tinuviel

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   by tinuviel 1mo ago

   The old testament was written primarily in ancient Hebrew. English version is a translation is not authoritative. The vatican does not use the English version for daily prayers (instead uses latin). Sankrit is the mother language of a lot o
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   by tinuviel 2mo ago

   Incorrect. 80% of Muslims do not understand spoken Arabic. For Christians, virtually 0% read Latin to access the "original" Bible. They are depend on translations that do not preserve the meaning verbatim. Same with sanksrit.
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   by tinuviel 2mo ago

   Most religious families in India have generational priests. Its a privilege to have one too as those priests can be discerning about who they provide services to. Recordings would lower whatever inconvenience families without access to a ge
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   by tinuviel 2mo ago

   You 'could' also play the bible over a speaker and do away with a church father delivering a sermon then? If you have been to many hindu events you would know Vak (speech) and Prana (breath) are both required to deliver vedic chan
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   by tinuviel 2mo ago

   You should ask yourself - would most christians prefer baptism in a bathtubs at home or drive in weddings for convenience? No? Exactly. Hindu Vedic pandits and priests who come in and run priestly events and functions at Hindu homes are usu
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   by tinuviel 6mo ago

   Such businesses will close shop.
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   by tinuviel 6mo ago

   Keeping them clean is the easy part. Doing it well would require building the infrastructure, maintenance, manning the station, preventing drug abuse etc, and getting into liabilities due to said abuse. Tons of businesses stop doing busines
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   by tinuviel 7mo ago

   Plainwire - a Text-first News and RSS reader. Still in alpha. Please feel free to take a look. https://plainwire.live
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   by tinuviel 8mo ago

   The web app has a 5-minute cache on dynamic content - which balances info freshness with performance. The architecture supports the ultra-light, fast-loading requirements by design.
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    by tinuviel 8mo ago

    Thank you. Images would increase the page size. Intent is to keep this accessible on slow/overloaded connections.
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    by tinuviel 8mo ago

    National Weather Service. https://api.weather.gov/alerts/active?point={lat},{lon} Canada: https://dd.weather.gc.ca/alerts/cap/{province}/atom.xml
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    by tinuviel 8mo ago

    I've added them. Thank you.
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    by tinuviel 8mo ago

    Thanks! Could you gather feedback after you do, please?
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    by tinuviel 8mo ago

    Thank you! I will implement this - the server code is in plain C with NGINX on top so I presume adding memached would be straightforward.
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    by tinuviel 8mo ago

    Thanks for noticing. This has been fixed.
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    by tinuviel 8mo ago

    The weather API call has been fixed. FEMA reported the earthquakes to be centred in San Ramon and not in Alameda. Will see how this can be handled.
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    by tinuviel 8mo ago

    It was never down - it was being patched and redeployed based on feedback here. Webapp is light enough to handle 10000 concurrent hits.
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    by tinuviel 8mo ago

    https://www.gov.uk/guidance/999-and-112-the-uks-national-eme... 112 is also a national emergency number.
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    by tinuviel 8mo ago

    The site is light enough to handle traffic spikes from HN. The site was being patched based on feedback here. You should see it up and running.
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    by tinuviel 8mo ago

    This has been patched. Thank you.
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    by tinuviel 8mo ago

    Idea is to keep it light and accessible. PWA would be data heavy. The use case is in the article linked in the post description.
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    by tinuviel 8mo ago

    You are correct. This has been patched.
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    by tinuviel 8mo ago

    This has been patched. Thank you.
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    by tinuviel 8mo ago

    Thank you. This has been patched.
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    by tinuviel 8mo ago

    Thank you. This is fixed.
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    by tinuviel 8mo ago

    Thank you. This has been patched.
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    Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)(safe-now.live)

    195 points by tinuviel 8mo ago|94 comments
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    by tinuviel 9mo ago

    YSK there is a (seemingly famous) subreddit named eyeblech that is pretty graphic/NFSW.
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    by tinuviel 1y ago

    Ofcourse. Feelings are not math.
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    by tinuviel 1y ago

    Pretty sure you can prompt this same LLM to rejoice forever at the thought of getting a place to stay inside the Pi as well.