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BasilPH

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About BasilPH

basil@withfanfare.com

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    Comment #45659311

    Atlas feels like a Dia clone. I’ve used Dia for a couple months, but rarely touch the ChatGPT integration—quick answers go to Kagi with “?”, and deeper work goes to Claude or ChatG…

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    Comment #45119228

    > Apparently, the link to Intactile DESIGN - intactile[dot]com - in the README file is now redirecting to a gambling site, probably due to Intactile going out of business? https://…

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    Comment #43822195

    I'm still developing podcast websites with transcripts[^0] while maintaining a part-time job. This thread made me realize I've made no progress in acquiring new clients since posti…

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    Comment #42064497

    I got this trick from someone on the Internet: $> long_running_command && say "Witness me, for I am done"

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    Comment #41971438

    I'm building a service for podcast websites with transcripts[^0]. I have paying customers, including Volts[^1], and I'm genuinely passionate about serving them. What's holding me b…

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    Comment #41787652

    It's definitely impressive. However, natural gas outages do happen. For example Winter Storm Uri in Texas led to gas outages. Sadly, the outages and possible the loss of life conne…

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    Comment #40820453

    The Volts podcast dove into this recently (with transcript): https://www.volts.wtf/p/new-yorks-congestion-pricing-fiasco

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    Comment #40226699

    SEEKING WORK | Full Stack | Data Engineering Location: NYC Remote: Only Technologies: Python/Django, TypeScript/Javascript/React, GraphQL, Docker, Celery, prompt engineering Resume…

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    Comment #39932492

    I think the assumption is that North Korea already knows who he his: He didn't make a big deal of hiding who he was when he hacked them in the first place. Some people within the s…

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    Comment #39932016

    I made a transcript: https://www.withfanfare.com/p/hacker-news-collection/risky-b... Andres Freund starts speaking at 5:09. I'm not affiliated with the podcast. I only did a very c…

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    Comment #39851372

    I can highly recommend "A City on Mars"[^0], which I recently read. The authors go into fascinating detail about what it takes to build planetary settlements, and they not only foc…

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    Comment #39685440

    Fascinating article. Some interesting anecdotes: > The victims even included several survivors of the Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402 crash. (Note: A plane that crashed the d…

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    Comment #39457452

    I made a transcript: https://www.withfanfare.com/p/hacker-news-collection/episode... It might be a bit rough around the edges, since I didn't do any manual editing.

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    Comment #39438628

    Bard/Gemini gets it wrong the same way too. Interestingly, if I tell either GPT-4 or Gemini the right answer, they figure it out.

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    Comment #39438584

    As a foreigner without a credit score, Discover was the easiest credit card to get started with. They made things easy and predictable and I love that you get cash back and not som…

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    Comment #39433550

    I'm doing something similar with Obsidian daily notes[^1]. I also have a weekly note that I use to plan the next week. Similar to how the author talks about scheduling their next d…

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    Comment #39321544

    For anybody else who didn't know what foveated rendering was: > Foveated imaging is a digital image processing technique in which the image resolution, or amount of detail, varies …

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    Comment #39208955

    Thanks for letting me know, I'll try that. My guess is also that they use the hack as an excuse to keep people in.

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    Comment #39205741

    > As an added security measure, we have temporarily disabled the ability to download your raw genetic data. We hope to re-enable this ability soon, and we appreciate your patience.…