neocritter

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Bluesky feed of gift links for major paywalled news sites(bsky.app)
4 points by neocritter 2y ago|0 comments
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by neocritter 3y ago
Using my phone to pay is pretty low friction. There's literal friction to pulling anything out, but the phone comes out much more easily than the financial xenomorph of pulling my wallet out, then pulling a card out of the wallet. Then
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by neocritter 3y ago
That sounds like good old fashioned payola.
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by neocritter 3y ago
Kagi's internal index seems to focus on sites that wouldn't necessarily block spiders. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm... I've crawled small web sites (even hosted on ma
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by neocritter 3y ago
Maybe it's a lisp thing. Who knows what mysteries lurk here
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by neocritter 3y ago
A worthwhile distinction! I looked up the CPU mentioned in the link from your other comment. It looks like HN handles enormous traffic on about 2x the power of the last Celeron chip ever made. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/co
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by neocritter 3y ago
It's real. Single core performance improves all the time. People overestimate how much power it takes to handle lots of queries per second on a well-tuned system and well-written software in 2024. https://hn.algolia.com&#x2F
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The new age of online grocery shopping (2010)(arstechnica.com)
1 points by neocritter 3y ago|0 comments
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by neocritter 3y ago
One of my favorite YouTube channels uses the fame and funding to take on dog grooming jobs no one else is able to, or is able to devote enough time and detail to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OkGk2YRSnw There's als
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by neocritter 3y ago
It's hard to strike a balance between taking responsibility when no one else will and not being a doormat, but it's one worth finding.
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The 'Atlanta Magnet Man' is saving our car tires, one bike ride at a time(wabe.org)
343 points by neocritter 3y ago|220 comments
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by neocritter 3y ago
Does it end up better or worse in practice than the pure computational approach? A system with the same faults as the system it replaces could still be an improvement if they occur less often.
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by neocritter 3y ago
More likely those will join EBCDIC as anachronisms that survive every new revolution in technology.
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by neocritter 3y ago
Trumpet Winsock is a strong contender.
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by neocritter 3y ago
MP4 works fine, but different ways of creating/editing/preparing video all have different ideas about how to produce a video file, and the people operating them don't always have the technical background to even know there&#x
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by neocritter 3y ago
If they have that level of control, they could simply arrange for planets to smash each other to bits and reform as a Dyson sphere.
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45 of 54 tattoo inks tested have unlabeled or mislabeled ingredients(arstechnica.com)
17 points by neocritter 3y ago|4 comments
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by neocritter 3y ago
Worse: it's passing through the layers of the Cuil theory toward the unknown within the unknown. http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is-cuil-theory
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by neocritter 3y ago
Was that the situation where the tweet was from over a decade before when she was a teenager, and she said she learned to be more thoughtful as an adult?
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by neocritter 3y ago
Unless you have a dual flush toilet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_flush_toilet
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by neocritter 3y ago
The itch.io forums: https://itch.io/community Newgrounds: https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs Gamedev.net: https://www.gamedev.net/forums/ I've heard mixed reviews of the game developm
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by neocritter 3y ago
The life of the juiced up Gamecube (Wii) might offer some guidance here.
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by neocritter 3y ago
Is this one of those "we're doing great, you're fired" situations, or is there a real market reason? The PS5 seems to be selling well.
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by neocritter 3y ago
Possibly making explicit that while it might go over before their suspension logic kicks in, you won't be charged for it on a free tier.
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by neocritter 3y ago
How does Redbox compare? I always see their kiosks, but I never think to look. I'm also surprised and amused to learn it's owned by Chicken Soup for the Soul. Yes, that Chicken Soup for the Soul.