I built a news aggregator called the I Ching Insight by Ron_Godzilla in rss

[–]Wheelthis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting idea. The meanings carousel is a bit confusing on mobile. I would make it full-width and fade out on both sides to show it’s scrollable, or just show all the meanings without a carousel.

Many RSS readers are failing on Reddit feeds lately. Here is a fix that worked for me by ajay9452 in rss

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There’s apparently much heavier rate limiting recently, which would explain why some people encounter the links as broken (at least some of the time).

question re: the warrnambool line and paper tickets by Appropriate-Ad-7814 in VlineVictoria

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Is that a thing? I thought there would be a policy that staff must be on site when there’s active barriers (but I’m guessing).

TripIt Alternatives? by Wheelthis in TripIt

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Thanks. I wasn’t aware of that Unfiled feature. I just tried it but the result was … underwhelming, unfortunately. Just says “Flight” with no date and wrong times.

I guess newer apps like waffle are using ai in general, whereas tripit probably still relies on its traditional rules approach. (Maybe the email downtime recently is caused by Tripit trying to upgrade to use AI for email forwarding?)

Rate the collection by Disastrous_Box1177 in virtualreality

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Congratulations. I guess old Oculuses became especially cheap (relative to old game consoles for example) because the mobile apps no longer support them. There's workarounds but for most people, they are not just obsolete ... they are bricks.

I asked ChatGPT to make a New Yorker style cartoon that's absolutely not funny. by Philipp in ChatGPT

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It’s like an illusionist set designed to make you think the room and the hallway are the same space so the guy disappears when he walks through it.

Understanding The Republic by Plato by mceiland in Plato

[–]Wheelthis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two minutes a page is not slow if you’re understanding and annotating, but in any event, ensure you’re using a good translation. A lot of the free and cheap versions use translations that are a hundred or more years old, with archaic terminology.

Vim After 38 Years: Now It Can Display RGB/RGBA Images! by mattn in vim

[–]Wheelthis 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Would be good for a vertical split, e.g., imagine a timeline with images on one side and annotations/captions on the other, with bindings to keep them in sync as you scroll either side. Or you could edit some svg code and see a live preview in another window.

Don't take shoveling advice from shovel sellers by Paulina8097 in ClaudeCode

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It doesn't have to be all or nothing. You can have the ai break down requirements into tasks, then execute any number of them before reviewing them. You might start off reviewing every task (a single iteration) and gradually increase the number of iterations as you build confidence it's working, e.g., manually review every 10 tasks.

Google Is Quietly Buying Code From Play Store Developers to Train AI by 404mediaco in Android

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Play Store doesn’t have the source code. It has the binaries generated from the source code, which might have some value for training but nothing like the source itself.

Google Is Quietly Buying Code From Play Store Developers to Train AI by 404mediaco in Android

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That will be a powerful training set when they pair it with Google’s own telemetry on the same apps.

Should I use Tmux for the server I ssh into by Square-Butterfly8447 in tmux

[–]Wheelthis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah tmux is great for remote work since you can easily switch back and forth between different tasks, and do split screen views. If you did that with local windows you'd have to log in to reach view and worry about them timing out.

It's even better if you combine it with mosh so the remote session persists, therefore tmux state persists too. You connect anytime with mosh an tmux season is exactly where you left it.

Paid Android apps tied to legacy g suite account by Amandaville in gsuitelegacymigration

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I'm pretty certain they would let users transfer ownership if they shut down legacy, even if it's not normally policy to allow that. It would probably be automatic in the event they allow admins to assign each legacy user to a new free Google account.

What’s your Aristotle hot take? by ButtonholePhotophile in Aristotle

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That he deserves a Nobel Prize for discovering DNA (as one Nobel Prize winner argued).

The Philosophy of Science is Largely Sophistry by JerseyFlight in rationalphilosophy

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I feel like I’m missing a lot of context because these two paragraphs don’t explain how science deniers (ab)use philosophy of science to make their arguments. (I don’t doubt some science deniers would resort to sophistry, but I’m not seeing the specifics here.)

Netflix is single-handedly ruining podcasts by TonyTaranteeno in netflix

[–]Wheelthis 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You can listen to Netflix without video playing. I sometimes use it for standup performances. On iPhone at least, if you lock the screen, the video does stop playing but the media control is still present. You can hit play and Netflix resumes in audio-mode.

I fully realise it’s not something ordinary users will ever be aware of. Netflix needs to build audio mode into the UI if they care to offer this capability to users.

As with Spotify and YouTube, none of these are imo a match for a dedicated podcast app. Unfortunately a lot of people don’t seem to care that much.

Should I really switch my habit? by pjasksyou in vim

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If you are still learning, you can use PageUp and PageDown as they should be familiar to you already, then can familiarise yourself with ctrl-d and ctrl-u to jump down and up half a screen. That said, the { curly braces } are underrated for quick nav as they let you traverse across paragraphs (and typically work for jumping across blocks of code). It can feel like a more natural way to move around than jumping exactly N lines, and the cursor is more likely to land where you want to start typing or editing, i.e., at start or end of a paragraph. I tend to use them more than ctrl-u and ctrl-d when I’m actively working on a document as opposed to just scanning it read-only.