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Try and make a new folder and drag a chat into it. Web works, desktop doesn’t. Try to copy paste deep-research json via the copy button they provide. Web copies json, desktop inclu…

I no longer work much in the ruby world, but when I did I would run into libraries by @ankane on almost a weekly basis. Prolific, and covering a bunch of academic fields and langua…

Great write-up! I'm really interested in this area but have minimal experience, and I learnt a lot from this.

> The reason so few people acquire Japanese citizenship is not because of the difficulty doing so, but because it offers little in terms of tangible benefits beyond those already a…

Japanese real estate is a minefield ( https://catforehead.com/2022/11/09/planned-obsolescence/ )

Sunshine is worth watching for the soundtrack alone

I wrote an open source client-side tool that might interest people who need something like this: https://github.com/recurser/string-is

This is excellent. It found a $350 flight from Tokyo to Sydney via a short stop in Fiji, which is not an option I even knew existed (I'd normally consider $6~700 to be cheap).

Great idea - I hadn't thought of diff. I'll have to have a think about how it might fit into the UI, since there's only one input box. Any ideas on what a good input flow might loo…

I'm wary of using closed-source online string formatters and converters, so I've been working on https://string.is/ as a safe, open-source alternative. I had a couple of goals when…

It isn't obvious how the 'Lite Demo' works on the website without some poking around, but I installed the theme and it looks great.

https://recordit.co/ZsNd2YLQjy If you are "TRUSTED BY 4,300+ MARKETERS" and " Users Signed Up Today", then you've built a multi-million dollar business in the last 20 days. Congrat…

I’m a customer of his uptime service ( https://apex.sh/ping/ ), and following up framework ( https://up.docs.apex.sh/ ) with interest, but haven’t used it yet. Perhaps he is more f…

Very cool. Could this be re-purposed for detecting anomalies/outliers in time series data?