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by mastazi 4y ago
That's a good point, I make an exception only for calls, and only if they are in my contacts (school etc. are in my contacts), but I leave all other notifications always off on all my devices. PS at least where I leave (Australia) allo
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by mastazi 4y ago
the 1st gen SE design looks nothing like the newer models, it was actually based on the iPhone 5 design, see pictures here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_SE_(1st_generation) The SE 2nd and 3rd gen on the other ha
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by mastazi 4y ago
maybe some HN readers don't get the madeleine reference: https://www.thelocal.fr/20190814/french-expression-of-the-da...
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Delaware Farmers Use Underwear to Check Soil Health(extremetech.com)
2 points by mastazi 4y ago|0 comments
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by mastazi 4y ago
I agree with what you said about the Internet Archive and similar initiatives, hopefully they will do a reasonably good job at retaining important information in the future. > Also, the games that my parents once played are unplayable no
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by mastazi 4y ago
Non native speaker here, it's the second time this week[1] that I see "didn't used to..." instead of what I believe to be the correct form "didn't use to...". Aren't verbs after "did/didn&#x
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by mastazi 4y ago
on Brave, instead it's the polar opposite, only the Carina Nebula works Edit it could be because of my default zoom level https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32076048
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by mastazi 4y ago
Because much of Switzerland has a mountainous landscape, I wonder if the tunnels would follow the terrain contours (and be at a constant depth relative to the surface) or they would avoid uphill/downhill sections by being at a constant
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by mastazi 4y ago
> practically all other domesticated animals are more efficient than beef on a per-calorie basis yes, this is true, although some of those, like chickens which you mentioned, or pigs that are mentioned in the link you shared, are depende
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by mastazi 4y ago
My argument is that if all beef in the world magically disappeared this minute due to an evil curse, food prices would go up across the board, regardless of food categories. I may be wrong. > It's a luxury. IMHO it's not a lux
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How sturdy are Europe’s tech unicorns?(economist.com)
1 points by mastazi 4y ago|0 comments
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by mastazi 4y ago
> The source is mostly cattle. Which doesn't make up for Ukrainian grain. I would expect that the more food shortages become severe, the more different types of food become fungible. You might think this happens only in extreme case
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by mastazi 4y ago
parent edited their comment which originally was just the first paragraph about centralised control, I suppose that's what you are replying to. Obviously it is hard to quantify control so I don't have hard numbers to present, but
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by mastazi 4y ago
not parent but Garmin has many solar watches, some of them could be used indefinitely without ever being recharged, depending on your lifestyle and how much time you spend out in the sun, e.g. https://www.garmin.com/en-US&#x
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Venture Capital’s Reckoning(economist.com)
3 points by mastazi 4y ago|1 comments
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by mastazi 4y ago
In the world of keyboards. a similar example would be stage keyboards, like the Nord Stage or the Yamaha YC. Those are usually built like a tank to withstand stage "abuse", and the interface is mostly "one knob per function&q
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by mastazi 4y ago
The last two paragraphs make it sound like the C64 was the last successful product that Commodore made before imploding, and claim that Commodore never recovered after Tramiel left in early 1984. But, as anyone who was around then knows, th
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by mastazi 4y ago
I think parent is replying "no" to GP's > but perhaps that's just fuzzy memories... so essentially P agrees with GP.
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by mastazi 4y ago
In Australia we have a similar mechanism, I opted out of sharing my health data. However down under when you opt out, this applies not only to private companies but also to State and Federal health providers. Source https://www.d
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Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health care(economist.com)
145 points by mastazi 4y ago|217 comments
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by mastazi 4y ago
At some point X-Plane 12 will go on sale in early access, and Laminar said it will include an X-Plane 11 license (because 12 might be still pretty broken while in EA, so in the meantime you can enjoy 11) - source https://develope
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by mastazi 4y ago
Thank you for the link. So this means that the official instance is https://scribe.rip/ and not the one I linked above. There is a list of instances here https://git.sr.ht/~edwardloveall/scribe/tre
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by mastazi 4y ago
Oh, so this is like Piped/Nitter/Bibliogram/Libreddit, but for Medium? I love it, thank you! PS more info here https://scribe.froth.zone/
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by mastazi 4y ago
The way I see this is: today, we say that Voyager 1 and 2 were the first. Imagine that Voyager 3 and 4 are launched next year. In 100 years from now, people will say that voyager 1,2,3 and 4 were the first. It's not that voyager 1 and
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by mastazi 4y ago
Those that are complaining about the output being html are missing the fact that the content is accessible over http:// , gemini:// and gopher://, my guess is that they have libraries that convert the plain te
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by mastazi 4y ago
That might be the best day for starting your own business!
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by mastazi 4y ago
To me, the iOS Settings app just feels like a structure-less list where I have to use "search" to find anything anyway. (Perhaps my problem is that I have a strong desktop background and I don't use mobile phones much). To me
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by mastazi 4y ago
Not OP but the day startups are no longer viable I will change careers (something I did already in the past, so I know what it entails) rather than grinding leet and trying to find work at some tech mega corp. Salary at the expense of every
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by mastazi 4y ago
Yes that's true, the problem is that some smart TVs don't work at all or only partially if not connected... and it's not easy to know which model will suffer from this, since "works without wifi" is not a commonly a
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by mastazi 4y ago
True, but that's the easy part, there are plenty of distros one download click away. Dumb TVs or large monitors, on the other hand, are not easy to come by and/or very expensive.

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