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CrypticShift
1,036karma·560submissions·November 1, 2022
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I will only talk about online opportunities : When we browse the Web, be it HN, GitHub, Twitter, blogs… we - either consciously forget that there are receptive people like us staring at their computer…
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I used Scrivener more like a generic [Outliner + DB] combo than a tool for long form writing. IMO combining outlining and databases could be powerful if fully exploited (research...). I truly consider…
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I use a simple custom DB [0]. my DB is my library: Lists of artists and albums, enriched (and updated) with data from APIs (last.fm, RYM, spotify) for filtering, organizing.... I have learned not to i…
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What about "deep leaning" stylometry ?
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> I honestly thought my writing style is more unique You just showed another possible use case for this kind of tools: "How unique is my writing style ?"
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These are two distinct points: 1- The magnitude of the leap (in technical terms) 2- Its implication for Culture/Economy/Society Concerning the first point (magnitude of the leap) : - Friends…
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Ingenious idea. At the very least, this is just about finding people who write like us, the same way we seek those with similar tastes (music...) How long before large commercial indexers start offeri…
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> I feel like a lot of the comments here are focused on HN And I've been downvoted for it. Yes, it is not the problem. But why not accept the design could be healthier? aren't this what h…
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Not what you are asking for here, but whatever, check out Product Hunt [1]. You may find a lot of useful new-gen community building platforms and guides, plus some meta-communities (communities about …
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This is an underrated problem. You could call it procrastination I guess. IMO, we can handle this better if we can alleviate our FOMO. I wrote about this on HN yesterday [1] A feature like noprocrast …
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Similar service still in development : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33633049
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I guess the main aim of slides is to focus the attention. So, the act of scrolling may have a negative psychological effect on that. If you are starting with a document, there are apps that directly t…
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Well done! I like your design approach: artists as seeds in a controlled genre-based expanding similarity selection. It is like a recommendation system but limited to your own music library content. J…
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Oh the Codex guy! nice. tft is at the intersection of so many currents, and these articles prove it. This is exactly what we need more of. I'm not versed in those "highly abstract" desi…
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If you want something that saves + local, you need an extension.
This one comes to mind (chromium) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/papier/hhjeaokafpl... …
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If you are satisfied with absolutely zero features, just enter this in the address bar (+ save it as a bookmark) data:text/html, <html contenteditable>
Works at least in chromium ba…
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> a substrate that such data structures may emerge from, but without a rigid presumption of how they ought to form Are there Math theorems that "proves" this sort of "highly abstract…
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As I understand it, there are two phases in meditation that should be clearly distinguished to avoid confusion. - Phase 1. When you engage in it, you indeed need to "abandon any intentions or goa…
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For reading, the algolia interface allows you to choose an exact start (and end) date (+ sort by popularity). It is easy to jump directly to where you left off, even after, say (exactly) 55 days. But …
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>after running 2,671 images of the most popular websites in every country through an AI I'm not sure about the final conclusions, but I salute this kind of creative use of AI and visualization…
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As one of the progenitors of "New Age" currents [0], you bet Catholic theologians don't like him. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin#I…
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Every time de Chardin name pops up, I always remember this filmed discussion with Richard Dawkins : https://youtu.be/_J_WtktTzEI?t=3386 As a student, I was very persuaded by tha…
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>but what is the use case for "normal" users? >three things average users demonstrably don't care about I always ask this question myself (and have an interest in all things no-co…
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Oh that monochrome screen ! Before the iPhone, I always had a Palm with me for more than 7 years. Sure, windows phone and Symbian and others were also available. But I really like the palm. I remember…
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Classic Plastic recycling, as many here have explained why, is not the solution. We should do it the best we can, but let's just stop using it as an excuse. Nobody talked about organic-plastic&#x…
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One use case is rapidly enriching a raw URL list with this metadata (for research, further filtering...) Something like this : http://tools.buzzstream.com/meta-tag-extractor …
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I guess you could rapidly run through all the options here : just examine the screenshot of each product to gauge its UI complexity. https://alternativeto.net/category/developer-t…
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A relative was remodeling his kitchen recently (an appartement). I looked at all those super-sized integrated oven, microwave and countertop holes, and I wondered: Why are we still designing small kit…
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Here are some tips (for not just dev tools) : - Give a score (of interest) to your link/tool. - Work on a good consistent hierarchy + tag-system for your DB - Ask yourself first : Is this a popul…
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I have some Spotify suggestions for you, if you don't know them already. > all the album by this label label:[label name] is helpful. There are better options. this one comes to mind https:&#…