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811.
by avip 8y ago
All plastic parts for appliances: dish drawer wheels, fridge shelves - are all designed to not last, run for $$$ on vendor site if possible to find at all. If you print it - they would come.
812.
by avip 8y ago
>Very cool project but how is this different than HN comments? Is this a real output from the generator? Too good to be true
813.
by avip 8y ago
The sheer volume of resumes makes this approach impractical. You can easily get 1000 resumes for a sw position.
814.
by avip 8y ago
"Declarative vs. imperative debates are always a crowd pleaser". Thanks, great link.
815.
by avip 8y ago
Bridges?
816.
by avip 8y ago
2 spaces prefix for verbatim
817.
by avip 8y ago
But can you close your HN account? That's the ultimate challenge.
818.
by avip 8y ago
1000$ in good areas will get you a nice racoon-sized box.
819.
by avip 8y ago
When I was renting in Van, 90% of landlords hanged-up immediately after asking how many kids I have. The idea they would lease to a bunch of random doped teens is utterly ridiculous. [E: that was before EHT]
820.
by avip 8y ago
Talking to myself Crying out loud Only I can hear me, I'm Stuck inside a cloud
821.
by avip 8y ago
prev. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2537839 (I recall much longer discussion, but could not find)
822.
by avip 8y ago
The ship of Theseus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
823.
by avip 8y ago
People go length before considering Capitalism may have failed as a framework for organizing society.
824.
by avip 8y ago
I agree and that’s why it was framed as an anecdote.
825.
by avip 8y ago
>We haven’t gotten stupider as a species in 30 years I'm honestly not sure that's true. On top of anecdotes (in my grandfather's generation, the norm was to fluently speak 3-4 languages), go ask any STEM prof. with 20+ mil
826.
by avip 8y ago
Firefighter and sysadmin! Great mixture.
827.
by avip 8y ago
paper https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/advs.201900...
828.
by avip 8y ago
Yes that is what we do here. It’s inspiring but the impact on food waste is negligible.
829.
by avip 8y ago
Not exactly. For example, if you have a picker machine harvesting 80% of crop, and manual work ain't cheap (it's Norway), you'd probably throw 20%. But you can't "ungrow" it in any meaningful sense. Agriculture
830.
by avip 8y ago
At every point in the supply chain (grow, pick, sort, package, deliver...) a % of produce becomes more expensive to keep than to throw. So it being dropped.
831.
by avip 8y ago
Pigs eat everything, including humans.
832.
by avip 8y ago
More than 50% of food (quantitive) drops in the supply chain, before arrival on any plate.
833.
by avip 8y ago
Good compost does not smell but does attract (in NA) the likes of racoons and black bears and some people vocally don't like that.
834.
by avip 8y ago
Very happy to find this obvious answer. People always look far for what can be found right here.
835.
by avip 8y ago
And possibly due to vim binding mode you don’t need to relearn keystrokes which is the main productivity killer.
836.
by avip 8y ago
Personally I see no correlation. I need an ide for 3 use cases: jump to definition, find all references, refactor (replace all occurrences). I’m sure vim can do that but I don’t know how and am too lazy to learn (open to consider that makes
837.
by avip 8y ago
So is Lemonade (house insurance app)
838.
by avip 8y ago
That was the BetterPlace model [0]. All is left are several deserted battery-change stations across Israel [1]. I think the fact this model failed miserably in the tiniest of countries is telling. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
839.
by avip 8y ago
I agree. Improvements in ASD are uncommon. You know what is common? Industry driven undisclosed Gut bacteria related shit science.
840.
by avip 8y ago
It wasn’t.

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