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treenode··on Let your jailbroken kindle have a domain name on your network
Talk to your kindle directly with kindle.local with this mdns receiver.
treenode··on UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction
India has a robust Debit card system instead of Credit cards.
treenode··on Have a fucking website
Fun rant to read, but this is an entitled view. Not everyone has to have a website, or has to care about democratising the internet. If you don't want to do business with them just because you shun platforms, that's up to you. They may be doing just fine without your patronage.
treenode··on Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all
AI writing sucks. The punchy words, the hyperbole, the monotony and pervasiveness are all exhausting. But I can’t deny there’s one upside. People who grew up speaking and living in other languages, people whose english is poor, finally have a level playground. It’s a great equaliser of our english writing privilege.

The thing that worries me most is that it's going to redefine the way we write. We absorb language. To compensate for all this AiSpeak I consume, I need to read more literature.

What’s human writing going to look like in a few years if this trend doesn’t stop? I believe that the LLMs will catch up soon and introduce more variance and fewer words designed for impact in their language, delivering us from this AiVerse into one where AI writing is almost indistinguishable from human writing. But until then, we must read more.

treenode··on Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub
As a person with really poor memory, the entirety of my learning depends on this app. I'm worried :/
treenode··on Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)
This isn't true. People in India are worried about AI quite a bit.
treenode··on Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
I don't see why this is unexpected. 'Using your brain actively vs evaluating AI' is neurally equivalent to 'active recall vs reading notes'.
treenode··on I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE
great work
treenode··on Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems
It would have been worthwhile if this article had briefly touched upon how the constraint solvers are implemented, rather than avoiding this altogether
treenode··on Ask HN: I want to be an expert in many things but my lifetime won't be enough
Your response is spot on. Gave me the words to frame my thoughts around.
treenode··on Ask HN: Who else can only fall asleep listening to audio content?
I have this problem when I'm sleeping alone or when my mind is unsettled. Neither is that common, as I don't hit the bed till I'm very tired. When it happens, I usually listen to my audiobooks (fiction) to fall asleep. If that is too stimulating, I turn to this google podcast called "Boring books for bedtime". It's quite effective.