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by gxqoz 12d ago
How new is this? About a month ago I tried to get Claude (forget which model but probably Opus 5) to transcribe a low-res hand-written lyric sheet from a relatively obscure punk band and it refused. Of course, since then I had the idea of h
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by gxqoz 9mo ago
I've always been curious about what it means for a movie to enter the public domain. A few years ago I sent a mail to Planet Money in what I thought would be an interesting hook but never got a response: "Hi Planet Money, today is
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by gxqoz 1y ago
Yeah I have 32k saves and hit the same problems with search being extremely unreliable. About 5 years ago quotes stopped working in search. Trying to find "The Grapes of Wrath" would return all instances of "of" and &quo
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by gxqoz 1y ago
I tried Matter but it lacked Android support at the time so didn't go deep into it. I've been a heavy Readwise user for the last two years or so. It's better than Pocket in almost every way, although as I've moved into t
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by gxqoz 1y ago
I think doing this would expose how poorly they've actually saved their copies of articles. Pocket has always had a very funny definition of "permanent copy" which doesn't mean what you think it does! I'm a little s
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by gxqoz 2y ago
The latest episode of the excellent video game history podcast They Create Worlds ( https://www.theycreateworlds.com/listen ) does a good job debunking some of these myths.
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by gxqoz 3y ago
I'm actually shocked that even before these layoffs there was anyone working on Pocket. I have not noticed a new feature in this product for maybe 3 years, with numerous things getting worse. How big is the team? What are they doing al
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by gxqoz 3y ago
This podcast goes into a lot more detail than most of the replies here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-video-game-crash-4... It's not just a glut of "bad games." There are a number of s
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by gxqoz 3y ago
Eh, I think this is overstating the case for the typical user (Zoom or gaming rather than something like podcasting). The sound quality is more than acceptable, even when placed relatively far away from the speaker, for Zoom meetings. It wi
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by gxqoz 3y ago
VCD is a very undercovered format. Any budding media scholars out there could make a good book out of the format. It connects to an area I'm growing increasingly interested in, the early history of the Chinese Internet and tech industr
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by gxqoz 3y ago
My car still has an amusing WMA logo above the CD player to advertise its support for playing CDs with WMAs burned to them. Never actually used that functionality though.
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by gxqoz 3y ago
See also Defender of the Favicon: http://www.p01.org/defender_of_the_favicon/
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by gxqoz 3y ago
I read this over the summer, it's a great read.
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by gxqoz 3y ago
I've seen some apps recently move to only having icons and no text label. I think Paint in Windows 11 is an example. I really dislike this as for an app I'm not using every day it takes me extra time to decipher the icon. And on d
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by gxqoz 3y ago
I've used a series of them for over 20 years and never had this issue.
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by gxqoz 3y ago
The only place I do this anymore in hotel rooms, although I'm usually foiled by how horribly slow this experience has become. I've stayed in hotels where it's up to 5 seconds between channels. This was a real sacrifice in the
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by gxqoz 3y ago
Maybe it's because, as a post next to this on HN tells me, attentions are off by one?
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by gxqoz 3y ago
My understanding is that Readwise uses the HTML you're seeing on your browser to make the copy and this works with paywalls better than most services I've tried. The downside is you need to give their desktop browser plugin more p
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by gxqoz 3y ago
I've long had issues on Android where lists that should effectively be infinite scrolls instead have a cache of maybe 20 items and they just repeat as you scroll.
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by gxqoz 3y ago
It says it does but in practice this is a "we will do our best." I've run into this with now paywalled articles I can't get to my highlights on.
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by gxqoz 3y ago
By the way, I'm curious if there are any Pocket communities anywhere. Readwise, for instance, has an active Discord. I haven't been able to find anything for Pocket, which is perhaps telling.
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by gxqoz 3y ago
This is absolutely an advertised feature of Pocket and it's frustrating they're so inept in supporting this.
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by gxqoz 3y ago
Very much agree that Pocket has gotten worse as I've used it over the years. It's so bad I've mostly moved to the much better Readwise ( https://readwise.io/ ). I'd be fully over if they actually supported
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by gxqoz 3y ago
Relatedly, there's a new drama out about the history of pinball: https://pinballfilm.com/ It's good!
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by gxqoz 4y ago
I bought a new modem over the holidays. Xfinity required me to install the app to activate it. But their login system was broken. It was impossible to talk to a human over the phone because I had to go through the app. Really terrible exper
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by gxqoz 4y ago
Another option I guess is Bloomberg Businessweek which has at least some of the same news coverage as The Economist. But if you're not liking The Economist for having too much opinion you don't agree with, I'm guessing you wo
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by gxqoz 4y ago
I agree with others that I don't understand where you're coming from in some sort of decline or big change in The Economist. Maybe if you're overly obsessed with the editorials, which I've always skipped, something has c
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by gxqoz 4y ago
Yeah I feel everyone around me who used this word added a bit of a "t" sound to the end. It wasn't until I was an adult I saw it spelled out like "jawn".
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by gxqoz 4y ago
My friend had a great sound card while I didn't. I remember being jealous of how good midis from vgmusic.com sounded on his machine compared to mine. Night and day.
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by gxqoz 4y ago
Yeah this is exactly what happened to me, although I didn't report to phishing. It both looked real and like a phishing attempt and after independently logging into my Paypal account and not seeing anything I concluded it was definitel

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