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I have been thinking a lot through the years about the choice between joirnalistic ethics and journalistic activism in the ranks of organizations like NPR. This is an extremely important topic because today's media are as impactful politically as the "regular" political process.
My point is, such discussion would not make me sleepy, the opposite would happen.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please consider imparting information rather than zero content snark. Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To be fair the original commenter was incredibly snarky.
Both are discouraged, neither is great, the second following piling on and getting personal example is arguably worse.
The disappointing part (for myself at least) was a failure to be explicit in how they felt the lay / lie usage should go and in what English speaking domains the preferred usages are.
i want a sleep app that reads me things that will put me to sleep, but i need it to track when i may have gone to sleep, or more importantly when I have not, so i can restart the next night past the point i've listened to. but it needs to be some crazy simple UI, i don't want the light on my phone to turn on, i don't want to fiddle, just skip forward, skip back, that's about it there's all sorts of stuff that is dry…
If you have AirPods there’s a “Pause media when falling asleep” switch.
Thank you very much.
So tired of the cloudflare shit.
There is a similar podcast, "Boring Books for Bedtime": https://www.boringbookspod.com/episodes . The problem with that podcast is that most of their selections are genuinely interesting - I even listened to them on long drives (e.g. "Origin of Species"). Even something I thought would boring like or "Farm Engines and how to Run" them turned out to be fascinating. This one, on the other hand, seems to be genuinely bo…
A similar one I recently discovered is https://www.youtube.com/@SleepOnPhysics . I think it was meant to put you to sleep with the detailed narrative, but I found it to be very interesting and captivating, especially for long drives. The content quality is pretty good, I am almost certain the audio is AI generated, but wonder how the content itself was authored.
There is a similar podcast, "Boring Books for Bedtime": https://www.boringbookspod.com/episodes . The problem with that podcast is that most of their selections are genuinely interesting - I even listened to them on long drives (e.g. "Origin of Species"). Even something I thought would boring like or "Farm Engines and how to Run" them turned out to be fascinating. This one, on the other hand, seems to be genuinely bo…
A similar one I recently discovered is https://www.youtube.com/@SleepOnPhysics . I think it was meant to put you to sleep with the detailed narrative, but I found it to be very interesting and captivating, especially for long drives. The content quality is pretty good, I am almost certain the audio is AI generated, but wonder how the content itself was authored.
Or if it is - why e.g. automated voices reading nyt articles are so bad?
> The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country. Thank you very much. So tired of the cloudflare shit.
It’s really annoying, but even if Cloudflare/AWS etc. offer a big “block all access from abroad/evil GDPR abroad/…”, I feel like the site owner is still the one to blame for pressing it.
> Ever wondered what NPR's code of journalistic ethics involves for the newsroom? I have been thinking a lot through the years about the choice between joirnalistic ethics and journalistic activism in the ranks of organizations like NPR. This is an extremely important topic because today's media are as impactful politically as the "regular" political process. My point is, such discussion would not make me sleepy, the…
What’s even more frustrating is when it happens without any explanation in mobile apps via breaking a few specific APIs.
Just yesterday I was struggling with a bank/fintech that would send me through KYC every time I’d open the app from abroad as an existing user, which would then hang forever. Using a US VPN, everything would work normally. Good thing fraudsters don’t have access to US VPNs…