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by exhilaration 2y ago
Gift link: https://nyti.ms/421I5Ox
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by exhilaration 2y ago
Nah, Microsoft makes good money from Visio licenses - I'm sure it more than pays for itself and helps keep the megacorps locked in. All of our org's corporate laptops come with Office but you can request Visio if you need it - the
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by exhilaration 2y ago
Thank you for both links. I only read the linked article after following your links!
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by exhilaration 2y ago
Just eat the right kind of salmon: "All species of Alaska wild salmon have very low levels of mercury." From: https://health.alaska.gov/dph/Epi/eph/Pages/fish/default.asp...
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by exhilaration 2y ago
My understanding is that Anki is pretty much used by every single medical student, at least in the U.S. It's the perfect applications for retaining massive amounts of information just long enough to pass med school and board exams. L
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by exhilaration 2y ago
What does A2 milk have to do with lactose? I don't see lactose mentioned in your link.
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by exhilaration 2y ago
I thought you were covered by Uber's car insurance when you were on their clock?
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by exhilaration 2y ago
It's kind of a sloppy solution, but what about using a Bluetooth to aux adapter? You would lose the dashboard audio controls but at least you can listen to your stuff.
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by exhilaration 2y ago
NY Times did a big article on this: http://bit.ly/3E9mA5U Far fewer resources for those whose homes weren't destroyed but insurance should still cover the smoke damage remediation.
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by exhilaration 2y ago
Wow, those stunts are incredible - it's hard to believe he died of old age and not of these super risky stunts.
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by exhilaration 2y ago
Thanks to a Hacker News comment, my kids, ages 7-13. Have been watching an episode of Tintin from the internet archive every week, and they love it. Link: https://archive.org/details/tintinseries43
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by exhilaration 2y ago
So taking myself as an example: I drink 12 oz of coffee daily (7 days per week), and I add exactly 12 grams of table sugar to my coffee each day (equivalent to 3 sugar packets), which is 45 calories. Seems like I don't have much wiggl
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by exhilaration 2y ago
Related - Technology Connections has several videos about old pinball machines that showcase how incredibly complex they are, here's the first video: Old pinball machines are amazingly complex https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by exhilaration 2y ago
The article mentions sanctions on Iranian exports, that might have played a role in higher prices.
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by exhilaration 2y ago
with tobacconists becoming the targets of many arson attacks Are you saying that legitimate tobacco stores are being burned down by illicit tobacco traffickers? To eliminate competition?
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I keep turning my Google Sheets into webapps(arstechnica.com)
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by exhilaration 2y ago
Does anyone know if there's an official NWS API you can pull from? Is that what this app uses? The NWS weather.gov site is my go-to for weather (no ads, no tracking) but the UI isn't great, I'd love to build my own customiz
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by exhilaration 2y ago
The Maid of the Mist boats at Niagara Falls have been fully electric since 2023: https://www.maidofthemist.com/maid-of-the-mist-sets-the-stan... They don't talk too much about battery capacity or charging but I'm
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by exhilaration 2y ago
Marriage triggers automatic emancipation. Just sayin'.
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by exhilaration 2y ago
Yes the crazy sci-fi font is hard to read, but I have to give them props for being unique. I even like the grammatical mistakes, it's so different than the ultra-polished stuff we usually see here. This project has personality !
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Ukraine Shows U.S. How to Beat China in Drone Battery Wars(forbes.com)
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by exhilaration 2y ago
It's been mentioned several time in HN comments that the AWS billing code is a giant pile of spaghetti and there is generally a lot of fear around making big changes to it. That's been one of the more interesting inside baseball f
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by exhilaration 2y ago
Can you watch anything fun while doing your cardio? I look forward to working out because that's when I catch up on my Netflix shows. There's no way I'd stick with it if I didn't have something to take my mind off the
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by exhilaration 2y ago
I personally think it's relevant because of the tech investments that the Saudis are making around the world. Based on my years of reading Hacker News, I feel the focus here is is about VC/investment/business first, "ha
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by exhilaration 2y ago
What is conker, you ask? Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LcaUTAuQfc
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by exhilaration 2y ago
Here's the key section about the techniques they used: The team of experts employed a combination of traditional crossbreeding techniques and modern DNA analysis technology to accelerate the process of developing resistant banana vari
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by exhilaration 2y ago
IBM offers just such a service under the WatsonX branding, it's an LLM to convert COBOL to Java: https://www.ibm.com/products/watsonx-code-assistant-z I work at a company with a large COBOL codebase and this has b
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by exhilaration 2y ago
Don't miss the 2003 New York Time article linked inside: https://archive.is/3yox8 It's full of gems, like this: Eventually, though, the minivan became so indelibly associated with suburbia that even soccer moms s
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by exhilaration 2y ago
Was this left by the person who solved it or the one who stole the prize? See below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549946
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by exhilaration 2y ago
How about QR codes instead?

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