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by ppetty 3y ago
Vivaldi Mail checks a couple boxes, like offline access & support for almost every service provider. But no completely unique or new features. It’s interesting that they have RSS integrated as well as a Calendar but I’m not seeing wha
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by ppetty 3y ago
This is how some commentary on anything new starts, shallow opinionated "bullshit" to use the author's language. Time will tell if the audience trends to be rich people, even when the presumably non-Pro version launches. Bu
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by ppetty 3y ago
I don't think this is a devtools* replacement or a significant enough "game changer", this is just a different way to interact with CSS. Devtools reveals both the HTML & CSS (as well as the cascading rules that comprise
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by ppetty 3y ago
That’s awesome though I haven’t received confirmation. To me, it still seems less advantageous to try something that seemed as stable as Neeva with a 1 year subscription, month to month is okay. That’s what I’ll likely do for a Kagi subscr
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by ppetty 3y ago
“We’ve discovered”?? I’ve discovered saving by using the annual plan was a mistake. I’ll avoid that mistake if I try Kagi or something else. But really miss Neeva’s integrations that were cancelled recently. Having the ability to search m
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by ppetty 3y ago
"Was this text generated by ChatGPT?" seems like a relevant question ... -- For each of the students. -- For someone in the Computer Science department. -- A different prompt tool (like Bard even) I hope this terrible form of eval
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by ppetty 3y ago
I’m not switching but this is a good demo approach. And if it gets better over time might seem ironic to early iPhone owners who were told that web apps would suffice… you can accomplish a lot with SPA / PWA. It also makes me wonder i
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by ppetty 4y ago
This is the first step… any thoughts on step 2? How many steps until advance notice for API changes?
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by ppetty 4y ago
Does anyone know if iCloud (photos) storage is AWS S3? Curious if using both iCloud & Amazon Photos is a decent redundant backup plan in addition to a local copy. Or if I have iCloud & Prime, why not? (I also use Backblaze.)
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by ppetty 4y ago
Well said … “ads keep the content free” so says the anti-ad-blocking modal on that site.
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by ppetty 4y ago
More fodder for the “dumb” devices market. Hold onto your offline car & toaster. Seriously, this is both astonishing and revolting for most people, but maybe we all need to learn how to keep our dumb stuff working instead of throwing
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Ask HN: About the Shitshow (a.k.a. Twitter)
1 points by ppetty 4y ago|4 comments
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by ppetty 4y ago
Fastmail's masked email, in addition to iCloud's hide my email, are great alternatives to massaging your address with a . or a + ... Both of those require payment. I'm really really happy with Fastmail (and use iCloud too),
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by ppetty 4y ago
RSS is awesome. And great to see new innovation like this. The notion of RSS Brain best features seem to depend on having already discovered feeds. Feedly, for example, has a discovery experience to find new feeds which is helpful. If I
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by ppetty 4y ago
For all the comments about Safari versus Chrome, I would love to see Safari take the lead in documentation although MDN does a great job. I mainly want to see that so we can extend the comparisons to web.dev and sites that probably wouldn’
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by ppetty 4y ago
That makes sense, to an extent. But tossing it in a drawer, from others’ posts, seems extreme. Calling, texting and many other functions may work well for a while. Bank apps may not get updated leaving web access as an alternative thoug
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by ppetty 4y ago
If it still starts up what prevents its use as a mobile phone? If it’s dead and you’re looking to replace the iPhone mini 12 or 13 (refurbished or new 13) are great options.
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by ppetty 4y ago
I agree with others regarding the consistency across all streaming services as pretty disparate hard to use user experiences. That said building for web, iOS, Android, consoles, PCs, macOS and so on means trying to be consistent for your se
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by ppetty 4y ago
The demographics should not matter, period. The idea that few people use the app or that direct communication is the standard at a wealth management bank like this doesn’t mean lack of preparedness is okay. In other words what omissions o
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by ppetty 4y ago
So seriously, I agree that this seems like a bug. But it also seems easier in some cases it might benefit others. So similar to Show HN or Ask HN … Bug HN as a prefix for post titles like this? I really think however small there is value,
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by ppetty 4y ago
There are a significant number of references to a BCG report from June 2022. The article doesn’t link to that report directly. I don’t doubt that the report exists… but linking to it wouldn’t hurt. It might be this one: https:/&#x
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by ppetty 4y ago
The "?" icon in the upper open a small modal that says: "This Is A Thing This is an exploration of the idea that we can't control everything in our lives, but that we do have some agency in how we feel. This was inspired
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by ppetty 4y ago
Check out http://pinboard.in/resources/ ... and that's not purely a recommendation to look at pinboard; scroll to the bottom of Resources & there's a list of alternatives. Many of which are mentioned here
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by ppetty 4y ago
So I just went to Ford.com and like almost all manufacturer’s sites, I can’t build & price without entering a zip code and immediately after doing so base prices jump for fees including delivery without any options selected. No pricing
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by ppetty 4y ago
Yes! One nice aspect of version controlled notes: change management "trail". Meaning that I don't have to note what specific changes occurred to a requirement in a project but can just change the requirement. If I need to r
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by ppetty 4y ago
Totally agree, and to date my workaround is that my default view for the repo is the initial README.md in edit mode ... I drop stuff that's top of mind or urgent and then afterwards (or later) move to a different file if needed.
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by ppetty 4y ago
So for both use cases (Gitlab & Github) their web IDEs are leveraging Git (from the web GUI). So the cool aspect of all of this is that I could clone the repo locally and maybe even re-purpose for a Hugo site. But the core benefit of
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Tell HN: My new free note taking tool
215 points by ppetty 4y ago|103 comments
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by ppetty 4y ago
This part is really misleading: "AMP is a new markdown language which can be compared to HTML." AMP according to amp.dev: "AMP is a web component framework to easily create user-first experiences for the web." ... which
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by ppetty 4y ago
I think it’s good to be aware of their software advances, but most of the hardware reveals really demonstrated the amount of time needed to copy competitors’ designs (with a few exceptions).

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