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by esperent 11mo ago
> There are no "levers". Everyone wants to believe that their community doesn't have levers. But this is just wishful thinking, ego talking. Of course HN has levers, of course the community here can be manipulated. The e
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40% of Firefox users use addons. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/usage-behavior
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I run a sourdough bakery with my partner, as it happens. Although I'm not a baker, coming from a mathematics background I'm the one most focused on process and quality control. We don't use any commercial yeast so I've p
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I'm quite delighted that the gif banding artefacts make it look life the photi of a fire is flickering, and also highly impressed that the AI was able to recognize the fire as a photo within a photo and keep it in 2d.
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Maybe you should look for an RSS reader with dark mode then? I thought they all had that by now.
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TikTok operates in the US, so they are operating under US jurisdiction and subject to the same regulations as US companies. The main difference is political pressure, not legal. US companies will bend the knee to Trump, Chinese companies wi
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by esperent 11mo ago
You're reading HN from an app? Why?
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The various "dark mode" browser extensions work well here. Brave on Android also has a dark mode toggle built in, which I assume repackages one of the extensions.
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Depending on the climate, it can go moldy very quickly.
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> If it is possible, maybe it is what some people supposedly feel as "auras" I've always held two complementary beliefs regarding auras and similar senses: 1. It's plausible that some humans can sense subtle informati
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Internally, it was Embrace, Extend, Innovate, used in an executive memo from 1994 [0]. But it doesn't matter where it originated or who first said it. The reason this phrase gained so much popularity is that outside observers could see
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I've had a thought in my mind recently. There's been a sudden push in Western countries towards "think-of-the-children" online age gating, and hence online verification tools, and any age verification tool that works c
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by esperent 11mo ago
It seems to me that skills are: 1. A top level agent/custom prompt 2. Subagents that the main agent knows about via short descriptions 3. Subagents have reference files 4. Subagents have scripts Anthropic specific implementation: 1. Sk
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> a modern form of way-laying. The best phrase I've heard used to describe this is "techno feudalism".
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Interesting, this is about a 45 minute drive away from me and I've never heard about it until now. I can't find the exact location though, I wonder if it's open to the public to visit?
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by esperent 11mo ago
Media is shared information, including text. Traditional media is created by institutions like newspapers and mass broadcast. Social media changed that so that anyone can create the information. When we write comments here, we are creating
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by esperent 11mo ago
That works for me with nonfiction books that I'm actively or casually studying. Not for novels though, and if I'm reading a few nonfiction books then start a (good) novel, all the nonfiction takes a backseat until I'm finishe
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by esperent 11mo ago
I believe that reddit and HN are social media. They're a different form than Facebook or TikTok, but we come here to be social just the same. If someone used HN to find interesting articles, then spends 90% of their time reading the ar
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by esperent 11mo ago
This is an advertisement for some investment app masquerading as a "concerned question". If it wasn't an ad, it wouldn't have a link at the bottom.
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> a lot of crypto bros have marketed it more as a casino than a solution to a decentralized currency. Another way of looking at this is that the main players have a vested interest in keep it as a casino. Therefore it'll never becom
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> Mullvad DNS This works the same way as NextDNS on Android but is less customizeable.
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by esperent 11mo ago
Oh thanks, that looks like an interesting alternative > Can you setup custom filters on the free solution? No, but as the other person replying said, there's a huge range of built in filters and I've never felt any need to cust
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by esperent 11mo ago
I've been using NextDNS for years and never paid anything. Very occasionally (maybe twice) around the last few days of the month I get an email saying I reached my quota and filtering will stop working.
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I use Firefox with uBlock Origin for pretty much everything, but I still occasionally use Chrome, now with uBlock Origin Lite. I can't say I'm noticing any ads on Chrome, the lite ad blocker seems just as effective.
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The problem with ad blocker apps on Android is that they always require a either a VPN, in which cases my banking apps don't work, or root, which is getting harder and harder to get and probably also breaks my banking apps. However, I
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by esperent 11mo ago
Crypto currency uses up to 1.5% of the world's electricity, makes up 2.5% of the world's money, uses up to 0.1% of the fresh water supply, and perhaps as high as 6-10% of silicon chips produced. And yet, as you say, there's n
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by esperent 11mo ago
Personal opinion is that the whole point of aeropress is that you don't need to follow any recipes to get a good result. The parameters are extremely flexible to the point of being close to foolproof. Start with good beans and water. G
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The idea is that the more pressure you use, the more unwanted materials like fines and oils will get though the paper. So if you press slowly and stop when you hear a hiss, you should have a better brew. It does make sense, if imagine press
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Hey it was my turn to post this quote today!
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Do you add whole milk to coffee? The casein and fat should help to reduce acidity and make it easier on the stomach. If you can't do that, I've heard of people adding a sprinkle of baking soda as a buffer to black coffee. I'm

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