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el_sinchi

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el_sinchi··on Just the Browser
I still use Firefox but I, frankly, feel it's stagnated. On mobile I'm in the process of changing habits to something else (auto reflex sometimes still opens Ffox, but lately I'm circling back to opera, which I stopped using on desktop what... 20 years ago?)

All this to say, I don't think Mozilla is doing much with all the telemetry data it's gathered all these years

el_sinchi··on Why we’re dropping Basecamp
Yep. Free market and all.

It's just that your feelings are so fragile that you can't stand having different points of view. And this react childishly

el_sinchi··on Paperless-Ngx v2.0.0
you can use an opensource tool for scanning, like NAPS2, which will let you rotate before you mail it to paperless-ngx
el_sinchi··on Argentina's Milei backs away from dollarisation
Mwahahahaha

I guess all the miles voters will start doing weird explanations like magaqs in USA , to justify it

el_sinchi··on Show HN: Launching QRGen, a Self-Hosted Bulk QR Code Generation Service
Demo confused me. So you add one by one text/url and then the codes are generated add images on a zip?
el_sinchi··on Show HN: Launching QRGen, a Self-Hosted Bulk QR Code Generation Service
Bulk as in.. Sequentially generated urls?

Foo.com/path/doc001.htm 02 003 etc?

el_sinchi··on Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk (2015)
Got a box now. They're good but nowhere the hype, I've seen brands costing a tenth writing almost as good
el_sinchi··on What tool do you use for bookmarking?
I?ve tried linkace, linkding, roughly the same, I use linkding as my main "save a link to check out later"

also tried benotes, which I find better designed visually, but is a bit buggy atm

el_sinchi··on Show HN: Forte, an open-source self-hosted music platform with lots of features
Well.. do you have a comparison to navidrome for example? I appreciate your enthusiasm but before I migrate my library from navidrome , what are the benefits?
el_sinchi··on Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M paid subscribers
are you me?

I've been using my navidrome instance for the past 6 months (on those free oracle machines), and I can't be more happy about it, specially with android app thing. Seedbox provides fresh stream heh of new music I'm actually interestd on

el_sinchi··on A math problem generator
yet, he's right.

these are "exercises", not "problems" they don't involve creative thinking. look up the difference on any text about "problem solving"

el_sinchi··on Jack Dorsey donates to develop decentralized social network protocol [pdf]
14 Bitcoin?

What's that nowadays? Like 50 USD?

el_sinchi··on Show HN: Explore Useful Things on Internet
I ain't blindly subscribing to any webpage. show some samples
el_sinchi··on Ask HN: What are your thoughts on students replacing their notebooks with iPads?
a tablet can also be used on other contexts.

the fallacy here is that they spend the money ONLY for taking notes

el_sinchi··on Mathics: A free, open-source alternative to Mathematica
unlikely, they seem to be separate efforts
el_sinchi··on Why has Elon Musk terminated his agreement to purchase Twitter?
Looks like written by some Chinese/Indian Musk fanboy
el_sinchi··on Chicken and the Egg, for 5-year-olds
it's not a "sudden" change there's no "first chicken", no "first human", no "last ape", no "first human that mated with last ape" either

just gradual diverging changes , and then at some point one branch is different enough from other branch that we call them separate species

so the answer to your connundrum is explaining your kid this, not explainign that a human mated with an ape

(ELI5)

el_sinchi··on Chicken and the Egg, for 5-year-olds
species A becomes subdivided into 2 variants Ax, Ay those being the same species, can mate (think for instance, citrus variants)

but somehow they get separated, and start evolving slowly different, and here's the crux, at some point the genetic changes no longer allow viable reproduction should they mix again, at that point they have evolved into separate species

it's not that Humans (Ax) came from ape (Ay) but rather they evolved out from some common ancestor (that may or may not still exists today)

when they say "humans descend from apes" does not necessarily mean from actual current modern apes

and the flaw in the child's reasoning is that presupposes a linear change "from this point on, we have humans, before, we have apes)

that's enough simplification for a 5 year old?

el_sinchi··on Ask HN: Do you prefer Markdown or a rich-text editor for blogging?
markdown all the way

you can use an external editor and then paste into the blog

el_sinchi··on Ask HN: What Happened to Zas Editor?
projects disappear.

and "splash" may well be an overstatement

el_sinchi··on Saved.io
so glad! I'll sign up to share important personal data to be mined.
el_sinchi··on Ask HN: If Russia gets banned from SWIFT, how it would reflect on crypto?
of course, typical crypto boys thinking of how would it reflect... :D
el_sinchi··on Favorite Note Taking Tool
pencil & paper

for specific contexts, I like obsidian

I WANTED to like notion... but capturing notes on the go from mobile is unpleasant and you can't check your notes if you lose internet access...