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>As objects, paper tickets serve as proof of past lives long after their brief utility as proof of payment. I sat with my accidental time capsule for more than an hour, doing what my teenage self had probably hoped I might: linking each
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The solution for me to eliminate headaches when working at computer screens was getting an extra set of intermediate distance glasses specifically for computer work. The "computer screen distance" of 3 ft is in between book-rea
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If you want to see the previous threads, you have to remove "PDP-11" from the search query: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Clicking the "past" link by itself
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>Ownership is a pretty practical and obvious thing. It is either mine to use/do whatever I want with it or it is not. You're repeating this benefit -- and it is an undeniable benefit -- but the other issue you're not g
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>The top 3 are the killer features and the reason why I would not move to Tidal/Apple Music/bandcamp. For regular people, the #1 reason they can't use Bandcamp is it doesn't have mainstream artists on the Big 3 Re
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>Second, for a lot of things you want to order, the manufacturer has its own online store these days and a lot of them are actually well-built, perfectly pleasant to use. It depends on what you buy but in general, the manufacturer&#x27
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> how close humanity was to having pretty nice stuff right before Facebook came along. [...] RSS/atom [...] IRC for real time message Those protocols are "nice" to you but they're actually not nice technologies t
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>Look if it is saved in the smartphone's address book, why does it matter if it is email or a phone number. Because when people interact with each other in informal situations, it's the phone numbers that are shared. Not em
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>but I don't think it makes sense at all to characterize it as a usability improvement on email. Chats in general (not WhatsApp specifically) have "better" usability than email for some people because: + chats skipp the
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>It is amazing that even really a vast majority of, even technical people, not once stopped and looked at whatsapp, and said "Wait, e-mail can do this, we just need a pretty UI". WhatsApp lets people find each other with pho
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>Statistical significance is bullshit. Learning about it is as useful as learning about phlogiston. The term-of-art "statistical significance" isn't bs because we ultimately have to choose what to pay attention to .
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>I mean, this is enormously dependent on how busy the route or routes is. A once an hour route is _very_ infrequent. Yes, it depends on the city. In Atlanta GA, the MARTA bus stops have 40-minute wait intervals outside of peak times.
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>And shifting traffic from personal cars to buses would make mobility much more efficient. Because in a bus, 30 people can cross a crossing so much faster than in a line of 30 individual cars. [...] I would expect travel to speed up wh
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> but I've never been unable to find their phone number. However, as I said, if Facebook really is the only way to talk to these people, Sorry for the misunderstanding. I'm not communicating with home repair contractors exc
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>If the only way I can interact with a business is through Facebook, that's a business telling me they don't want me as a customer [...] I've very rarely encountered that, I encounter it often because I deal with small c
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>to sabotage it? I don't understand your choice of the word "sabotage" . The thread's article is telling users about the official Facebook approved ways to turn off some ad preferences . This isn't UBlock,
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>I use stars - as bookmarks. Am I doing it wrong? Nope. Github stars are intended to be used the way you've described: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/exploring-projects-on... It's similar t
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Every thread about Meta/Facebook always has the save advice to "Just stop using Facebook. Problem solved!" The HN demographic can follow that but many normies can't because Facebook provides functionality for sharing
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>, with the only difference being the camera, which if you care about you go for the Pro model. Some people may care a little extra for an ultrawide lens and spending more for the cheaper iPhone 16 with 2 lenses of regular + ultrawid
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>Read a book, touch grass, etc. There's a ton of useful information that's only available in Youtube videos and not books such as DIY tutorials, repairs, etc. Unfortunately, many helpful videos also include useless fluff. E
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>apps, but connected to something like "folder in dropbox" or "folder in gdrive" ... That's the opposite of gp's question of: >no reason to ever leave my laptop [...] What's the advantage [...]
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>, but if that's going to alienate me, I'm not going to join that Discord server. Of course! Your preference is understandable but it just means the owner/admin can't make everybody happy. Your rejection of Disc
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>What is wrong with IRC and mailing lists that everyone jumped to Discord? You're looking at it from the perspective of a chat Participant instead of an Owner/Administrator. For the owners+admins, the other alternatives of
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>You are missing a lot of stuff Microsoft is doing. Azure, .NET, server tools, databases, VS Code, TypeScript, GitHub, [...] and it's more relevant as it has ever been. I didn't list them because they're not "releva
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>I’ve been hearing people say this since this incorrect essay was written almost 20 years ago Microsoft had [...list of significant statistics...] Whenever someone writes a provocative article about something being "dead" ,
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https://iced.rs/ Also look for "use iced::" at the top of the source code file: https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/blob/main/src/gui/sniff...
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>YC famously claims it is not a VC fund because it invests their own money, Th label "VC fund" can be imprecise because YC itself has changed its structure over the years. The original 2005 YCombinator where Paul Graham &
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>However YC gets preferential shares; It's not that YC specifically gets "preferred shares" -- it's that investors in general insist on liquidation preferences when buying non-liquid shares in unproven private c
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> WHERE id = $1 >It's worth noting that this approach has significant dangers for execution performance This extra WHERE id=$1 clause makes it behave different from the slow examples you cited from the Markus Winand blog.
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>move our local communities off Facebook and onto our own platform. Is there a off-the-shelf solution To get better answers, you need to flesh out all the features of Facebook that your communities are using. E.g. Shared event calen

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