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by frereubu 4y ago
It was on the NTK email list (UK-based tech newsletter) in the late 90s / early 2000s - http://www.ntk.net/ - when people had limited bandwidth on their dial-up connections. Possibly more of a principle along the lines
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by frereubu 4y ago
I'm old enough to remember when tech folk would tut when someone had a long plaintext signature because it took up bandwidth...
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by frereubu 4y ago
Reminds me very much of this bit from an early Steven Soderberg film, Schizopolis (which I consider to be an underappreciated work of genius): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pct9smNM6u4
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by frereubu 4y ago
I've always liked the idea of "Libraries of Things". You join it like a normal library and can borrow things that you don't use often, so you don't even need to buy them in the first place. Here's an example in
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Britain’s winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity(ft.com)
4 points by frereubu 4y ago|2 comments
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by frereubu 4y ago
This is a great BBC podcast about the subject (and how the US abandoned France in return): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v99n
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by frereubu 4y ago
Reminds me of that David Foster Wallace piece "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Supposedly_Fun_Thing_I%27ll_...
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by frereubu 4y ago
I agree that many people think "being creative" is just swanning around being inspired, but all the high-level creative people I know are very hard-working. There's a great book called The Creative Habit by the choreographe
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by frereubu 4y ago
If efficiency is your only goal then no, there is no problem. But I would argue that's an extremely shallow way of looking at entertainment.
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by frereubu 4y ago
The only thing that I find isn't as good about Fastmail is the spam filtering. I see more spam in my inbox and my spam folder than I did in Gmail, but despite that the trade-offs (particularly less of my data going through and sitting
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Bitcoin has rallied. What are crypto’s true believers still smoking?(theguardian.com)
8 points by frereubu 4y ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 4y ago
Slightly OT, but the one thing I hate about watching films on streaming services is the banding on the images. Any relatively dark scene with gradations of lighting in the background is a mess of shifting lines. I'd love to see somethi
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by frereubu 4y ago
In the UK, you can get texts sent to landline numbers. Not sure if it's carrier-dependent, but my Mum would occasionally get texts sent to her landline. She'd get a call saying that she'd received a text and the text was read
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by frereubu 4y ago
Thanks for that - it is a fascinating idea.
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by frereubu 4y ago
I honestly think that most arguments people have about art would go away if they stopped using the verb "to be", i.e. "that artwork is...", and rephrased it as a personal opinion, which is almost always what it is. It ge
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Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup(theguardian.com)
24 points by frereubu 4y ago|2 comments
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by frereubu 4y ago
As I understand it, it's also pretty hard to get right: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/why-paper-jams... / https://archive.vn/SJlAS “The tolerances are very tigh
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by frereubu 4y ago
I'm a relative old-timer, so have lived through plenty of times when electronic payments weren't commonplace, and have also bought a number of second-hand cars. I never used cash - I used banker's drafts, because I didn'
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by frereubu 4y ago
I'd be happy using Safari, but the deal-breaker for me is the lack of uBlock Origin. There are other suggestions that people mention - Ghostery and Wipr for example - but somehow they don't give me confidence that they're goi
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by frereubu 4y ago
“Better aesthetics” is an entirely subjective judgement. Agree about being able to swap components though.
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Tell HN: Hover are having DNS issues
7 points by frereubu 4y ago|1 comments
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by frereubu 4y ago
For those who think this is "just" a fad, there are some descriptions of the emotional harm that that it can cause in this article from February: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02&#x2
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We are maybe only weeks away from AI replacing the need for any of us on Twitter(twitter.com)
15 points by frereubu 4y ago|1 comments
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by frereubu 4y ago
Are you saying that's the case for exposure to it when wearing clothing with it on? To be clear I'm not diminishing the experience of the people who live around the plant where it was produced if that's what you're refer
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by frereubu 4y ago
Do you have a source for this? I see this said regularly, but have not seen a link to the study itself.
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by frereubu 4y ago
Slightly OT, but there's a great podcast about the era when these landmines were laid, In The Shadows of Utopia: https://www.shadowsofutopia.com/ The presenter takes the time to give a lot of historical context before
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by frereubu 4y ago
I honestly think that's the truth for the majority of cases like this, or at worst a kind of willful blindness. Of course there are the scammers, but I think they generally produce such terrible work that very few people use it on an o
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by frereubu 4y ago
Google is so huge that, as we say in the UK, it doesn't know its arse from its elbow - the teams are so disparate that it would be difficult to coordinate. Besides which, the "other factors" that I mention heavily favour a si
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by frereubu 4y ago
It could well be naive A/B testing. "Oh, this configuration has really increased our click-through rates", not realising that it's because people are trying to click on something, and an ad jumps into the space that they
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by frereubu 4y ago
This - "Cumulative Layout Shift" - is part of Google's Core Web Vitals - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9205520?hl=en - so if people are doing that, they're going to be penalised

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