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Two characters named Dennis the Menace were created independently the same day(smithsonianmag.com)
3 points by nobody_nothing 4mo ago|0 comments
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by nobody_nothing 8mo ago
This is exactly the type of uncommon solution I was seeking. Thank you so much!
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by nobody_nothing 8mo ago
Got it. I think the trouble is our building is only 5 units, 2 of which are occupied by elderly people who likely don’t care. So feels unlikely that Spectrum / AT&T would undergo construction for just 3 new subscribers. (We’re surr
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Ask HN: How can I get decent internet speeds in my apartment?
3 points by nobody_nothing 8mo ago|5 comments
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by nobody_nothing 10mo ago
Direct link to the interview: https://youtu.be/R0XmBKsRJF8 (I was locked out of the embedded player on suspicion of being a bot)
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Show HN: Riff – minimalist tool for shareable thoughts (MVP, seeking feedback)(riff.page)
1 points by nobody_nothing 1y ago|0 comments
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Maybe AI Is Better Now Than It'll Ever Be(riff.page)
4 points by nobody_nothing 1y ago|0 comments
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by nobody_nothing 2y ago
Full disclosure I'm not a production designer, but have worked in the art department on some smaller film productions. These individual parts are likely used to build larger props that a production can't otherwise acquire. For exa
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Daniel Friedman / Portfolio(danielfriedman.space)
1 points by nobody_nothing 3y ago|0 comments
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by nobody_nothing 4y ago
For those on Mac who want to configure these (or any web page) as your actual screensaver, you can use WebViewScreenSaver[0]. [0]: https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver
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by nobody_nothing 4y ago
I recently threw together a simple website for this purpose – love those YouTube playlists, but having YT open during my work sessions was hurting my overall productivity. https://radio.writing.fm
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by nobody_nothing 4y ago
This is one of the best – maybe the best – videos I've seen on effective writing. I rewatch it every couple months.
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by nobody_nothing 4y ago
Quick idea: what might be nice instead of (or in addition to) an After Effects animation would be some interactive HTML sliders and buttons. When a website visitor slides them, they can see what effects the settings would have on their moni
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Lessons from the First 1,000 Hours(writing.fm)
1 points by nobody_nothing 4y ago|0 comments
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by nobody_nothing 4y ago
This is great! I wrote Margin[1] for similar reasons. But because I wanted to be able to incorporate notes as well as to-dos, absolutely anything can go between two square brackets in Margin: [ ] denotes a to-do item [x] denotes item marked
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No, you won't make time. Because you can't(writing.fm)
4 points by nobody_nothing 5y ago|1 comments
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How to Not Know Things(matthewbischoff.com)
1 points by nobody_nothing 5y ago|0 comments
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by nobody_nothing 5y ago
Honestly, I can see validity in both your comment and the parent comment that you're arguing against. But I'll press you a little, if only to understand your point better: > Microsoft's share of the desktop market at the
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by nobody_nothing 5y ago
> People will tell me to click that “unsubscribe” button. I will and swear I have before. Regarding this point, I've had this suspicion of so many subscriptions – to the point where I was questioning my own memory/sanity on the
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by nobody_nothing 5y ago
Just want to flag that, in addition to all this fun and exciting new tech for disabilities, we really do just need better basics. As the partner of a wheelchair user, these exoskeletons are a great toy to have on the horizon – but the promi
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by nobody_nothing 5y ago
> I don't think those pictures are "drill, not scrimmage", in that they are themselves perfectly good works of art. I agree that they're nice, but the author's ultimate desire was to make paintings, not ink dra
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by nobody_nothing 5y ago
This single best book on storytelling that I've ever read is 'Invisible Ink' by Brian McDonald [1]. Of all the concepts in my comment above, the one it covers most in-depth is "theme" (the book calls it "armatu
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by nobody_nothing 5y ago
I've been studying storytelling for about five years, as a way to improve my writing. Here's what I've learned so far. The simplest unit of storytelling consists of... (a) A character who attempts to achieve a specific th
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by nobody_nothing 5y ago
Wow, thank you for this detailed feedback! Some of this was on my list, but most of it wasn't even on my radar. I've been planning to make it auto-select just the time for easy copying, but auto-copy may be better. I'm always
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by nobody_nothing 5y ago
Thanks! Never heard of timefhuman, but now I'll look into it. To parse human-written dates, time.lol currently uses a combination of the JavaScript libraries Day.js [1] and Sugar [2]. If Day.js can't determine a valid date from th
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by nobody_nothing 5y ago
As someone who maintains an eCommerce WordPress site, I find writing code that deals with datetimes to be extremely onerous. I’m always bopping between various conversion sites to debug my outputs. I wanted a simple, uncluttered page where
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Show HN: A simple time conversion site for developers(time.lol)
9 points by nobody_nothing 5y ago|7 comments
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A Little Every Day: The secret to finishing your projects(metameta.substack.com)
2 points by nobody_nothing 5y ago|0 comments
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by nobody_nothing 5y ago
> Finally, the file system paradigm fails with shared content; you can't save a Google Doc to disk because then how can your friends or coworkers update it? Just curious, does anyone know of any hybrid file formats that store in
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Pain and Suicide: The Other Side of the Opioid Story(watermark.silverchair.com)
1 points by nobody_nothing 5y ago|1 comments

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