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Mohit Shrivastava

(Early 20's, tech boomer)

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email: mohit at precompute period net

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terminal_d··on Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy
Check out r/firefoxcss on reddit.
terminal_d··on Ask HN: Are Any of You Tired from macOS and Want to Go Back to Linux?
¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
terminal_d··on New Zealand passes legislation banning cigarettes for future generations
My apologies, it's probably over 9000!
terminal_d··on Ask HN: Are Any of You Tired from macOS and Want to Go Back to Linux?
Settings > Display, you'll find a scaling dropdown there.
terminal_d··on Ask HN: Are Any of You Tired from macOS and Want to Go Back to Linux?
*Major bugs. Most were PEBKAC because I was a noob. About 8 years.
terminal_d··on Ask HN: Are Any of You Tired from macOS and Want to Go Back to Linux?
Have never had bugs. Debian Stable.
terminal_d··on Ask HN: Are Any of You Tired from macOS and Want to Go Back to Linux?
IMO NixOS is useful if you're a distrohopper / need to deploy a similar system. Otherwise Debian + XFCE is a very stable system that has all the features you're missing.
terminal_d··on New Zealand passes legislation banning cigarettes for future generations
One "good law" to paper over 9000 other very bad laws.
terminal_d··on I don’t want to be an internet person
The article is easier to read when you assume it's a hitpiece and that the author is an unreliable narrator. Not fond of terminally online people either but they are shaping the culture.
terminal_d··on Ask HN: Interesting movies that explore AI?
It's not surprising, there's a ton of recommendation websites on the internet. I don't think anything from OpenAI hasn't been tweaked to have a better experience for the average consumer instead of being a more "plain" models like the kind StablilityAI releases.
terminal_d··on Ask HN: Getting up after repeated failures?
Very well said!
terminal_d··on Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects,how did you come up with the idea?
Could you disclose the signups per month you received in your first year? How long did it take you to get to 100 signups?
terminal_d··on Ask HN: Interesting movies that explore AI?
I think you missed the point of the film!
terminal_d··on Ask HN: Interesting movies that explore AI?
That's cruel!
terminal_d··on Ask HN: Interesting movies that explore AI?
Most of these aren't about AI. They're all "scifi" in some manner.
terminal_d··on Ask HN: It's time for a `.config` path in repos
Not everything needs to be "cleaned", thank you.
terminal_d··on Ask HN: How do I get a personal page design that doesn’t suck?
The <hr> at the end of the page needs some padding at the top, otherwise I don't think there's anything wrong with your website. It's a little too minimalist for my taste.

There's also the classic "Tufte" solutions, here's one: https://jamstackthemes.dev/theme/tufte/

terminal_d··on Fireship – Learn to Code Faster
It already has. I'm a pre-2k zoomer and I remember how youtube used to be called "untrustworthy" as a source of information. Heck, even Wikipedia. And now everyone and their grandmother swears by youtube as a decent information source while refusing to understand WHY people upload videos on the platform.

Middle-school (and higher) students can't learn exclusively from books any longer. They need interactive engagement with a person (read: celebrity) on the internet. Children are reading less overall, and any parent that tries otherwise has to first push against the "personal portable tech is integral" wall (which was absent only a decade and half ago).

terminal_d··on Nearly six in 10 US young adults live within 10 miles of where they grew up
Why the vitriol?

>fear and complacency

Not everyone wants to live in a big city, or away from people they know.

terminal_d··on Nearly six in 10 US young adults live within 10 miles of where they grew up
> institutions that the majority of the world find completely uncontroversial

Not even remotely true. And yes, as de-facto "management", most of the blame is on these "institutions".

terminal_d··on Simulate Asteroid Impacts on Earth
Nukemap: Visualize the extent of nuclear detonations

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

terminal_d··on Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform
lol. no.
terminal_d··on No one wants to have kids anymore
toejam guy!

RMS has nothing good to say about children.

terminal_d··on No one wants to have kids anymore
I feel sorry for the author, I couldn't finish reading what he wrote because it was far too cringy.

Overpopulation is not an issue. The real issue is logistics. If someone says they won't have children because they "wouldn't want to miss sleeping" or "clean up after a baby", they clearly are using an excuse. For whatever reason, they deem themselves unfit to be parents. Let them be. People on the fence don't stay there very long, and people rarely switch sides. Better one pair of good parents than five negligent pairs.

terminal_d··on Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform
I don't care about that. If they can't learn a (non-"simple") system then they won't have a good knowledge base anyway.
terminal_d··on Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT
Another measure would be initiating a bot-check for every user. Maybe even periodically.
terminal_d··on Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform
Eh the intuitiveness is useful for the first few hours. Almost all "modern" PKM systems are web-based.
terminal_d··on Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform
> The organizational structures and theories/philosophies are already mainly "good enough".

They're mediocre at best

I don't have an opinion on collaboration, because collaborating without proper organization is like running away from the problem. With proper organization, collaboration is easy.

terminal_d··on Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform
This isn't a new field -- there have been people who have now closed shop for longer than they were ever active. It's just the influx of a large number of interested people online that have discovered digital tech that's pushing people to make more of these interfaces. None of these organizational structures are inventive or the end-all -- they all use the same methods to store and organize data, the only difference is how well they reduce the friction required for data entry. There's nothing these systems do that couldn't have been replicated 20, 30 years ago. Really, they hardly ever move past the paper paradigm.

GPT-3 et al are a different thing though, and I reckon when they're good enough to be frictionless, the majority of people will stop taking notes altogether. The popularity of this field is solely based on how long it takes for people at OpenAI and others (Stability) to drive down costs to deliver ~1M words/mo to the average customer.

These will all go the way of the phonebook. There'll be "look how my model tears your markdown notes" contests.

terminal_d··on Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform
Oh, that's pretty similar.
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