spicyusername 7 days ago

Incredible.

My absolute favorite thing about modernity is how enabled we are to riff on a riff of a riff.

In 1346, if a blacksmith came up with something cool, its quite possible that it died with them.

  • Kye 6 days ago

    One thing I've learned from checking up on assumptions I've had about history is that it's easy to underestimate people in past times. They were probably better at communicating this stuff than you think.

caminanteblanco 6 days ago

This unfortunately immediately crashed my android firefox nightly browser. Amusingly it loaded the page, but one click on the address bar sent me straight to the home screen

  • Departed7405 6 days ago

    For me on IronFox it showed an empty URL bar but loaded after what felt like 5 seconds.

gchamonlive 7 days ago

Interesting, in Firefox mobile (actually fennec) if I tap the address bar, I get an empty text box.

EDIT: actually I can edit the URL, but it takes a while to load.

idle_zealot 6 days ago

I can open the page with the book text on mobile Safari, but iOS seems to cut off content when trying to copy/share the page URL. I can't get it to survive a round-trip to Notes. Might be a good thing to note for mobile users that if they write too much attempting to save their link will corrupt it.

oneseven 7 days ago

hmmm makes me wonder if you could train llms on gzipped text. would save a lot of tokens that way.

buddhistdude 6 days ago

I find it interesting that when you read this comment, the whole book is already on your computer. And it gets rendered when your press the link.

Edit: actually not true since you use a url shortener

ron-ulitsky 6 days ago

First time I tried to open that link on my Pixel, it crashed Chrome, lol. Worked the second time though

hallole 7 days ago

LOL Tapping the address bar crashed my Chrome on mobile.

  • lurking_swe 7 days ago

    loaded OK for me on mobile safari.

    • kylecazar 7 days ago

      Loaded fine for me too -- but like parent, tapping the address bar to share afterwards crashed it on Android here :)

      • nosrepa 7 days ago

        My Firefox on mobile seemingly handled it fine.