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by warent 5y ago
> “One day I’m working extra hard and the supervisor just stopped me after I took a quick break and kept saying, ‘Smith, go back to work, go back to work,’” Smith said. “I’m thinking, I’m over here, hot, about to faint, working extra har
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by warent 5y ago
Thich Nhat Hanh taught that just like a cloud seems to disappear from the sky, it's not really, it has simply changed form. The appearance of vanishing is just that: an appearance. Really nothing is created or destroyed. In this way, t
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by warent 5y ago
For me the problem with drinking is that it amplifies all of who I am and not really any of who I want to be. I'm a happy kind person so it makes me happier and kinder which is fine, but then I'm also a very lazy person so it just
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by warent 5y ago
Most of the time you want to grandfather your original customers in so they keep the same price. Once strategy I did was I broke my product "Original" into two parts "Primary" and "Add-on" with their own prices
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by warent 5y ago
the lessons learned are definitely worth if you apply it going forward. making successful products and wealth is a skill. that value snowballs into making one rich
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by warent 5y ago
These are some of my favorite questions. Is death an abyss of nothingness, like going to a dreamless sleep and never waking up? Maybe! Do we die and live in an afterlife? Perhaps! But what an amusingly and ironically simple, easy answer eit
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by warent 5y ago
Off topic: great choice! I love all of Brandon Sanderson's works. Enjoy it, the first Mistborn series has a very satisfying conclusion!
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I don't read it as negativity just tongue in cheek skepticism, which can be a really great thing. See Schrodinger's Cat for example which people frequently cite and is in the same realm of "negativity" because it basical
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by warent 5y ago
Facebook sucks and I never use them. That being said, Facebook moderators who manually review reports are routinely traumatized and diagnosed with PTSD, and Facebook catches fire for that. So I don't see how this can go both ways. How
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by warent 5y ago
I've vaguely heard of Nim in the past and for some reason always thought it was some limited scripting language. But this looks like a pretty serious candidate for a nice backend language. I'm getting tired of how cumbersome Go is
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by warent 5y ago
Someone is missing knowledge, admits it, and this somehow inflames you? They created a free tool. Nowhere do they claim that this is a comprehensive replacement of a full O'Reilly book.
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by warent 5y ago
Starting a reply with "Cool, but..." immediately comes across as very insincere. Your sarcastic "Sorry I guess..." at the end seals it. The reason you're being downvoted is because your soft skills kernel needs a bi
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by warent 5y ago
True, that's very typical in the USA! Still, I think it can make things pretty complicated with work colleagues, with people you have to see all the time and can't easily cut off without having to actually leave your job. As for m
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by warent 5y ago
It sounds like you and parent are talking about two different things. I read they're saying it's weird to look for sexual hookups at work, not that it's weird to find an actual life partner through work.
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by warent 5y ago
Website creator redirected to Rick Astley, maybe they were getting too much traffic? Funny but weird and vaguely hostile without any explanation
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by warent 5y ago
Security definers are a powerful feature of postgres that allow a lot of business logic to live in the database. With an extension like this, I reckon postgres can theoretically become a first class public api for a surprising number of use
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by warent 5y ago
My experience of visualization is like this: focus on your peripheral vision, and that's what my whole vision becomes like--peripheral. Then another layer of peripheral-like focused vision is on top of it featuring things that aren&#x2
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by warent 5y ago
Great point I hadn't considered that before! I'd guess it's for two primary reasons. 1: it takes workers to load and unload checked bags. Contrast to overhead where you are doing the work. 2: checked bags are pretty much unli
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by warent 5y ago
HN has a built-in duplication checker that automatically redirects to the most recent submission of an article within a certain time. If it isn't working properly then Dan would update it, or mark as [Dupe] let the community member kno
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by warent 5y ago
I posted this article. I was reading about Brazil on Wikipedia and the rabbit hole brought me to this article which blew my mind. I was surprised I'd never heard about it before, and wanted to share with the community because it seemed
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The Goiânia Accident (1987)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by warent 5y ago
I think the whole thing is tongue in cheek. You used to program in Pascal, didn't you?
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by warent 5y ago
I've recently picked up vim the past couple weeks. Finding that it is very pleasant in many ways, though there are still some occasions where it feels like being very stubbornly inefficient to refuse to use a mouse. Does that feeling e
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by warent 5y ago
How to get on HN front page unlimited times: 1. Make a Show HN intersecting coding with something uncommon 2. Write an article about how you got on front page with Show HN 3. Write an article about how you got on the front page twice 4. Wri
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by warent 5y ago
"Try one of these examples" top option for me was "Stabbing a cheeseburger" Delphi: "It's wrong"
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by warent 5y ago
Even without automation. Just make a list of blurred alphanumerics, then match every blurred character in the picture against the character list. with some patience probably doable in a single day
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by warent 5y ago
Life imitates art I suppose! You don't see opaque boxes used in Hollywood productions. Blur matches a popular fantasy aesthetic
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by warent 5y ago
The nice thing is that the format of promos are pretty consistent. Video intro, promo for about 60 seconds, then main video start. I've never felt bothered by skipping ahead past the promo. Actually many viewers feel really glad and su
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Wow I had no idea about this! Actually going to make me switch back to DDG
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The fact that WSJ fell for this is both amusing and depressing. This has been going on for a long time now. Young people on TikTok pretend to have a wide variety of mental illness and neuro-atypicalities. You can find kids pretending to hav

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