shadowtree

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by shadowtree 7d ago
Outlook 2003 was a major killer of Notes. Office 2003 on Win2k/XP was a killer offering, MSFT at its height of dominance. Office 2007 introduced the ribbon and got under pressure by the web (GSuite). But the early aughts? Office 2003 w
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by shadowtree 7d ago
Kudos, as an owner of an offline/sync stack myself - this stuff is so hard at scale. You guys did a great job!
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by shadowtree 7d ago
It was an era when Windows had near total Desktop market share in businesses - and Notes violated all Windows UI conventions. Enter MS Office (pre-ribbon) and LN was toast. MSFT was so dominant back then that Gates had to rescue Apple to ke
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by shadowtree 7d ago
As a former Notes user (email, cal, plus apps for expense tracking, etc) - what did Notes in was the horrendous, non-Windows user interface. The second half of the article here is spot on, if anyone bothers to read it. Nice to see those old
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by shadowtree 15d ago
Is anyone attempting to use DF as a backend to run a next gen 3D UI on top of it? Given new AI tooling, what seemed unsurmountable before is getting into reach. DF the world system and core engine.
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by shadowtree 19d ago
Antifa is a leftist movement, nowhere on this planet is not anti-capitalist. The two flags in the logo, black and red, represent the anarchist and the communist movement. Marxism came first. Mussolini was a Marxist, then developed Fascism
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by shadowtree 1mo ago
All this talent has delivered... Gemini. Oh well, emperors, clothes, ... you know.
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by shadowtree 2mo ago
Hi - we're doing tree removal in your area. Call us back at 1-800-SCAM Cheap messaging is as annoying now as calling. Ruining the phone experience overall. Soon Apple will have to do something.
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by shadowtree 2mo ago
In the Global Burden of Disease analyses, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) had the highest age-standardized STI incidence rate of any world region — around 19,973 per 100,000 person-years, which is roughly double the global average of about 9,536 c
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by shadowtree 2mo ago
I was poor, grew up in social housing. I did not use drugs. "I share needles because I can't afford my own" is an INSANE take. Don't shoot drugs in the first place! Poor people are normal humans, they have willpower, age
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by shadowtree 2mo ago
"the only reason HIV transmission is high in poor countries is because, well, they're poor." This is factually untrue. Being poor does not equal a HIV transmission rate. There is no 1:1 correlation. A single protected (condom
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by shadowtree 2mo ago
Tangent - I still mourn the death of WeAreHunted. What a great music discovery site that was, unmatched in its ability to give you a curated feed of new artists to check out. WeAreHunted was sold to Twitter at the time to launch as Twitter
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Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft(techcrunch.com)
9 points by shadowtree 2mo ago|0 comments
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The Future of Meta Superintelligence(newsletter.semianalysis.com)
1 points by shadowtree 2mo ago|0 comments
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by shadowtree 2mo ago
Well, even Krugman has now acknowledged the need for tariffs: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-06-27/why-krugman... Reminder, Biden, not Trump, introduced the first round of tariffs to protect domes
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by shadowtree 3mo ago
It is legitimately impossible to purchase certain movies, especially classic, in any format due to regional blocks. Simple example: "The Things of Life", a classic French movie from 1970. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by shadowtree 3mo ago
Word of caution, I used Claude to read my MRI images too. Looked legit. Until I really dug in, and found that all it did was read the embedded annotations. DICOM is a container format after all.
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by shadowtree 3mo ago
His latest thing was https://crazystupidtech.com/ - a joint newsletter with Fred Vogelstein.
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by shadowtree 3mo ago
Because that is where Carmack posted his thoughts, not anywhere else. Original source. Wether you like it or not, X/Twitter is still a primary posting ground for many key people in our industry.
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There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days(twitter.com)
571 points by shadowtree 3mo ago|277 comments
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by shadowtree 3mo ago
Political and personal attack, no substance. Reid is a mega-donor for the Dems, Elon for the Repubs. Billionaires fighting, plebs on HN getting riled up.
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by shadowtree 3mo ago
Lernen Sie Geschichte! -- Fred Sinowatz
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by shadowtree 3mo ago
It's a shame, as AI will improve healthcare on an unprecedented scale. I cannot get a specialist without referrals and endless appointments to spend more than 30min to discuss how to fix a serious issues. Claude? Hours and hours of bac
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by shadowtree 4mo ago
This is ahistoric drivel. China and Russia are simple examples of the fallout of "cutting king's heads". So awesome in China that they went straight back to a lifetime emperor now. The French Revolution and its fallout (commu
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by shadowtree 4mo ago
Esperanto being created by L.L. Zamenhof ... a Polish Ashkenazi Jew. Full circle!
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by shadowtree 4mo ago
Lingua Franca, like literally. French used to be the language of diplomacy.
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by shadowtree 4mo ago
Balko was a big proponent of police body cams, as they would clearly reveal massive police abuse and brutality. Since the bodycam rollout however, we're inundated with videos of justified police actions, over and over again. Proving th
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by shadowtree 4mo ago
Picket Fences was similar to that, an early David E Kelley show (after LA Law). Some of that weirdness was then further carried over by Kelley to Ally McBeal and Boston Legal. Utter products of their time periods 90s and early aughts.
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by shadowtree 4mo ago
Odd omission on CRM. They have HubSpot for Campaigns, but basic management of your customers, installed base, sales alignments, opportunities ... nothing there. SFDC announces "Headless CRM" and Anthropic is like meh.
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by shadowtree 4mo ago
That is not what I wrote - there was no judgement, just that other cultures weigh cheating morally different. It is all moralities. There is no absolute one.

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