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by lawlorino 4y ago
Could you expand a bit on what the self-work entailed?
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by lawlorino 4y ago
There’s ways to mitigate this issue - Roland sell these “noise eaters” [0] designed for their kits, but probably work for any electric kits I would guess. A much cheaper alternative is to DIY a similar platform using some boards and a bunch
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by lawlorino 4y ago
Hi from another Brit living in Helsinki! In the same spirit as your trousers (toppahousut?) this year I bought myself a pair of Icebug boots for handling the icy footpaths after last winter’s horror show. Best purchase I’ve made this year I
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by lawlorino 4y ago
• Music theory and production • Improve my Finnish to B1 level
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by lawlorino 4y ago
It’s an interesting idea but how would you define simple. Would be pretty sad to lay down your tiles but find out your word wasn’t “simple” enough.
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by lawlorino 4y ago
> The Pillars Of The Earth - Ken Follett Same, one of my favourite books ever. The others in the series are not quite as good, but I think you will enjoy them.
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by lawlorino 4y ago
> I usually just add "reddit" to the end of whatever I'm searching. It's the only way to read what real, mostly-unincentivized people think about something I wish this was true, but I think companies are fairly wise t
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by lawlorino 4y ago
Similarly, we borrow a lot of DVDs and Blu-Rays from the local library nowadays.
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by lawlorino 4y ago
This is a bit open to interpretation, but I’ll bite and give an answer in terms of investment strategy. I simply sell all equity immediately upon vesting and have a monthly direct debit setup for investing in some global diversified ETFs (r
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by lawlorino 4y ago
Read 34 books (and audiobooks, I guess that counts) so far this year. Best have been Fiction: - Revolutionary road by Richard Yates - Anathem by Neal Stephenson - Silence by Shusaku Endo Non fiction: - Atomic Habits by James Clear - Man’s s
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by lawlorino 4y ago
The second woman on the video, Berta Ruck, has her own Wikipedia page. She was quite a prolific author in her day https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berta_Ruck
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by lawlorino 4y ago
Some of these seem reasonable, but I strongly dislike this one > Ask permission to disagree Maybe it's just poorly worded, but this seems too subordinate and gives off a parent-child power dynamic.
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by lawlorino 4y ago
> I also follow a few subreddits that just post new music for very niche genres to help find some things I might have missed. I also pull these in via RSS. You might be interested in a project I shared here on HN recently to create weekl
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by lawlorino 4y ago
You might be interested in a project I shared here on HN recently to create weekly spotify playlists automatically for each of about ~100 music subreddits, using the most popular submissions in the last week. The main project page with a li
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by lawlorino 4y ago
Yes I think this is the case. The death announcement from Buckingham Palace refers to him as such. "The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will retu
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by lawlorino 4y ago
Do you have the titles/numbers for those two favourites you mentioned?
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by lawlorino 4y ago
I think it's in reference to this (minor) controversy between linguists and Finnish teachers https://uusikielemme.fi/finnish-grammar/finnish-cases/gramma...
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by lawlorino 4y ago
You can absolutely shorten pronunciation of numbers, including years, when speaking Finnish https://uusikielemme.fi/finnish-vocabulary/vocabulary-lists/...
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by lawlorino 4y ago
> For a better discovery tool you need to use data from outside of Spotify I hope it’s ok to do a bit of shameless self promotion here on HN. I shared my open source Reddit Playlists project here as a Show HN post recently which aims to
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by lawlorino 4y ago
Thanks! I've not specifically checked for overlap but in theory they should be totally fresh each week, unless someone reposts content. The Reddit scraping is done with PRAW [0] which checks through the top 500 submissions ordered by
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Show HN: Reddit Playlists – weekly Spotify playlists from 100 music subreddits(github.com)
3 points by lawlorino 4y ago|2 comments
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by lawlorino 4y ago
You might try graded exposure therapy in conjunction with a therapist https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy
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by lawlorino 4y ago
Great idea, although I'm not able to connect for more than a brief second before it drops. Using Android + Chrome if that helps.
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by lawlorino 4y ago
> Why would anyone go for a podcast rather than a playlist/track? I'm also curious about this. My guess is the monetisation is different and podcasts are way more lucrative. - tracks are paid by plays straight from Spotify but
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by lawlorino 4y ago
> Over the past 20 years, more people per capita have died in school shootings in Germany than in the US. This is absolutely not true and can be verified by a few minutes research on Wikipedia
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by lawlorino 5y ago
I sometimes think this, but then I wonder if it's just because I too got older.
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Cormac McCarthy is publishing two new novels this fall(lithub.com)
3 points by lawlorino 5y ago|0 comments
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by lawlorino 5y ago
Do you have a source for that? Edit: seems people misread my intention, I am challenging the parent response because it reads like something out of a spy novel with nothing to back it up.
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by lawlorino 5y ago
Why?
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by lawlorino 5y ago
> The data suggest that over 80% of people in the UK know what 'pelmet' means I think it's whether they recognise it as a real word or not, not if they understand the meaning. From the paper: > For each vocabulary test,

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