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Comment · 2 years ago
In it's defense, it's epub3 friendly and the majority of the major epub readers are not.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
How is permanent archiving different from the existing setup. As far as I understand, Instapaper already saved it's version of the article to your account, and I've never seen it lose anything because of a missing underlying article.

Are you saving the underlying article as pinboard does?

Longtime Instapaper fan here, the parser remains excellent and has kept up with all the newest shenanigans of the web over time much to my delight.

Comment · 2 years ago
Not unless the average user is particualrly technically savvy and the developers happen to be known to browse HN.

...which I think is actually the case for Fastmail.

Comment · 2 years ago
This is a really interesting question. I just tried playing with it for a bit, and I was able to approximate this for a fair number of emails (and with a large helping of kludgyness) by sorting the search results by subject which puts no subject emails at the top.

Of course within that pile is down to scanning.

I see why it's tricky since the search is indexed, but it does feel like there might be a way.

Comment · 3 years ago
Those nags can be moderated or turned off by about:config flags or policy.json lines, I forget which at the moment. They used to drive me insane as well.
Comment · 3 years ago
If ever there were a food item that needed a "Chilean Sea Bass" style marketing rebranding, its the Chokeberry.
Comment · 3 years ago
Growing up outside the US, black currant was the third default flavor of ice cream after vanilla and chocolate. Having strawberry fill that role here still seems like a missed opportunity for something slightly more bitter in the lineup of your average tiny one cart ice cream vendor on a beach or similar.
Comment · 3 years ago
Engineering as a noun versus as a verb really threw me for a loop on this one.

The methodology is cool, the scale of the experiment is very cool (16k meetings), the conclusion is kinda workmanlike - as if the question was specifically 'is shared knowledge necessary to generate new ideas'.

  "Overall, this study takes a critical step towards identifying the processes that explain when serendipitous encounters shape knowledge production outcomes among innovating individuals.
  We show that brief, information-rich interactions between people with some overlapping knowledge interests can have a productive effect on knowledge transfer, creation and diffusion."
This tertiary point was distracting as well, seems out of place.

  "Third, we make methodological contributions by highlighting the benefits of long-term studies that amalgamate multiple forms and uses of data. Prospective experiments can support multiple lines of investigation involving both near-term and long-term outcomes that may not be possible in retrospective, archival studies and suggests the use of multiple sources of data for unpacking the dynamics of knowledge production."
Comment · 3 years ago
They have made it clear it is not a focus, and killed features, but that all seemed in the interest of making it something that continued to function without much work on their end. Which seems fair enough.
Comment · 3 years ago
Believe it or not, Plex. It's a truly mediocre photo organizer, with glaring missing features, but because I already have a Plex server - it's zero marginal work aside from just dropping the photos in a folder on the NAS running it.

I use FileBrowser to autosync the photos off my phone, and family can easily access them because they already know how to use Plex. The fact that there is a client for every device I have ever used is icing on the cake.

If you have a plex server, obviously a very big if, worth investigating just turning it on for a folder of files since it doesnt write to the images itself by default.

Comment · 3 years ago
Looking forward to seeing more.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thank you for svgbob, I adore it.
Comment · 3 years ago
Gnuplot in shell. It's old and finicky, but it works and whatever you want to do, someone has done it before and written it up. Those instructions from 15 years ago will still more or less work as well. I output to SVG as part of website stats tools sometimes, which is handy.

For web I like plotly. Usually I will use the UI tool to make a chart I like, and then just automate the data portion. Same for highcharts. Those UI plot makers are fantastic if you just want to template something.

Comment · 3 years ago
Try that on mobile with their browser.

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