pickledoyster

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by pickledoyster 9mo ago
One thing you haven't noted is radio. Some local radio DJs frequently play songs I enjoy that have under 1K plays on youtube. No algo or platform is surfacing those. Local radio gets me both local and international music. A friend of m
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by pickledoyster 9mo ago
it's disappointingly easy
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by pickledoyster 10mo ago
Warcraft 3 had some of the greatest mods that kept the player base alive for decades
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by pickledoyster 10mo ago
>When I'm building out a new feature, I can churn through millions of tokens in Claude code. + >Not sure what model provider profit per token is, but let's say it's .001 cents. So you'd be willing to pay thousands
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Quad9 DOH HTTP/1.1 Retirement, December 15, 2025(quad9.net)
103 points by pickledoyster 10mo ago|61 comments
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by pickledoyster 10mo ago
I did not realize Eno could not read sheet music. I always thought he used graphical expressions in his presentations as an artistic choice.
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by pickledoyster 10mo ago
imo, this paragraph covers the essence of a good chunk of the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_penicillin#Replic...
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by pickledoyster 10mo ago
A bit of OT, but I have four iPhone 5/5s/SE (the SE is peak design and form factor, fight me) lying around that I use strictly as offline devices for things like saving data from my heart rate monitor, controlling my action camera
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by pickledoyster 10mo ago
This is based on HSBC's model, which assumes some incredible numbers, such as: > user numbers on an S-curve that by 2030 reaches 3bn, “equivalent to 44 per cent of the world’s adult population” ex China. Unfounded statements (outsid
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Tangram for Linux Is a Browser Built for Web Apps(omglinux.com)
4 points by pickledoyster 11mo ago|1 comments
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by pickledoyster 11mo ago
I've been distro hopping recently and missing the Web Apps application in Linux Mint. Somehow, Tangram slipped my radar until now. Seems to have never been mentioned on HN too. more: https://github.com/sonnyp/Tangr
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by pickledoyster 11mo ago
SEO slop is what the LLMs were trained on. GIGO
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by pickledoyster 1y ago
Creating a product for creeps is so on brand for a company founded by a creep.
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by pickledoyster 1y ago
>Several European governments have jailed people for social media posts. Many Europeans support this - they don't understand how government censorship can quickly get out of hand. I think quite a few Europeans have lasting and direc
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by pickledoyster 1y ago
This reads like someone desperately sticking band-aids onto a raging dumpster fire. It certainly doesn't help that the journalist wrote more words on kayaking than trying to get Berners-Lee to square the circle of wanting data sovereig
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by pickledoyster 1y ago
The training data is full ads. For books, you have publisher-influenced rankings, SEO slop and promotional social media posts. It's GIGO, and has been that way from the start.
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Ask HN: Are managers engaging differently post-LLM?
1 points by pickledoyster 1y ago|0 comments
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by pickledoyster 1y ago
since this is coming from a "technical SEO consultant": how about website owners and businesses stop bloating their sites with (mostly useless) trackers and analytics scripts first, before worrying how fonts are _crippling_ their
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by pickledoyster 1y ago
there's a difference between an internal brief and a public copy.
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by pickledoyster 1y ago
This is nice. A few thoughts: It's sad to know that sobriety groups use addictive tech for check-ins. > Replace scrolling with building - building out my RSS reader, my website, my personal link connections, my skills in using a sta
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by pickledoyster 1y ago
The headline seems misleading, the quote in the article is: "[...]we may pause or discontinue our pursuit of Intel 14A and successor nodes and various of our manufacturing expansion projects."
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by pickledoyster 1y ago
Being passionate about hats is one thing, but being passionate about sharing something you care about with others is the real driver for publishing. As LLMs degrade web discoverability through search (summaries+slop results), there's n
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by pickledoyster 1y ago
> They replaced an always on-screen OS navigation button that's been there since Windows 7 with an ad!! That must be doing wonders for the click rate. I can see the pre-promotion powerpoint slide now: "User engagement with Copi
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by pickledoyster 1y ago
I'm not a fan of horror, but it seems like it's still extremely profitable (low budget -> solid viewership in theaters/streaming) and the one genre where creatives have enough freedom to experiment and do stuff out of the
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by pickledoyster 1y ago
Indeed, as another comment linked to https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21819-impact-of-ongoing-war... it seems pretty clear that this is not the case: > We've used our available connections to try to keep them s
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by pickledoyster 1y ago
> People don’t want to think anymore. Or the bean counters in charge target the largest common denominator, shaving off the long tail of above-average sophistication with every mediocre release.
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by pickledoyster 1y ago
>They spend 18 hours a day in conversation with chatbots. Engagement metrics like that are what product managers love to see. Promotions incoming. /s Sad to see it, but I believe these "companions" and "spiritual guru
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by pickledoyster 1y ago
I believe there are some debatable assumptions baked into your comment, so I have to ask. Do you believe that the entirety of all possible knowledge ("answers") is already online? If not, how is new knowledge supposed to appear on
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by pickledoyster 1y ago
Infrastructure helps more. I live in a hilly city and break a mild sweat pedaling up a hill to get home from work (no complaints, it's good cardio). e-scooters and bikes - slowly - get up the hills too, but it's a major difference
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by pickledoyster 1y ago
No. This is not webview, this is opening a full Safari browser instance and disregarding the user's default browser setting. It also used to be the case with doing a dictionary look up anywhere in iOS too, where the user selects a word

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