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I believe it's talking about the vertical lines, not the column space between them. So the "+1" is because it's talking about the rightmost edge of what you're calling a "column". here's an image that
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I know what you mean. JP's biblical lectures were the first thing that made the concept of "God" as a framework for conduct and interacting with the world into something that was accessible to someone that doesn't believ
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I don't own that quote – I wish I could claim to have known that innately rather than having to hear and learn it in times of pain. The thing you said about happy life not being good life is dead on IMO. Happiness != comfort != meaning
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Glad to hear the trilogy was worth continuing! I tore through the first one in about 3 days – admittedly the start is very slow. Will have to pick the other two up now.
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I heard a really similar thing about suffering – which can be a decision if you want it to be. Choose what you'll suffer for, or someone else will choose for you. In other words, you're going to hurt, and struggle, and have your p
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So many. Really good year. Lots of them feel like I've been in a cave for awhile and am just coming back, so maybe these are table stakes for other people. 1) Intentional vulnerability Intentional vulnerability is really good stuff. Wi
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Sometimes on HN a comment will pop up on a biology article from a Ph.D biologist, or the sort. There are lots of severely brilliant people here whose familiarity with web tech is well below average, but who nonetheless add immense value to
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It's less "can they render them" and more "do they maintain their meaning in alternate renderings". For example, it's common in these to use non-latin characters that visually resemble latin characters. But if
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Nice! Submission's UI is way slicker, but for more options and a more OG-web feel, this page is my go-to for these: http://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi?text=This+is+pretty+fun+too.+Do...
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I 100% agree – I do not attribute this specific microsoft issue to malice. It's insanely hard to coordinate between teams at their scale, especially when feature ownership is partially shared in difficult-to-model ways. (I do attribute
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This has the same feel to me as the use of "unlimited" in cell phone plans – a semantic looseness that hovers north of criminal but south of acceptable. It seems companies are free to make technical claims of questionable veracity
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Almost always. IIRC there are some trivially small exceptions – you can make I believe 3 trades a day before being classified as PDT – and I believe entry and exit of a single position count as two separate trades. But there are a lot of ev
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It was this list. "Blood Sandwich" is another lyrically accessible song from him that tugs the heartstrings.
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The data only goes to 2012 sadly. Drake would likely rise since he's been prolific since then. Logic and Kendrick would also probably see some gains. It's tough to think of new entrants that might debut high on the chart, at least
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The other reply about "best self" is apt. It is perfectly reasonable, and at times even necessary, to not want to be yourself. For example, if the OP advice of "let your inner person go out in every occasion in order to immed
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That makes sense! There are some funny "beer will hydrate you faster than water after cardio" studies that work for this reason.
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> Don't mix drinks, i.e, wine with whisky Is this not just superstition? I've found that people's thinking for this comes from either your first point about sugar, or from failing to update your expectations when you go fr
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Two things, I'd guess 1) This feeling of longing, helplessness, and futility resonates with a lot more people than you might expect from sitting on a park bench watching passersby 2) Lots of HN people have hot takes, of varying quality
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The realities are a lot more mundane than your last paragraph tries to paint them. I was 29 when I finally got treatment (therapy + low dose of adderall). I had been making 100k for years. It's perfectly possible to have an okay life w
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Part of me wants to try the experience you've had. I also breezed through school and am tortured by office mundanity, and I waited until 29 to finally get on medication for ADHD. It helped a lot, but it's definitely not a solution
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> my learning and growth had pushed me out of the space of the "computer for the rest of us." But I'm sadly not quite ready to leave. This implies that apple started as a layman's computer, and their market position h
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That's an uncharitably reductionist take. Please refer to the original comment that started this thread. > Certain words & phrases I know would produce legitimate useful search results in 2008 will now just pull pages of unrelat
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Yes! The most important bit of this comment IMO is the "about two weeks" part. There's a trough of uselessness in vacations – 14-21 days is the minimum in my experience. In week 1, I'm annoyed by my vacation. I don'
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I refrained from going so far in part because there's places you can still get great info on things like pihole, which would violate the interests of those departments. But my gut says that it's not that google is defending the sa
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Not OP, and not sure this is what OP's talking about, but I have examples. First, anything piracy related. Previously you could search something like "albumname zip rar torrent" and get vast lists of downloads. It's uncl
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Do you blog/tweet/etc other thoughts about this kind of thing? That's a great philosophy and I'd love to hear more of your thoughts on surrounding topics.
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The "stock market" as most people imagine it has two major features IMO: 1) The "distributed ownership" bit – purchase shares representing fractional ownership of something. 2) The "collaborative price finding"
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Disappointing to see that the keyboard layout is so nasty. Does anybody have a favorite laptop that's netbook size (<=13") with a focus on writing? It seems the perfect "write comfortably on train, so light you forget you
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A one-day-old account that's posted nothing but military/btc/russia articles, announcing a "hack" of whatsapp when the string "hack" appears nowhere in the article, and is describing informants infiltratin
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Some people willingly submit photos to be used in this manner[0], which will lead to them being used all over the place. Once you've seen this picture of Brad Frost[1] (a web tech personality), it's hilarious how many startup land

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