armagon

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by armagon 5y ago
I learned to sew. I suppose the biggest thing that got me interested was I got a book on making costumes from a Humble Bundle. Keeping me interested, though, was a desire to do something that was not on a screen during the pandemic. I proba
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by armagon 5y ago
The article says "The recent Commission study on the impact of Open Source Software and Hardware on technological independence, competitiveness and innovation in the EU economy showed that investment in open source leads on average to
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by armagon 5y ago
> The problem with [the plan of changing the formulas of drugs so they can be re-patented, from the patent-holder's perspective] is that a reformulation doesn’t stop the old drug’s patent from expiring, opening the market for cheap
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by armagon 5y ago
Well, I'm frugal by nature, have six kids, and hope to retire some day. I'll spent $500 Cdn on a car repair (when necessary) but think twice for $15 eating out by myself. $40 for an application I want is a hard one for me -- it ha
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by armagon 5y ago
Interesting. Thank you.
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by armagon 5y ago
Ooh. I like that thought. Thank you.
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by armagon 5y ago
I meant that a regular user might buy from the Play Store, either of Apple's App stores, or from the Microsoft store. Admittedly, I seldom buy software from those stores myself -- or, indeed, at all. The things I'm interested in a
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Ask HN: Fill a niche with open source of a for-profit product?
6 points by armagon 5y ago|9 comments
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Ask HN: Fitness while doing knowledge work?
6 points by armagon 5y ago|4 comments
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by armagon 5y ago
Mysterydip, how do the sales compare of a game with IAP vs one with an upfront cost? (I ask as it is conceivably that fewer than 1% of people who get the IAP version pay, in which case you've made as much either way).
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by armagon 5y ago
The book "Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance" discussed one method that only costs on the order of millions of dollars a year -- I believe it was putting su
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by armagon 5y ago
Very cool. I also like coding with proportional fonts. I wish I could find some with coding ligatures. [I've wondered if VSCode theming would allow for using a regular font for alphanumeric characters, and a special font (like Fira Cod
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by armagon 5y ago
I think it is due to politics that you don't hear this discussed; seemingly, nuance makes it more difficult to convey a message. The number of people who are known to have been infected is not insignificant, and the number who have bee
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by armagon 5y ago
I need some more exercise in my life. (Long pandemic + desk job = ailing mentally). Is a rowing machine a good way to go? (Like so many people, I have temporal, spatial, and monetary constraints -- I can't imagine spending $1500 USD on
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by armagon 5y ago
Thank you. I was confused when glancing over the paper. Incidentally, there are additional pictures attempting to convey the idea at https://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/astronomer-discovers-tunnel-l...
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by armagon 5y ago
I injured one of my fingers for a few months a few years back. I know I tried several things. I recall that there were apps that would let you type with one hand; for example, you use the index finger on your left hand to type an 'f&#x
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by armagon 5y ago
I find that when people characterize a widespread anti-parasitic medication, used in humans for over 30 years, as a "horse de-wormer", that I have a great difficulty in believing they have anything meaningful to add to the debate.
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by armagon 5y ago
It is amazing to me that a handful of people on twitter can get people cancelled, while thousands of people can march in the streets (such as in many parts of Europe, or in New York City) and be completely ignored.
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by armagon 5y ago
That's better, but an app is still a pain without a phone. (I do believe there are alternatives that would run on a computer, though).
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by armagon 5y ago
This is obnoxious. I hate giving semi-trusted organizations personal information (like my phone number), and sometimes that's the only possibility. Also a pain for my kids, for example -- I want them to have e-mail, but not a cell. I c
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by armagon 5y ago
I tend to think the word PR is the result of propaganda applied to the word propaganda. It isn't obvious to me that there is a good form of propaganda. Useful, perhaps, but not upright and positive.
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by armagon 5y ago
Help me understand: - water with hexavalent chromium in it is toxic - these bacteria eat it - ??? - now the water is non-toxic (or, at least, less toxic) Why aren't you now drinking water with microbes that have hexavalent chromium in
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by armagon 5y ago
I wish the report showed what the re-infection result (over time) from having had Covid turned out to be.
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by armagon 5y ago
Any recommendations for how a developer can learn a useful amount of marketing?
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by armagon 5y ago
Which self-hosting software do you recommend?
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by armagon 5y ago
There are all sorts of things you could blame, but saying 'we have no choice' when you do have a choice is disingenuous. As for not requiring a nursing mandate, if the need is great enough, I could see bringing nurses-in-training
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by armagon 5y ago
It is truly galling for the health system to say they have no choice but to shut down services when they have the obvious choice of rescinding the vaccine mandate.
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by armagon 5y ago
This is so interesting to me. Perhaps what is most interesting is that people seem to have an opinion already and are not willing to change that opinion, and worse that the opinions seem to coincide with political leanings (at least in Cana
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by armagon 5y ago
I wish that article talked about the geographical distribution of obesity. I saw a fascinating pre-print paper here a while ago: A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic. via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27936
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by armagon 5y ago
Oh, that was so fun to watch.

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