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by pea 25d ago
I had to build a diffing engine for PowerPoint files in my first start-up. I initially tried to do this at the OOXML level, and one the weirdest things I found about the format is that the GUIDs are mutated by PowerPoint even if there have
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by pea 2mo ago
That's a great idea with the e-reader. I would love for someone to design a great case with a built in e-reader on the back. Most of the existing ones seem geared for displaying colour photos; I'd like one built for reading, power
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by pea 2mo ago
I'm exactly the same. This one really give me the ick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYC_Z36rHw
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by pea 2mo ago
I was wondering the same for vega-lite, which is relatively high level, declarative, and looks similar to their syntax.
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by pea 2mo ago
The shift may come when your blessed cloud platform provides competitive enterprise-ready hosting of the oss models
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by pea 3mo ago
Looks cool but your home page heavily lags on my mbp m3 pro - you should maybe be lazy loading vs loading all your components upfront
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by pea 4mo ago
I agree with mostly everything you’re saying; but it’s not uncommon to be processed via your local consulate, even if you are already living in the US. This is usually just for the final issuing of the GC, and where USCIS approval has alrea
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by pea 5mo ago
Good fun! Spacebar should launch, r should reset, maybe I'm imagining it, but it's a lot slower and thus easier on my phone than my MBP.
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by pea 6mo ago
Oracle hire some extremely good people and pay very well
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by pea 6mo ago
The darkest UX pattern I have ever hit is trying to cancel Google Workspace; whereby they disable the scrollbar on the page so you cannot actually get to the cancel button.
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by pea 7mo ago
Decapod
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by pea 9mo ago
What sort of things do you notice?
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by pea 9mo ago
Thank you!
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by pea 9mo ago
maybe productive isn’t the right word - more like satisfying and constructive. Right now I might play blitz chess or end up checking the news or X. But when I’m in the middle of a good book or some long form content, I’ll use that time to r
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Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?
46 points by pea 9mo ago|57 comments
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by pea 9mo ago
I think it makes sense given the following: - Your brain has been trained extensively to recognize faces / people. Even very small babies can do this. - Your brain processes a large amount of mostly noise, and sometimes mislabels noise
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by pea 9mo ago
This is really cool, I enjoyed going through them in this form. Thanks
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by pea 9mo ago
Didn't they also just shut down Vertex and Gemini APIs to launch a new unified API this week?
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by pea 9mo ago
It’s a shame because people forget how good IBM research was back in the day. I do wonder if they still have great people in those r&d labs, or if they all left.
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by pea 10mo ago
We had one of these today in Sausalito!
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by pea 11mo ago
The way Gemini (which is incredible) has been haphazardly shoved into gsuite products seems devoid of any kind of common sense. Even very basic obvious things via Gemini in Gmail fail. It’s ironic because it’s the one place I’d love a decen
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by pea 1y ago
I got a nasty one of these recently. Attacker had my wife’s CC, and made purchases they knew would flag our bank and look sus and pop up on the app. Then I get a call from my “bank”, correct number, I ask them to verify and they say look at
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by pea 1y ago
I wonder if you could spend a few million on promoting adblockers to justify a short position on Google or Meta.
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by pea 1y ago
I feel like the opposite is also true. People view Java as enterprise Java from 2008; a clunky outdated language for bad, verbose spaghetti code. In fact, a lot of the most interesting plt and compiler r&d going into real world applicat
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by pea 1y ago
For something slightly more expensive check out NTH (now defunct micro brand but easy to find on eBay) or Squale. For vintage (ignore their new stuff), Enicar, Eterna, Roamer, Rodania, Cortebert, Wakmann, Mido, Certina, early Girard Perrega
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by pea 1y ago
Thanks. I don’t have mullvad either - anyone can point their dns at their Adblock dns without paying for their VPN
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by pea 1y ago
I’ve been using the mullvad adblock via pure dns on iOS and I haven’t seen an ad in years. Is there a reason others are installing a separate app?
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by pea 1y ago
Obligatory post of the legendary Bode Vocoder demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kc-bhOOLxE
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by pea 1y ago
You can do a pay to play where anyone who can’t follow on at a certain price gets wiped out
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by pea 1y ago
I worked at the British Museum and there were rooms upon rooms of priceless objects. I remember a golden Buddha with the tags and wrapping still on it from Sotheby’s in the 1920s. At that time, you could also just check out a piece and leav

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