proper ways to eat. Lack of knowledge and education is not the primary issue. Many people who struggle with food issues do so because they are self-
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by ericra 3y ago
Think of how trivial it would be, from a storage perspective, to have a central repo of every (publicly-funded, at a minimum) research paper ever written if copyright issues were not present. It could be run by an international non-profit o
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by ericra 3y ago
I agree with some of the things you argue, but I do think it is more a matter of how Python is typically used rather than the language itself. There are quite a lot of optimizations that can be done for speed and other metrics in both web
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by ericra 3y ago
I'm not sure it's a big mystery. It's pleasant to write and allows devs to get things done quickly. Many of your criticisms are strange.. For instance, I don't see how it's necessarily a memory hog. I wrote a (re
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by ericra 3y ago
I think that help() is great too, but I'm not a fan of the interactive nature of it. I'd rather the raw text just get dumped to a file so I can browse it more easily, so I do something like this[1] to print the output of both the
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by ericra 3y ago
I love jalapenos/chipotles but there are so many great pepper varieties out there, and I sometimes wonder why they are not mass produced as much. For instance, I love hatch (Nex Mexico) chiles, but they seem quite difficult to get fres
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by ericra 3y ago
It's common when talking about peppers since there are so many varieties of the same species. I guess cultivar, variety, and breed are mostly synonymous except that cultivar (to me) implies that human intervention was involved in the
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by ericra 3y ago
As mentioned in another comment, you are correct that by far the highest concentration is in the pith/placenta (~90% typically). The seeds have a relatively low capsaicin concentration, but their surface gets spicy from being in direc
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by ericra 3y ago
It's been said a thousand times, but the "open" in openai becomes more comical every day. I can't imagine how much money they will generate from such a tool, and I'm sure they will do everything possible to keep a
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by ericra 3y ago
While I don't see the immediate need to switch from using pip, I am such a fan of ruff that I'm always happy to check out what you guys come out with. Please keep doing what you're doing!
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by ericra 3y ago
Despite there being many good solutions and suggestions from people here, I ended up creating my own podcast downloader as a learning experience: https://github.com/EricRa/python-scripts/tree/main/modules
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by ericra 3y ago
Thanks for all your suggestions! You and others have provided a lot of solutions in this thread, and I appreciate it. I was looking at feedparser last night, and it definitely seems like the go-to for rolling my own as a learning exercise.
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by ericra 3y ago
The title should really be "Ask HN: Why is it so hard to download podcasts from their websites". Oops.
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by ericra 3y ago
Fantastic. I appreciate it very much!
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by ericra 3y ago
For reference, I made this post after trying to download episodes from this site: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/hot-money/episode-1-murder-b... I am given the option to either listen to the embedded podcast on t
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by ericra 3y ago
This really addresses my question directly. Thank you. It makes a lot of sense. I wonder if this ad insertion happens for downloading directly from RSS feeds as well. Typically, there is a link in the RSS feed directly to an .mp3 file, a
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by ericra 3y ago
I appreciate the suggestion. I can see the appeal of using a specific app for podcasts, but it is not my preference. A lot of this question is really just motivated by trying to understand the reasoning for not having a simple download opt
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by ericra 3y ago
I tried to address this in my question. Of all the examples I can think of, the ads are embedded in the downloadable episode MP3. Is there additional advertisement revenue going to the podcast creators from the third-party sites?
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by ericra 3y ago
This requires using a third-party app for no reason. Unless you meant viewing the episode list from the Spotify site, in which case I certainly can't find a download button anywhere (when not logged in).
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Ask HN: Why is it so hard to download podcasts?
3 points by ericra 3y ago|18 comments
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by ericra 3y ago
I have the same feeling as the author about podcasts, and i'm particularly interested in the podcast ad model. While i despise exposure to advertising, I find myself not minding podcast adverts quite as much. There is also a much gre
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by ericra 3y ago
It's becoming so hard to constantly keep up the fight against a new bill like this year after year. I guess it is part of the point to try and wear people down over time until they eventually run out of the energy to care. I had not p
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by ericra 3y ago
Nice. I was not aware of this project, and it seems quite useful. Appreciate you sharing.
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by ericra 3y ago
I was able to get through, but it still took forever.
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by ericra 3y ago
The new pasta shape is pretty cool and all, but $45 for 6 1-lb. boxes of dry pasta is criminal!

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