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by incidentist 3mo ago
Nice. I think there will be a cottage industry of porting every Mac menu bar utility to Claude. I can't use this until it doesn't show seconds. A MM:SS timer is tolerable when it's in my menu bar, but a ticking timer right wh
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by incidentist 4mo ago
I would say it is up to republicans to do something about the clowns they appointed into high level office, and it’s up to democrats to continue their pattern of not appointing clowns like this into high level office.
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by incidentist 4mo ago
Someone is working on a fork that is optimized for M5, might be worth a look: https://github.com/Swival/ds4-m5
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by incidentist 4mo ago
This is a great post, but am I the only person who thinks the AI-generated images are brilliant? They are haunting and disturbing in a good-art kind of way -- if I saw them in a gallery I would think the artist has real talent. I'd cer
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by incidentist 2y ago
That is indeed what the article says. Bloomberg says the same thing: https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-muscled-way-faa-1100005...
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by incidentist 2y ago
As far as I can tell, they made an exception for pepfar but its funds are still frozen, due either to malice or incompetence. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/health/trump-usaid-pepfar...
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by incidentist 2y ago
Ruja Ignatova: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruja_Ignatova
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by incidentist 2y ago
"The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America", by Daniel Boorstin
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by incidentist 2y ago
Well this is utterly wonderful.
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by incidentist 3y ago
- Karaoke: a friend of mine did a monthly outing to a karaoke bar and invited me along. It turned into a great friend group as well as a fun skill to practice, and now I host karaoke parties and write karaoke software. - Theater: got into i
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by incidentist 3y ago
RIP Martin. Just to make this more HN-relevant: even though his book "Money" is popular and regarded as a masterpiece, it is not available on Kindle, or in any ebook format, in the US. It is , however, available on Kindle in the
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by incidentist 3y ago
I re-read this every 5 years or so. It certainly covers a lot of ground on which literary tastes have changed, so it might not hold up for everyone, but what keeps me coming back is how much goddamn fun it is. Even if I thought it hadn&#x27
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by incidentist 4y ago
I'm tinkering with The Tüül ( https://github.com/incidentist/the_tuul ), a site for making a decent karaoke video from any song in about 10 minutes. The members of my monthly karaoke group have been using it for the
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by incidentist 4y ago
Nice to see this project on HN, and nice so many familiar webOS names on this board. I worked on Word Ace and the Card Ace games back in the day, and got back into playing around with my Pre and TouchPad a few years ago, thanks in part to c
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by incidentist 5y ago
Rabe is an excellent playwright -- I'll have to check this out. Movies adapted from stage plays are great places to find good dialog, in general. Other examples: A Thousand Clowns, Angels in America.
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by incidentist 8y ago
"The Image" by Daniel Boorstin. It's kind of about what living in a world of mass-produced images does to our sense of space, time and reality. So much of our experience is of things that were created by other people to persu