tsar_nikolai

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by tsar_nikolai 6y ago
I absolutely love the company and am a happy customer, but for the love of time, why give up such a good pun for a name? (For people not familiar with the german language, zeit means time. And 'time now' is simply an amazing name
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Anytype closed alpha demo video – self hosted, encrypted kms [video](youtu.be)
1 points by tsar_nikolai 7y ago|0 comments
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by tsar_nikolai 7y ago
You see someone struggling while trying to solve a problem, and you know that –in your opinion– there's an obvious solution to that problem called [𝓍]. The thing you're after, is whether they have considered using this solution. J
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by tsar_nikolai 7y ago
Well yeah, the motorcycle helmet was introduced nearly 30 years after the Reitwagen, of course ツ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_helmet
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by tsar_nikolai 7y ago
You can fall back to the oldskool way of setting the height of the parent nodes to 100%: html, body, .full-height { height:100% } I guess this is exactly the thing the viewport units were designed to overcome, but at least it&#
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by tsar_nikolai 7y ago
But can it run Do... ...oh wait. Cool project!
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by tsar_nikolai 7y ago
I love this because it is both bullshit and awesome. Like many things thats either a rule-of-thumb or subjective, it has been studied thoroughly, confirmed, debunked, and applied succesfully many times.
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by tsar_nikolai 7y ago
Featuring Rube Goldberg machines and quite a nice demonstration of a gasoline engine. It's funny how the various statements in this videos (about patents, perpetual motion devices and gasoline) have each aged in their own way.
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Something for Nothing (1940) [video](en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by tsar_nikolai 7y ago|1 comments
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by tsar_nikolai 7y ago
CMD + SHIFT + G to navigate Open/Save dialogs with the keyboard. Supports autocomplete with TAB. Navigate multiple suggestions with UP/DOWN arrow.
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by tsar_nikolai 7y ago
Only just finished reading trough the full talk. This slide[0] really resonated with me. The new thing won’t be better, you just aren’t aware of all of the ways it will be terrible yet. [0] http://boringtechnology.club&#x2
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by tsar_nikolai 7y ago
That's a very good approach to choosing which technologies to use. For personal just-for-fun projects it's often nice to either work with new technologies or (re)invent the wheel, but this is a very nice approach how to pick tech
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by tsar_nikolai 7y ago
Interesting! What's interesting to me as well, is that despite their criticism, both scientists do seem to support the opinion that it is an extremely important measure to add to our portfolio of climate measures.
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by tsar_nikolai 7y ago
forests are known to support huge fungal networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhizal_network
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by tsar_nikolai 7y ago
1B hectares of trees supports approx. 1T trees. As with everything, it will not be the solution to climate change and has to live alongside other measures. But it is one of the cheapest (in terms of money) and least radical (in terms of lif
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Adding 1B hectares of forest could help check global warming(sciencemag.org)
30 points by tsar_nikolai 7y ago|28 comments
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by tsar_nikolai 7y ago
David, thank you so much for writing such an extensive answer. It's very interesting to explicitly define those three main roles and applying them to your own work. I am with you on procrastination (and a lack of motivation in general)
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Ask HN: How do you retain motivation/knowledge over different projects/fields?
6 points by tsar_nikolai 7y ago|5 comments
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by tsar_nikolai 7y ago
+1 for tydlig, among the first apps I install on every new iPhone