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Post by dnr »

eecks wrote: post #446
dnr wrote: post #442

Solve crossword puzzles with your friends, collaboratively: https://squares.io/ (Also great for solving solo.) I built it because I wanted it to exist, and it's been fun to build. There's a small group of regular users, and I use it regularly myself. There's no monetization, though I have some thoughts about how that could happen in the future.

That's really good. My only problem is I suck at crosswords. It would be cool if you had a beginner or easier section.

The Inkwell puzzles (https://squares.io/p/inkwell) are generally fairly easy (usually around NYT Tuesday level). If you need easier than that, you might have to search for puzzle archives. I remember the old yahoo/crosssynergy puzzles were quite easy.

Also, ask a friend to help! Two beginners can solve harder puzzles than either can individually, since you get the union of your trivia knowledge and also two brains thinking of different sorts of wordplay or cluing angles.

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Post by fomine3 »

testmasterflex wrote: post #53
leipert wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know of the Japanese version? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilets_in_Japan#The_Sound_Pri... Edit: In a Shared Apartment we once connected a Radio and a Disco Ball to the light Switch. It was a windowless guest bathroom, we completely painted it black. Fun times.

Yes I bought it and tried it but it kinda sucks because you need to hold your hand against it and it’s pretty obvious what you are doing. Loodio always plays music when you enter the bathroom unless you mute it.

IIRC just sitting (joking not intended) is enough to play Sound Princess. Maybe you put the machine on wrong place?

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Post by nunie123 »

tomw1808 wrote: post #318
nunie123 wrote: post #301

A book for setting up data engineering infrastructure on GCP: https://github.com/Nunie123/data_engineering_on_gcp_book It's almost done, and I do plan to spend a little effort promoting it when it's complete, but it's been a great focus for me even if no one ever reads it. I use a fair bit of infrastructure at my job that was set up by others. It was nice to go through the practice of setting it up myself. I learned…

The content is awesome! Have you considered converting it into something more accessible, like an mkdocs style? I can recommend mkdocs-material. I'm doing blockchain video courses and I am using it for the study-materials - it's all markdown. And reception has been great.

I'll take a look. Thanks for the recommendation!

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Post by akavel »

app17 wrote: post #36

I have been working for years now on Exomind[1], a personal knowledge management tool that takes the form of a unified inbox in which you can have your emails, tasks, notes and bookmarks organized into collections. I have an iOS and a web/electron client at the moment, and a simple Chrome extension for bookmarking. I plan to eventually add files (blobs), definitions and support extensibility via WASM applications. It…

Could you possibly share some screenshots, including of the gmail integration etc.? Or are they already there just I couldn't find?

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Post by t_swapnil »

amzans wrote: post #185
t_swapnil wrote: post #181

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Been a user of Panelbear. Good product and simple alternative to Google analytics.

That's great to hear! Thanks for the nice words. In case it's useful, I'm slowly releasing the next set of features related to Performance Monitoring, including alerts and integrations (e.g. Slack). The reason being: it'd be great to get notified when something seems off vs having to check the dashboards all the time.

Yes that would definitely be good to add. Thank you !

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Post by nonick »

dejv wrote: post #361

There is a wine grape varietal called St. Laurent which is cousin of well known Pinot Noir varietal and it originated from Burgundy, but curently you will find it mostly only in Austria, Slovakia and Czech Republic. It is interesting grape, but there are many problems with it: it is very vigorous so it take quite a lot of work to tend and the bunches are big so they tend to squeeze, crack and rot. Thanks to cultivati…

I have never heard of this grape variety before, now I read this and the next thing I see is Lidl's next week's wine offer for St. Laurent/Spätburgunder wine. I will give it a try!

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by dejv »

nonick wrote: post #456
dejv wrote: post #361

There is a wine grape varietal called St. Laurent which is cousin of well known Pinot Noir varietal and it originated from Burgundy, but curently you will find it mostly only in Austria, Slovakia and Czech Republic. It is interesting grape, but there are many problems with it: it is very vigorous so it take quite a lot of work to tend and the bunches are big so they tend to squeeze, crack and rot. Thanks to cultivati…

I have never heard of this grape variety before, now I read this and the next thing I see is Lidl's next week's wine offer for St. Laurent/Spätburgunder wine. I will give it a try!

It is definitely a niche varietal, planted area is still shrinking, especially in my home of Czech republic where it was most planted red grape varietal, but there is growing interest among high end growers in Austria so I think the varietal has some future among wine geeks.

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Post by chrisco255 »

dynamite-ready wrote: post #269
chrisco255 wrote: post #211

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Are you limited to only chatting with people by flight number? Odds of more than one user on the same flight for a new app has to be low. Seems like it would be difficult to bootstrap an audience that way. Might help to start with airport chat by airport code, or just grab user's location and place them in the closest airport's chat room automatically. Also maybe add hooks for other messaging and chat tools.

Not by flight number. Each room has the airline and depart/destination airport as their key. A chatroom per airport would be an easy change, but would be a bit of a departure from what I intended the app to do. For example, the difference in customer service standards between British Airways flights across long haul and short haul products is huge. Almost night and day by my amateur reckoning. I want to draw this kin…

I think you'd be better off trying to get a general flight chat off the ground first, before you worry about grouping people into individual chats per flight. Hard enough to bootstrap that, but if you did, I would recommend adding tags for Flight Numbers, Airlines, and Airport Codes, and attach those tags to the messages in the chat (as badges next above the message). Ask the user what their next upcoming flight details are. Let the user save those deets. Then once you've gotten enough users and the chat room gets noisy enough, introduce filters, where you can filter by airport code, flight number, airline, etc. Bootstrapping is hard, but I would promote the chat in various subreddits and facebook groups and consumer discussion forums or any interest groups about flying and travel in general.

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Post by rrobukef »

donquichotte wrote: post #346
crazypython wrote: post #344

Inspirational quotes and wise sayings: https://twitter.com/Wisdom1Original > You cannot control the actions of others, but you can always choose how you react. > Don't let them steal your peace or your joy. > If something isn't making you stronger, smarter, or better, then it isn't serving you. > Even if leaving is hard, painful and takes a lot of effort… it's still better than wasting your life. > Go where you are c…

Some of these are actually rather quotable.

Most of these are variations on known quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/126432-if-you-don-t-feel-it...

Still a nice project. Though it highlights the unoriginality of GPT-3.

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Post by prvak »

mzl wrote: post #90
prvak wrote: post #47

I wrote a meal scheduler - https://gitlab.com/dustin-space/meal-scheduler . It tracks ingredients we have at home, it has a database of recipes, it knows where we can buy ingredients online (for delivery). It schedules meals for my shared household. I can give it a request like: "next week I want to cook 4 vegetarian meals with 3 portions, and 1 vegan meal for 8 people for big shared dinner, and I want It thinks for…

That sounds like a fun application, both the usage and the implementation. I wonder if you have any interesting example data-files that could be used with the model, preferable both something small and something larger? Would be fun to test the model locally to see how it behaves. Notes: I'm assuming here that https://gitlab.com/dustin-space/meal-scheduler/-/blob/master... is the model used.

Unfortunately the model is wildly unoptimized. You can extract small minizinc inputs by `blaze test //plan:wrapper_test` which tests the model on simple use cases, the temporary files will go to `--test_tmpdir`.

I don't have a big minizinc input on hand. In our database it takes about 2 minutes to plan for a weeks meals. The model is probably wildly inefficient and optimizing it is one thing on the long term bug list.

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