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When Kobo Reader removed a feature that let you share a quote as a picture, I got really mad and made an app to do just that. Been using Quottable for 3 years! https://www.jessejojojohnson.com/quottable/
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> “There is a limit to how smart they can be and how accurate they can be because they have no experience of the real world, which is really the underlying reality of language,” said LeCun. “Most of what we learn has nothing to do with l
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I don't do FE professionally, so it's only small projects with my framework included in the HTML and no build step. And since these are small projects, I don't have a designer hand-off their work to me. It's just Bootstr
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Documenting Arguments Against Artificial General Intelligence(medium.com)
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Profiles: The One Thing Firefox Needs to Get Right(medium.com)
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Thoughts on Render.com(medium.com)
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I think of political opinions as more concrete expressions of deeper values, just like other tastes and tendencies. So while they may generally correlate, a specific political opinion will be the result of several competing values, lived ex
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Depends on who you (want to) work with. I think about it this way: co-operation depends on trust and shared values, the lack of which hinders or prevents this. Every one of us is a bag of values, and some of these will often intersect with
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> Can anyone help with this? I don't have any assistance to give, only that I recently had some FB login trouble myself, and maybe they should contact FB support. They might be required to provide some legal ID (another colleage who
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Work. I count 5 profiles on my current laptop. I like to compartmentalize my work/external projects, so I don't mix things like search histories, multiple Google accounts, etc. These are the profiles I currently have: 1. Default,
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Firefox was my go-to 3 years ago because it was just lighter than Chrome (and easier on my battery). I still hate the fact that different browser profiles and profile switching aren't surfaced like they are in Chrome. I think it's
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Ask HN: Non-resident tech workers for US companies, how're you coping?
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Maybe the problem is that it's called "Computer Science"? I've always imagined that Computer Science and Software Engineering should be distinct programs at the university level.
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Ask HN: How can I block posts about Musk, Twitter, Mastodon and related topics?
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> I actually think that Putin's war in Ukraine is just a scapegoat. Price increases started mid year 2021. War certainly didn't help though. I actually agree with this. The only reason I brought it up as an example is that I ha
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If you found such a place, and word got out, enough people will join in on the conversation, and the possibility of nuance will diminish and be eventually lost. Heck, I've had a hard time teasing out the nuance of some of my points whe
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> I never saw it presented in clear what the actual consequences of global warming are or how us cutting oil today would prevent a disaster. I'm a bit surprised by this. I've always considered that today's world is so inun
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> Leadership is not about enforcing things to other. But being the living example of the behaviour you want them to adopt. This is so important it bears repeating. And I'll say it's not only true for parenting. Thank you for pu
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> screed I will not use that word to describe The Lord of the Rings
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> Church givings - not sure how it's called, but in Christianity while being in Church a person goes around and asks for the money from people, so people give a dollar or few cents. So some kind of app that does that on global scale
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Ask HN: How do you dispose of your old devices?
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> You can't spin that out, it's too intertwined. Which, I imagine, makes a complete shut down unlikely. Not that that is required for customers to lose confidence in the product...
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> For example I always feel that Googlers are not aware what the perception of their company is. I've recently wondered about this, and I will be stunned if insiders are not aware of how their companies are perceived from the outsid
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> What really blows me away is how close Google Cloud is becoming to something that Google would have to cancel because they can't get the profit margins to compare to ads. I imagine GC is one of the big three cloud platforms (with
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Hah! Sounds like a plan! And I love that name ;)
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> we generally prefer third-party articles to the latter. Why do you? I've noticed several times when a journalistic article was discussing a scientific paper, the preference from some community members was to link to the paper itse
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My feeling is companies don't invest in this because there isn't much return they expect from it. If gamers are more interested in playing with other humans than interacting with in-game characters, spending a lot on the AI to mak
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I've always found old audio recordings fascinating because of just how differently people seemed to speak. It's a shame recording technology came so late, but future generations will have a lot of fun with this, I guess!
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> Unsupportable I'd say it's more of a nitpick. You're right, he was more concerned about an English mythology rather than a European one. But I'm not sure where you're going by bringing up North America...
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I'm not sure how this necessarily leads to a disbelief in the Christian God, because... > All someone had to do was a bunch of math to make a program emulate a human. Christian theology says that, that "someone" who did it

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