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octet1··on Springer retracts hundreds of “nonsensical” articles
These look like they were written by GPT-3
octet1··on Ask HN: Screen Friendly Documentation Ideas?
You could convert the Word docs to Markdown with Pandoc, then feed those files to docsify.
octet1··on How do I open the Mercedes EQS’s hood?
Teslas seem modular/maintainable if you have the expertise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPHea6GdQYw
octet1··on The Third Web
Looking at this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Arweave/comments/gu5elw/arweave_per...

The advantage it has over IPFS is guaranteed permanence and the incentivization is core to that functionality.

octet1··on Two custom React hooks
> the cost of abstracting that tiny bit of state into some top level application state is disproportionately high - it just isn't a pragmatic choice

What other costs are there besides boilerplate?

octet1··on Nim 1.6.2
Do you think it has no genuine use cases?
octet1··on The Third Web
Arweave, for one, uses blockchain for a novel approach to data storage.
octet1··on Packaging for instant coffee made out of seaweed
I think the process would be low-cost (reverse osmosis maybe?). Filtration generally seems pretty low-cost all around - the LifeStraw is $12.99 and can make toilet water drinkable.
octet1··on Packaging for instant coffee made out of seaweed
It's made with processed Seaweed, so I'd think the end product would be at least mostly free of these contaminants.
octet1··on Ask HN: What things has tech made worse in your life?
Can you expand on this some more?
octet1··on Explain This Paper
Neat. Curious if you looked into using AI for summarization?
octet1··on The fish shell is amazing
Wondering how it would function after being passed through https://github.com/azproduction/html-tui