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agentdrtran··on Ask HN: How does Starlink work for IP address/ASN internationally?
out of curiosity, any other examples?
agentdrtran··on Improving your online privacy: An update
I like the general recommendations here but think it really undersells how hard it is to switch in many cases - the time recommendation are comically short. Yes, going to a new site instead of a Google site might only take a minute of your time to sign up but moving all your data over and learning a new, sometimes inferior tool can take weeks.
agentdrtran··on Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web
Your website has photos of the doctors for the "care team" and coaches buried under a link. Come on, just be uprfront with people.
agentdrtran··on MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your Mac
Does anyone know of an easy to use whisper fork with speaker attestation?
agentdrtran··on Escaping High School
The phonic issue is absurd, can you imagine if an entire industry followed a fad for years with minimal pushback? Now, if you'll excuse me I've been in a cave for a few years and need to check my crypto balances.
agentdrtran··on Apple releasing segmentation/pose for humans and animals, embedding for 27 lang
I switched from the Move to the Studio (freestanding version) and the form feedback triggers __slightly__ more often but it's still not worth bothering about imo. the rep counting not working bothers me way more.
agentdrtran··on Kissinger's killing fields
It was literally founded as a boot-licking rag! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist#History
agentdrtran··on How to become a debt buyer
Do parts of this sound ai-written to anyone else?
agentdrtran··on Why is there no open source firmware for laser or inkjet printers? (2019)
who's going to volunteer for any community support/bugfixes that aren't "use some other company's toner"?
agentdrtran··on OpenLLaMA: An Open Reproduction of LLaMA
it's repeatedly made up entire quotes and research papers?
agentdrtran··on OpenLLaMA: An Open Reproduction of LLaMA
> why don't you spend 30 minutes of quality time with chatGPT and get to the bottom of this?

when it can hallucinate content, why do that instead of reading a blog post from an expert?

agentdrtran··on Google DeepMind CEO says some form of AGI possible in a few years
were we ever promised high-speed (fiber) internet everywhere or was that always a pipe dream?
agentdrtran··on Nostr – Decentralized social network
There's been a steady attrition of celebrities and other major players from the platform. social media platforms don't die overnight, they die over time.
agentdrtran··on Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
Siri's functionality is fine for me, it just seems to really struggle to understand me compared to Google
agentdrtran··on IKEA Redesigns Its Bestsellers
also, people are glad to take slightly busted IKEA stuff for free or cheap. It goes quickly in all the facebook groups I'm in.
agentdrtran··on People who use Notion to plan their whole lives
The average person is not capable of self-hosting software and SaaS is much nicer looking / more fully features 99% of the time. I say this as someone who loves self-hosting and self hosts most of my own stuff.
agentdrtran··on Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
> Games work well

come on now

agentdrtran··on Why don’t more people live close to friends?
Cities subsidizing maker spaces would solve the wood/metal workign part of this well, and I live in a pretty dense part of the city that has a community garden down the street.
agentdrtran··on Google has already pulled six products in 2023
they did this alrady with Tables, they labeled it an area120 project. they really need to do this for more stuff

https://tables.area120.google.com/u/0/about

agentdrtran··on Apple introduces Apple Pay Later
If your laptop breaks and you need a new one you are probably better off doing BNPL if you can instead of buying a cheap, crappy one now.
agentdrtran··on Push notifications are now supported cross-browser
also pro: notifications on iOS for things that won't pass apple's walled garden
agentdrtran··on Online daters are less open-minded than their filters suggest
they are, but I think it's interesting how people feel the need to hide this. it's not like only skinny people can go hiking.
agentdrtran··on Online daters are less open-minded than their filters suggest
it's used as a proxy for fitness.
agentdrtran··on One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally here
teachers do not want to be babysitters, but when you have overstuffed classrooms, no prep time, no equipment, hungry kids, etc etc what are you able to do?
agentdrtran··on Security audit of account and payment services
it can help reduce some kinda of tracking/fingerprinting although from what I've heard the utility of that is going down over time
agentdrtran··on Ask HN: I hate gym. How to stay in shape?
Work out from home. I have a Tempo and doing a 20-30 minute class a day has been the best thing I've found for someone who doesn't really like the gym/sports/etc.
agentdrtran··on Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
How many of these have there been in like the past month? a dozen? two dozen?
agentdrtran··on Unapproved books now a felony in Manatee County schools
"voters" and "people" are two different groups, of which there can be notable difference the harder is it to vote.
agentdrtran··on My coffee maker just makes coffee
reddit is chock-full of astroturfing and someone's washer brand lasting 20 years doesn't mean their modern model will last 20 years.
agentdrtran··on NYC schools block ChatGPT, fearing negative impact on learning
that's really interesting, I wonder what's it's reading to troubleshoot. StackOverflow, presumably? It sound like a handy way of collating multiple answers into one quick, coherent format which would be super helpful.
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