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by josters 1y ago
I have found Repomix[1] to be a good and straightforward tool for the task. [1]: https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix
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by josters 2y ago
Thanks! Yes, was also thinking of adding a menu bar item to macOS to have it always visible.
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by josters 2y ago
Was looking for an iOS app to always see my age in days on the lock screen. Didn‘t find one, so I first created a shortcut which would change my lock screen background image each night and overlay the number of days on it. This didn’t feel
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by josters 2y ago
While the text mentions the autobahn having been of little strategic importance, there is a paper[1] which states that it “was effective in boosting popular support, helping to entrench the Nazi dictatorship”. From the abstract: ”[…] Nazi p
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by josters 2y ago
I understood it as being posted to the Second-Chance Pool [1]. [1]: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...
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by josters 2y ago
This is also known as the Door-in-the-face technique[1] in social psychology. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique
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by josters 2y ago
Exactly. In my case, I noticed that having an extra device also helped me to not obsess about tracking. I started taking it with me only when I knew that I would be going an interesting route or on a trip to a place I haven’t been before. S
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by josters 2y ago
I also played with this idea of a Memex [1] a few times already, but I always struggle with the actual usefulness of the data. Most of the time, the greatest fun for me is setting up the systems and seeing it all come together in a single d
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by josters 2y ago
This is really nice! I couldn’t find it in your feature set and maybe it is there, but I am looking for a way to do Anki card reviews without looking at the screen. The other day I was on a 6h solo road trip and thought how useful it would
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by josters 2y ago
This preset is great and gets really natural quite quickly. Just hold down the right mouse button and wait for the menu to appear, then release it at the desired option. I have adapted the window management menu to commands specific to what
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by josters 2y ago
„_nomap“ at the end of the SSID seems to only work for Apple and Google, Microsoft requires „optout“ to be present anywhere in the name [1]. So, the recommended opt-out change would be „SSID_optout_nomap“. [1] https://superuser.
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by josters 2y ago
No other way than taking their word for it [1] > In late March 2024, Apple quietly updated its website to note that anyone can opt out of having the location of their wireless access points collected and shared by Apple — by appending “_
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by josters 2y ago
This[1] 1980s Raketa has an interesting visual display of the day of the week. The red dot corresponds to the current day. It does however show the date as a number on the bottom as well. [1]: https://mroatman.wixsite.com/wa
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by josters 3y ago
My main concern for having a dedicated GPS logging device is the battery drain of the tracking apps on my phone. Used to have a Transystem 747ProS [1] which uses a Nokia BL-5C battery and would last a few days. However, that device was quit
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by josters 3y ago
And, in addition to that, which topics either model is more knowledgeable about as there are lots of articles in either language missing a translation.
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by josters 3y ago
On that note, here[1] is a resource with some more undocumented HN features. [1] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
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by josters 4y ago
> Voters are also able to change their votes up until a few days before the election. This is interesting and in my view one of the main differences to traditional (mail) voting. Especially with discussions/rallies increasing towa
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by josters 4y ago
Looks like an interesting project although I have to admit that I scrolled through the whole thing and still didn't really know what it was. The press release on the bottom of the page summarizes it: Creactivities is a chatbot. It sen
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by josters 4y ago
Many subreddits have Discord servers for more discussion. They may also be moderated but give you the opportunity to have more back and forth with people on the topic.
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by josters 4y ago
Do you mean the cards themselves are programmable and get rendered on the canvas? What first came to my mind was Obsidian Canvas which was recently discussed on here[1]. It is a feature of the note taking tool Obsidian where you can write c
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by josters 4y ago
Hey Ben, nice you're starting out and trying to build a habit, wish you all the best! May I ask which template you use? Is it adapted from the dawn theme or your own implementation? I really like its simplicity.
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by josters 4y ago
I've learned that for me, there isn't really an optimal way. All systems I've dabbled with ultimately depend on me making an effort and taking the time to think about where this piece of information would fit best. However, t
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by josters 4y ago
In Berlin there is "Gieß den Kiez"[1] (water your block). It not only shows you the species and age for every tree on public property, you can also adopt trees and be responsible for watering them. > Gieß den Kiez is a particip
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by josters 4y ago
To give feedback and advice on your app, it would be helpful to have some more information about it. Who is your target group? What is the specific value of your app compared to other tools/services? What are the app's main functi
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by josters 4y ago
> ChatGPT cannot navigate the web yet, but it will soon. Combining the reading comprehension capability of modern AI systems with web navigation will allow us to have agents roaming the web and finding the information we want. Won't
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by josters 4y ago
Totally agree on the seemingly unnecessary overhead. Just recently I was looking into platforms for starting a blog and was overwhelmed with the choices of which none really had a complete set of offerings. Having a feature comparison table
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DIY camcorder that captures analog video to an SD card(shmostert.com)
3 points by josters 4y ago|0 comments
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I Only Use DuckDuckGo's Bangs Feature, Not the Search Engine(shmostert.com)
2 points by josters 4y ago|0 comments
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by josters 4y ago
Slightly OT but on my second visit to their page I got enrolled in their "frontpage redesign experiment" with an opt-out link in the info box. Clicking on that gave me a "page not found". edit: While wanting to provide f
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by josters 4y ago
Are you referring to Andy Weir's "The Egg"[1]? [1] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

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