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by mmahemoff 1y ago
This is fun! I didn't immediately notice the time slider and thought it was just GeoGuessr with historical pictures, but the time element adds a whole new dimension.
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
I learned more from the reaction to Nate and 538’s forecasts than 538 itself. It helped me appreciate how journalists misunderstand and distort basic probability. If a model predicts A, B, and C as having 34%, 33%, and 33% likelihood respec
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
It shows how careless the industry is that these security questions persist. Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! account was handed by someone guessing easily accessible security questions. That was 17 years ago. When backward systems force you to answer
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
They also asked her for permission in advance, which was never going to help their case.
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
Some Kindke books also have a checkbox to add the audio (for a fee) when you buy it. Sometimes I’ve seen books discounted to e.g. £0.99, but adding the audio might be £5.99. The upsell seems to be a good hack for adding some revenue when th
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
But does it work? This is the third report I’ve seen in recent days and none of them mention if the spoon delivers on its promise. Reporters may be reluctant to share a spoon with dozens of other attendees, but might they practice some jour
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
It doesn’t have to mean cutting people out of your life, but you’d have to be more organised in scheduling events. You’d also be unable to regularly attend recurring meetups. I knew of a sysadmin who followed this schedule so he could monit
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
The new video and screen-share capabilities in ChatGPT and Gemini should make rubber-ducking smoother. I feel like I've worn out my computer’s clipboard and alt-tab keys at this stage of the LLM experience.
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
Every Unix command eventually becomes a startup: https://matt-rickard.com/every-unix-command-becomes-a-startu... Turns out not everyone wants to spend years learning *nix and sit on a desktop pc debugging shell commands to
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
Instead of deleting anything, my scripts usually mv files to a timestamped folder under /tmp. In practical terms, it’s rarely a noticeable difference in performance or disk usage. Also makes scripts easier to debug when you can inspect
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
I’d love to know if any of these were recovered or is it primarily a venting wall. Maybe also helps society members track which countries are riskiest to send from.
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
I’ve also been toying with a timer based app that incorporates some randomness, which I feel is usually missing or poorly handled in fitness apps. Some random exercises and variable-range durations should improve motivation and give your bo
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
I was expecting a many-worlds reference, knowing the physicist Sean Carroll's research interests. Related: Brian Cox meets Brian Cox https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jul/23/succession-a...
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
I've come across memoize gems before and thought, "do I really need to introduce a dependency when I can save results into a hash", but this makes a convincing argument to leverage a gem like memo_wise. Clean DSL syntax and t
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
What's a good place to discover high-quality RSS feeds these days?
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
You’re right Apple has a playbook of changing port types every few years, but there are adaptors available. The devices themselves still work, just that Apple knows they can use this one trick to encourage some customers to upgrade. With wi
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
Learning Vim early on had a high return on investment for this reason. Years later, I'm still able to benefit from the same muscle memory in modern tools, e.g. Obsidian. It should be said, though, that most implementations are simplifi
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
Australia (2022) and New Zealand (2023) flipped definitively too, in their respective post-Covid elections. The discontent looks like a general pattern regardless of whether the pandemic-era incumbent was nominally "left" or &quot
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
I do use that, but what I want is some idea of progress or pages remaining within the chapter.
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
I always find Kindle's "minutes left" too low for some reason, so I have to ignore it. I'd find it simpler - and easier to make progress - if it just showed pages read/remaining within the chapter. Absent that, I am
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
Yes, probably better to get the LLM to write the script. Example, I was trying out two podcast apps and wanted to get a diff of the feeds I had subscribed to. I initially asked the LLM to compare the two OPML files but it got the results wr
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
The difference is UX and aesthetics. Planet eBook is a more pleasant experience if you're a casual consumer browsing around for a well-known book to read, while Gutenberg's site suits someone with more specific needs wanting to ex
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
Goes to show it's not always about greed or malice. Sometimes overengineering is at least well-intentioned. (Following the money often helps you determine what caused it.)
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
My favourite part is no-one apparently discovered the source code sitting on the disk for an entire generation. “Surprisingly, no one appeared to have noticed that this happened, not Sierra, not their competitors or their customers, and it
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
I thought it was going to be a home server that went into overdrive, heating the room your cat was in or knocking out the aircon. Anyway, better experience than being woken up by a dozen SMS alerts.
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by mmahemoff 2y ago
And it's not even possible to enable this with Alexa routines, which should work as a "hobbyist/enthusiast" version of skills development, but are in reality extremely limited. e.g. As a routine writer, you could includ
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Cool idea but it's unfortunate the Chrome extension can read and change data on all sites you visit (as well as the intrinsic phishing risk for a DNS/search substitute). There's a history of such extensions ending up in the h
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Might still be a violation if they're the patient? Unless therapist and their employer's consent is given and ofc dependent on the relevant jurisdictions (IANAL).
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
This might be more of a searxng question, but doesn't it quickly run up against anti-bot measures? CAPTCHA challenges and Forbidden responses? I can see the manual has some support for dealing with CAPTCHA [1], but in practical terms,

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