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by raajg 3y ago
> not losing momentum in a nerd snipe like this is CRITICAL This line got me laughing! My nerd brain has tried so many times to convince me to splurge money with this exact line!
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by raajg 3y ago
Have you noticed that in the last few months, Github goes down every Tuesday?
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by raajg 3y ago
Dear Google, you've burned me so many times after I've fallen in love with your products. I have experienced the cold sting of disappointment far too many times. When you abruptly discontinue services like Google Buzz and Google R
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by raajg 3y ago
I've tried so many different stacks over the years but I always ended up in the same cycle: - Spend a lot of time finalizing the stack - Spend a lot of time styling the new blog - Migrate some of the posts from the old stack to the new
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by raajg 3y ago
Came across the magazine for the first time and really liking the presentation, typeface and feature like saving highlights. Clean interface too!
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by raajg 4y ago
Coincidentally started reading Solaris 2 weeks ago. About 60% in and really enjoying it. Love stories with novel sci-fi ideas and this one tackles a pretty interesting one. Would appreciate recommendations by the same author or other storie
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by raajg 4y ago
ChatGPT is really good with ‘text’. So I’ve been trying to experiment with different file formats. Some notable ones: - copy paste (emails for reservations) or type an event or multiple events and ask to convert it into ‘ical’ format. Copy
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by raajg 4y ago
Been using the RC build over Godot 3 and have been pleasantly surprised. There are several quality of life improvements - the biggest one being that you can set default font and just change font sizes without having to create a new theme fo
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by raajg 4y ago
Well, developers can ski of course. but I think the search engine is focussed on software dev
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by raajg 4y ago
Example of a search query with good followup questions: https://phind.com/search?q=why+is+funcref+not+working+in+God...
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by raajg 4y ago
The hints for followup questions is an interesting feature and something that could become a USP for this search engine. The followup questions were at times exactly what I wanted to ask next and sometimes thought-provoking and I was compel
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by raajg 4y ago
I asked ChatGPT to write a poem based on this post. Here's what it wrote: --- Two hearts, two minds, working side by side In pursuit of a mission to make AI safe and wide Microsoft’s investment allows us to stay true To our capped-prof
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by raajg 4y ago
If such unreasonably good music can be created based on information encoded in an image, I'm wondering what there things we can do with this flow: 1) Write text to describe the problem 2) Generate an image Y that encodes that informati
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by raajg 4y ago
The conclusion is in line with Tim Ferris's 'Slow Carb Diet'
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by raajg 4y ago
Similar to https://pocketbase.io ?
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by raajg 4y ago
For non-tech folks, I have been at loss to figure out how to convince them to use a password manager! Easy passwords repeated over and over again, and saved in plain text on one of the apps which itself has a simple password is the workflow
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by raajg 4y ago
No chair ($0) Been using a standing-only desk for about a decade now and the only thing I'd recommend.
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by raajg 5y ago
The housing market in Toronto is a hot mess at the moment. When I told my friends in US that even for renting a condo, I had to put an offer that was more than the asked monthly rent they were surprised and wouldn't believe me! The exc
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by raajg 5y ago
I have the Steam game too, but I'm somehow enjoying the browser version much more. Perhaps because of (seemingly) light-weight nature
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by raajg 5y ago
Wow, the entire town is URL encoded!! Example: http://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/#IzpjOEQ0ejP2X9w-b--c-X-...
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by raajg 5y ago
Dispora is my all time favorite. Highly recommended. I've read it cover to cover twice, and plan to do again soon. Reading diaspora, especially towards the end, feels like expanding my mind to think at a scale that I have really never
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by raajg 5y ago
The most ridiculous thing I've heard about all week
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by raajg 6y ago
Followed the links and came across https://small-tech.org/ which is pretty interesting. An example of how technologist can make a dent in how technology has been progressing thanks to an ad-driven internet.
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by raajg 8y ago
I use instapaper solely for its 'highlight' feature. Strange that other read-it-later apps don't provide it (at least in their free versions).
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by raajg 9y ago
Love the cloning feature! Haven't seen it in other tools.
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by raajg 9y ago
Really cool project - and thanks for open-sourcing it. For a couple of years I had used Emacs and the one tool that I really miss is 'org mode'. After switching back to VIM I have tried different plugins but none get even a little
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by raajg 10y ago
Yeah, I stumbled upon Greg Egan too in one of the HN posts - I think it was about 'Best Science Fiction Books' or something. I've never read anything like Greg Egan. While reading 'Diaspora' I could feel my skull ex
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by raajg 10y ago
Great work. Issue #1 was really good. Very excited to hear about the release of Issue #2
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by raajg 10y ago
Another Amazon Echo. Not at all interested. I wish there was a text box: Please never send me the latest updates about Google Home.
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Andrej Karpathy forced to take down Stanford CS231n videos(reddit.com)
17 points by raajg 10y ago|4 comments

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