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by balaji1 4y ago
Ouch rough experience. And probably those appliance repair charged you so much more for the quality of service or even to just show up and take a look. Preventative maintainability of modern things seems so low - either tech is over complic
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Maintenance should be outsourced a lot more. As in get pros to come and fix things. Maintenance doesn't seem much in demand in the US in a residential/consumer context, probably because it is expensive and other reasons like the g
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by balaji1 4y ago
Even if I can accurately estimate the # of replies I can expect, still the question could be asked - why comment? But like you said, someone sometimes replies and you get pulled into threads like this - which is somehow way too much fun lol
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by balaji1 4y ago
People will upvote this comment.
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by balaji1 4y ago
> water stain with massive discoloration Maybe they store physical photos and the albums got soaked in water. Sadly it happened to all our 90s photo albums during a flood. Some of the photos were stained really bad.
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by balaji1 4y ago
More ads could be a blessing. Just today I was thinking of cancelling YT premium so that I saw ads. Being interrupted by ads would discourage me from wasting more time on YT.
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by balaji1 4y ago
There is a reverse transition to monetize the open-source versions with a hosted-service also. Lot more products being built "in the open" these days. Anyway, it is kinda interesting to see that it doesn't take long for copie
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by balaji1 4y ago
Totally agree about the wording of the title comment and other commenters in this thread. But "Boom Supersonic is transforming air travel with Overture, the world’s fastest airliner, optimized for speed, safety, and sustainability. Ser
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F1: More efficient and carbon net zero power units from 2026(formula1.com)
2 points by balaji1 4y ago|0 comments
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And to keep it simple, even real-life relationships enhanced by tech seems somewhat "bad". I suppose a useful example of tech improving real-life relationships would be LinkedIn: LinkedIn (and others) _might_ help me amplify my ac
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by balaji1 4y ago
Like you said "improves bodily faculties" seems great. Well-designed, efficient, repairable, sustainable "robots" like dishwashers, vacuums, etc from a few years ago could have lasted us a long time. Efficient, safe, mai
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by balaji1 4y ago
Interesting to see https://github.com/3b1b/manim where the YouTuber has created a software tool to automate his work. > never thought some simple animation of moving a ball could take a whole night yeah always surpr
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by balaji1 4y ago
they are probably satisfied with the 2 months per video pace. In general content creators seem to experiment a lot until they get to a sweet spot with their audience for their type of content. Also we underestimate the effort researching an
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Ask HN: Are electric leaf blowers being adopted, maybe in Europe?
1 points by balaji1 4y ago|2 comments
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by balaji1 4y ago
One can even omit mentioning the position on the resume, if the total break is less than 6 months. It should be fine.
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by balaji1 4y ago
almost want to down-vote the post just so the game server is relieved from the HN kiss of death and I can play haha
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by balaji1 4y ago
Such a good point. How do I calibrate to the all the advice out there? Find that hard - be it finance advice, health advice, hustle advice or anything else. Like you say, most of us are average. There's rarely any content for a '4
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by balaji1 4y ago
Bit late to this thread. Another "archive" idea is to capture archive.org links of past projects. And it can be used to showcase things in the future.
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by balaji1 4y ago
Do people journal a lot less these days - I feel writing diaries used to be more prevalent in previous generations. Diaries are offline and private, so lot less likely to be used against the writer. Let's say no publishing for the priv
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by balaji1 4y ago
Word-of-mouth, popularity, familiarity and availability are the biggest factors for using some products; and of course how well it works. A lot of times products find us. I usually start using an app or product, until I find something that
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by balaji1 4y ago
Then more compute has to be moved off the wearable. And bulkier wearable for bigger battery. Maybe the retina is sensitive enough for really low power lasers. But contact lens seems more complex tho. Also Google Glass probably had other pro
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by balaji1 4y ago
Here's an idea for a AR device: It will be a wearable glass like Google Glass - it holds majority of the processors, sensors, battery and networking radio. This wearable can be built to very high quality today. Now for overlaying AR co
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The Microwave Economy(perell.com)
1 points by balaji1 4y ago|0 comments
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by balaji1 4y ago
Posted on HN: https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey I haven't tried it yet, IIUC it can generate GUIs for some Python CLI tools
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by balaji1 4y ago
Might be nitpicking here: Referring to the pie charts under this section[1], I can't help but think images like this are intentionally meant to mislead: [1] https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/why-are-nuclear
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by balaji1 4y ago
is there a case for electric bikes? I enjoy electric bikes. It seems to add significant functionality (and I find it super fun), without changing much of the characteristics of a bicycle, biking itself (except maybe slightly more risky) and
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by balaji1 4y ago
btw @strongpigeon your recent trending HN post was cool, that I recognized your handle.
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I tried to link it to the direct section -- but somehow the url was auto edited by HN to drop the text highlight or I didn't paste the right link... And I wasn't able to edit the URL (nor delete my post nor add as description), so
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by balaji1 4y ago
specific section - https://the-race.com/formula-1/newey-in-depth-aborted-ferrar... "We now have electric SUVs – huge 4x4s with electric! Ludicrous. It just makes no sense whatsoever. It would just be nice to see c
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Top F1 designer says auto industry moving in wrong direction with electric cars(the-race.com)
31 points by balaji1 4y ago|34 comments

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