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CrypticShift

1,036karma·560submissions·November 1, 2022
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Podcast Index LLC is a software developer focused partnership that provides tools and data to anyone who aspires to create new and exciting Podcast experiences isn’t' it better to use mor…
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> Someone build an app with a map and automated route planning on top of this Maybe ChatGPT could do it himself [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33818987 …
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> are the original low-code platform, but that little bit of code is still daunting. It may seem that this formula generation is just pushing Grist more into the no-code territory, that is, only fo…
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Bret Taylor tried to fuse all social media types into one open [friend]feed [1]. Facebook killed it and walled the garden (+ Made him CTO) . So who will keep that vision alive ? Could distributed …
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> Do you think assumptions and definitions are something different? Nah, I'm sure we can go real deep into how they relate to each other. Here I was just stressing their importance together, n…
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13+ ? What about DK? Some series may be suitable for that age. A lot of graphics! https://www.dk.com/us/book/9780756698270-the-economics-book/ https://www.dk…
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> I don’t think users are going to participate in these sorts of experiments long term You are right, not in the mainstream. What I'm talking about is what is already happening in the undergro…
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> doesn't solve any of the problems Twitter now has > you have 2000 poorly managed, even more understaffed systems with 2000 different approaches It is not about short-term problem solving.…
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> What has changed, however, is our approach to experimentation including I suppose Elon's experimental approach to management. I hope that in 10 years, we will look back at this twitter 2.0 (…
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Building plugin-based web apps is the way to go. The HN crowd is so vehemently against any added features, that I always wished HN was a plugin based web app itself. Userscripts and extensions are les…
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> value add can preserve food in ways that reduce cost. Thus, freeing up income I suppose the small income one is freeing will not buy him even a fraction of the meds he may need when all that junk…
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> but don't remember the site name or exact title to find it easily. I don't get it. you mean you want to be able to search into your HN favorites list [0] ? would that solve the problem …
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> We’re stuck in a dead-end debate over body positivity and dieting when real solutions to the problem exist. Really ? IMO Here is the real fundamental dead-end debate we are stuck in -> https…
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I do. Now I try to consciously reconnect more with my (extremely sophisticated) face muscles (a mirror helps) IMO, our current lifestyle is certainly not making this any better. 100 years earlier, peo…
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> it leads to "managing" them later in bookmarks UI to find+reload+delete them I agree. There is definitely less UX friction with tabs, and I can live with 20-30 (50 maaax) and only some …
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A lot of the suggestions here are selfhosted. Mine are not. The simplest is to use your browser Bookmarks/Reading List [1] feature. The best next free popular mobile/ereader friendly option …
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My mother is still occasionally using my 2008 iPhone 3G. > either bricking the phone The only reason IMO not to replace the battery is that buying a refurbished similar iPhone would not cost much m…
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What I personally do is, I use the "bookmark all tabs" to a folder feature, then I open them (together or one by one) from the new chrome side panel.
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OMFG ! I never really understood this or the use of all those tab managers [1]. For me, Tabs are just links. Why do you have to keep them open? Can't you just bookmark them ? (and then delete the…
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It is an art form. I believe there is some good threads in the workshop section of mobileread, like this one https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=331376&hi... …
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> a real distinction can be drawn between human and/or physical chance as part of music composition, and software random numbers That's a good point. > weird fascination with randomnes…
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I love it ! you should make a color version [1] ! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31191850 …
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You know what, I like that refined myspace retro style: Not as wild as the original (as I remember it). I hope that with the maturing and federation of distributed social networks [0], users will get …
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-> https://citiesandmemory.com/sounds/
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> Set up your Chip Account The irony...
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Ok thanks, that is the assumption part. Very important indeed. I will try my luck on the "definition part" myself: According to Wiktionary, To Scale = 1. To climb to the top of : This uppe…
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By concentration I mean accumulative mergers and acquisition over time that result in big conglomerates and monopolies. Historically this cycle has been described in the well-known book : The Master S…
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I think you are hovering around that paradox of decentralization : In a human fallible society, to what extent can we push it? where is the human centre of a 99.9% decentralized system ? (100% = witou…
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