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I'm more of a desktop user, but I wasn't happy with what was out there so I made my own (but only for Melbourne): https://davidjohnstone.net/weather/melbourne . I'm tempted to turn…

Yeah, the network effect is strong, but there's never been a better time to challenge it. I think the potential of success is partly based on quality of the alternative, but also o…

It seems its decentralised nature is a hindrance to some or many potential users[1]. My impression is that it's often treated as an alternative, but not really a truly viable alter…

I'm skeptical that it's a viable alternative for most people, who don't care about the fact that it's decentralised.

I kind of wish I had spent the last six months building one.

Thanks, that's interesting. Yurou Zhong, in her book Chinese Grammatology, traces the end of the latinisation movement to a precise date in 1958 when Zhou Enlai gave a speech "当前文字…

The comparison between Latin in Europe in the early modern period and literary Chinese in the Sinosphere for much of history is pretty good (and often made). Latin and literary Chi…

> This is only because the plan for simplified characters died midway through. There was a second round of simplifications that would have gone even further with talks of full phon…

The New York Times' article on her life has a couple of corrections for things that look like they were written earlier and not updated with the latest when published. For example:…

I wondered the same. The main downside is that you need to do some processing to extract the entries from the dump and get the plain text of the fields you want. I'm also a little …

I also made a fast-loading news website. It should be roughly as fast as yours. https://www.thenewseachday.com/

You put square brackets around parameters. e.g., routes/greet/[name].tsx https://fresh.deno.dev/docs/getting-started/dynamic-routes

I read this a month ago. Excellent book. Incredible story.

You're right about the numbers often being expressed in W/kg, because power to weight is more important than power when going uphill. For big climbs (more than half an hour or so),…

2,400W is around (and possibly more than) what the strongest track cyclists can sustain for about five seconds. Tour de France cyclists racing up mountains generally sustain around…

To improve compression of a sorted list of words you can replace the (initial) letters repeated from the word above with spaces before compression and add them back as an extra ste…

According to Wikipedia's list[1], it's the strongest earthquake Australia has had since 1997, and that one was in a remote part of Western Australia. "A Seismologist tells @abcmelb…

My understanding is that all numbers in the dump correspond with Facebook accounts, so this shouldn't be the reason. Another option would be that someone else has that number liste…

I don't think that helps, because the address space of numbers is too small so anything is reversible. My solution to this was to generate 99 extra random numbers that start with t…

I don't know what there is to do other than to be aware that the combination of your name and number (and maybe some other details) are not private, so there's no reason to trust a…

Done. https://www.thenewseachday.com/private-facebook-phone-number...

You haven't heard of thenewseachday.com because I quietly put it up online last week.