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by patrickk 5y ago
Not quite an AI but you can filter Reddit posts in RES by using keyword filters. Really great for clickbait topics.
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It’s difficult to disrupt companies or even whole industries that are stuffed with busy work, and had management completely uninterested in efficiency. Especially prevalent in some (non US, non Tech, high barriers to entry) work cultures th
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AutoHotKey and Pulover's Macro Creator[1] (which spits out AHK scrips from mouse and keyboard input) can do a similar job in a windows environment, and can trivially click on UI elements on the screen via PixelSearch. It runs lightning
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This description falls under the "duct tapers" category of Bullshit Jobs[1], according to David Graeber: > duct tapers, who temporarily fix problems that could be fixed permanently, e.g., programmers repairing bloated code, air
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Although it could be a general concern, it unlikely to affect me. Since all the HDMI connections are via a (slightly older, non-connected) AV receiver, its almost impossible for this to affect my setup. But it's indeed a sleazy move by
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I'm not sure if it's more efficient than the methods you mentioned, but Project Vesta makes some pretty bold claims using the carbonate-silicate cycle. More details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20403570
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I got an LG CX tv and never hooked it up to the internet. It acts as a (very pretty) yet dumb tv like the old days. An Nvidia shield handles all the streaming, kodi handles local files etc, all the media that I could possibly need. 4k is ha
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Modern air or ground source heat pumps tend to be quiet, even silent, at least according to some deep dives down the Youtube rabbit hole on passive houses. Check out the "Moonstone house" on Youtube for example. https:/&#x2F
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The E-Myth (Revisited?) is a book that suffers badly from having page after page of sentimental drivel, padding it out significantly. The core message is quite insightful and worth knowing, but the author doesn’t respect the readers time. E
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There are a plethora of streaming boxes out there. Arguably the best is an Nvidia shield pro, which I use. It runs everything you want and more (YouTube, plex, jellyfin, iptv, local tv station apps...), via the Google Play store. If you wan
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The scope gets bloated and the app unfocused. Most people wouldn’t read eBooks or comics from a big screen interface for example, but use a dedicated app for that. Keeping a cinema app primarily focused on video means it is leaner and meane
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Excellent podcast with the author: https://peterattiamd.com/patrickraddenkeefe/
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> Don’t get me wrong: the Sacklers are disgusting people who contributed to the opioid crisis. Can a link be established that meets the relevant legal threshold for liability? Again, genuinely curious. There's a ton of internal Purd
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Alternatively as a User script: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/40897-old-reddit-please
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Almost all e-bike batteries sold to consumers are ridiculously overpriced[1] relative to their components. Especially those from reputable brands like Bosch and Shimano which supplies most of the better e-bike brands on the street. It’s a c
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> The article does make a brief callout to 'anti-theft', and yeah, can confirm that this is important, but not sure what the best approach is. From my experience, the absolute best thing is "out of sight, out of mind"
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A bike trailer paired with an ebike opens up all kinds of possibilities, like bringing home groceries, carrying your pet dog (!!)[1], going picnicking, etc. with or without a child in the trailer. It can eliminate the need for a car for the
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Samsung boasts about having Automatic Content Recognition[1] on their website. There was a discussion on HN some time ago, many/all major tv manufacturers suck in your viewing data via HDMI fingerprinting (IIRC) in order to serve up un
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Gambling ads across much of Europe. It’s pervasive especially around football ad breaks. I have a theory that at some stage VOCs (in furniture, carpets, laminated wood products, paints etc) that lead to sick building syndrome will be heavil
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I use and love Foobar2000, but I certainly agree that out of the box it lacks polish. There’s some great skins like this[1] that make it look amazing, but it can be a hassle to setup. Another complaint is that the iPod sync plugin often doe
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> To replicate that today I'd need to subscribe to many different services all with separate monthly fees and way less conveniece (a single unified interface through MythTV was magical) Plex shares or even Pseudo TV Live partially c
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Don’t connect it to the internet, use something like Nvidia Shield pointed at PiHole for streaming all the usual services. Not perfect, but much better than using a smart tv laden with Spyware and shitty apps.
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One challenge will be to get enough supply of submarine power cable to make this a reality. The Morocco-UK proposal (mentioned in the bottom of the article) involves the UK company literally setting up a new factory specifically to produce
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> and long-haul and medium haul flights can be split up into multiple legs for almost every route. A better solution would be to eventually ban/tax out of existence regular jet fuel, and move to synthetically-produced jet fuel[1] w
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The three main Italian mafia groups are up there, ’Ndrangheta, Comorra and La Costra Nostra. Their reach is simply massive, as is their revenue. Yet they're not well known (even in Italy, according to a northern Italian colleague) and
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> ...essentially keeping on-prem 2000's philosophy and revamp it as microservices). On top of that add vendeta-developers in Asia (I'm in a small offshoot team in Europe) handing down half-baked frameworks (not-invented-here an
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Perhaps because of the German influence? Anecdotally, today in Germany, it’s really tricky for Germans with a very strong grasp of English to distinguish between ‘borrow’ and ‘lend’.
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A few more /r/battlestations /r/buildapc /r/GameDeals /r/Rainmeter /r/diyaudio /r/fixit /r/TronScript /r/AutoHotkey /r/bookmarklets /r/homea
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Most other OEMs don’t own much dealers. Tesla is more like Apple by owning their own retailers and controlling the whole value chain.
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There was also some dodgy goings on with Farage and some hedge funds, where they placed large bets on the pound dropping in value: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-06/brexit-po... https:/

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