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knaik94 commented on The dead Internet is not a theory anymore   adriankrebs.ch/blog/dead-... · Posted by u/hubraumhugo
august- · 3 days ago
do you think small, invite-only communities will end up being the last holdout for genuine human conversation online? or will bots eventually infiltrate those too?
knaik94 · 3 days ago
I think most small communities will stand bot-free because there's little incentive to have bot engage with it.

But I wonder if there's a size of conversation after which people will still choose AI assisted summaries. Discord had/(has?) a feature where it used LLMs summarize and then notify you about a discussion happening.

knaik94 commented on Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?    · Posted by u/speedylight
knaik94 · a month ago
I tutor advanced math and science and so have updated my daily driver along with whatever students were most likely to come across. In the past it was a ti 84 and then ti 89 titanium. But in the last decade schools have also embraced Desmos, a simplified version is even accessible on their standardized tests now.

For personal use, I have an android emulator that runs TI 89 titanium. It hits the sweet spot for me in terms of completely covering basic and advanced features I would need from a calculator. If I need something extremely basic, I use the one built into Google search. If I ever feel myself limited by the 89, it's always been because I am trying to do something that would be better served by Excel or Desmos.

The best calculator is the one most easily available. I personally don't see value in keeping a separate device. On the other hand, I will go out of my way to make sure the keyboard I am using has a dedicated numpad. There's nothing that comes close to the efficiency of tactile keys when it comes to doing long numeric calculations.

knaik94 commented on Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?    · Posted by u/muratsu
raw_anon_1111 · 2 months ago
People are making a things way too hard. The old way still works. Manage your music using the native app on Macs or iTunes for Windows, sync with iPhone. Music you buy from Apple has been DRM free since 2009.
knaik94 · 2 months ago
I have had a bad experience using the modern iTunes/native music app. It's clear that Apple has moved away from local first features.
knaik94 commented on Tell HN: Merry Christmas    · Posted by u/basilikum
knaik94 · 3 months ago
Merry christmas y'all and happy holidays. I can't put in to words how much I appreciate the culture on HN and the conversations I've been a part of. It's the only social media site where I enjoy reading my historical messages, I can see exactly how much I have grown and learned. I am thankful for the moderation and self-moderation.

I will continuing trying to give back in a small way, what the HN community has given me. Happy holidays.

knaik94 commented on Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring?    · Posted by u/benjbrooks
silverquiet · 2 years ago
Yeah, honestly, I'd like a smartwatch type monitor without any smart features; just something that sits on my wrist and displays my heart rate so I can watch it myself. I've looked a bit, but such a thing hasn't been easy to find.
knaik94 · 2 years ago
The polar verity sense is what you're looking for. It connects to your phone via ble so it doesn't need a display. It's not as popular as a chest strap.
knaik94 commented on RIP Microsoft WordPad   gizmodo.com/microsoft-wor... · Posted by u/thunderbong
g-b-r · 2 years ago
Just keep in mind that at least in the old versions it had bugs that lead to occasional loss of all the autosaved files.

I don't know if they fixed them since, I haven't used it in three or four years.

knaik94 · 2 years ago
I've never run in to that issue in the last 10+ years of using notepad++ with these plugins. Since my autosave location is dropbox, it's automatically backed up the moment the file is saved. I've set my control+n to a new note and not an empty file. The take notes plugin doesn't rely on the built in temp auto saves.

If a file is saved and then gets corrupted for whatever reason, I can also use dropbox to grab the previous known good version. I've tested it, but I've never had to actually use it.

knaik94 commented on RIP Microsoft WordPad   gizmodo.com/microsoft-wor... · Posted by u/thunderbong
kyriakos · 2 years ago
I use notepad++ on windows and have open all the time. Any more I want to write down I open a new tab. Notepad++ keeps the tabs even if not saved and automatically reopens them next time you start it. Combined with search in open files feature it makes it extremely useful.
knaik94 · 2 years ago
I use the autosave and take notes plugin in notepad++ which makes it perfect for this use case. I have it set to autosave when the window loses focus. And the take notes plugin lets me set a default filename with timestamp and save directory, which I set to my dropbox. The plugin also has an option to delete all empty text files when notepad++ is closed.

It feels as friction free as writing on a physical notepad with a paper and pencil.

knaik94 commented on Happy New Year HN!    · Posted by u/thunderbong
knaik94 · 2 years ago
happy New Year
knaik94 commented on Tell HN: Merry Christmas    · Posted by u/LorenDB
knaik94 · 2 years ago
merry christmas

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