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by sacul 6d ago
That was great! But here is one place, at least, that needs to be updated for the AI era: > working demo especially good trick: force big brain make something to actually work to talk about and code to look at that do thing, will help bi
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by sacul 29d ago
I disagree. As a father of nine children, I submit that the best time to have children is when you’re young. The next best time is now . Sure, you’ll be poor, and you’ll make lots of mistakes. But how do you know you’ll be able to have chi
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by sacul 2mo ago
I’m obviously a tiny, insignificant data point as a solo freelance dev, but I watch this space closely and I canceled my Claude Code subscription today.
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by sacul 8mo ago
Very nice! Care to share more technical details? Like others, I'd be curious to know how you're fetching the book covers. Personally, I dislike skeuomorphic design in digital interfaces. But still... very cool!
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by sacul 1y ago
Yeah, thanks for asking. My reasoning is this: That chatbot you're interacting with is not your friend. I take it as a fact (assumption? axiom?) that it can never be your friend. A friend is a human - animals, in some sense, can be fri
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by sacul 1y ago
I think the biggest problem with chatbots is the constant effort to anthropomorphize them. Even seasoned software developers who know better fall into acting like they are interacting with a human. But a llm is not a human, and I think Open
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by sacul 2y ago
The fact that both offer a subscription is not ironic - it simply highlights the central point. In the end, those paying a subscription for thebaffler.com or for salesforce.com are paying for something very similar: they are paying for word
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by sacul 4y ago
I got one of those too, and I got it because I didn’t want to worry about this kind of garbage from HP. It’s also a bonus that I haven’t had to refill the ink in a LONG time. But oh my. The quality of the printing is terrible.
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by sacul 4y ago
My daughter has a rare genetic disorder, cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome (CFC), and it was not until 2 years in that we were able to get a diagnosis after a whole gene sequence. It was game-changing to get the diagnosis, because it connected
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by sacul 4y ago
Cannot overstate the significance and value of documentation.
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by sacul 4y ago
This is your big mistake: there is no “adding” authority. Authority is always there. I have started to think of it like the conservation of energy: it changes forms, but you can never get rid of it.
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by sacul 4y ago
No there is consensus, and it is real. But the hierarchies within that group (based on sex, ability, wealth, knowledge, etc) are also there and are also in play.
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by sacul 4y ago
I'm not sure we can have it both ways. In other words, I'm growing in my conviction that freedom and privacy on the web require increased balkanization. Neil Postman (of whom I'm a big fan, to put my cards on the table) wro
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by sacul 5y ago
Lightpaper looks like a fantastic markdown editor! But the landing page makes me feel like it isn't getting much love from the developers. The copyright notice at the bottom, for instance, says 2019. Any idea whether it is still gettin
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by sacul 5y ago
Keep in mind that every culture has blasphemy laws. What you're seeing here is not the removal of blasphemy laws, but the culture's switch from one god to another.
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by sacul 6y ago
You might be interested in these: https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/wellness/noise_masking_s...
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Virginia Health Commissioner says he’ll mandate a Covid-19 vaccine(wric.com)
2 points by sacul 6y ago|3 comments
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by sacul 6y ago
I really love Fastmail, but shared contacts have never seemed to work with the default Mac contacts app. According to Fastmail support as of a few years ago, the default Mac contacts app cant handle multiple address books (shared and person
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by sacul 8y ago
(This turned into a bit of a rant...) So, AFAICT, Hustle provides a service that's nearly as bad as robocalls. From their front page: "Hustle works because people read and respond to texts—and to communication that feels more huma
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Ask HN: Free/Libre Software Reading List
2 points by sacul 8y ago|0 comments
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by sacul 8y ago
I’ve been thinking about Stallman and Free Software recently, and there’s another point that doesn’t seem to get much air time. Ever since the Snowden revelations, we’ve been woke to the fact that “they” are collecting an enormous amount of
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State Dept. Uses Outdated and Insecure Systems to Spot Passport and Visa Fraud(judicialwatch.org)
2 points by sacul 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Reading recommendations for understanding food allergies?
56 points by sacul 8y ago|24 comments
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by sacul 8y ago
I love open source software, I hate Facebook and I dislike twitter. People in my community want to know what I think about technology, and I’m strongly inclined to recommend stuff that isn’t FB, Google, Apple, etc. But a mastodon “tweet” is
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by sacul 9y ago
MBP-quality trackpads and MBP-equivalent battery life. I can't understand why battery life isn't higher on the list of "must haves" for people who want a nice linux laptop.
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A secular approach to freeing yourself from porn addition(nytimes.com)
1 points by sacul 10y ago|0 comments
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by sacul 10y ago
A feature like this is automatically baked in to my Fastmail account. "myemail@mydomain.com" can become "banks@myemail.mydomain.com", and all that email automatically goes to a folder called "banks". https:&#x
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by sacul 10y ago
It took some getting used to, but I've really liked using Simple. I can now very easily always answer the following question: "how much money can I spend right now ?"
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by sacul 10y ago
True. My wife and I each have a separate Simple account, and we've never had separate checking accounts before. That would have been a problem except for the fact that Simple provides instant transfers to other simple accounts. So my
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Privacy: A Short History by David Vincent(wiley.com)
1 points by sacul 11y ago|0 comments

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