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by selfsimilar 2mo ago
I’m very interested in this approach. I’ve hosted friends’ websites for decades but I’ve been the single-point of failure, so “cooperative” is very enticing. I’m currently working on a cooperative “lights-on” solution which might be complem
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by selfsimilar 2mo ago
I don't know much about the SSH this app uses (Citadel) which uses NIOSSH under the hood. I prefer using Mosh ( https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh ) for mobile apps where connectivity is often spotty. Does NIOSSH
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by selfsimilar 2mo ago
This is such a garbage take. Yes, if you're running a cloud-backed service, a subscription makes sense. But the overwhelming number of complaints have been when previous download-only apps (e.g. Photoshop) become part of a subscription
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by selfsimilar 3mo ago
yes but again, who has $2M to bet, even at 1/500 odds? You have to be a billionaire to make 500 bets hoping one hits, then you’re back to just being a billionaire again.
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by selfsimilar 3mo ago
I would short xAI but the market can remain irrational longer than I can remain solvent. Plus all the foolishness to prop it up with other businesses just seems like bad accounting.
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by selfsimilar 4mo ago
Bullets don’t kill you, it’s the bleeding that gets you. Wait, no, it’s not the bleeding since you could just put an IV in, it’s the loss of blood pressure. No wait, it’s not the loss of blood pressure since we can reattach severed limbs th
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by selfsimilar 4mo ago
16 bytes equals immediate “black magic” and “it’s a witch”. I get it in the abstract - generative art and CAs and fractals have infinite depth. But this is madness. I love it so much
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by selfsimilar 4mo ago
> For 7 months I'd been prompting and shipping without ever sitting down and actually reading the code Claude wrote. I'd look at the diff, verify it compiled, test the happy path, move on. But now something was fundamentally br
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by selfsimilar 5mo ago
I saw Aadam at almost every show I went to in the early aughts, and he recorded a few of my shows, too! Great guy!
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by selfsimilar 6mo ago
Hashcash was a proof-of-work system that would have put a computational tax on email. I don't know what kept it from getting more traction other than simple chicken-and-egg network effects, but it's a good idea, and worth resurrec
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by selfsimilar 7mo ago
I know nothing about this author, but this reads to me a lot like late Philip K Dick but without the "what is real" element. After his religious event in 1974, he wrote some real bangers - A Scanner Darkly, Valis, The Divine Invas
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by selfsimilar 8mo ago
Number one indicator? A single punctuation mark that's trivial to make on most keyboards (option-dash on macOS). And generally people who write software are extra fixated on punctuation for obvious reasons: missing semi-colons break yo
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by selfsimilar 8mo ago
The best training for immune robustness is going outside and get exposure to a wide range of stuff. But for indoor spaces, air quality is going to be dominated by the microbes and viruses of the people in the space itself. For public spaces
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by selfsimilar 8mo ago
"The language is intentionally neutral and apolitical, without any stance on social or political issues." I don't applaud or condemn this, but it's strange that it's on the home and history pages. Putting this in a
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Recreating the THX Deep Note (2009)(earslap.com)
1 points by selfsimilar 11mo ago|1 comments
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by selfsimilar 1y ago
I think the word you're looking for is "astigmatism".
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by selfsimilar 1y ago
Here’s a Propublica article about a Louisiana town that exists financially from traffic fines. https://www.propublica.org/article/fenton-louisiana-brought-...
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by selfsimilar 1y ago
Octopodes don't actually have a very long lifespan, as adults die shortly after mating. Which is only to say that the decision to consume is more complicated for this creature than others, because if the goal is to minimize suffering,
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by selfsimilar 2y ago
The same impulses of MAGA culture warriors to protect US history against "woke" is explored here. Our cultural icons are all flawed, because they're human, but examining them critically is very hard because we project so much
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by selfsimilar 2y ago
There’s an obvious religious element to this. Whether it’s the idea of Maya or that this realm is but a precursor to heaven or hell. I think that at least some people believe that morality is more arbitrary if this realm is not ”real”. And
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by selfsimilar 2y ago
It's in Puerto Rico, a US territory that has toyed with formally joining the union as a proper state. This is NOT a developing country.
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by selfsimilar 2y ago
Walabot DIY 2 in expert mode looks great! Definitely a bit more single-purpose for walls - only works on flat surfaces and probably has trouble w corners. Great suggestion, thanks!
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Ask HN: Any tools to do generic WiFi imaging?
97 points by selfsimilar 2y ago|68 comments
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by selfsimilar 3y ago
Dogs eat other dogs' excrement in part to keep a healthy and diverse gut culture. I prefer kissing.
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by selfsimilar 3y ago
[citation needed]
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Degrowth Can Work(nature.com)
13 points by selfsimilar 3y ago|7 comments
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by selfsimilar 3y ago
TLDR: it's harder to have more kids when the law demands we keep them safe to a certain standard when children ride in cars. Car seats take up more space than children. This is a financial pressure against larger families. If your prob
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by selfsimilar 3y ago
It's a "lie" in that of course there's a server, what else would your code run on? But we "lie" all the time by omission or shorthand or euphemism. "Cloud" computing doesn't really occur in the s
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by selfsimilar 3y ago
WCAG doesn't define a maximum contrast. edit: Interesting discussion about the effect of fonts, dyslexia, and dark-mode wrt "too much contrast" in this UX StackExchange thread. https://ux.stackexchange.com/q
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by selfsimilar 4y ago
I've often thought this makes a lot of sense not just for medical devices/software, but for any government and financial software as well. But it's somewhat predicated on the 'provable correct' part, which is not we

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