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by westernpopular 3y ago
> It also links to a Telegram exporter. Telegram has this natively already
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by westernpopular 3y ago
For what it's worth I do the exact same thing (although not on Mac so I haven't encountered this bug), so not too niche I suppose!
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by westernpopular 3y ago
Bemoaning people maximizing terminals - what a weird hill to die on.
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Hypertime: An excessively convoluted time travel framework (2011)(qntm.org)
2 points by westernpopular 3y ago|0 comments
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by westernpopular 3y ago
Nobody ever talked about beginnings. The question is, even if the universe always was, why does it exist? It wouldn't be impossible for there to be nothing and never have been anything.
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by westernpopular 3y ago
Why does this only talk about lyrics?
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by westernpopular 3y ago
Well that's probably because Indian accents are not present as a category and everyone is forced into the US/UK/AU categories?
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by westernpopular 3y ago
> To be able to predict accurately sentences that make sense, GPT-4 must have a internal way of representing concepts, such as "objects', "time", "family" and everything else under the sun. [citation needed]
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by westernpopular 3y ago
Reminder that Replit's CEO bullied an open-source maintainer into killing his independent project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195
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by westernpopular 3y ago
Fun fact: the unusual way of saying eighty in French ("four twenties") actually came about through the local contact with Celtic languages! I'm linguistic terms this is called "substratum influence"
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by westernpopular 3y ago
You can use https://www.composerize.com/ to see what a `docker run` command would look like as a docker-compose file
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by westernpopular 3y ago
Not men, businesses. And businesses can and should be coerced to serve the people.
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by westernpopular 3y ago
You do in some countries
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by westernpopular 3y ago
If getting access to your email is all it takes for someone to empty your bank account, you need to find a different bank.
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by westernpopular 3y ago
> Along those lines, a quick way to drive adoption could be a huge "how do i do x" or recipes page to Ctrl+F through. If I have to search the internet for how to do x in nushell/fish/etc, I might as well stick to arca
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by westernpopular 3y ago
I can tell you that in my passport, my name appears in two different places and it's spelled differently been them. Also, a lot of people in the world don't have passports.
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by westernpopular 3y ago
What does time horizon mean?
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by westernpopular 3y ago
Your description had me curious, the picture had me laughing out loud
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by westernpopular 3y ago
I especially liked the section about notifications in this article: > In their article The Psychology of Notifications, Ximena Vengochea and Nir Eyal call notifications “the Pavlovian bell of the 21st century.” For app designers and user
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Why it's so easy to ignore your to-do app but get distracted by Twitter (2016)(techcrunch.com)
5 points by westernpopular 3y ago|2 comments
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by westernpopular 3y ago
WhatsApp and Chrome is apples and oranges - not using WhatsApp comes at a social cost (especially in countries like Germany and India where almost everyone uses it) because you can no longer communicate with other WhatsApp users or particip
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by westernpopular 3y ago
This particular attack is actually not a concern if you're using fish (or zsh for that matter I think), as it will not execute pasted content without an additional pressing of the enter key.
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by westernpopular 3y ago
Not everyone lives in C world either
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by westernpopular 3y ago
Even just removing it from that country's app store would mean 99% of people who might have used it otherwise won't use it. It doesn't need to be Impossible for the policy to be successful.
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by westernpopular 3y ago
*citizens and residents
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by westernpopular 3y ago
Counterpoint, I work in an international company where teams in Europe often need to liaise with teams in the US. The policy is: if it needs to wait, it waits. If it can't wait, you need to reorganize your teams' responsibilities
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by westernpopular 3y ago
I second that. The time it took me from when I started to learn programming to getting paid for a project was just a little over year, and three years to steady pay (i.e. employment). In contrast, I've been making music for over ten ye
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by westernpopular 3y ago
This is just "capitalism breeds innovation" with extra steps, and the answer remains No.
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by westernpopular 3y ago
What if you're on the go and only have a phone available? I reckon this is intended for quick experiments, not in depth debugging.
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by westernpopular 3y ago
Except people rarely ever do get a real insight into other people's lives and culture from just travelling, do they? You're not sharing your life with the locals, you're not friends, you're just walking around the city c

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