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901.
by fouc 5y ago
Simplest solution would be to write it at the end of the title. Something like [paywall] or (paywall) perhaps? It would be nice if HN posts could include an "alt link" which would be paywall free. (like an archive.is link or simil
902.
by fouc 5y ago
People might adjust fairly quickly due to the hedonic treadmill "Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative?"(1978) https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1980-01001-001
903.
by fouc 5y ago
which ADHD medicine is good these days? do they raise blood pressure or act as a stimulant? (I guess I'm asking if there's anything better than adderall and ritalin these days)
904.
by fouc 5y ago
Given those two options, I'd end up choosing A. So thinking of B would actually be motivating. It wouldn't feel suicidal to think of both of those options.
905.
by fouc 5y ago
do_stuff(bar) if condition Foo.do_something unless qux.empty? This stuff is pretty common in ruby if it's short & clear.
906.
by fouc 5y ago
To me, "social benefit" implies being able to make friends, real friends not token friends. In which case, then it would be worth going to the office. Granted, not all companies are good for that unfortunately.
907.
Ask HN: What's the chance that Google is detuning their email spam algorithm?
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908.
by fouc 5y ago
Mmm, those raised table borders. Timeless!
909.
by fouc 5y ago
>The text is "sandwiched" behind the image of the page, so you can't see it but can search for it. I already have a bunch of these PDFs that have this. Does anyone know how to extract this text out? In particular I'd
910.
by fouc 5y ago
> A pointer to something held in an immutable log will never become invalid or otherwise point to garbage data in the future. Now I'm wondering if we can have immutable versioned APIs
911.
by fouc 5y ago
seems like author is imagining the use case is more for gaming than for work. But I suppose if it had a fast charge during lunch break, that'd solve the problem.
912.
by fouc 5y ago
> far from it I strongly suspect that the majority of the kinks will be ironed out before the end of this decade. Within the next 5 years the screen quality will be dramatically improved and will become a viable alternative to our monito
913.
by fouc 5y ago
Overpriced? Is that true?
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by fouc 5y ago
Companies like Facebook & Google are able to scale up in part because they're avoiding spending money and time on moderation & customer support. If they were legally required to maintain a certain level of support, then that w
915.
by fouc 5y ago
>when Google reverse-engineered the hack used against American diplomats in Uganda, they found an elegant, tiny piece of code that adapted software from 1990s Xerox machines to fit a so-called Turing machine — essentially a complete comp
916.
by fouc 5y ago
because the security engineers will be able to withdraw the funds out of any security hole and keep it for themselves as the bounty
917.
by fouc 5y ago
You mean cooties?
918.
by fouc 5y ago
Do you count "webnovels" or fanfiction? It's easy to spend hours per day reading on http://www.wuxiaworld.com or http://www.webnovels.com . It's also easy to spend hours reading stories from http
919.
by fouc 5y ago
"In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game-world" Exhibiting sentience, that's a bit awkward ethically speaking.. Even though this type of testing will help us understand how our brains w
920.
by fouc 5y ago
Ah, the sentient something communicating a "kill me" message. That reminds me of a scene from a movie, but I can't remember which one it was.
921.
by fouc 5y ago
> NOTE: This preprint [..] has not been certified by peer review Says it all. Take it with a huge grain of salt.
922.
by fouc 5y ago
Seems related to how apple handles PNGs like the recent discussion about ambiguous PNGs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29586549
923.
by fouc 5y ago
Exposure is cumulative though. If someone keeps getting exposed to "innocuous" things like cigarette smoke, they may very well find 20 years later they've got lung cancer and end up dying young.
924.
by fouc 5y ago
Not everyone has an EE degree.. As far as I can tell, the majority of the video seemed like a honest way of explaining the electric field / "flow of electricity" phenomenon to the layperson.
925.
by fouc 5y ago
Well the one of the appealing part of QBasic Editor was the friendly bright blue color scheme. Along with the always present menu bar on the top. Just a great editor for newbies. Seems like Joe has the helpful menu system, but it feels ov
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by fouc 5y ago
Cool to see someone made a BBS in forth! I used to dabble in Forth a long time ago and I always thought it would be interesting to see a Forth that people could telnet/ssh into and it would look & act like a MUD or BBS, but the pro
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by fouc 5y ago
I never understood why the beautiful & easy-to-use QBasic Editor never inspired a copycat for linux. It would've easily beaten out nano.
928.
by fouc 5y ago
Copy'n'pasting "mailto:test@test.com" into gmail's new mail "to:" field also doesn't magically remove the mailto: part either.
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by fouc 5y ago
Elixir & Phoenix comes across as a "full-stack" framework with tons of potential, much more so than Ruby on Rails.
930.
by fouc 5y ago
It sounds like you're basically averaging 1 to 2 hours of actual productive work per day. I think work studies have shown that the average is close to 3 hours per day, so you're not that far off.

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