sawaruna

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Ask HN: What are some interesting single purpose Twitter bot accounts?
2 points by sawaruna 6y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft condemns Apple’s App Store policies(theverge.com)
4 points by sawaruna 6y ago|0 comments
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by sawaruna 6y ago
I don't use voice assistants so I don't know if these are common, but some of the examples in the list of commands[0] are interesting. >Ask about a webpage - Display or open information to the current page or website. >Examp
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by sawaruna 6y ago
I was thinking of buying some gold mining company or gold ETF shares a while ago. Still time for the ETF buy I suppose, but maybe wait for a dip before buying the former.
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Ask HN: Besides the default website, how do you consume Hacker News?
1 points by sawaruna 6y ago|0 comments
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by sawaruna 6y ago
There are many seemingly mundane things people watch on Twitch. Farming, Truck Driving, etc. It's not really any more strange than the majority of the 'Just Chatting' section.
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Ask HN: Preferred VSCode-based note taking app?
1 points by sawaruna 6y ago|2 comments
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Re: Not bombing Kyoto, apart from Stimson's personal reasons, I thought this was also an interesting one: >Postwar political considerations did affect the choice of targets for the atomic bombs. Secretary of War Henry Stimson ordere
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by sawaruna 6y ago
I bought a new MacBook Pro a couple of months ago, just before the ARM announcement even though it was rumoured. Like others have mentioned, I’m not too keen on buying the first gen of the ARM laptops. If they or the second gem are that app
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by sawaruna 6y ago
I wonder, do any non-tech centric employers look here? I’m interested in research positions and have a PhD in informatics and do mainly metadata, knowledge organization, linked data work. I do have some programming abilities but are most of
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Comix-35 Home Computer(github.com)
44 points by sawaruna 6y ago|13 comments
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by sawaruna 6y ago
I think they are. It's a popular collection of 'fighting game backgrounds with nice pixel art' that get posted around pretty often.
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Not sure about the Android version, but the cheapest subscription option for Carrot on iOS enables selectable data sources. Accuracy will vary for your area but there may be a good replacement.
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Any examples of those mining lenders you mentioned?
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by sawaruna 6y ago
It's 2020 not 'Its 2020'.
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Since this story came out a few days ago, does anyone know if Amazon has commented on whether or not they plan to launch these 'themselves' / with Blue Origin?
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by sawaruna 6y ago
There isn't a great single resource I can point to, but try the twitter account Yusha Kobo[0], which is a keyboard shop in Tokyo. Not just their posts, but if you look at the feeds or likes of people they retweet, you should be able to
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by sawaruna 6y ago
If anyone is interested in building their own split ergo: https://blog.splitkb.com/blog/introducing-the-kyria
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Split keyboards are really popular amongst the Japanese mechanical keyboard scene for some reason. Tons of people making and selling DIY split / ortholinear split kits.
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Not sure if this will fit the bill exactly, but have been looking for something like this to accompany knowledge base note tools like Roam, Obsidian, etc., since those don't work that well with web content IMO. Using Zotero at the mome
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Most of my academic and current research career involves RDF and SPARQL and I wish it were a bit more used outside of academia or esoteric library / information science related fields. Currently taking a bunch of heterogenous data from
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Ask HN: What website redesigns had an initial positive reaction?
2 points by sawaruna 6y ago|2 comments
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by sawaruna 6y ago
>if you want to share a stable/growing bookmarks collection, or even cooperate with others sharing their own, there's nowhere to do it. There's http://are.na
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by sawaruna 6y ago
I've been looking for these for a while now. I remember seeing early prints on Twitter some time ago but couldn't find them again. They are pretty interesting IMO - maybe comment about the RAM being used to make the art just in ca
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by sawaruna 6y ago
>The operating thesis of a significant segment of the leadership in these states is that America is a racist nation, governed by a horde of white male supremacists who use the pretense of equality to maintain their superior position. Whe
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by sawaruna 6y ago
I've been writing a bit about content discovery sans algorithms and I think there is at least some number of people would be interested in it. Social curation is appealing, though I'm not sure how popular a dedicated site for cura
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by sawaruna 6y ago
I won’t say it’s objectively better in all cases but Deepl provides better translations from what I’ve seen than Google Translate.
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Yeah not sure what triggered the change but it was extremely noticeable.
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by sawaruna 6y ago
Devonthink looks cool, but can you explain why it's functionally better? Or is it just a better layout?
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by sawaruna 6y ago
I keep trying to use Roam and Obsidian (rather than a more simple note taking app like Notable,) but I find that my more complex thoughts on topics, i.e the ones I would want to use this kind of software to record, is more often than not ab

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