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by jdprgm 3y ago
I really wish there was a plex for ebooks where I could just throw epubs on my server and read on kobo ereader, iphone, web, mac/windows native, etc and just not think about it. Would also be nice to have actually decent stats tracking
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Ask HN: Why wasn't HN replaced by r/Hacker News?
3 points by jdprgm 3y ago|4 comments
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by jdprgm 3y ago
I think it's a reflection of the complete monopoly Youtube has on E, pg, pg-13, and R (basically nonexistent on Youtube) content. Video on the internet is basically Youtube with all its restrictions or porn. Mr. Beast is basically the
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by jdprgm 3y ago
Two extra batteries will likely be trivial cost in the context of a $3500 device, not sure why this isn't clear to everyone critiquing the battery life?
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by jdprgm 3y ago
No tech specs available on https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/ and no release date "early next year". Both are unusual for apple. I wonder why they didn't hold off to announce it when actually ready.
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by jdprgm 3y ago
I don't really watch cable news so hadn't considered it but yeah makes sense as similar to sports in a lot of situations and more passive viewing. If you aren't the kind of person who watches films and scripted shows like me
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by jdprgm 3y ago
Right that is why i mentioned sports viewing as probably the main exception. I would be very curious to see the stats on percentage of media viewing alone vs couples vs groups. My bet would be the majority is solo even for families and coup
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by jdprgm 3y ago
One thing which I don't get why people don't seem to get is long term (and perhaps with this release from Apple) headsets should be replacing tv's for at least a substantial amount of viewing. For example I have a fairly high
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by jdprgm 3y ago
It seems like a lot of the entries in TTS are either close sourced saas apps or something like this with limitations on customizing it. It seems clearly inevitable and likely only months away that a high quality unrestricted open source opt
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by jdprgm 4y ago
A few thoughts: 1) On the talk of saturation Netflix had somewhere around 230 mil subscribers last year. In theory the addressable market should be adults ~20 and up so somewhere around 5 bil. So not even close to saturation. Discounting sa
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by jdprgm 4y ago
It's kind of absurd the level of failure in crypto lending. Putting aside anyone with criticisms of all things crypto these should all be based on the very basic and long established business model of taking deposits, making loans, and
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by jdprgm 4y ago
This is an unreal speedrun nightmare timeline. At this rate I am half expecting to wake up to news tomorrow that SBF is dead.
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by jdprgm 4y ago
Not sure what people are talking about here, bitcoin mempool doesn't even have a notably large backlog at the moment and fees are currently low/normal: https://mempool.space/ Exchange withdrawals are one to many f
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by jdprgm 4y ago
Biggest downside here is probably sticking with Fresnel lenses, can't even really call it gen 2 with that decision. Probably had to be made to meet the price point I guess unfortunately. Should be a pretty clear screen though with the
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by jdprgm 4y ago
This is an extraordinarily disappointing release. Even if this was priced at $400 I would be disappointed. We have waited years and they included zero next gen VR tech. I feel like VR should be in the stages similar to the early gen iPhones
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by jdprgm 4y ago
I've never really understood why there are all these 3rd party variants of GPU's in the first place and not just all from Nvidia.
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by jdprgm 5y ago
Sure plenty of times growing up. Not sure the point of this question? Ignoring the environmental aspect I think limited use in suburban settings is reasonable. I'm particularly focused on egregious use in urban settings when we aren&#x
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by jdprgm 5y ago
Oh wow, thanks for the article. I'm right across the river -- perhaps Arlington will follow suit!
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by jdprgm 5y ago
Tangent: We should outlaw leaf blowers in cities while at it. It's february and freezing out and for some reason the idiotic management in the apartment across the street has contracted some crew to do daily leaf blowers on nearly comp
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by jdprgm 5y ago
lol
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by jdprgm 5y ago
This was interesting but just wanted to note they defined "known" based off of a test where you are asked yes/no on a series of words based on if they are an actual English word or made up. Not remotely if you can accurately
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by jdprgm 5y ago
Ha, I spent a few years around 2015 building exactly this for the first 50 or so largest US utilities on what eventually became https://www.arcadia.com/arc . Curious how you plan to compete. Good luck with the insane number
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by jdprgm 5y ago
This is the best wordle variation i've seen yet! Would love to see stats added for registered accounts. Win rate, word solve time, knock-outs, etc.
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by jdprgm 5y ago
A few months back I went through my watch history on the app after thinking I hadn't seen a good Netflix series in awhile and comparing 2018/2019 to 2020/2021 Netflix put out 5X less content I was interested in. There was a p
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by jdprgm 5y ago
It's wild to me the strength of Youtube's monopoly. I was just talking with a friend about this the other day... I can't think of another consumer app with as dominant a position.
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by jdprgm 5y ago
This is focusing on the current worst case for sending money in all of crypto though. At the moment sending btc is about 50 cents and solana remains less than 1 cent.
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by jdprgm 5y ago
Coming up on a year since product launch and people camping out at Best Buys around the country literally last night. It's unreal.
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by jdprgm 5y ago
> I really wonder what happens to Bitcoin (or any PoW coin) when it no longer becomes economical to mine new coins. Does all the computing power just move on to the next coin? We will find out exactly this relatively soon when Ethereum m
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by jdprgm 5y ago
It's been frustrating watching the Spotify (and general movement) with podcasts fragmenting and going exclusive. Spotify won with music because it improved upon the existing state of listening to music and offered a free or cheap solut
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by jdprgm 10y ago
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