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by leejo 4y ago
> The OP take about having used Duolingo for almost 10 years. That seems absurd to me. I would hope they have mastered at least half a dozen languages with that kind of effort. Eh, the implication in my post is that Duolingo is minimal e
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by leejo 4y ago
That is a fair point. I went back through my history in the app to figure out the real numbers: First day of use: 11th Dec 2014 First missed day: 19th Jun 2017 (921 days later) First freeze use: 20th Oct 2020 (2,140 days after
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It's quite hard to lose a Duolingo streak(leejo.github.io)
255 points by leejo 4y ago|225 comments
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Show HN: Replay/Debug/Test Cron Events with Cron:Sequencer(leejo.github.io)
1 points by leejo 4y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 4y ago
> This happened to Voyager 2 not too long ago, where it was returning invalid and random data. Turns out, it was a bit flip This also happen to the Magellan probe. Larry Wall was at NASA at that time and added the hex and bit string form
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Montreux Jazz Festival selling NFTs, including a free NFT of the 2022 poster?(montreuxjazzfestival.com)
1 points by leejo 5y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 5y ago
> A Formula 1 race weekend is never boring: even when a specific team or driver is a clear favorite F1 weekends are frequently extremely boring. They are 3 day long events where you're waiting for moments that last seconds and mor
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by leejo 5y ago
> I remember some HN user from Switzerland saying that IIRC either his IP is being moved around in geoIP databases between Swiss regions, or getting slightly distinct IP each time; as a result, he randomly gets all kinds of websites in F
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Selling My 3000 Day Duolingo Streak as an NFT(leejo.github.io)
3 points by leejo 5y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 5y ago
You need to enable magic-space: https://relentlesscoding.com/posts/bash-magic-space/ # this will automatically expand any variables and history when you hit the spacebar after them, so you can eyeball before runni
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by leejo 5y ago
It feels like Amazon is at a place where eBay was about, what, a decade ago? At least from a shopper point of view. In other words it feels like you're overwhelmed by choice but much of that choice makes you feel uneasy. It seems to be
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How My Week Looked (As a Senior Developer)(leejo.github.io)
2 points by leejo 5y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 5y ago
That was very much intentional, given I mention the very same album earlier in the post :)
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Curiosities in Vinyl(leejo.github.io)
52 points by leejo 5y ago|16 comments
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by leejo 5y ago
> A lesson anyone who's into record collecting learns at one point or another. I have a few records from limited pressing runs which are rarer than pink dog turds and worth practically nothing. Blog post on this actually in the work
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by leejo 5y ago
The comment in the code slightly above says: this doesn't work in perl 5.6.2! grrrr So this code is at least 20 years old, and probably pre-2000.
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by leejo 5y ago
Instagram has been an absolute dumpster fire for the last two or three years - it's no longer a photography platform, it's a meme, "influencer", celeb, and viral video platform. Tear it down. The only recent saving grace
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On the Schumacher Documentary(leejo.github.io)
2 points by leejo 5y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 5y ago
Well thanks!
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Who Is Your Audience?(leejo.github.io)
46 points by leejo 5y ago|3 comments
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Who Is Your Audience?(leejo.github.io)
1 points by leejo 5y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 5y ago
ºF -> ºC is hard to intuit, even as a native English speaker (British) who grew up in the UK and studied chemistry to a high level. Not all English speakers use ºF. Sure, I know 32ºF is the freezing point of water, 212ºF the boiling poin
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The Reality of the Old and New(leejo.github.io)
1 points by leejo 5y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 5y ago
That video gives a good general idea of the costs involved in creating high quality niche photobooks. TL;DW way more expensive than most people realise. Very few photographers make any profit from books however, unless they are very well es
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by leejo 5y ago
> Only 1000 editions of Private Views were published For context this is towards the higher end of a standard print run in the photobook world. Most niche art/photo books will be printed in runs of only 50, 100, perhaps a few hundre
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The Hijacking of Perl.com(perl.com)
298 points by leejo 6y ago|107 comments
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by leejo 6y ago
> The domain was stolen. Yes. At the time, and with the information available, it looked like an isolated incident. It now appears that this affects several, dozens maybe, or potentially many more domains after what appears to be a socia
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Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters(twitter.com)
210 points by leejo 6y ago|74 comments
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What's with All the Monopolys?(leejo.github.io)
3 points by leejo 6y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 6y ago
^ This. When we got back into the gate (having been sat in the returned plane for over an hour) I checked the available flights - IIRC three seats remained on a flight to Liverpool, and nothing else that would get us closer (our original fl

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