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Summarize it with an LLM.

Farming is not done for profit?

Even the smaller subreddits tend to have lots of groupthink. There’s usually a prevailing viewpoint on any given sub and anything contrary is downvoted to oblivion. Maybe I’m not l…

Context and nuance? On Reddit? Usually I think it lacks both.

Makes sense for Samsung. :(

> you can stop and resume on smaller units of time You can pause a movie? I don’t always watch a movie in one go.

100% agree, and it’s ironic given that the blog is for/about design …

> I can literally grow food in the ground for "free", put it in mason jars and save my food for a year. This is true only in an extremely pedantic, unrealistic kinda way. If it was…

Legal research services (access to dockets, case text, etc.) tend to be extremely expensive. I think making that more widely available is a good thing for people with limited resou…

> I immediately notified Austin's police (APD) as I could see where it was going. Was the tracking good enough to reasonably narrow it down to a single person? I think people expec…

Yeah, but wires are also a subpar user experience, period. Rolling them up to store them, untangling them to use them, getting caught on things, routing them to the device, etc. Th…

> Apple doesn’t allow subscriptions priced at less than $0.99. Why not? What if I had a product that i wanted to sell for $0.50 a month? I’d pay $0.50 more. I just had the unpleasa…

Is this a dark pattern? I'm ok with shadow bans if they're reserved for those egregiously abusive users who ruin the community for everyone else. Let them shout into the void.

> I'd rather vendors like Apple gave us the ability to build our own private clouds instead of locking us into theirs. They literally do. I have my iPhone 11 synced with my self ho…

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> Most of my wealth was exposed in the form of Bitcoin Yikes.

Local news websites are just the absolute worst.

Some people like the brutalist aesthetic.

For cases, I would think headnotes and footnotes would be the only proprietary Westlaw data. The case itself is content written by the court.

> I was going to wait until the software on my pinephone was more mature but that pushed me over the edge to get power management working on my own and make sure it could make phon…

More effective?

Speech to text in the cloud is a hard no from me. Especially if it’s Google’s speech to text.

> The benefit of shell scripting is that it is simple enough to have as a tertiary language that you can pickup and use after a six month hiatus. I've been using/abusing traditiona…

My Fenix 5 shows up as a mass storage device when I plug in the usb cable to my computer. You can pull .fit files off that, which contain everything the watch records.