roryisok

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by roryisok 8y ago
Eliminating a 3 hour commute every day would constitute a fairly considerable drop in energy usage
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by roryisok 8y ago
No. I've got nothing to prove to you, stranger. Arguing with people on the internet is almost as big a waste of energy as bitcoin mining. If you think I'm wrong I'm not going to convince you or that guy otherwise.
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by roryisok 8y ago
I've never heard crypto summed up so well
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by roryisok 8y ago
Yes, after bitcoin stops being profitable to mine. After we've pumped a few billion more tons of carbon into the air in the name of blockchain. And assuming of course that some newer crypto doesn't take bitcoin's place which
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by roryisok 8y ago
Greed is usually the answer. Cancer research doesn't pay. Bitcoin does. If someone could just harness one to do the other. If there was a crypto currency whose calculations helped to cure cancer then we'd be on to something
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by roryisok 8y ago
> I trust rare numbers more than I trust the United States government That's such a silly statement. Rare numbers do not control the value of bitcoin, the market does. Your rare number might be worth half what it was in December 201
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by roryisok 8y ago
> By the way, don't get me wrong, I am totally for cutting waste on the local level Did you not just literally say that higher energy usage is itself a good thing? Also on your point about production: My old tv had to be built, my o
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by roryisok 8y ago
There are so many things I could argue with here but I'm tired so I'll just pick one. > If anything we should welcome higher and higher energy use because it means higher standard of living for the humankind. Why would it mean
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by roryisok 8y ago
Stuff like this worries me. We should be doing everything we can to curb the energy and heat we produce and instead we're using vast amounts of energy to basically waste trillions of CPU cycles so that we can produce digital money that
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by roryisok 8y ago
And a lot of people are exactly the opposite and can't stand black text on white background. Options are good. of course the challenge is knowing where to draw the line between having lots of features and being a simple app.
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by roryisok 8y ago
It's not that easy. Line breaks, huphens, double spaces, punctuation etc all make it tricky
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by roryisok 8y ago
Nice tool. I would add a dark theme to it, people love a dark theme. I'm the developer of Poe, a distraction free writing app for windows, and a dark theme is the default. I regularly get email from users telling me how much they adore
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by roryisok 8y ago
> I wonder how much actual writing these writing app devs actually do. Writing app dev here. Not nearly enough is the answer. Building a writing app is probably the greatest mistake I ever made as a writer, because I spend 75% of my free
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by roryisok 8y ago
Does anyone have a windows version of this list? Or a cross platform one at least? The closest I can find is this list of windows apps, not open source though. https://github.com/Awesome-Windows/Awesome/blob/m
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by roryisok 8y ago
I'd dearly love to see a super set that included open and closed source and had a tag for each, like this does for platform/language. I do care about open source but I'll take a closed source app in a pinch if it fixes a prob
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by roryisok 8y ago
This is a list of apps. The more the merrier, right? It doesn't matter if brackets offers anything over vscode/atom
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by roryisok 8y ago
“Computers equipped with this technology only take minutes to autonomously analyze a breath sample that previously took hours by a human expert,” They make it sound as if the human expert was also sniffing peoples breath, trying to smell c
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by roryisok 8y ago
> Or you can get a Mac laptop, where getting the computer to sleep when you close the lid and start again fast when you open it just works. With the added compromise of a touch bar instead of function keys. And a horrible typing experien
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by roryisok 8y ago
They're not that messy, 90% of nappy changes are just wet not dirty. For the other 10% it would be rare (in my experience of four babies) that things get particularly messy, but if they do you can always fill a baby bath or bathroom si
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by roryisok 8y ago
Provided they're only wet. Please don't try to handle a dirty nappy subconsciously in the dark :)
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by roryisok 8y ago
GAAS doesn't sound terribly appealing
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by roryisok 8y ago
You might still be disappointed at the lack of updates :*(
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by roryisok 8y ago
I love when people on hn know each other.
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by roryisok 8y ago
I assumed it was going to be ThinkPad related. IBM or Lenovo should have snapped it up
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by roryisok 8y ago
You need some kind of katamari damacy style ball of Lego that rolls around collecting pieces and getting bigger
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by roryisok 8y ago
JS and CSS libraries can be cached so that in theory you only need to download it once for several apps. The large file size with Js apps is more commonly the app itself, transpiled for older browsers using Babel. That makes for some massiv
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by roryisok 8y ago
But then I'd have to buy all new toys.
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by roryisok 8y ago
I misread the title and thought this was going to be about Native-American archers.
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by roryisok 8y ago
I've heard of them, sort of like a pressure cooker?
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by roryisok 8y ago
Fair enough. I was going off the linked article in which he generates html in Go. Tcl/tk is cool, but wouldn't you have to import it just like bootstrap?

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