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by jader201 4y ago
When I read the parent comment, I thought “Am I on Reddit?”. HN used to bury Reddit-like comments a while back, but it seems the Reddit influence is becoming more and more accepted on HN these days, as I’m starting to see them more at the t
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by jader201 4y ago
Nice! Not sure I follow how it’s “cruel” though. Making it fair (by removing guessing) removes the only cruel thing about OG Minesweeper. Seems like this is 100% winnable all the time.
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Ask HN: Explosion of “Amazon Account has been locked” scam texts?
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by jader201 4y ago
I'm thinking mine was a hardware update, where the case had to be opened. I believe the company we bought it from did the upgrade.
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by jader201 4y ago
No PC Jr. :( I loved my PC Jr. -- my first computer. Spent way too many hours on it, and the reason I do what I do today. Had a number of books on BASIC, and even upgraded the RAM from 128k to 256k (I may have even gotten it up to 512k)!
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by jader201 4y ago
I believe this should be higher. I’ve yet to find a mouse where you can consistently click the wheel without moving it a notch. It’s so bad on my current mouse that when I have a game or something that requires a click, the wheel will regis
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by jader201 4y ago
Genuinely curious why this is front page on HN? It’s horribly tragic, but it’s not really relevant. Maybe because it involved a Tesla, but it seems that’s only coincidental — the collision had nothing to do with it being a Tesla. Or was the
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by jader201 4y ago
> Amazon is trimming its head count after it went on a hiring spree during the Covid-19 pandemic. The company’s global workforce swelled to more than 1.6 million by the end of 2021, up from 798,000 in the fourth quarter of 2019. This m
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by jader201 4y ago
I've been using Tweetbot exclusively for several years. I've been hearing about Mastodon for a while on HN, especially surrounding the recent Twitter drama, but have never looked at it. Not even searching more on what it's ab
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by jader201 4y ago
Yeah, same here. I actually only follow a handful of active feeds, so it won’t be the end of the world either way. But one thing I’ll miss are the HN feeds, since I otherwise stay off HN. I may have to find an alternative for that, at least
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by jader201 4y ago
Why isn’t this on the front page? I’ve been wondering what was going on, and had to actually search HN to find it. 11 upvotes in 18 minutes is definitely front page worthy. Is HN actively nerfing Twitter posts?
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by jader201 4y ago
Shows how much I know about woodworking. Until I read your comment, I hadn’t realized the parent comment was satire. Instead, I was amazed at some new technique I hadn’t heard of before of heating wood that would make woodworking easier.
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by jader201 4y ago
The video doesn’t seem to load on iPhone (Safari). It loads a tiny thumbnail, then just spins forever. Edit: it may be because I’m opening it from the mobile link (which sends the video to Safari), but I tried pulling up the repo directly i
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by jader201 4y ago
Just because we’re not seeing the effects immediately doesn’t mean it’s not in the process of happening.
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by jader201 4y ago
There’s a big difference in Twitter and HN. On Twitter, the filtering is done by you (mostly: you can’t choose what content is posted by those you follow, or the comments others post). On HN, the filtering is done by others (mostly: you can
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by jader201 4y ago
I know a lot of people don’t like Twitter, but I actually enjoy it. I think there are a couple reasons for this: 1. I use Tweetbot instead of the native client. A lot of people gripe about the native client and ads, and using a third party
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by jader201 4y ago
100%. I’ve always liked the modulation between the verses and chorus of this song.
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by jader201 4y ago
Yeah, whenever I hear song, I’m not thinking about the lyrics or anything else except “yeah, this song has a lot of key changes”.
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by jader201 4y ago
I don’t care if it is a trope, I miss key changes. Maybe because I grew up in the 80s and early 90s where it was common. But I have a fondness for songs that had them. Some songs did them in a way that was predictable, just following the fo
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by jader201 4y ago
> The most common cause is refrigeration after they have been chemically ripened. We often experiment between organic and nonorganic apples, and in my experience, it seems like the organic apples are way more prone to being mealy, sugg
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by jader201 4y ago
[Tangentially related] It’s funny, now that I’m fairly heavy into board gaming, I actually hear much more from Martin Fowler in the board gaming community than the software engineering community. He plays a lot with the Heavy Cardbord group
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by jader201 4y ago
> This, I think, is pure recent bias I don’t believe so. The Atari almost killed the VG industry until the NES revived it. [1] I think a big reason for this is how much better the games on NES were vs. the 2600 (but also the business a
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by jader201 4y ago
A bit off topic, but I’ve always thought that relative to consoles that succeeded it, the Atari 2600 hasn’t aged well. The games just aren’t fun to play these days. Compared to the NES, there’s something about the advancements made in tech
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by jader201 4y ago
Is this a thing where it makes a big difference even if you’re typically sedentary, or you have to be pretty active over a long period (e.g. years/decades) to make a real difference?
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by jader201 4y ago
If you have f.lux on a Windows machine and have Hue white/color ambient lights, you can already do this: https://justgetflux.com/lighting/ I have this in my office setup, and it works well. Very nice, especially t
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by jader201 4y ago
… or just make standard time permanent instead of daylight saving time. :)
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by jader201 4y ago
Summary: - “In March, the Senate voted to put a stop next year to the twice-annual changing of clocks” - “opinions break down by region, not by party” - “they do not expect Congress to reach agreement before the end of the year” - “Senate w
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U.S. Congress split on making daylight-saving time permanent(reuters.com)
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by jader201 4y ago
To be fair, the general civility of the members of Bogleheads is the polar opposite of that at FB/Twitter/Reddit. Maybe moderation is part of that, but I’d argue the subject matter is already generally less polarizing/toxic t
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by jader201 4y ago
> I don't want touch screens in cars period While I agree things like volume, glovebox release, and other standard functions should stay far away from a touchscreen, I do like that touchscreens have enabled highly customizable opt

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