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by thex10 5y ago
If you have the godforsaken Touch Bar, I've found Nasc VSCode Touchbar extension helpful. Now I can finally use the Touch Bar for various text manipulation shortcuts.
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by thex10 5y ago
This is why I, the nursing/birthing parent, went back to work after six (unpaid) weeks. That and I wanted to earn income again...
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by thex10 5y ago
Yeah, but then I'd have to buy a car and drive it to get simple basic tasks done.
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by thex10 5y ago
This is basically my theory too! Put simply, the dominating means of navigation and discovery on the internet switched from directories (transparent, easy to explore) to search engines (black box, returns result tailored to your input). And
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by thex10 5y ago
Extend that deluxe interior to accommodate many of life's other joys and activities -- say a home gym, a theatre system, pool, study -- and folks can enjoy these things at home and thus not need neighborhood gyms, cinemas, recreation c
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by thex10 5y ago
> I often see urbanists and young people fantasize about life in car free mega cities. Having lived that life for years I can’t imagine why. I for one simply don't want to pay the to own and maintain a car, preferring instead to ren
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by thex10 5y ago
This work excites me a lot, but I can’t help but wonder if this should be a government-funded rather than volunteer-driven effort.
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Ask HN: Research on usage of text-only versions of websites?
9 points by thex10 5y ago|4 comments
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by thex10 5y ago
That's a nice thought, but I can't cosign, unless Ben happens to also have an informed opinion on societal life under the tyranny of communicable diseases.
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by thex10 5y ago
Why does reduction in death/hospitalization/severe illness keep being interpreted as "no gain" by the skeptics?
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by thex10 5y ago
Immuno-compromised people aren't some isolated hobbit species, they're people like you and me that have jobs, run errands, learn in schools, consume food, often live with other humans who have to go out in public, etc. And new fol
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by thex10 5y ago
yeah same. As a front-end webdev who writes JS frequently, I've _never_ written shell scripts and thought "Wow, I'd really rather use JavaScript for this"! Not saying it doesn't happen, just that it hasn't been
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by thex10 5y ago
> I seriously have weeks were I spend a single hour writing code. So what do you accomplish in the rest of that weeks? What does your org expect you to do? (Genuine question, I'm just curious).
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by thex10 5y ago
> How much continuous listening in hours of time? There’s no ‘right’ answer for that. One branch of my inlaws talk to each other in continuous stream of consciousness literally all day long and they are perfectly happy. I’d want to jump
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by thex10 5y ago
after: is my favorite so far. Almost every search I do these days brings up results using very old versions of the JS/CSS libraries involved in my search, and adding "after:2019" or "after:2020" helps bring more rel
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by thex10 5y ago
This is what I thought the linked article would be about!
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by thex10 6y ago
I was struck by this too. Very reasonable, well explained and decently argued!
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by thex10 6y ago
> Just don't style buttons as links. My designers keep doing this, sadly. I mean, they don't _realize_ they're doing this. But they will have an element on the page where a user clicks on it to do some action (not navigate
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by thex10 6y ago
Awesome! I wish I'd seen this last year when I was in the market. Nonetheless I'm happy with my Dygma Raise (I mostly wanted split, RGB lights, with not too few keys). I wasn't ready for an ortholinear layout but hope to vent
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Site.js: Small Web construction set(sitejs.org)
202 points by thex10 6y ago|29 comments
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by thex10 6y ago
> Outside medical complications caused by actually getting COVID-19, nobody. Sort of. I’m a working parent with a baby — his other parent is also working full time and we don’t have child care. Between full time engineering and full time
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by thex10 6y ago
I clicked the link out of curiosity wondering if it's based on Notational Velocity (a project which I enjoy!). In case anyone else reading this was wondering about that... I never found an answer (though it does claim to be compatible
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by thex10 6y ago
This in turn is dwarfed by the deaths caused by automobiles!
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by thex10 6y ago
Were the drivers impaired? Why couldn't they see the people, or drive slowly and carefully enough to not kill?
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by thex10 6y ago
> I don't like the idea of having to dodge humans randomly entering the road Attitudes like that are why cars are the number one killer of small children in the USA. I think the idea is that car drivers should be able to see a hu
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by thex10 6y ago
I chose local anesthetic when I got my impacted wisdom teeth removed in NYC. This was in 2006 at a dental school though.
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Ask HN: Why is Instacart so slow?
1 points by thex10 6y ago|1 comments
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by thex10 6y ago
Another source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/technology/google-researc...
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by thex10 6y ago
I think this link does a nice job of contextualizing at least part of the situation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-03/google-s-... I’ve been at companies where I’m faced with an approval pro
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by thex10 6y ago
> Until they overstep, get fired, and cause drama by claiming everything that happened to them was due to discrimination, and not because they are toxic and disruptive. IMO it’s the _companies_ that strike me as toxic drama queens with t

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