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by spondyl 2y ago
I know it's a marketing site so the speed is for the sake of the demo but the various animations showing a cursor scrolling past reams of text quicker than any human can scan, and just blindly hitting Accept makes for weird optics.
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by spondyl 2y ago
The idea is great and is essentially the same premise as Beeminder (no relation, just a user) Instead of pledging an amount up front, you instead provide card details and get charged if you miss your goal. Once you miss the goal, the pledge
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by spondyl 2y ago
Interestingly, The Journal (a podcast from the Wall Street Journal) ran an episode with Anthropic's AI safety team just yesterday. I had wondered if it was perhaps a PR push from Anthropic to make their safety people available to the p
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by spondyl 2y ago
As a bit of anecdata, I used an LLM to refactor a core part of one of my site projects about 6 months or so ago. I don't really remember how it works, probably because I didn't have to think hard about the design, I just sort of i
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by spondyl 2y ago
I don't really know if anyone reads my blog because I don't use any analytics or care to know. There are a handful of times that I've written a post about something and then when someone offline expresses interest in X thing
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by spondyl 2y ago
To clarify for anyone wondering, 404 Media and WIRED have a partnership so WIRED will occasionally publish their content and they hope to collaborate together on articles (although I'm not sure if this was one of them)
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by spondyl 2y ago
Just an FYI that Pinboard pages aren't public anymore, only being visible to those who are logged in to Pinboard. Marciej mentioned the following when I noticed myself and asked what the cause was: > Unfortunately you've run in
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by spondyl 2y ago
Another macOS native pie menu is https://www.pie-menu.com
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by spondyl 2y ago
You might be thinking of https://raindrop.io which is developed by a Kazakh developer?
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by spondyl 2y ago
> doesn’t work offline on mobile devices To some degree, that isn't true anymore as of last week but of course, you meant when you used it, not generally: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/offline-in-beta/
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Terence Tao "This Is Otakudom" Voice Actor Bio(shanghikid.50megs.com)
2 points by spondyl 2y ago|1 comments
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by spondyl 2y ago
I was looking for something else on this page and did a double take. Is that... /the/ Terence Tao? He's a Ranma 1/2 fan? Nice!
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by spondyl 2y ago
I'm only 30 and honestly, sometimes I sit down at a side project and think "How the heck did I just sit here and grind out this entire desktop application" when now I'll struggle to work on it for an hour at a time. Part
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by spondyl 2y ago
> I mean, I am happy for them but this concept of growing a business to an exit is not going well for society as a whole Oh yeah, I fully agree with the enshittification sentiment. Admittedly, a DNS registrar for me personally is somethi
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by spondyl 2y ago
I can't speak to any of those videos in a technical sense but personally, I don't feel like any of them are good? The vibe they give me is similar to the iPhone photography commercials where yes, in theory, a picnic in the park co
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by spondyl 2y ago
Oh damn, I didn't know this! I've used their services for ages and even got to briefly meet the founders once in Wellington who gave a talk on Erlang. Ah well, while it sucks that the good times may be over, I'm glad the foun
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by spondyl 2y ago
Discussed here previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42284202
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by spondyl 2y ago
This is apparently a misattribution: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/17/tim-cook-didnt-say-that... > The Wall Street Journal last month published an interview with Cook, in which he said he uses every Ap
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by spondyl 2y ago
Shout outs to Henry Waxman who originally introduced H.R.3562 aka the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990. It's wild to think that the mandating of nutrition labels is only 34 years old. I can recommend his biography The Waxma
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by spondyl 2y ago
If you meant me, I live in New Zealand funnily enough.
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by spondyl 2y ago
I don't use it myself but I came across this open stats page which seems to suggest Chrome Extension Support is coupled to hitting $10K MRR. The graph legend says > To comfortably maintain our own build pipeline with Chrome Extensio
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by spondyl 2y ago
Anecdotally speaking, Spotify has become a sort of cultural default for a bunch of people. If you're in a DM or a group chat, you may not hear "You should listen to X by Y" but rather "Check this out: https://
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by spondyl 2y ago
Just to clarify a bit more for those who are new to strings and because the audience for the post may learn towards people fresher to reverse engineering: While most of the time, you're dealing with variables and such in programs, at s
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by spondyl 2y ago
As someone who has been on and off the Degoogle train (I ran full LineageOS without Google Play at one point) and is now pretty deep in iOS territory, I'd say the main thing for me has been email. I've used https://www.
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by spondyl 2y ago
When it comes to China, it's not entirely fair to single out Apple here given that non-Chinese companies are not allowed to run their own compute in China directly. It always has to be operated by a sponsor in the state who hold encryp
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by spondyl 2y ago
I'm not entirely sure why this is on the front page of HN but I can +1 Paranormasight after having played it shortly after it released. I thought the game was a treat :)
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by spondyl 2y ago
For anyone interested in a counter-point (ie; "Transparency is not inherently good and here's why"), the paper "Transparency is Surveillance" is a nice read: https://philpapers.org/archive/NGUTI
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by spondyl 2y ago
Shout outs to Shiva who has appeared in some videos but is often behind the camera so doesn't get enough recognition as being the other half of their duo :)
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by spondyl 2y ago
If you'd like a counterpoint that complete transparency is not inherently good, you might enjoy this: https://philpapers.org/archive/NGUTIS.pdf
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by spondyl 2y ago
The Auckland Museum has an interactive exhibit where you can go into a little house and watch a (fake) news broadcast. It shows a suburb with a view of the ocean and then suddenly one of the underwater volcanos erupts which causes the house

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