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by wkjagt 4y ago
> Can I ask what prompted this? I think the main thing is that I learned that the level of stress that comes with doing things as fast as possible is disproportionate to the time saved. In other words, by doing things as fast as possible
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by wkjagt 4y ago
I’ve started doing many things more slowly, not just reading. Cooking, for example. After the challenge of chopping an onion really quickly wore off, I started going slower and enjoying the moment. I realized chefs in kitchens go fast becau
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by wkjagt 4y ago
This is wonderful, but I feel kinda sad that it's filed under "humor".
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by wkjagt 4y ago
Ricoh is still making their wonderful GR series. I have a GRiii which I love.
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by wkjagt 4y ago
Not meant as one I guess but this reads like a poem.
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by wkjagt 4y ago
Same thing happens when error messages push the whole form down. This is annoying when for example I log in to my bank account using 1Password. When 1Password gets focus (and the login form loses focus), the login form immediately complains
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by wkjagt 4y ago
For me writing by hand helps for remembering a very specific type of knowledge. If I need to remember random facts with not much cohesion between them, it helps to write them down. I feel I create a visual memory of these facts. Almost like
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by wkjagt 4y ago
It’s missing a comment from someone who dismisses someone else’s comment by starting with “Ehhhh no.” It’s also missing someone making a funny joke and then being downvoted because HN comments need to be serious contributions to the topic.
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by wkjagt 4y ago
Yeah, Saved Messages is that unexpected feature for me too. I also use it to easily send photos from my phone to my laptop. It makes it convenient because Telegram is right at the top in the Share options, and it’s async, so I can send some
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by wkjagt 4y ago
This reminds me of my father showing me as a kid: if I hold my watch exactly in this position in relation to the sun, and look at it from this exact angle, I can tell exactly what time it is.
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by wkjagt 4y ago
Been slowly making progress on my 6502 homebrew computer, with things like a keyboard I took out of an old Tandy word processor, reading its keyboard matrix with an ATMega, and sending ASCII to the 6502. Writing an OS for it in assembly, wi
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by wkjagt 4y ago
What I do like on Facebook Marketplace is that it seems to understand what I’m looking for. On Kijiji I have to do try all the different ways someone might have written something, including common spelling mistakes. And since I live in Queb
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by wkjagt 4y ago
One day, I'll get myself an El Casco pencil sharpener. It gives a very special point shape, a long point, but ends in a blunt surface. Here's a review that describes it really well: https://www.penciltalk.org/2012&
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by wkjagt 4y ago
Another reason is that being really respectful around cyclists is an important part of driving lessons in The Netherlands. And I think you can fail your driving test if you pass a bike too close, open your door without looking if a cyclists
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by wkjagt 5y ago
What’s updog?
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by wkjagt 5y ago
I have a 93 Miata and I love those kinds of things about it. Even the odometer is mechanical. I love how real and direct cars from that era feel. In contrast, I’m always discouraged when for example I try to figure out how to even make the
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by wkjagt 6y ago
If you look closely, you can often also spot a warm brown dwarf near Uranus.
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by wkjagt 7y ago
> instead of the inside out Now the name makes even more sense. I first read it as sh/git, but reading it as something that starts inside and slowly works its way out is now my preferred explanation of the name.
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by wkjagt 7y ago
They did make it slightly shorter I think.
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by wkjagt 7y ago
Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti
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by wkjagt 7y ago
Personally, I sleep a lot better when my phone is not next to my bed.
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by wkjagt 7y ago
Sudoku solvers are nice to rewrite in several languages.
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by wkjagt 7y ago
A while ago, I wrote (1) about an old toaster I had bought at a thrift store 7 years earlier and that I’d been using daily since. Now, 5 years later, I’m still using this same toaster, and it still out-toasts most newer toasters. I really b
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Implementation details of the RFID audio book reader for my blind grandfather
22 points by wkjagt 12y ago|1 comments
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How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather, Part 2(willemvanderjagt.com)
11 points by wkjagt 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Manage browser bookmarks from the CLI(github.com)
6 points by wkjagt 12y ago|2 comments
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by wkjagt 12y ago
This is really awesome. Great work! If you turned this into a Chrome extension that allowed to write emails in GMail, I would use it for sure!
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by wkjagt 12y ago
Wow, I hadn't seen them. I like that it uses a card per book. It makes each book a separate "entity". Plus they look really nice and easy to use. The FM transmitter is a great idea.
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by wkjagt 12y ago
I used Raspbian actually, which is a port of Wheezy.
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by wkjagt 12y ago
That's a valid question. I wanted him to have physical, tangible books. A reader like the Victor Reader is, for someone who doesn't use technology, a mysterious box where the books are hidden behind buttons. I was afraid that this

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