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by aurbano 5y ago
I feel like the definition should just be "Addiction can be defined as a persistent, compulsive need to use a substance". Surely one can be addicted even if it doesn't have negative consequences right?
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by aurbano 5y ago
Is it just me or it's actually hard to find an answer "how to know if you're addicted" in the article? I skimmed the article and thought I found it when I got to the section titled "Key points – How to know if you’r
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by aurbano 5y ago
Awesome stuff! I learned a few new selectors, thanks :)
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by aurbano 5y ago
If someone could build a tool that somehow allowed you to set generic tokens like "heading text color", "body text color"... etc, while potentially including contrast warnings in case you mess up And then automatically g
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by aurbano 5y ago
Only issue is that UK politics are dominated by rich landowners...
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by aurbano 5y ago
If you like restoration videos I'd recommend https://www.youtube.com/c/BaumgartnerRestoration Great attention to detail and mastery, from what I can tell as someone who knows nothing of the subject!
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by aurbano 5y ago
That's a really neat way of visualising changed files!
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K Ring, contactless payment ring(mykring.com)
1 points by aurbano 5y ago|0 comments
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by aurbano 5y ago
How many people actually subscribe/read newsletters? And if you do, which ones do you follow? (I'm honestly curious)
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by aurbano 5y ago
You might be able to check the user agent to differentiate legitimate users from automated scanners? There's always the chance that they use a browser's user agent to disguise themselves but that should be easy to check.
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by aurbano 5y ago
> usually much easier to read and understand They would be doing something seriously wrong if that wasn't always the case haha
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by aurbano 5y ago
To add to this: If your company doesn't have the funding for expensive engineer salaries you can compensate with stock options and an exciting product people can believe in. It means your career page needs to become a pitch, and your i
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Ask HN: Current state of hobby BCI devices
2 points by aurbano 6y ago|0 comments
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by aurbano 6y ago
"Dar un toque" in Spain, grew up with it as well haha I remember doing it with friends, girls I liked... it's interesting how we're constantly looking for ways to communicate.
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by aurbano 6y ago
Lex Fridman's podcast is consistently blowing my mind, highly recommend it
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by aurbano 6y ago
The first time I meet a remote colleague I'm often surprised by their height, and a very common statement is "Wow I never realised you were this tall!" I don't see the difference between that and realising someone is a d
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by aurbano 6y ago
Could you share what bank this is?
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by aurbano 6y ago
I'm not sure if you're directing this comment at TransferWise or at companies in general, but I'll reply from TransferWise's point of view - Disclaimer, I'm an engineer at TransferWise, but this is my own opinion. T
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by aurbano 6y ago
Oh the irony!
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by aurbano 6y ago
You have too much free time - not good for our company sorry.
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by aurbano 6y ago
I started https://dotdot.im as a random chat place sort of for this, or for nothing, don't really know... Nothing's stored at this point, chat's only live in memory while at least 1 user is there, and cleared afte
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by aurbano 6y ago
I've never been to one of those but it does sound great! I'll have a look around my area and try one post-lockdown, although I feel like it'd be so much easier to join if I already knew someone who went...
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by aurbano 6y ago
I’ve been saying this for a while.. we are missing local communities in today’s society. People used to go to church and do religious events and things sometimes during the week - this is all gone now, and I wish we had an alternative that
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by aurbano 6y ago
After playing a bit of Factorio I realised I had messed up the layout a little bit and that it would be good to "refactor" it, but that it would require some planning And then it hit me, it was pretty much work haha
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by aurbano 6y ago
https://dotdot.im It's an online chat room where you'll find a small group to chat with (around 10 people) with the idea that nowadays it's hard to have a "meaningful" conversation with people in social
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by aurbano 6y ago
It really really sucks that it’s almost 2021 and we still have to try to sneak in a little SQL injection just to see if they know about it... Ffs is that never going to go away?
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by aurbano 6y ago
Your comment highlights so many problems with our industry so poignantly, and at the same time is an extremely sad personal story... I don’t actually know what to say as encouragement but I do feel for you :( I was in a similar position to
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by aurbano 6y ago
Just did the math from the numbers on their site and on average a "worker" doing captchas for them gets paid 0.2$/hour. Adjusting based on average monthly salary in Bangladesh (157$) [1] and the US (4056$) [2] that would be s
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by aurbano 6y ago
How's that weird? It is perfect anecdotal counter-evidence to the claim it's responding to.
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by aurbano 6y ago
If you're ok with fronting your sites with Cloudflare you can get "fake" HTTPS by using the flexible option (HTTPS from the client to Cloudflare, and HTTP from them to your server) This satisfies the need to be on HTTPS, with

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