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   by npilk 4y ago

   Copying a comment from below - it’s been a while since I read the book, but I think Johnson had hypothesized that more modern reading experiences (e.g. browsing the Internet) might require more context switching and mental processing than t
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   by npilk 4y ago

   It’s been a while since I read the book, but I think Johnson had hypothesized that more modern reading experiences (e.g. browsing the Internet) might require more context switching and mental processing than traditional written formats like
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   by npilk 4y ago

   Steven Johnson had an interesting take on this in his book Everything Bad Is Good For You: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Bad_Is_Good_for_Y... TL;DR - the complexity of media has been increasing over the
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   by npilk 4y ago

   I think Seneca said it best: “It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if it was earthenware is no less great.”
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   by npilk 4y ago

   I had the same realization and ended up setting up a simple Cloudflare script to automatically do an “I’m Feeling Lucky” style search to return the first result: https://notes.npilk.com/custom-search
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   Taking the internet off the hook(notes.npilk.com)

   13 points by npilk 4y ago|8 comments
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   by npilk 4y ago

   As someone who loves Infinite Jest and does think it's the best novel of our generation, I was pretty much just as enthralled and entertained by the Tim Tebow Chronicles. Honestly, there are also some similarities in the dreamlike alte
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   by npilk 4y ago

   You might enjoy 17776 [0], a mixed media fiction piece by the same author, which does not include large scale space battles but does generally take place in space (and is also discussed elsewhere in this thread). :-) [0]: https:/&#x2F
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   by npilk 5y ago

   https://www.npilk.com I had a lot of fun putting together the design!
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    by npilk 5y ago

    I appreciate how the author captures the mindset involved in this kind of trading. I would cash out if I had 6,000% gains, but that same mindset is what prevents me from getting 6,000% gains in the first place, because I’d never go all-in o
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    Alice Blue(en.wikipedia.org)

    2 points by npilk 5y ago|0 comments
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    Plainlanguage.gov(plainlanguage.gov)

    3 points by npilk 5y ago|0 comments
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    by npilk 5y ago

    Found this the other week when someone alerted me that emails from my custom domain were showing as possible spam in Gmail - it worked perfectly to help me fix the problem (duplicate SPF records). It's frustrating that all my mail coul
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    by npilk 5y ago

    https://xkcd.com/2051/
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    by npilk 5y ago

    There's an Ohio billboard right downtown in Austin, just off the highway, that I think makes fun of you for sitting in traffic and suggests Ohio would be better. It's sort of interesting how this antagonistic approach actually mak
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    WeatherStar 4000+: weather forecasts in a retro Weather Channel style(battaglia.ddns.net)

    1 points by npilk 5y ago|0 comments
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    by npilk 5y ago

    Ah - the oracle only looks at recent tweets, so it may not be that helpful for past controversies... In general I've found the results to be much better for subjects that a lot of people are currently tweeting about.
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    by npilk 5y ago

    Thanks!
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    by npilk 5y ago

    Interesting stuff. I doinked around with this a while back when working on a 'hot take oracle' - basically a search box that finds a strongly-opinionated tweet about something ( https://hottakeoracle.herokuapp.com/
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    by npilk 5y ago

    Great! I'm glad to hear this is helpful.
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    by npilk 5y ago

    Nice! I had discovered that adding a '!' does this on DDG, but didn't know about the backslash - cool tip. I will say that it's nice to be able to add the exclamation point at the end, instead of putting it at the start
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    Customizing Web Search(notes.npilk.com)

    32 points by npilk 5y ago|11 comments
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    by npilk 5y ago

    This piece is an interesting complement: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/05/09/welcome-to-the-future-... "This also explains why so few futurists make any money. They are attracted to exactly those parts
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    by npilk 5y ago

    5 years ago, I would have loved to move to the Bay Area, despite the expense. Today, I'm looking for a new city and the Bay isn't really even in my consideration set. I will say that as an outsider, the Bay and San Francisco often
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    by npilk 5y ago

    I love the look, but the kerning seems to be a little off, especially for initial caps. Try typing “Testing” into the test box. Although I guess you’d mostly use all caps anyways if you wanted the full “park sign” effect.
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    Show HN: Get headlines from your favorite sites in your inbox on your schedule(bulletyn.co)

    2 points by npilk 5y ago|0 comments
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    by npilk 5y ago

    I know this is low-value, but it always stuns me to see basic typos on a product’s landing page (lets —> let’s). Have the creators shown it to anyone else? Has nobody close to them told them about it? I don’t blame anyone for making a mi
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    Apple's product placement on Ted Lasso, ranked from least to most annoying(alltakes.substack.com)

    1 points by npilk 5y ago|0 comments
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    by npilk 5y ago

    I like to use Reddit to get news on topics I care about, but I used to end up spending hours on comment sections. Instead, I've been using this for the past year or so to get email digests of top links twice a day, which has been great
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    Show HN: Get custom email digests of HN, Reddit, and RSS feeds(bulletyn.co)

    3 points by npilk 5y ago|2 comments