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by hx2a 6y ago
Really? That's not what they told me when I worked there. They were such flimsy vehicles, so what I was told sounded reasonable.
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by hx2a 6y ago
Looks wonky but I would have preferred to drive one of these. Those two cameras would have been super helpful, plus that blind spot warning for the left side. Those will make a big difference. Also, these have air conditioning!! What a luxu
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by hx2a 6y ago
I'm a former postal worker (summer job in the 90's) and I drove some of those postal trucks. I drove the "half ton" and "quarter ton" trucks. Those are the small or very small delivery trucks you would typicall
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by hx2a 6y ago
Can you suggest a book on negotiation? I know I'm terrible at it and could really use such a book.
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by hx2a 6y ago
> I also use a Vim Firefox extension to minimize my mouse use browsing the internet. Which one? Vimium-FF? How well does it compare to Vimium in Chromium? I've been wanting to switch from Chromium to Firefox but can't live with
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by hx2a 6y ago
I've had recurring dreams that were entirely in math. And by that I don't mean a dream where I was sitting in math class or something. I mean the actual substance of the dreams were equations that I was trying to make sense of. In
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by hx2a 6y ago
I agree, it is a beautiful laptop! I need to remove the write-protect screw from the motherboard to fix the update problems. I haven't gotten around to it yet. When I do that I will also replace the battery, as mine now has a 2 hour ba
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by hx2a 6y ago
I use Neverware's Chrome OS on an old Google Pixel Chromebook. Google stopped supporting that Chromebook so I needed to switch to Neverware's version of the Chrome OS if I wanted to keep getting updates. Neverware's Chrome OS
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by hx2a 6y ago
Wait, what? Alcohol is a carcinogen? I didn't know this. Here's link to the CDC's website, referenced in that article: https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/moderate-drinking.ht... This part from
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by hx2a 6y ago
There was a relevant conversation on HN about this over a year ago that you might be interested in: How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48859333 https://ne
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by hx2a 6y ago
This is good advice but doesn't work for people with sleep apnea. When I had sleep apnea I could fall asleep at any time of day, no matter how much sleep I got (or thought I was getting) each night. The alarm was necessary because I ne
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by hx2a 6y ago
How well does Migadu handle spam filtering? I recently switched from Google to AWS Workmail and get spam and junk I never saw before.
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by hx2a 6y ago
Since the pandemic I started getting up around 6 am without an alarm clock. I never did that before. A big part of that is I go to bed earlier, as there is nothing worth staying up late for. I've found I can focus so much more if I get
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by hx2a 6y ago
> So, I’m able to do something new. What are you doing now? Where do you see good opportunities for people with good tech skills that don't fit the mold of what FAANG recruiters are looking for?
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by hx2a 6y ago
I'm currently reading "tmux 2" by Brian Hogan. It's a great intro to what tmux can do and how to use it well. https://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux2/tmux-2 It's a quick read and worth the effor
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by hx2a 7y ago
I put Cloudready on a Google Pixel laptop because the original Chromebook OS stopped getting updates. I like it a lot except there are issues related to the laptop when it attempts to upgrade.
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Ask HN: How do blind developers navigate code?
3 points by hx2a 7y ago|1 comments
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by hx2a 7y ago
I'm considering quitting Facebook, and am currently using their feature that lets you temporarily deactivate your account. I'm trying it out for a few days to see how comfortable I am living without it. So far, no downsides. I&#x2
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by hx2a 7y ago
Earlier today I was sitting in a presentation by a faculty member who included a slide with an email quote from a former student who did exactly what you said right before the presentation. It absolutely made his day. And I know the former
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by hx2a 7y ago
Bryan Cantrill recently interviewed Arthur Whitney, as discussed in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671918
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by hx2a 7y ago
> She also sometimes see colors in her dreams that are outside of a pallet humans see in real life, but after she wakes up she can't describe them. It's not one color or one hue, there are several colors that she can only exper
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by hx2a 7y ago
Using this website: https://www.angio.net/pi/digits.html I can search for the sequence 0123456789. It is not found in the first 200M digits.
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by hx2a 7y ago
I love how Wikipedia contains these weird little nuggets of knowledge, and I love how they keep showing up on Hacker News.
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by hx2a 7y ago
I really like this. I never thought about it this way before and am glad you wrote this. I can't think of a single habitual drug user who is an emotionally mature adult. I'm going to save this and say something similar in the futu
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by hx2a 7y ago
> If anyone needs to start even earlier than this, I've actually found "3D Math Basics for Graphics and Game Development" to be a good true intro for linear algebra-related stuff. Did you mean to write "3D Math Primer
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by hx2a 7y ago
I agree with this, and believe the positive changes will continue the longer people go without tv. I've been without cable for 8 years and I'm so much happier. When I visit my parents they always watch tv after dinner, and while s
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by hx2a 7y ago
Is this it? Biologizing the Machine (terra incognita) by artist Anicka Yi? https://bagrifoundation.org/anicka-yi-la-biennale-di-venezia... If this is what you are talking about, I'm disappointed that the work is crap.
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by hx2a 7y ago
Shielding would also add weight to the drone, which would limit their range and capabilities. A swarm of advancing drones could collectively take evasive maneuvers to increase their probability of success. As individual drones drop out of t
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by hx2a 7y ago
I like how SQL syntax is integrated into the language. That is very convenient. Can you compare/contrast this language with q? Can I write complex queries as I can do in q? How about performance?
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by hx2a 8y ago
You mean like the purple finger thing? I've always wondered why nobody suggests doing that in the US to help prevent or ease people's concerns about potential voter fraud. It's simple, low-tech, and hard to screw up. Unless i

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