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841.
by lxe 5y ago
Better.com has been a great experience, visually, and process-wise. However none of that matters if the final rates are much worse than you can get elsewhere.
842.
by lxe 5y ago
I miss these design trends of decades past. The gradients. The skeuomorphism. The rounded corners. The buttons that look like buttons. The letterpress text.
843.
by lxe 5y ago
The immutable hype is finally fading. People starting to realize the drawbacks of treating hardware as an infinite resource.
844.
by lxe 5y ago
So the stem cells somehow react to the xenobots?
845.
by lxe 5y ago
Can someone help me understand what's going on here? The article throws around lost of nonsense, but doesn't answer the basic stuff. From https://www.pnas.org/content/117/4/1853?ijkey=c53500b4c64445.
846.
by lxe 5y ago
You don't need these spaces until you do. Crisis comes up fast, and such a community can be crucial. For some men I think it's just a small group of close knit friends, but for many it just doesn't exist.
847.
by lxe 5y ago
This video also let me to this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Fc08X56R0 explaining that no matter how much you shake the soda can or bottle, the pressure inside remains stable (3 atm). Once you open it after shaking
848.
by lxe 5y ago
https://www.toyota.co.jp/en/kids/car/index.html great "how it's made" material into a car's manufacturing process
849.
by lxe 5y ago
> There are many files, > Most of them don't change very often so there are a lot of duplicate files, > When they do change, the deltas of the [binaries] are not huge. We need this but for node_modules
850.
by lxe 5y ago
It's a power cable, not a communications cable.
851.
by lxe 5y ago
Some of popular educational/informational channels and podcasts make this patronizing assumption about the audience, watering everything down to make it "accessible". Veritasium doesn't do this, yet maintains huge popula
852.
by lxe 5y ago
I remember just playing with my good old TI-83 Plus Silver Edition, plugging a bunch of symbols together, like e, and i, etc... when I suddenly got the e^i*pi = -1. How in the world do these completely unrelated (to me, at the time, at leas
853.
by lxe 5y ago
You're just assuming as much as Bloomberg. What makes you reach these conclusions?
854.
by lxe 5y ago
Or something like StackOverflow
855.
by lxe 5y ago
How much was that domain name?
856.
by lxe 5y ago
A much more informative title. Maybe replace with the title of the article/paper for this one?
857.
by lxe 5y ago
How lightweight can a desktop environment based on QT be? I thought QT is a rather hefty dependency.
858.
by lxe 5y ago
No but also yes
859.
by lxe 5y ago
I love this. The format, the brevity, the links to resources. Bookmarked. Also... would you look at that! Thousands of items, and no issues with scrolling!
860.
by lxe 5y ago
Instead of "Thank You, GitHub", the post title should be "GitHub's CEO farewell address" or something.
861.
by lxe 5y ago
Technically, it should be "200 watts". The losses happen due to all the inversion and conversion (I think... right?)
862.
by lxe 5y ago
Post titles like these are HN's flavor of clickbait. I get that it's the title of the article, but it doesn't mean it should be the title of the post.
863.
by lxe 5y ago
This has to be one of the most practical applications of amateur radio. Keep in mind that all of these comms are unencrypted and are visible by anyone who has the ability to receive.
864.
by lxe 5y ago
Did the author think that recruiters would carefully peruse every single inbound resume? That they would manually construct individualized emails? That people in tech companies don't optimize their workflows using automated tools? Gasp
865.
by lxe 5y ago
The Internet / Web was an evolving ecosystem of enthusiasts and companies, with academic roots, standards, and years of evolution. Metaverse is a gimmick, just like Web3 and Second Life, and Microsoft Bob, etc... Grumble grumble...
866.
by lxe 5y ago
Just like that one time Netflix split into Qwikster... good times
867.
by lxe 5y ago
You're right... I'm undermining my own job security here.
868.
by lxe 5y ago
Right? Mozilla's XUL had the right idea a the time. I wonder if similar things exist for the modern age?
869.
by lxe 5y ago
I've been doing web development for 20 years now. I don't know if it's strictly endemic to web or frontend, but I feel like we're solving the same problems over and over again, using the same low levels of abstraction. T
870.
by lxe 5y ago
*de-indexes

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