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by jen729w 5y ago
But when I talk to Americans about their lack of socialised healthcare, a common response is that “I’ve earned my money, if you want your own healthcare, you get your own healthcare”. That might be a fine attitude. Until you get terribly in
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by jen729w 5y ago
The American response, to a non-American, is fascinating. You believe that you “deserve” compensation, but at the same time you guys are all crazy on independence and don’t-tell-me-how-to-behave and whatever else. But as soon as a thing goe
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by jen729w 5y ago
Okay cool and now the headphones weigh a kilo because of shielding and nobody buys them.
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by jen729w 5y ago
I mean I’m glad it didn’t happen to me, but a billion people are carrying around billions of Lithium-ion batteries. Those batteries sometimes catch fire because Lithium is highly flammable. It’s gonna happen.
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by jen729w 5y ago
If you're on the scientific side -- which I guess this audience is -- and the idea of meditation feels a bit weird and spiritual, give Sam Harris a try. His 'Waking Up' app is marvellous. It just feels more realistic, more pr
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by jen729w 5y ago
While we’re on paper, I have a Field Notes “Expedition” special edition. [0] It has waterproof paper which is ‘fun’ but actually pretty useless as ink doesn’t really hold. So I had it for years and it went unused. And then I used a pencil!
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by jen729w 5y ago
And, misconceptions about vinyl’s reliability aside, it’ll just play . Nothing can happen. The internet can’t die, Siri can’t think she heard you, Apple Music can’t just randomly stop for no reason whatsoever. You play a record, it’ll just
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by jen729w 5y ago
Isn’t it the visibility thing? Yeah a centralised database can do this. Good luck getting access to it. “Security” says you can’t. I think that one of the allures of the blockchain is that it’s publicly visible. This may or may not be a fal
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by jen729w 5y ago
As always, ‘it depends’. I know he’s not YT strictly speaking but I love learning from Wes Bos. But the first time I watched him I was like holy shit boy, slow down! I thought it was terrible. Then I learned some more, which got me to the
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by jen729w 5y ago
Mine too, but I think you’re probably holding down the crown in the physical action of the washing. Your hands are bent in unusual ways and the back of your hand pushes up against the crown. I don’t think it’s responding to a vocal ‘Hey, Si
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by jen729w 5y ago
I’ve caught a tram track (Melbourne) which caused me to go sideways. Only later did I notice that the corner of my MacBook Air … probably c. 2010? … was noticeably bent. Didn’t affect anything at all.
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by jen729w 5y ago
Indeed. One corrects a mistake, one does not go back and erase it. https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/accounting/accounti...
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by jen729w 5y ago
I'll assume from your tone that you're not an Apple user? Like it or not, being signed in everywhere with iCloud is an amazing experience. I know this because I recently tried a second user account on my Mac that wasn't signe
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by jen729w 5y ago
> Sounds like WebComponents. Interesting. I’ll check it out. Update: checked it out. Shame that `Getting Started` > `Web Components` = 404.
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by jen729w 5y ago
If HTML allowed you to trivially import reuseable components like you can with JSX it’d be killer. That’s the one thing that stops me writing my site by hand. I’m looking at Astro for my site’s re-write as it seems to find a happy medium he
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by jen729w 5y ago
> But what is the system - it is just a list of laws and regulations written by Congress This attitude stinks, I’m sorry. “If it’s legal, it’s ethical” is no way to run a society. I had my neighbour on my lawn regarding a minor (cat-rela
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by jen729w 5y ago
Of course it is, but we’re all greedy so nothing will ever change. Where I live, house prices are climbing at about 10% a year. More, now that people can work from home. So you see articles in the paper where boomers say how terrible they f
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by jen729w 5y ago
The built-in screen zoom is pretty neat. Hold `Ctrl` and use the vertical scroller on whatever pointing device you have to zoom in and out. Real nice when you want to take a (much) closer look at a thing without affecting layout: it zooms y
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by jen729w 5y ago
Hell yeah, still plenty of us who RSS.
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by jen729w 5y ago
Good job you didn’t need to look ~~at~~ through it all day in order to use the product then!
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by jen729w 5y ago
Try this. Worked for me. https://www.executeprogram.com/courses/regexes
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by jen729w 5y ago
Good luck even getting access to cmd.exe at a lot of places. We have a phrase where I work: “Security: we put the ‘no’ in ‘innovation’!”
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by jen729w 5y ago
Gonna be cheeky and drop a link to JD here, given that it’s my site. :-) https://johnnydecimal.com
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by jen729w 5y ago
I’m far from an expert, but can the US Fed really print more money? Didn’t I hear that something like 30% of the USD in circulation today didn’t exist at the start of 2020? It has to stop somewhere. Doesn’t it? (Genuine question!)
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by jen729w 5y ago
Ha! Thanks.
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by jen729w 5y ago
Is this a really weird HN cross-post error?
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by jen729w 5y ago
I find it better, in the same way that finding the PowerPoint ‘theme’ that makes everything a bit rough round the edges was also a revelation. The perfectionist in me won’t let me publish a regular, square-edged diagram unless it’s pixel-pe
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by jen729w 5y ago
Not necessarily. Unless you live somewhere with a thriving wild bird population – like Canberra – you wouldn't understand the impact that these things might have on birds. I live on the outskirts of the centre of Canberra (which, as a
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by jen729w 6y ago
And smaller. I think the days of a big ‘hero camera’ are behind us. People just don’t want to lug around the weight if they don’t have to, and it’s no longer such a status symbol.
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by jen729w 6y ago
And so much more. I just recently saw his name inside the cover of Cox & Forshaw’s The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen [0]. I went to find an image for you all and got this link with that and the rest. https:

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