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Important piece of history.

Peas will continue to be relevant in the future – it is not subject to a trend pattern.
There are no other emoji that the peas could be compared to
or are compatible with.

What’s key here is that this outcome is noticeably worse for consumers, who are more of an afterthought in the equation. In this sense, the DMCC, like the DMA before it, disrupts competition law as we know it.

someone also got one on twitter recently as is doing high res scans of it

great analysis. Found via reddit thread.

whisperX is apparently the winner

Related Ask HN: Could AI be a dot com sized bubble?

not enough security jobs available, too many people trying to sell courses on it.

If you lose access to your two-factor authentication device, e.g. you lose your phone, you can still log in to your account. When prompted for your authentication code, enter your recovery code shown during the two-factor authentication setup.

There is no section for “what if I have lost my recovery code”.

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The plan was clear. I went home, told my wife that I would be deeply ignoring her and our baby for the week, and spent twelve hours a day in the headset for four straight days. I’m writing this on Thursday afternoon, having already logged over forty hours. Here are my thoughts.

impressive, not ready yet.

clickbaity, but still not ideal

If capital is not invested in providing a good service via a profitable business, it will never sustain things that are societally useful.

hopefully this doesn’t imply that things need to be profitable to be societally useful

Interesting that substuck gets mentioned for this - that maybe the main selling point is the subscription part rather than the publishing part. Maybe this is obvious but I had previously thought they were more about editing experience and hosting text.

surprising(?) amount of biased claims in there. “I have had great luck with phone x”, some hating on google for login screens, etc.

please fewer underground car tubes

I don’t know about this theory, but damn all the giant screens are annoying when looking for a new phone

unsurprisingly, issues facing twitter:
a) have been considered by people who spend years working on it
b) are more complicated to solve than a pithy phrase would have you believe

Too much trash and sponsored noisy content

Rise of holograms, deepfakes, so more ongoing fame for existing artists. Decline of labels, consolidation of the remaining power/profit in that business to fewer and fewer people.

The “official industry figures” will show that the music business is growing, but these numbers will be highly misleading. A huge portion of “music profits” will actually go to tech companies (Apple, Google, etc.), who have no interest in reinvesting this cash into the music ecosystem. For example, Spotify will take the cash flow generated by music and use it to acquire rights to podcasts, etc.—and, in general, the music culture will be starved of funds because it now must pay the bills for other businesses

Mostly sensible looking predictions, interesting set of topcs: Enterprise software, phone form factor, SF / NYC tech rivalry apparently, Crypto as dissident tech, fall of grad school, biotech bubble, microplastics health fears, campaign growth hacking, and SV startup scam.

A long-awaited product - laptop with upgradable parts! And decent specs! The internal adapters might be too late (USB-C is almost now widely used enough), but at least having the choice of ports is cool.

Sensible writeup. The trashing and attacks over gd frameworks is terrible and unnecessary. Use whatever tech you want!

Started off sounding so ambitious and friendly; the goals and incentives probably shifted fairly early.

They never delivered on this “strong goal” to make web search an academic endeavour.

Great little explainers for some important concepts. Learned a lot from /proc one!

That squares with my experience of software development. It’s like being a furniture maker but spending 80% of your time fixing your goddamn hammer because it keeps breaking and no better hammers exist, or consulting glue-drying tables because they keep changing your glue on you every hour or two and for no good reason every single glue performs differently while accomplishing the same thing.

I noticed this as well. Went from wanting to code all the time, to wanting to do something not web related in spare time. Hobbies are important!

I’ve had my phone on do-not-disturb for most of the last 5 years. It took a few months before I stopped getting phantom vibrations, since then I haven’t experienced that at all. Now it doesn’t ring (ringer volume at 0, ringtone is no sound) and doesn’t vibrate.

If I’m expecting a delivery or something and actually need it to alert me then I will turn on vibrate. But most of the time it sits there silently; if I’m not looking at it I miss calls. Recently for some reason they don’t even pop up so I miss them even if I am looking at it.

