Nadya

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by Nadya 5y ago
I'd have taken exposure over nothing. I had to teach myself - as an adult - calculus, linear algebra, probability (outside of the ever-so-brief introduction in school) and trigonometry. I personally don't think I did a very good j
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by Nadya 5y ago
Two of my favorites are: http://iscaliforniaonfire.com/ and http://whereiscaliforniaonfire.com/ I check on iscaliforniaonfire.com every so often and I don't think I've ever seen it say "No&qu
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by Nadya 5y ago
Had to check the calendar for the year because that story is from the 80's and the articles that circulated and were popular were mostly written in 2014-2016 and cycle back around every few years because factoids that let people laugh
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by Nadya 5y ago
Basically any modern, turing-complete, and non-esoteric (eg. Brainfuck) language fulfills the "at least adequately" part. So it comes down largely to preference and style of the language itself. I can't stand C# code or that
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by Nadya 5y ago
That's already a solved case: communicate using UTC times when dealing with people in other timezones. It then becomes their responsibility to know their time relative to UTC. There are even sites that you can set a clock for a specifi
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by Nadya 5y ago
Gotcha, the site didn't do a great job explaining it but the AppStore did. The website doesn't mention the concept of a Recovery Team at all, or at least I couldn't find it under the "How It Works" section or the ho
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by Nadya 5y ago
Q: How is this better than a password manager? I'm not seeing the value sell over storing my backup keys in my password manager.
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by Nadya 5y ago
Everyone I've ever known has loved working 4 10's and honestly 4 8's would be even better. They never complain about burnout and a 3-day weekend every week leaves them energized and recharged for the next weeks' work. I
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by Nadya 5y ago
For about 20 years most everything was supported on nothing but some person's own desire to put themselves out into the world. This meant spending out of their own pocket if necessary. If hosting became too much of a bandwidth issue fo
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by Nadya 5y ago
At my work we use Discord to have virtual "desks" (really just audio channels) so people can drop by and chat while you are at your desk. If you're busy or don't wish to be disturbed you can 'lock' your desk to
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by Nadya 5y ago
You don't need to do all or nothing. Even if you just cut it out everywhere except your coffee you'll already be making a significant and healthy change for the better.
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by Nadya 5y ago
Since when did rules/laws start mattering for vc-backed startups? Continue paying fines until you're large enough to bribe, I mean lobby, for the law to change. It's just cost of doing business. It's very difficult to go
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by Nadya 5y ago
One of the most memorable and interesting things I've ever seen on HN was an AMA from the creator of the Co-dfns parallel APL compiler. Here is co-dfns [0] and the AMA by the creator [1]. The video may give you some insight and at the
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by Nadya 5y ago
I didn't say it explicitly because I never bothered digging deeply into why it became so terrible - after being burned enough times by FF during that time period I decided to bite the bullet and switch over to Chrome since at my experi
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by Nadya 5y ago
Sounds a bit like you'd like Tab Groups. I used Tab Groups extensively until that functionality was ripped out and put into a shitty, poorly maintained, broken add-on. A quick Ctrl+Shift+E and I could organize everything into work&#x2F
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by Nadya 5y ago
After years of putting off handwriting Japanese since almost all of my communication was verbal or over the internet where I had to type it - my experience was that writing is vastly more important than people make it out to be. Especially
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by Nadya 5y ago
> Even on the left side of the @ a surprising number of scripts seem to fail on things that are perfectly acceptable characters. I've had an input require a minimum of 3 characters on the left side of the @ to register. My email was
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by Nadya 5y ago
It's harder to find but it still exists. The hardest part is finding the retroscape <communities> rather than individuals/people. For example, I can browse a lot of retro-ish early 2000's design sites on Neocities but i
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by Nadya 5y ago
>there was some moderately compelling theorizing that they would set the entire planet's atmosphere on fire. A very popular story but it was also primarily 1 of the 8 scientists working on the Manhattan project and only because he h
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by Nadya 5y ago
Extremely reliable and one of the most "no muss, no fuss." backups. I had a drive fail and was able to recover all of my files by having them ship me a drive with my data on it and I returned the drive for basically no expense of
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by Nadya 5y ago
I overlooked the acronym and that is a very fair point.
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by Nadya 5y ago
1989: http://phrack.org/issues/24/11.html Unless Y2K comes before 1989 it most certainly did not come from Counter-strike. Pwning something had existed throughout the 1990's hacker culture and likely was in u
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by Nadya 5y ago
I'm a huge fan of Cozette [0] which is based on Dina which is based on Proggy - which both are good alternatives. I particularly like Cozette's goal of being a Bitmap Alternative to Nerd Fonts [1] as it lets me use it in a lot of
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by Nadya 5y ago
I've been using a very messy compilation of too-frequently-abandoned tools from Github for things like this and slowly applying local patches to them if/when they break and if I can even determine what the problem is. Primarily to
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by Nadya 5y ago
I've written >90% of the existing documentation as well as additional in-house tools to aid in my writing documentation that are themselves documented and shared in the documentation in hopes others will help write some of the docum
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by Nadya 5y ago
If you use a Chromium-based browser this extension [0] was posted not too long ago on Show HN and I've been using it since. It is a more accurate way of seeing replies to your posts since not everyone votes before replying. [0] https:
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by Nadya 5y ago
>content of later questions can be useful earlier In some tests I have seen future questions answer previous ones. For a contrived example: "Q1: What color was the bookshelf? A. Red B. Green C. Blue" "Q2: What sentimental
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by Nadya 5y ago
>Sending an email is a different interaction than doing voice search. Going from watching videos to playing music is a different interaction than doing voice search. >Sending an email is an explicit intent - open whatever app I use to
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by Nadya 5y ago
>"When searching within an app, favor results from that app" vs >"When searching within an app, favor results from a related app" There is a big difference between these two things. "Youtube" is not the s
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by Nadya 6y ago
>I'm still waiting for the inevitable shitstorm that'll ensue when someone "innovates" a Relationship Management platform that is effectively a Shunning-as-a-Service This had existed, for Twitter at least. Apparently

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