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I don't want to hear morning show hijinx. I will gladly listen to well-produced news and features.

I still work in radio and have for more than 30 years. Perhaps I'm an outlier, but I never cared about the DJs, never felt a connection, never wanted their Morning Zoos or their Ta…

Mr. Baby Paint owes at least a mention to KidPix, that Mac OS 9 program that got there first for kid-focused computer art.

Am I the only one who has never managed to get an IPFS file to successfully download?

Journalism has been talking about the future of journalism for fifty years or more. It is literally always the same answers, none of which are both feasible and realistic. All the …

Here's the article as it originally appeared in the journal "Nature": https://archive.org/details/nature221880lock/mode/2up

The author may really like "The Sting" but the movie was a rip-off of a book by David Maurer, and all of the con mechanisms in the movie were lifted without permission from his boo…

Waiting for the inflection point that all social sites go through: When a social site's top content stops being about itself, then it is probably going to be successful. A second c…

"The eyespots on a peacock’s train are super cyan, so when the peacock spreads its train feathers it is going super saiyan super cyan." Haha.

The 171,476 figure from OED is used inaccurately in a way that shows a gross misunderstanding of dictionaries and language. The number 171,476 refers to the number of full entries …

You are not a good person.

"Almost across the board" is a damning statement, not a remark that supports careless deaccessioning. I work in the margins of my field, and literally thousands of books are unavai…

This has been circulating for many years and at this point is so widely spread as to be considered ordinary and unremarkable.

Forget all that. I want my stuff in text-based lists. Showing icons and file previews is way slower and less informative.

Posted here many times https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/localsend

Yes, this is being done, and has been done. A variety of linguistic atlas projects record audio and make written phonetic transcriptions: https://www.linguisticatlasproject.org/ Th…

Outstanding. May his fax endure forever.

Your malarkey sounds the same in this language, too.

people out here applying their genius with things to with no profit incentive

Here are just a few I found in just a few minutes of looking: https://github.com/Ljove02/AIT-AiTranscribe-MacOS https://www.soink.ai/ https://hitoku.me/draft/ https://altic.dev/flu…

How many times will this particular problem be solved? 500? 2000? 10,000?

Still sounds bitter even if you were right. I would reconsider this approach.

There goes two decades of muscle memory.

Aren't there a lot of these? Like a lot a lot?

Yes, this is common.