Phones are stupidly disruptive. Email is a todo list that anyone can add to; phones are a fire alarm that anyone can pull without consequences.

For an easier transition, using Wind Down on Android auto enables do-not-disturb at night (or whenever you choose). This is helpful if you want notifications back on later and forget to toggle.

I’ve also tried to cut down on computer notifications. For work that is mainly Slack, and for Slack the big 3 things were:

• disable popup notifications
• disable red dots
• use DND (or close it) when not using

And switching screen to grayscale toward the end of the day helps cut out the attention-grabbing hyper-saturated colors of the current web.

I am still not particularly good at staying focused. But minimizing these cuts down on background noise and cuts out a lot of disturbances.

I wanted to set up backups for a few computers. Basically mirror a hard drive where I keep some photos and music so I don’t lose em in case of hard drive failure or extreme flooding.

I bought some external drives months ago to do this, had them sitting in a case ready to go, but then got caught up with how mirroring should work, And how to automate them to handle deletions and things properly, but not wipe all the data if a drive has failed. And preferably some kind of archive mode so I can restore things that get accidentally changed or deleted.

But this was already way too complicated and I was stuck in the “doing research on the thing instead of the thing” stage. Stage 1 was instead a manual copy onto the disk. That meant the data is saved to the external and I’ve saved the multiple hours of copying time when it’s eventually automated later.

Good steps:

1. Manual bad way, do the thing as simply as possible
2. Manual better way. Preferably repeatable, some kind of script or command
3. Automatic with trigger or confirmation. Start running it but still check
4. Automatic. In the background, hopefully not something you need to think about anymore

For backups, starting with a basic cp is fine. Adding a cron job for rsync with a bunch of conditional rules can come later.

I switch between browsers quite a lot, mostly between firefox and chromium-based ones depending on what I’m doing or my current mood. Because of this I haven’t been able to rely on bookmarks from browser, and prefer somewhere centrol to keep links. Pocket has extensions for most browers, and gives a quite decent overlay UI for saving links and adding tags. The only thing I couldn’t add was notes. I like to add short descriptions or notes and sometimes cross-link things to help remember and find things later.

linksync is a simple script that grabs items from the Pocket API that I’ve tagged with ‘links’, grabs some data from each, and adds a new item in my websites links folder (as a draft). It will then pop up on my computer later. I’ll maybe add a description or some additional tags, then save and publish the site. Eventually would like to automate that as well, but haven’t decided how I want it to work yet. Probably just publish master will be simplest.

Quick recap of making a Pocket app:

1. Create a Pocket Application and give it the Retreive permission.
2. Manually went through the steps in the Pocket Authentication API Docs
3. Add queries from the Pocket Retreive API
4. Store last_updated value to only fetch recently added items

Last month I went to AMP Roadshow in Melbourne. Was a day of presentations and a bit of playing around with AMP stuff. AMP appears to be quite a different project to what it was three years ago.

AMP is no longer an ancronym for Accelerated Mobile Pages - now it’s the project name. This AMP is meant as more of a lightweight [citation needed] framework for making webapps, rather than just a way to get better Google rank and a ⚡ next to your page title.

Accelerated Mobile Pages faced some deserved backlash at first. Fixed top bars, hard-to-share links, and double loading to get to actual content were all big negatives. The limited interactive elements meant you got a very stripped down version of the page, and clicking on anything meant you usually loaded the full, now-even-more-bloated-because-we-assumed-AMP-would-take-care-of-it page.

The ‘keeping people on Google rather than their own servers’ aspect is an ongoing downside. But as a simple app framework it shows promise. Like what I had wanted from Polymer Elements but with a friendlier API. The better solution is obviously “just make faster pages”. But the industry has had a demonstrably hard time doing that and page bloat continues to grow out of control.

The AMP library contains a lot of components now and seems like a decent way to make a PWA (further research on this pending). It is probably too late to rename, but for many the name still carries a lot of baggage from the bad early days. Will be curious to see if it overcomes the rep, or that is just gradually forgotten.

Or if this is all just a ruse and it’s still a Google marketing play. Time will tell.

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