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Curious about your setup. Which nVidia box do you have? It’s been a while since I touched Kodi. Last time I played with it, I found that the addon ecosystem was hit and miss. Any suggestions there?

Working URL : https://post.news/@/noam/2RTRvTNNxSCQb3yNjqa0DPfr1Yk

I’m intrigued. Would you mind sharing a TL;DR?

HCF was a great show, and one of the only shows that goes as far back as the BBS days before the Web “caught on”. The cast is pretty good. Highly recommend watching.

Thank you

Would love to access a text-only version of this.

I'm curious about HN banking specialist opinions on this one. There isn't much information on this situation beyond the standard doom-and-gloom headlines.

From my limited understanding of the situation, this is mainly driven by TD's First Horizon imminent acquisition and its exposure to the forecasted hosing crisis (via Charles Schwab for the US housing market, and TD Canada for the Canadian housing market).

Any insight is appreciated...

Farewell to Dark Sky, which didn’t keep us dry, but forever changed the way we get our forecasts.

I enjoyed attending ALA events in the past. I met a few interesting folks and always learned something at each event.

It’s sad to see it come to a close but all things have their cycles, and I suppose ALA events are no different.

PS. Over the years, I purchased many of their books on topics like information architecture, accessibility, customer research, etc. The content is usually written with a practical lens and I found the advice easy to action.

It’s curious to see this topic on HN as I just came across an article about the impeding energy crisis in Ontario that sheds light on how the province is leveraging underground compressed air storage[1] as a tactic in their energy storage mitigation strategy.

[1] “Beyond the sprawling nuclear plants and waterfalls that generate most of the province’s electricity sit the batteries, the underground caverns storing compressed air to generate electricity, and the spinning flywheels waiting to store energy at times of low demand and inject it back into the system when needed.” https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/12/26/ontario-electricity-e...

The content is great, but am I the only one that’s annoyed by those gnarly red image overlays on the mobile website breakpoint that (accidentally) activate as you scroll down?

I know this is a slight tangent but I can personally vouch for the effectiveness of (certain) nootropics. If stacked correctly, the cognitive benefits are great.

Agreed. I don’t require much but I can’t go without my Aeron

I came across Fireship on YouTube about a year ago. In my opinion, he is by far one of the better dev-centric YouTubers out there. Unlike the typical dev screencasts that are dry and boring, his videos are entertaining, informative, and succinct.

The primary reason I subscribed to his Pro lifetime membership was to support him as a content creator. However, after consuming several of his full-access courses, I enjoyed and found real value in his matter of fact, rapid-paced delivery of content.

Jack, if you’re reading this - please don’t let the negative comments here discourage you. Many of us are fans, and know that we support what you’re doing for the dev community.

That's a clever hack, which I wish I had known about.. and I love the unintended consequence of "BBS Roulette"

Amazing :D - it's quite similar to my experience. I think many folks naturally ended up moving to Turbo Pascal after Basic. I believe many of the BBS systems were initially written in Turbo Pascal (v4?). I know for a fact that WWIV, Telegard, and Renegade were all in done in TP, and then later moved to C++ because of the limitations associated with running Door games.. ah, the good 'ole times

An extender is designed to be used for making phone calls without directly billing the caller. Most mid-size and large companies that operated from multiple cities/countries used them.

Extenders connect to a PBX that is normally exposed via a toll free number (1-800), or a local number that allows the user to dial out to long distance numbers without incurring long distance connection charges.

It’s basically how prepaid long distance cards work nowadays: You dial a number, enter a code, get a dial tone, then dial your long distance number to connect.

LOL! Same here. The initial version of my home brewed BBS was written in QB 4.5 (I believe), which I later ported to GW-BASIC because it allowed me to compile the BAS file to EXE (binary). Those were formative years for me that solidified my commitment to technology, which is going strong to this day…

It’s amazing to see that many of us on this thread share the same experience and passion for BBSs! I was a 13-year-old SysOp myself, running a heavily modified instance of WWIV (later transitioned to Renegade) on two dedicated lines that were hosted on an IBM 8088 my dad got from a liquidation sale. I was also part of a couple of ANSI art groups, and loved using TheDraw and ACiD Draw. We also made l33t animations in Assembler where the goal was to produce incredibly complex animations with the smallest possible file size (<10kb).

Does does anyone remember extenders that folks used to “extend their area code”? My dad’s company was nice enough to let me use it occasionally, but I remember that many were released and traded illegally by the phreaker community.

Edit: Edited last sentence/question for clarity

Things like velocity, direction, spin, etc. of a particle are all properties that have probabilities.

We can only guess as to the properties of anything prior to measurement.

Particles can become entangled with each other, which suggests that measuring one particle tells you the state of the other entangle particle.

Either the particles are communicating with each other (which contradicts the idea that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light) or that the particles themselves do not have definite properties.

Does this validate the notion that we live in a simulation?

If reality were just a program, giving definite properties to every single particle in the universe and keeping track of each of them as though they were individual objects would take nearly infinite computing power.

If we gave them properties on the fly (when information is observed), it would take infinitely less computing power.

What’s your take on it?

Who is defining and managing the PRDs and the roadmap in this scenario? What about user testing and customer development? By “graphic design”, do you mean User Interface design? If so, who is responsible for the user experience beyond just UI?

The point I’m trying to make is that it takes some effort (beyond just the plumbing) to create an experience that folks actually want to use on an ongoing basis

Precisely.

Wix, Squarespace, and Shopify are Tier 3 CMSs at best.

Drupal, (managed) WordPress, Joomla, Cake, Webflow etc. are Tier2.

AEM, Sitecore, BloomReach, Contentful, Contentstack, etc. are Tier 1

The CMS ecosystem is further segmented into products that are headless, decoupled, hybrid, and monolithic. To complicate things, there is a new type of product called DXP (Digital Experience Platform), which mixes in marketing systems into the stack.

While I appreciate the foreseeable improvements in the native (Apple) weather app, I will sorely miss the no-nonsense UI of DarkSky.

It has been my go-to for years now, especially as it relates to my photography hobby. I sure hope someone steps up to replace the DarkSky experience as Apple will surely cherry pick a small subset of their core pieces to implement, likely leaving the best weather geek features on the chopping block.

I generally agree with this takeaway. The same can be said for all (big 5) management consultancies.

On a related but unrelated note, the structured McKinsey methods of thinking and analysis have been my go-to for decades now.

Notable frameworks I recommend looking into are: The Pyramid Principle, MECE, 7s, SPC, to mention a few.

This is an interesting move by Adobe, which appears like the first step towards reasserting themselves in a hot WYSISWG CMS authoring market that’s currently dominated by folks like Webflow. What makes it even more interesting is that their enterprise CMS offering AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) will certainly get a leg up as it relates to ease/flexibility, further separating them from the market competition.

For the folks who are unaware, AEM is a tier 1 CMS powering many top-shelf enterprise websites[1], competing with products Contentful, Contentstack, Salesforce, etc.

I’m personally not a huge fan of their solution but they tick many of the boxes clients typically ask for.

[1] https://trends.builtwith.com/cms/Adobe-Experience-Manager

It’ll be interesting to see how this develops…

Thanks for sharing this. The post turned me onto the “Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It” by Oliver Burkeman, which was quite a sobering eye-opener.

For those interested, I found a great summary[1] by Matt Swain of the material covered in the book

[1] https://www.mattswain.com/booknotes/four-thousand-weeks