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Posted by
pax on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @08:50AM
from the euronews.com dept.
I'm one of those improbable folks not based in US. While a tad more difficult to get by these days, I've eventually most always managed to find postcards. All post offices sell stamps (excluding the few that only manage parcels).
Also, any postcard sized piece of cardboard that bears a stamp qualifies as a travel worthy postcard – once I did just that, for the fun of it, and it worked. I've once received a stamp beer coaster.
PS. Another fun game is to see what's the most cryptical, vague postal address that does the job. See:
- What is the minimal possible UK address? – https://hkrn.ws/34995370
- Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses – https://hkrn.ws/5791489
Postcards, while travelling, are one of the very few instances when I write by hand, these days.
I started about 20 years ago, I most usually only write the address and a smiley — the old school analogue medium is most of the message (that I take the time to pick a postcard, which then has to travel physically to reach the distance to its target).
A website to find a piece of classical music whose duration most closely matches that of your next trip
Posted by
pax on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @11:21PM
from the busundreu.com dept.
Is there an added health or digestive benefit of fully soaking the oats, overnight or microwaved? Or is it just a matter of taste?
I just add some hot water and milk (indeed I'm not sure if what I have are plain or instant oats)
thankful for all the answers, I'll give it a try for a while to 'learn' me and see if I can lean into the workflow.
Optimistically speaking, the only drawback would then be I only get one screen/desktop for adding widgets – which, I guess, might be a reasonable trade-off.
I'm a bit confused on how this works, besides using the search each time I need to launch an app. Could I have more shortcuts in the home screen, or just what I pin as favourite apps?
And am I limited to only one space/desktop, normally if I swipe right, I get to the next desktop where I have other apps. So I can launch an app from the 3rd desktop with 2 swipes and a press. Now, swiping right I get the full list of apps where I'd need to search.
I couldn't find answers to this in the documentation
Huh, can one natively edit Markdown in Google Docs? This would be one of my main requests for gDocs (as a long time NvAlt/NvUltra daily driver), but how?
I searched directly for Faraday thought the comments. Waiting forward for the apparel compaby that builds this.
And we've been laughing all this time at tinfoil hat types..
So much this. I for one haven't opted out. I feel it's in our best interest to have better models. It would be ideal to be able to opt in/out per thread, but I don't expect most users to pay attention / be bothered with that.
In this aspect, it would've been great to give us an incentive – a discount, a donation on our behalf, plant a percent of a tree or just beg / ask nicely, explain what's in it for us.
Regarding privacy, our conversations are saved anyway, so if it would be a breach this wouldn't make much of a difference, would it?
Posted by
pax on Monday March 31, 2025 @03:41AM
from the ai.nejm.org dept.
Study finds that a generative AI chatbot significantly reduces symptoms of major depressive disorder, generalised anxiety disorder, and clinically high risk for feeding and eating disorders.
Posted by
pax on Saturday October 19, 2024 @06:30AM
from the meduza.io dept.
desktop, or offline?
isn't the PWA satisfactory?
> ... Jakob Fugger was already representing his family business in Venice in 1473 at the age of 14
strlen.com/treesheets ?
via hackersearch.net
Posted by
pax on Thursday April 25, 2024 @01:01PM
from the arxiv.org dept.
so if, at some point in the future, say, 20 relevant influencers would choose a similarly featured RSS reader, more of us we'd try, and hopefully reach critical mass? built over ActivityPub / Matrix for extra novelty. I live with this fantasy.
What would be a programmatic approach to find a list of most rarely used words (in any language?).
I'm thinking, loop a list of words from a dictionary, and see how many results a search engine would return (filtering out dictionary results) - it would take a while - most languages have some hundred thousand words.
I revisited Aider a couple of days ago, after going in circles with AutoGPT - which seemed to either forget or go lazy after a few prompts - to the point it refused to do something that it did a few prompts before. Then Aider delivered from the first prompt.
PS. I've gathered a list of LLM agents (for coding and general purpose) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M3cQmuwhpJ4X0jOw5XWT...
Posted by
pax on Sunday March 17, 2024 @09:50AM
from the thetimes.co.uk dept.