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Treadmill is a big one. Or under covers in bed with the Kindle propped up or mounted.

Instagram released a Reels-first iPad app that is much, much worse than the old iPhone-on-iPad app.

> Your own search engine — Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep.

Is there any site/project that works as a fully customizable personal front-end to all other SERPs?

When I search for something, I always want a link to the best Wikipedia result. This should always be in the same place and have a giant icon/picture.

Then there could be easily clickable links to the SERP pages for Google, DDG, etc. for that query.

A big link to route it to your favorite LLM.

Seems like you could have a really useful "homepage" for all searches that sat in front of all the other sites. It could be local only and would not require indexing the web. Also wouldn't be a files search thing, as Hister appears to be.

The new roundabout completely prevents fatality t-bone crashes into people turning left from those stop signs, which has likely happened multiple times at that very intersection thus prompting the road to be redesigned.

Nowadays, depending on your state, they're being built in almost every new intersection that would call for one. And the worst existing intersections converted to them. It's happening and will only speed up.

A major reappraisal is currently happening in the entire industry, which for too long has been focused solely on the throughput of single-occupancy vehicles. Roundabouts offer many advantages over traffic signals, even the ones that "outperform" them. It's probably a good thing that we've stopped listening only to transportation engineers focused on moving cars as quickly and efficiently as possible.

> the bulk of traffic all needs to slow down, downshift, turn a bit in one direction and then turn a bit in the other direction for the minority of traffic that's bleeding on or off the main artery.

Slowing/calming traffic like this is a good thing. Make it impossible to speed. Enforce the existing 35mph speed limit via concrete rather than allowing cars to rip through a yellow light at 70mph. You're also ignoring this aspect when you call roundabouts "(mostly) worse for cyclists and pedestrians".

Not when watching on an Apple TV.

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LLMs are better than slow human support of any kind for debugging / helpdesk work (which was never that welcome at SO anyway).

Stack Overflow is still great for canonical questions, multiple answers, public / SEO'd discussion between humans, etc.

But that probably isn't enough to save the company as a private equity acquisition hoping to 100x their $1.8 billion investment.

Hopefully the classic Q/A site eventually gets written off and spins into a Wikimedia-like foundation that is interested in preserving the original Q/A site and has no desire to grow or become something else.

Forum? What forum? When has Stack Overflow ever been a forum?

> Our goal was to build an app worthy of an Apple Design Award [...] After weeks of experimentation, we landed on React Native with Expo to achieve this.

Has a non-native app ever won an ADA?

The extension I've always wanted is a one that makes every link to a modern story on the New York Times, CNN, ESPN, etc. load using their same websites from like 2004.

https://web.archive.org/web/20041207071752/http://www.cnn.co...

Make every new page I load look like this, or a slightly cleaned up or mobile-specific version.

It just feels like the complete public domain New York Times should be a big deal. Why is it only available via individual issues in the Internet archive? Why hasn't every single story been cut out individually, fully OCR'd, so that it shows up as a top hit on Google? And do that for every public domain newspaper around the country, too.

Does Anna's Archive or a similar site host, say, the complete New York Times (pre-1930) as a full PDF download set? And every other newspaper too?

Tons of public domain sources are locked into websites like Newspapers.com or the nearly-dead and now completely unsearchable old Google News / Newspaper.

It would be nice if the massive pursuit of AI training data resulted in some fully-legal open source alternatives to these proprietary, outdated, or abandoned sites. I know some of it is available via the Internet Archive, etc., but something new with an AI-powered search and finding aid sounds so useful.

Maybe the TikTok algorithm is better, but the "I don't like this" action on Meta properties just blatantly does not work. I still get the same type of clickbait content no matter how many times I try to get rid of it. Maybe watching other types of Reels would do it, but no thanks.

Air conditioning and TVs are the answer to this unfortunate problem.

It's not about monetizing friendship, it's about providing comfortable places where events like this can happen all over the city/country. People want this community but it kinda sucks to do (and mostly won't happen) if you're meeting up monthly on chairs in a city street. If small neighborhood pubs and coffee shops were legal to build...

No? Small businesses like that are what make cities great.

Now, even better, allow any neighbor to open a legitimate (yet small-scale and cheap) coffee shop or wine bar by-right in the garage space under their SF home.

Can you use that app for any/all YouTube videos? I want to listen to long-form video interviews and such, not just listen to music and 'actual' podcasts.

I might actually use "Downloads and background play" (for which you need the higher $$$ tier) if the YouTube app gave "Skip back 15 seconds" controls on the phone lock screen. Insane to use YouTube as a "podcast" player when the only control you have is skipping to the previous/next video.

Newspapers have nearly identical newswire columns printed in 100+ newspapers, but with slightly different headlines and content. Or OCR breaking due to words being physically next to each other but in separate stories. The Newspapers.com search has fine OCR but is difficult and time consuming to use because of those issues. Seems like something "AI" could solve easily.

Is anyone building a public domain repository / AI training ground for old newspapers? Anything before 1930 has no restrictions. Newspapers.com has pretty good content but the interface and search is extremely lacking. Google News was abandoned a decade ago. This seems like something where AI could really help, for once. Not in training chatbots or whatever but actually just providing great search for articles in books, newspapers, and magazines.

This is potentially true; I've noticed green-bubble chats are much less annoying in the last year. Do they send over Wifi now? That was also a killer iMessage feature on trips with bad cell coverage.

iMessage/SMS is just one of the many sending options in the share sheet. WhatsApp or whatever your country uses will be there too.

By "use SMS" you surely mean "use iMessage" much of the time.

In the USA, someone insisting on using an Android when everyone else in their social circle has an iPhone (and they do!) is what's seen as anti-social. No one wants to use the degraded green bubble SMS experience so they simply exclude the Android user and continue using blue bubble iMessage.

As I understand it, many Americans (and all iPhones?) had unlimited-SMS phone plans circa 2009. So the pay-per-message economic conditions that caused many Europeans, etc., to switch to WhatsApp back in the day didn't do anything in the USA.

Then when the same iPhone app seamlessly started sending iMessages (blue bubbles) to other iPhones rather than SMS (green bubbles), people just kept using that.