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by bookaway 3y ago
One of the best live performances I've experienced. Up there with Daft Punk's Pyramid tour. Listening to Moderat's cinematic remix of his track with a good sound environment also gets me: https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by bookaway 3y ago
If it is a myth, it is a very widespread stubbornly persistent myth. If you have links to scientific sources debunking it as a myth that would much appreciated. I came across it most recently in Tom Brady's athletic health book [0]. If
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by bookaway 3y ago
Thanks, will check it out. Just yesterday, someone was complaining about having gone a hike and his watch registering 10k distance, while the watches of the two others registered 6k. Was wondering how common a problem that was before I came
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by bookaway 3y ago
I don't use any of them, but I've heard firsthand from some like the author complaining about inaccurate data from devices like the Apple Watch and Oura, some getting rid of them due to this. Since the OP continues to use them, a
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by bookaway 3y ago
>No evidence of GPT-4 getting worse over time I read the the article you linked to, and either you're putting words in their mouth and/or making claims that go way beyond the conclusions presented in the article. The authors ch
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by bookaway 3y ago
Am I the only one that finds the process of getting files of a decent size from non-Apple devices to Apple mobile devices incredibly frustrating, almost enough to be a deal breaker? What is the current best practice for the fastest way to g
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by bookaway 4y ago
Whatever the reason this should be a thing. They should do Triangle of Sadness next.
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by bookaway 4y ago
Well, that was unexpected. Turns out the guy in question was in fact a jackass (based on this clip). He had a great question/point that he asked toward the end, but that was after he started talking aggressively and saying stuff like &
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by bookaway 4y ago
Frankly, I was expecting Coinbase to capitalize on the roaring 20s by slowly pivoting from crypto to something that had legs in the real world and start building software useful for small businesses, you know, start slowly entering into som
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by bookaway 4y ago
"Abu Dhabi investors", ok. I guess both twitter and bitcoin are now being propped up by Gulf states.
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by bookaway 4y ago
As I mentioned in my previous post [0] (now flagged), pg seems to be going out of his way to contribute to the ongoing negative signal of the crypto crash, despite him, YC, and his some in his network having a vested interest in a entity th
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by bookaway 4y ago
I encourage you to read the HN guidelines: Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don&#
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by bookaway 4y ago
>30 year open mouth beard consumers and wanted to 'blow their minds' with No one said anything about blowing minds. >But because it is planned to drag on Unfortunately all shows are infected with this garbage. You end up gra
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by bookaway 4y ago
Yes, Andor has been the most decent Star Wars throwaway yet for me, and that's including all the new movies and tv vehicles that came before. Understated, brooding, solid acting, and free of the stale plot and shoddy writing in the ot
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by bookaway 4y ago
>It makes sense that EM would blunder by attempting to reproduce that type of success at Twitter. And it will be a blunder, unless... But he actually did change the narrative today. Yesterday, he had to make Twitter better. Now, if Twit
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by bookaway 4y ago
>that didn’t get ridiculous VC backing. 144 mil on an ICO off the bat is not ridiculous? Whatever its technical merits are, if Polkadot skyrocketed more than other altcoins (10x in 15 months) the reason was probably due to the cult of pe
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esbuild – a fast JavaScript and CSS bundler(esbuild.github.io)
1 points by bookaway 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Best Automated Testing Approach for Canvas-Based Apps?
4 points by bookaway 4y ago|0 comments
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by bookaway 5y ago
The user made a conscious choice to trust one specific American company. They do not want other companies they did not personally "vet"-- with whatever weird and personal criteria they feel like -- added without their approval. Th
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by bookaway 5y ago
>I'd dare to say that a not-so-phisically-active moderate-smoker living in a less polluted environment has way lower cancer risk than a bio-vegan athlete buddhist monk living in a polluted industrial hellhole. I always heard of ge
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by bookaway 5y ago
I have trouble finding good pro arguments taking on the strongest anti- arguments, it's pretty frustrating. To rebut moxie's OpenSea monopoly criticism, one guy goes and pulls up stats from a week-old competitor that fueled their
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by bookaway 5y ago
No, the dying tribe never went to these extensive lengths and exhibited this level of disgust toward the web or email during its initial rise.
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by bookaway 5y ago
>Remember porn on the web or spam on email? >HN's hate for crypto is hilarious. Really? I don't recall members of "our own tribe" sitting down and cranking out 2 hours of VHS video takedowns of "the web"
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by bookaway 5y ago
>Algolia is a YC company. As I stated, I'm not bemoaning the use of algolia here (there's at least an icon to inform the user of its use). Only that Google Analytics is being used in addition to it. I would think in theory algo
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by bookaway 5y ago
I am aware. HN is often touted to be running with a minimalist bare-bones tech stack. Found this aspect rather sad and bizarre. If you get caught out without a blocker, you could end up sending your search info to google in addition to algo
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Ask HN: HN Search has Google Analytics enabled, can it be removed?
32 points by bookaway 5y ago|10 comments
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by bookaway 5y ago
Teams, Google Meet, Webex, Zoom -- on Chromium, they all hijack and increase your microphone volume without you knowing. It's infuriating. Just thinking about it pisses me off. You have to have the volume control open and have a live t
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by bookaway 5y ago
Especially poignant as well because Firefox support for Meet was recently mentioned in passing as one of those FAANG decisions that could be applauded. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26770796
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Ask HN: Google Meet Broken on Firefox M1?
4 points by bookaway 5y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: I can't take Memoji author profiles seriously, am I alone?
1 points by bookaway 5y ago|0 comments

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