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11 years ago, I had the idea that I should be able to take any article on an arbitrary website and listen to it as a narration in my chosen podcast player. At the time, text-to-spe…

Boston. Was looking into becoming a medic when living there many years ago, and learned that Boston EMS has their own dedicated training and certification, with more limited protoc…

Is IntelliJ generating source code that gets committed to your codebase? Seems completely different. See also, this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44976568

I have started a convention of prefixing a commit message with "prompt:" for commits that are entirely AI generated (which I have read through and approved) and then I make my own …

>that you're sorry and to truly empathize with the people they're firing Serious question: what should have been said on this call to do that? There was a lot of "I'm sorry you fee…

I used to work in a hospital and one thing that was already tough was when doctors would copy massive (multiple page) notes that were mostly boilerplate, probably stored as some te…

Wow, lots of haters in this thread. Having doctors spend less time with clerical/administrative work needed to record conversations will free up more time to focus on patients. I a…

> curl https://unpkg.com/leaflet@1.7.1/dist/leaflet.css Just a moment... ... a bunch of HTML

This is an excellent point. While their main value prop seems to be "servers closer to your users" you could also just use them as a drop-in replacement for something like heroku a…

OP here, thanks for making that distinction more clear. I had listed them all as new tech that I am starting to use, but you're correct that I wouldn't intend to use them all _toge…

> How do you go from talking to someone during some hobby activity to a friendship outside of that activity? This is where having multiple hobbies not only adds depth to conversati…

> (they’re scams). citation or story?

Pilot was told their flight was being diverted due to a suspected bomb on board. What "game of chicken" would make a pilot doubt that instruction and chose to keep flying, given wh…

What a perfectly obtuse, technical solution. Is grandma going to solve a captcha in order to sign up on a wordpress blog to view photos of her grandchildren? Dropbox is "just" a pr…

The article links to a YouTube video of a lecture by the author[0]. One of the top comments contains a list of timestamps in the video where he discusses specific surgeries: 7:55 A…

Jeff Bezos has a great interview where he talks about his decision to leave his cushy Wall Street job and start a website selling books. He talks about how he used a "regret minimi…

> because that would be better for society. Citation Needed. I can think of many legitimate reason that a site owner might want to be anonymous. Maybe they're exposing corruption o…

I assume one could use it to store and read back an offline dump of wikipedia[0] in order to help recreate society. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

Quizlet is great if you're looking for pre-built decks, as you mentioned. As far as I'm aware, there's no spaced repetition feature, which is the main value in Anki. Also, one of t…

"It's not sunshine and rainbows" is not a legitimate argument against taking a step in a better direction. Every system has its flaws. Some have many more than others.