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by emerongi 7y ago
16B monthly pageviews
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Is it possible to have a material that doesn't conduct heat?
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I just use an Ikea Poäng with laptop in lap. I've found that regular desk chairs and desks just don't work for me. Poäng-style chair or a recliner is what suits me.
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The real world doesn't coddle you, but your close acquaintances definitely do. A week ago I saw an animal documentary where a lion was attacked by a pack of hyenas. A while later, another lion saw the situation and ran to help; the hye
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As a side-note: you should not use metal utensils with non-stick (teflon) pans.
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It definitely took me longer than an hour. I had been using the keyboard wrong for over a decade, so it was hard to undo. I did an hour every day for 2 weeks, I think, after which it stuck. I then wrote at 30-60WPM for a while, which was a
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Not saying this happened at IBM, but sometimes correct people can be promoted into correct positions, in which case the company keeps going just fine. However, at some point any company is probably bound to promote wrong people, who will en
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If you want to sign up without subscribing to marketing e-mail, this seems to be the actual registration url: https://roamresearch.com/#/secretinvite
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Exactly. When all your friends are already using Facebook and you start telling them to use Signal instead... well, I can tell you from experience that it's almost impossible to break the status quo. What has happened to me is that usu
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Most of the approaches used are re-usable, which is a big part of why we can develop new AIs for games faster than ever. You can take the algorithm(s) that was used in one game and use it in another. Yes, a human is still needed to decide w
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I feel like the author of that comment looks at it kind of like the discovery of the electron: once we learn how to control it, we can achieve things that were never possible before.
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Ask HN: How are you changing the world?
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Shouldn't it be "multiple of 256"? Maybe nobody does >=512 axle trains.
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What they also do is that they sell a quality product for 1-2 years, get good reviews and then switch to inferior materials. Luckily the review system can catch this, as long as you look at recent reviews and the seller isn't buying an
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Of course it is important, a newborn is not able to survive for years to come without parental support. If terrible sleep reduces the parent's survival or its ability to protect the child by a big enough percentage, I'd imagine th
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Discord groups seem to fill this niche
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Why isn't functional programming the norm? [video](youtube.com)
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A combination of ads and referral links. Ads are not Google Ads (or similar), but sold directly, no middle-man. The business very starkly displays a core truth: if you really know how to do SEO, you will run your own websites instead of s
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It doesn't help much. Most notably, it even removes credible sites like Wikipedia. Programming queries are a completely different thing. I'm talking about queries like "plumber in X", "build website", "whi
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Thinkpads are still good, however it annoys me that even the T series is being pushed towards the Mac design, when they already have other lines like the Mac (X1 being most notable). Don't mess with the formula, please!
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The real SEO is getting backlinks. They dominate every other aspect. Getting a high rank through "natural" SEO is really hard. I know someone who makes $12MM/year from high-ranking websites in extremely competitive keywords..
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The whole blog post was about measuring eyesight, not about what it takes to actually make glasses. My natural expectation was that the author made his/her own lenses and fitted them into a frame. Or designed their own frame, ordered t
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React doesn't have some intricate patterns. It mostly advocates for a functional-style UI, where you do computation in the render cycle and keep state localized to a component. Svelte gives you the exact same tools. I've been buil
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The description on that video is hilarious.
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Why is the title extrapolating from 4 interviews to 42M people? First off, I can't spot the 42M figure anywhere - I only see 36M - and the article doesn't seem to be extrapolating like that. It's just saying there's pote
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The issue with this is that if the website requires some external API for content, it might not work properly. https://webrecorder.io/ solves that problem by recording all interactions and then replaying them as needed. &gt
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I also never did homework at home and I agree that it was probably for the better. The only bad effect is that homework got associated with bad feelings (anxiety, stress), because I had to find ways to still get them done without doing them
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Same. It's very weird how the tables have turned on this. Facebook also creates a divide between people that have Facebook and people that don't. It's especially weird when that divide is between you and your immediate family
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Often it's 20. Not sure why 20 is so common.
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If I sleep really long I get a buzz in my head. I've never done drugs, but it kind of feels like what I think being high would be. Sort of like a brain-orgasm. It feels really good for about 4 hours, then disperses.

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