pkamb

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by pkamb 8d ago
Instagram released a Reels-first iPad app that is much, much worse than the old iPhone-on-iPad app.
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by pkamb 9d ago
> Your own search engine — Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. Is there any site/project that works as a fully customizable personal front-end to all other SERPs? When I search for somet
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by pkamb 10d ago
The new roundabout completely prevents fatality t-bone crashes into people turning left from those stop signs, which has likely happened multiple times at that very intersection thus prompting the road to be redesigned.
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by pkamb 10d ago
Nowadays, depending on your state, they're being built in almost every new intersection that would call for one. And the worst existing intersections converted to them. It's happening and will only speed up.
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by pkamb 10d ago
A major reappraisal is currently happening in the entire industry, which for too long has been focused solely on the throughput of single-occupancy vehicles. Roundabouts offer many advantages over traffic signals, even the ones that "o
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by pkamb 10d ago
> the bulk of traffic all needs to slow down, downshift, turn a bit in one direction and then turn a bit in the other direction for the minority of traffic that's bleeding on or off the main artery. Slowing/calming traffic like
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by pkamb 4mo ago
Not when watching on an Apple TV.
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by pkamb 4mo ago
Sent from my iPhone
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by pkamb 4mo ago
https://blog.codinghorror.com/launching-the-rural-guaranteed...
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by pkamb 4mo ago
LLMs are better than slow human support of any kind for debugging / helpdesk work (which was never that welcome at SO anyway). Stack Overflow is still great for canonical questions, multiple answers, public / SEO'd discussion
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by pkamb 4mo ago
Forum? What forum? When has Stack Overflow ever been a forum?
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by pkamb 10mo ago
> Our goal was to build an app worthy of an Apple Design Award [...] After weeks of experimentation, we landed on React Native with Expo to achieve this. Has a non-native app ever won an ADA?
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by pkamb 11mo ago
The extension I've always wanted is a one that makes every link to a modern story on the New York Times, CNN, ESPN, etc. load using their same websites from like 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20041207071752&#x2
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by pkamb 1y ago
It just feels like the complete public domain New York Times should be a big deal. Why is it only available via individual issues in the Internet archive? Why hasn't every single story been cut out individually, fully OCR'd, so th
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by pkamb 1y ago
Does Anna's Archive or a similar site host, say, the complete New York Times (pre-1930) as a full PDF download set? And every other newspaper too? Tons of public domain sources are locked into websites like Newspapers.com or the nearly
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by pkamb 1y ago
Maybe the TikTok algorithm is better, but the "I don't like this" action on Meta properties just blatantly does not work. I still get the same type of clickbait content no matter how many times I try to get rid of it. Maybe
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by pkamb 2y ago
Air conditioning and TVs are the answer to this unfortunate problem.
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by pkamb 2y ago
It's not about monetizing friendship, it's about providing comfortable places where events like this can happen all over the city/country. People want this community but it kinda sucks to do (and mostly won't happen) if
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by pkamb 2y ago
No? Small businesses like that are what make cities great.
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by pkamb 2y ago
Now, even better, allow any neighbor to open a legitimate (yet small-scale and cheap) coffee shop or wine bar by-right in the garage space under their SF home.
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by pkamb 2y ago
Can you use that app for any/all YouTube videos? I want to listen to long-form video interviews and such, not just listen to music and 'actual' podcasts.
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by pkamb 2y ago
I might actually use "Downloads and background play" (for which you need the higher $$$ tier) if the YouTube app gave "Skip back 15 seconds" controls on the phone lock screen. Insane to use YouTube as a "podcast&quo
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by pkamb 2y ago
Newspapers have nearly identical newswire columns printed in 100+ newspapers, but with slightly different headlines and content. Or OCR breaking due to words being physically next to each other but in separate stories. The Newspapers.com se
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by pkamb 2y ago
Is anyone building a public domain repository / AI training ground for old newspapers? Anything before 1930 has no restrictions. Newspapers.com has pretty good content but the interface and search is extremely lacking. Google News wa
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by pkamb 2y ago
This is potentially true; I've noticed green-bubble chats are much less annoying in the last year. Do they send over Wifi now? That was also a killer iMessage feature on trips with bad cell coverage.
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by pkamb 2y ago
iMessage/SMS is just one of the many sending options in the share sheet. WhatsApp or whatever your country uses will be there too.
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by pkamb 2y ago
By "use SMS" you surely mean "use iMessage" much of the time.
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by pkamb 2y ago
In the USA, someone insisting on using an Android when everyone else in their social circle has an iPhone (and they do!) is what's seen as anti-social. No one wants to use the degraded green bubble SMS experience so they simply exclude
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by pkamb 2y ago
As I understand it, many Americans (and all iPhones?) had unlimited-SMS phone plans circa 2009. So the pay-per-message economic conditions that caused many Europeans, etc., to switch to WhatsApp back in the day didn't do anything in th
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by pkamb 2y ago
For a long time they were heavily promoting "Ships to You" non-local goods. Annoying. Lots of dropshipper type stuff rather than a local unique items. Marketplace seems to have backed off that in the last year(s) though, my feed s

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