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by tony-allan 2y ago
On MacOS the RAM usage is much better than for Apple's mail app.
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by tony-allan 2y ago
I stumbled across this website. Previously mentioned on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40528045 Written by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tppiotrowski
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Shademap: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time(shademap.app)
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by tony-allan 2y ago
Key point - Becoming AI Whisperers: 1. The 70/30 Rule: Let AI handle boilerplate; reserve 30% of every task for human ingenuity. 2. AI Code Autopsies: When using generated code, reverse-engineer it line by line. Make it teach you. 3. R
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by tony-allan 2y ago
Javascript source -- https://github.com/jherrm/knobs
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by tony-allan 2y ago
If I want to use a library function or snippet of code today I just google an example and adapt a promising result only checking the documentation if I don't understand a parameter. I use AI exactly the same way. When I get an AI sugge
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by tony-allan 2y ago
You could process the data on a server but I just accept that I will see a daily snapshot of the top 60 or so items. So far I’ve been happy with that approach. Also doesn’t waste too much time.
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by tony-allan 2y ago
For example very slow ADSL connections or somewhere with poor phone reception.
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by tony-allan 2y ago
HN is a brilliant website that I use every day. If you want something different create something that better suits you and share the result on HN. You can even easily access the data. There are a couple of cool websites that use the data in
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by tony-allan 2y ago
https://www.swiftbooked.com/
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by tony-allan 2y ago
Liked the reference to uOTA - OTA updater for MicroPython https://github.com/mkomon/uota
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by tony-allan 2y ago
I can't remember where I read it but a large portion of people who are over 100 might be the result of poor record keeping in the past, especially with registration of births at home.
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by tony-allan 2y ago
From the essay: "The foundational idea behind PageRank is that a ‘web page is important if it is pointed to by other important pages’. Brin and Page realised that the web is not just a lexical environment but a social one, in which lin
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by tony-allan 2y ago
You need to get in touch with @keyvank! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42332337
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by tony-allan 2y ago
2016
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by tony-allan 2y ago
You must budget time and money to land an Enterprise deal. This is not always viable if you are a small company.
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by tony-allan 2y ago
" Why startups exist Startups exists to find a solution to a problem someone has, and then to build a product around it. Ideally that problem is not being addressed well for a certain group of people, and there is a chance to improve t
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by tony-allan 2y ago
I get a sense that WASM and friends will be in the next platform mix.
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by tony-allan 2y ago
See also... https://indieweb.org/webmention.io https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/#introduction
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by tony-allan 2y ago
How to Set your Domain as your Handle [1] I successfully changed my handle to @tony.apms.com.au / at://tony.apms.com.au [2] [1] https://blueskyweb.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/19001802873... [
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by tony-allan 2y ago
I think that a Domain Specific Language without the scaffolding of a language like python to generate test data is a great use case. You have a specific DSL to generate test data and store code written using your DSL with your test cases. Y
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by tony-allan 2y ago
I love 16-inch but at the cost of 2.1kg. With the bigger screen I don't need an external display.
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by tony-allan 2y ago
Old but still good!
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by tony-allan 2y ago
This should be a Kickstart project!
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by tony-allan 2y ago
1995
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by tony-allan 2y ago
On a separate note the authors setup https://nullonerror.org/2024/03/20/my-2024-setup/
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by tony-allan 2y ago
My practice for each new generation of device is to copy everything I am interested in to a newer technology while I still have a device that can read the old media. I have been mostly successful in capturing the files but I have a bunch th
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by tony-allan 2y ago
This is a great thought experiment! The design goal is to build a computer that lasts 50 years. To me this implies a design that is modular and repairable and possibly not based on something you can buy today. I don't want to base my c
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by tony-allan 2y ago
I add JSON to the bottom of the page when I am debugging HTML generation errors. Looks like someone forgot to turn off their debugging feature!
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by tony-allan 2y ago
Print ~10 copies on paper as a book with archive quality paper. If you are 25 today (2024) you might have adult children in 25 years time; adult grandchildren in another 25 years and great grandchildren 10 years after that (in 2084). The in

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