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www.euronews.com 15d ago

Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal

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busundreu.com 4mo ago

Find a classical song matching your trip duration

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ai.nejm.org 1y ago

Randomized Trial of a Generative AI Chatbot for Mental Health Treatment

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meduza.io 1y ago

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Removed from App Store at Moscow's Demand

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arxiv.org 2y ago

Facial recognition technology (and humans) can predict political orientation

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www.thetimes.co.uk 2y ago

Every scary thing Meta knows about me – and you

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insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk 2y ago

The findings of our first generative AI experiment: Gov.uk Chat

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www.irishexaminer.com 3y ago

Hundreds attend AI church service in Germany

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twitter.com 3y ago

AI-Generated Street Transformations

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github.com 4y ago

Projects That StandWithUkraine

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www.cnn.com 4y ago

People vaccinated against Covid less likely to die from any cause, study finds

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www.eurekalert.org 6y ago

Brain study identifies possible causes of ethnic pain disparities

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www.scuttlebutt.nz 9y ago

Scuttlebutt – an off-grid social network

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blankstamp.io 10y ago

Send Incognito emails back and forth, without exposing your email address

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Pocket / Instapaper alternative with Dropbox

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www.trankynam.com 13y ago

A cheaper (and possibly better) Text Expander app

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

Visually teaching sorting algorithms with east-european traditional folk dances

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mashajs.com 14y ago

This should become a standard (masha.js)

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Why isn't YouTube blacked out?

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www.youtube.com 14y ago

Undocumented feature: Creating a speed dial in Chrome 15

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www.washingtonpost.com 18y ago

PC Software Upgrade Shuts Down Nuclear Power Plant

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I'm one of those improbable folks not based in US. While a tad more difficult to get by these days, I've eventually most always managed to find postcards. All post offices sell stamps (excluding the few that only manage parcels). Also, any postcard sized piece of cardboard that bears a stamp qualifies as a travel worthy postcard – once I did just that, for the fun of it, and it worked. I've once received a stamp beer coaster.

PS. Another fun game is to see what's the most cryptical, vague postal address that does the job. See:

- What is the minimal possible UK address? – https://hkrn.ws/34995370

- Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses – https://hkrn.ws/5791489

Postcards, while travelling, are one of the very few instances when I write by hand, these days. I started about 20 years ago, I most usually only write the address and a smiley — the old school analogue medium is most of the message (that I take the time to pick a postcard, which then has to travel physically to reach the distance to its target).

Is there an added health or digestive benefit of fully soaking the oats, overnight or microwaved? Or is it just a matter of taste? I just add some hot water and milk (indeed I'm not sure if what I have are plain or instant oats)

thankful for all the answers, I'll give it a try for a while to 'learn' me and see if I can lean into the workflow.

Optimistically speaking, the only drawback would then be I only get one screen/desktop for adding widgets – which, I guess, might be a reasonable trade-off.

I'm a bit confused on how this works, besides using the search each time I need to launch an app. Could I have more shortcuts in the home screen, or just what I pin as favourite apps?

And am I limited to only one space/desktop, normally if I swipe right, I get to the next desktop where I have other apps. So I can launch an app from the 3rd desktop with 2 swipes and a press. Now, swiping right I get the full list of apps where I'd need to search.

I couldn't find answers to this in the documentation

Huh, can one natively edit Markdown in Google Docs? This would be one of my main requests for gDocs (as a long time NvAlt/NvUltra daily driver), but how?

I searched directly for Faraday through the comments. Waiting forward for the apparel company that builds this.

And we've been laughing all this time at tinfoil hat types..

So much this. I for one haven't opted out. I feel it's in our best interest to have better models. It would be ideal to be able to opt in/out per thread, but I don't expect most users to pay attention / be bothered with that.

In this aspect, it would've been great to give us an incentive – a discount, a donation on our behalf, plant a percent of a tree or just beg / ask nicely, explain what's in it for us.

Regarding privacy, our conversations are saved anyway, so if it would be a breach this wouldn't make much of a difference, would it?

so if, at some point in the future, say, 20 relevant influencers would choose a similarly featured RSS reader, more of us we'd try, and hopefully reach critical mass? built over ActivityPub / Matrix for extra novelty. I live with this fantasy.

What would be a programmatic approach to find a list of most rarely used words (in any language?). I'm thinking, loop a list of words from a dictionary, and see how many results a search engine would return (filtering out dictionary results) - it would take a while - most languages have some hundred thousand words.

Excited to see this. I built quite a few data-rich projects / dashboards with gSheets as backend/api - or as input UI, fetched to SQLite.

I'd be looking very much forward for: data validation, conditional formatting (including heatmaps) and - what gSheet doesn't offer natively, multiple choices cells via data validation or values from another column/sheet.

<s>I was surprised I couldn't way to view a spreadsheet as a DataTable, or back as a DataTable</s> (LE: found later how in documentation). And no sticky/frozen header row, ugh.

Cherry on top would be gSheets like SQL flavoured QUERY.

LE2: to add the wishlist, a potentially killer feature to/for some, dashboard type of sheet, with minimal/layout options –rows & columns blocks that can host charts & text (headings & paragraphs), with global filters – it would add a feature or two complementary to what gSheets offers. And at some point maybe, comments - per sheet or column only.

It's not actively developed, but not abandoned either, if you judge by the closing of issues in the dedicated repository. It's also my file manager of choice (minimalist UI but reasonably featured).