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> Reddit is an intentionally designed dopamine IDK, yes dopamine gets triggered but much less than with the typical suspects out there. I find many of reddit subs quite helpful tbh, you check them out, comment, upvote, submit and leave a
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Ask HN: Was there a thread about W21's Demo Day?
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> can save costs in some circumstances [...] and what we found was every team started using more and more resources until we ended up with a sprawl of over-provisioned and under-utilized services This can happen but already for medium de
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> We’d really appreciate it if you try it out and give us feedback. The landing page is gorgeous. Re the service: IDK, on the one side it's amazing, on the other hand, key to significant cost savings is to use Google and AWS only fo
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I'd say this is the product of brand dna, targeted audience and a bit of randomness. I think a good glossy screen with this special coating which makes reflections barely visible and if, then they are deep purple such as on MacBooks, i
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To give a bit more context to what the others wrote. AHK is the only reason I use Windows and not macOS nor Linux on a desktop because they don't offer anything remotely powerful as AHK and AHK makes my life 1,000x easier/faster.
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Do you guys know AHK? It's Windows-only, has a weird language design but which is terse like no other and it's quite powerful. I would be happy to learn how you will position your product compared to AHK.
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Not really on-topic but am I the only one? I stopped developing locally, my notebook is just a thin client ssh'ing into a remote dev server. I get all amenities like developing on the production os, no awkward package managers, 1 GBit
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I rarely use Wikipedia, only for stuff not from my domains and where I need a brief tldr and then, I just skim the first few sentences. Once I want to get more into that topic, I check other sources. Would love to see competition to Wikiped
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FWIW and a note to myself before I check it out a third time: I just checked it a second time and recall now what was turning me off: I found the installation of the node plugin and node super tedious and too much overhead[1], it's jus
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Tried asdf few months ago but couldn't get warm with it. Went back to nvm for node and just venv/ for Python. Anyone went back too and if yes, why? Thinking of giving it another try.
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OT: Most (including me) confuse good products with good business models. Only because a product has killer potential doesn't mean it's based on a good business model and checks all boxes such as defensibility, distribution, lock-i
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OT and for those into keyboards: The keycaps do look nice, IDK if they're good to type on but they are a nice, modern interpretation of the OG ones.
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Nice that you did this video and still a very nice speed. Every test is different re difficulty, so all good.
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There are three variants and long PDFs, anyone has a summary of those?
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It's wrong but the p is on a very hard position for the right pinky. FWIW, p was the last letter I got right as a touch typist. It's not that the pinky is a weak finger--it can be trained to a very good level--it's really mor
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Would love to see a video of your typing style/you typing eg at monkeytype
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Use Autohotkey, it's not really a big thing, e.g. <+t::return
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Why I order at Domino's but not at any other food delivery service: - Lowest minimum order value - Fastest delivery (bc of own delivery guys) - No perfect pizza but still great enough - For me, ordering food == instant gratification =
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M1 vs. Intel's upcoming i7-11370H
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> I mean for two months now alt-tab is broken Not on my 20H2 release, wdym?
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> in our papers A link would be kind.
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FWIW, I'm no fan of giving my email either, so I tried to load the transformer on my own system. Would you mind to put a bit more, eg an example, than just following three lines there? from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoMo
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I found https://github.com/Armin2208/Windows-Auto-Night-Mode to be better for auto-scheduling.
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Tachyons needs this for a button: <a class="f6 link dim ph3 pv2 mb2 dib white bg-black" /> Anyone so quick to show the same in Tailwind to have a comparison? You can see the button rendered here (the first at the
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Tailwind must have an extremely talented social media guy/growth hacker or be a very good product: 14 HN front-page hits within just one year. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal... Edi
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I still use Tachyons which I find way better. It*s just a css mapper with much saner design decisions.
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> To me it feels like the defaults are sane enough I found the exact opposite. If one has perfect defaults it's Tachyons.
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Tailwind's paradigm ("atomic css") is great and the future, but there is a much better implementation, the barely maintained Tachyons is way superior and was also the first that made atomic css popular. I wrote following on R
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Weeks later and we still don't know nothing. How do M1's TPU cores (the dedicated, so called "AI engine", not M1' GPU!) compare to current, consumer Nvidia TPU cores, eg those from the 3080 or 3090 (not Nvidia'
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