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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
That makes me wonder if the installation of solar panels on a roof act as "shade" similar to partial tree coverage in some way, since in many cases they add a thin cushion of shaded air between the panel and the roof. I wonder if
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
Probably leaving to go make a massively multiplayer game that will fail, yet will lead to an incredibly useful side product that will take the world by storm, get acquired, then fizzle out in. irrelevance.
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
Define "best"?
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
Everything I tried ended up with "Had an issue parsing the results. Try again."
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
Excited to try this. I've been looking for an alternative to obsidian publish.
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
1500+ words, and the word "customer" appears only twice, and counting users as "customers". The word "trust" appears nowhere in the article. Sure, cut headcount, cut spend, whatever. But FB's long histor
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
https://www.flowful.app/ Can't promise Eno quality, but flowful claims something similar Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32149989
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
If we take it further, even the eye "we" can see is blocked by the bridge of his nose, so I doubt he actually sees anything.
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
Like, for sale? No. But, I could loan you one if you're looking to see if you'd like it.
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
https://archive.ph/USt99
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
Trying to decode the letter on the desk... The resolution is such that it's all guesswork, but it's clearly a "Memo to Records" or Recorders[0] which I think of as something for a "permanent record". Gov't
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
In order to use Stripe, you agree to use arbitration rather than courts. Pretty standard from most T&Cs for online services. So, no probably not.
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Ask HN: Can I avoid being nuked by Stripe?
76 points by UmYeahNo 4y ago|31 comments
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
Have you looked at your HN Settings page? Even there, there are all sorts of settings that help you when your willpower lets you down. I don't know that a metered water bottle is the solution that comes to mind for me, but assistive to
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
Interestingly, Twitter was originally borne from a podcast "app" called Odeo. Things come full circle, I guess.
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
Following...I'd be curious how to emigrate to another country and get insurance without a job. I was under the (misguided?) understanding that to emigrate you need to show that you have value to the new country (i.e. a job) and won&#x2
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
I always took those posts to be a form of (dark pattern) undisclosed advertisement masquerading as content offered as a perk to YC companies. The last thing those advertisers (and YC) want is comments that are similar to what you might rea
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
You've discovered the strategy of: Come up with a way to get people laid off so you can monetize a portion of their salaries for yourself. The cynical me says they weren't smart enough to automate away their own work (so they cou
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
I feel totally comforted knowing Oracle is on the case. /s https://theintercept.com/2021/02/18/oracle-china-police-surv...
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
Great to see rebol still alive and kicking. I wish it had seen more adoption. Perhaps that day is yet to come.
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
I drive a 2007 pre-touchscreen car, and have told the dealer every time I go in for service (yeah, yeah) that I will hold on to this car until the bitter end because it has physical buttons. I tell them "I can 'touch type' th
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
IIRC there was also a ton of really hyperbolic prognostication when it was still called "Ginger" -- that it would change transportation as we know it, revolutionizing cities, etc etc etc. Then it was released and it was "just
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
Anyone know what this magical idea is? Color me skeptical, but the deliberately vague strawman arguments in the post read between the lines to be something like: "If you're a homeowner we want to your equity and if your a renter w
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
For me, The Grey Album, Girl Talk's "Night Ripper" [0] and "ALL DAY" [1] really changed what it meant to "remix." I really liked the Mashup Scene when it was done to expert levels. It was only after that t
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
I found a blog article[0] from a decade ago reviewing that same lasagne, and the visual difference is pretty stunning. [0] https://kirbiecravings.com/lasagna-taste-test/ So at least for this particular meal, at least vi
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Ask HN: HN etiquette: Do you upvote/downvote comments you reply to?
12 points by UmYeahNo 4y ago|21 comments
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
Could not agree more. At least it better than "Something went wrong. Try again later." That drives me berserk.
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
OT: those images look uncannily fake enough that I would swear they were DALL-E renderings. "Burnt spaceship debris in a field of tall grass"
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
MP3: "On 7 July 1994, the Fraunhofer Society released the first software MP3 encoder, called l3enc." [0] Opus 1.3: "libopus 1.3 was released on October 18, 2018" [1] I feel like this is like asking "Why didn't
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by UmYeahNo 4y ago
I think you have to come to terms with how you feel about the impact that company has on the world, and if you want to contribute to it. Certain letters in that acronym may be worse that others, and some may feel that all of them are bad. I

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