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by nicbou 10mo ago
You can use various tools to block the feeds on those websites or redirect the front page to your notifications. This has completely cut browsing for me. I still use those websites because my work requires an audience, but itself pretty muc
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I tried reading on my OLED TV and it worked great.
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Honestly it's a brilliant idea
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In this case Apple has cared about typography since its very beginning. Steve Jobs obsessed over it. The OS also replaces simple quotes with fancier ones. I do the same on my websites. It's embedded into my static site generator. Very
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by nicbou 10mo ago
You probably won't like the one I run for a living, but my personal website is https://nicolasbouliane.com p.s. the way I wrote this sentence mirrors this beautiful scene from The Wind Rises: https://m.youtube.co
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The indifference is the worst part for me. AI summaries killing the independent web? Meh. AI used to generate and spread disinformation? As long as we get views. AI deepfakes used to bully people on X? Try to stop us and see what the US gov
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Some keyboards and operating systems — iOS is one of them — convert two dashes into an emdash.
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”He is buying a gift for his aunt” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2gB03p44_4
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One format I'm missing: storage for conversations and social media posts. Both are complex media (text + images/videos + metadata), and one is actually a collection of such posts. How would you go about storing those in a somewhat
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So long as they are relevant to the website’s stated topic. It’s nice to have one place on the internet that is not about US politics.
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That person is already ignoring obvious social conventions. People don't want to know which other shitty behaviours they have in store.
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After a failed apartment search, I set to make my current apartment as comfortable as possible. These are my game changers: - French press and v60. Coffee became a ritual I look forward to, not something I drink to achieve a goal. - Speaker
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You have the right but not the obligation to give. The person asking has heard a lot more no's than you could stomache, so one more won't kill them.
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What is the standard approach? I find that being genuine and vulnerable and having no hidden agenda works wonders.
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You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
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Yes, but it's frustrating that it's on the organizer to give everyone both something fun to do and the flexibility to flake. It feels like such thankless work to work so hard and get so little commitment back.
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I often think about the speech that Chamberlain made to announce that Britain was at war with Germany. The tone is chilling. No pomp, no bravado, just sad resignation. Chamberlain did his utmost to prevent another murderous war, and he fail
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The fact that the Lindemann doctrine is back on the table speaks volumes about the state of affairs.
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It saddens me to see how so many years of collaboration wasted on this. We were at peace, we worked together. What is this even for? Can't the US just focus on its existing problems instead of creating new ones?
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In university, we had pretty powerful calculators. Mine had a "solve" button. We could bring them in our exams, but we were tested on figuring out what to ask the calculator. You needed to understand the topic well enough to tell
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For me, it's a mix of factors: - Our work feels very abstract and removed from real people in the real world. Sometimes I did not even understand what our product did, or it got axed after a year. Marx's theory of alienation felt
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Writing about the importance of empathy in terms of economic value would probably take away a lot more from the idea.
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I wonder how you have reached this conclusion without having the faintest idea of what I write about. Nonetheless, I live from that work. If you are correct, there's a fair bit of money on the table for you.
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The map is not the territory! Documentation is a helpful, curated simplification of the real thing. What to include and what to leave out depends on the audience. But if you treat "write documentation" as a box-ticking exercise, a
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by nicbou 10mo ago
> Why shouldn't AI be able to sufficiently model all of this I call it the banana bread problem. To curate a list of the best cafés in your city, someone must eventually go out and try a few of them. A human being with taste honed b
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I work alone. My website is https://allaboutberlin.com
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I suggest that you read my comment again. It will answer your question.
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My whole comment was about the need for a thinking, feeling human being. Is it surprising that I am emotional about it?
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You are right. We are seeing a transition from the user as a customer to the user as a resource. It's almost like a cartel of shitty treatment. I don't work for the public transit company; I introduce immigrants to Berlin's p
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I write documentation for a living. Although my output is writing, my job is observing, listening and understanding. I can only write well because I have an intimate understanding of my readers' problems, anxieties and confusion. T

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