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by mattkevan 1y ago
I'm sure this is a wonderful project with talented people behind it, and what I'm going to say isn't a criticism of this project in particular. But. I'm always a little disappointed when I see a project that's Libre
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by mattkevan 1y ago
A few months ago I was hit by a blackout literally the second I was about to start delivering a company-wide talk on AI. Everything went out - Internet, mobile networks, street lighting, the lot. We're a remote business so it seemed li
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by mattkevan 2y ago
Bold to assume there are going to be elections. All it needs is some kind of emergency, genuine, imaginary or self-inflicted, and ‘Oh no, we can’t possibly hold elections until our time of national crisis is over.’
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by mattkevan 2y ago
I think there’s a big push to train LLMs on maths problems - I used to get spammed on Reddit with ads for data tagging and annotation jobs. Recently these have stopped and they’re now the ads are about becoming a maths tutor to AI. Doesn’t
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by mattkevan 2y ago
In Adams’ universe people realised early-on that under no circumstances should anyone capable of having themselves elected president actually be allowed to do the job. Presidents had too much fun being president to notice they didn’t have a
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by mattkevan 2y ago
The rapid unscheduled disassembly continues
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by mattkevan 2y ago
I also made a simpler version [1] that stores ebooks locally in the browser, handy when you just want to quickly check out a book. An account is needed for Readers so you can sync your books across devices, join or create groups and save yo
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by mattkevan 2y ago
Hey, thanks for your comments! Exporting discussions is a really good idea, thanks, will definitely look into that.
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Show HN: I made Readers, a social eBook reader(rdrs.app)
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by mattkevan 2y ago
Hit the random button a few times and every article was bird-related. Every time I see a bird up close I’m struck by how weird they are, but I didn’t realise they were quite so mysterious.
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by mattkevan 2y ago
We used to live just a few minutes from the Oasis Waterloo farm and I can confirm there are indeed sheep. Pigs too. For being so central it was surprisingly rural - there were horse stables and an apple orchard with all kinds of rare variet
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by mattkevan 2y ago
It’s wild that aside from gunk like AI and the occasional UI revamp and messaging app launch/kill cycle, the core Workspace features really haven’t changed or improved much since I started using it 15 years ago.
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by mattkevan 2y ago
Wish Google would just fix the Drive search rather than lard it up with AI nonsense. Often it’s easier to ask someone to resend the link to a document than find it by searching.
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by mattkevan 2y ago
I learned a lot of history, politics and folklore reading Pratchett’s books. If he mentioned something specific I generally found it was real or at least echoed something real. His knowledge, wisdom and love of humanity was something specia
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by mattkevan 2y ago
Yep, YouTube is banned for our daughter except for pre-vetted videos as the content and ads can’t be trusted. We tried the Kids app but the content was 99% terrible. I do recommend The Kid Should See This though, a really good selection of
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by mattkevan 2y ago
It’s because at higher resolutions you can see the flaws more easily. They’d have to be implemented perfectly every time, otherwise the whole thing becomes a mess. Not everyone will bother to do this. Also, often when creating designs, thin
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by mattkevan 2y ago
It’s because the higher the resolution, the worse those kinds of design effects look. It’s why they’re not much used in print design and look quite tacky when they are. At low resolutions you need quite heavy-handed effects to provide enoug
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by mattkevan 2y ago
Also the argument that people don’t deserve good quality music because they ‘don’t care’ is breathtakingly cynical. Why shouldn’t people be exposed to good music? Maybe they’ll get into it. Does that slop mentality extend to other things? F
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by mattkevan 2y ago
Brilliant.org[1] does a good job of using explorables in their learning materials, some of the best I’ve seen in that category. That said, Ciechanowski is on another level entirely. [1] https://brilliant.org/
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by mattkevan 2y ago
This is a RAG search I built with NextJS, Pinecone and Langchain. It also uses AI for content tagging and summarisation. https://www.uxlift.org/search/ I made a quick wireframe in Figma, but didn’t bother to pixel-perf
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by mattkevan 2y ago
If the companies they’re investing in aren’t doing anything dodgy they’ve got nothing to worry about.
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by mattkevan 2y ago
What would you recommend? I’m building a fairly complex app with lots of state management. Next seems to be a good way to go, but I’d be interested if there are any better alternatives.
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by mattkevan 2y ago
It’s been talked about here before, but fundamentally it’s when the advertising guys won the power struggle over the search engine guys. Previously, advertising was a means to fund cool technology (and also get filthy rich). Now it’s just a
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by mattkevan 2y ago
Mmm, that’s good satire!
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by mattkevan 2y ago
This tracks with my personal experience. On twitter I had about 20k followers and was getting 20-30 new followers per day and tens to hundreds of likes per post. This dropped to pretty much zero once Musk started fucking with the algo and p
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by mattkevan 2y ago
I somehow managed to avoid PCs and Windows as a kid – at home we went from Amiga > Acorn > Mac and my school was 100% Acorn. I was always astonished going to friends' houses and watching them have to use DOS or Windows 3.1 and we
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by mattkevan 2y ago
Very cool! It'd be fun to use the webcam to create live reflections.
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by mattkevan 2y ago
I’ve used both extensively since release. Anything but Adobe. While I like the idea of the affinity products, I don’t like using them much. Probably just me but I find them quite clunky and have to look up how to do simple things in the gui
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by mattkevan 2y ago
Must be why Microsoft uses 'Not yet' instead of 'No' or reverts privacy settings occasionally – users just don't have enough of a growth mindset about handing over their personal data.
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by mattkevan 2y ago
You might enjoy Business Town: https://welcometobusinesstown.tumblr.com

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