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by wyclif 4y ago
Wow, that's cool. I've admired her for a long time (I'm a long distance hiker). One of the things I like about her is that she proves that you don't need to be in top physical condition or have a lot of expensive gear to
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by wyclif 4y ago
For me, it was AltaVista. When Google came out, it was simply mind-blowing how much better it was and I switched immediately.
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by wyclif 4y ago
It's not so much COVID, it's that essentially what has happened is that the cheap VC investment and loan money dried up, as did the high valuations. That's the simple explanation.
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by wyclif 4y ago
I'm curious about how you found this thread. HN is a pretty niche site.
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by wyclif 4y ago
Grandma Gatewood is a legend on the A.T. She is a great example for female long-distance hikers who wonder if the A.T. is safe. At the time she completed her thru-hike, the A.T. was a lot wilder and more dangerous than it is now. And her ba
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by wyclif 4y ago
Keurig is really terrible, like the fast-food version of coffee. But I don't really like electric kettles. Sure, they let you control the temperature a bit better, but you can do it with traditional kettle over a gas stove if you add a
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by wyclif 4y ago
Keurig is a blight on coffee; here's why: https://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/why-the-keur...
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by wyclif 4y ago
It's hard to believe today that Omar Sharif was in that movie.
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by wyclif 4y ago
That's why I wish HN had a native dark mode. I find myself getting away from browser extensions. I used to have a lot of them (uBlock Origin and all the usual suspects), but last year I switched to Brave and I don't have any exten
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by wyclif 4y ago
Really wish HN had a native dark mode. Oh, I know they don't want to do it. But it's the right thing to do.
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by wyclif 4y ago
I'm told most of the rollout was data centers outside North America: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1608324539779551232
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by wyclif 4y ago
The line from Sergey about Eric Schmidt made me smile. It's his "OK boomer" moment.
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by wyclif 4y ago
Pocari Sweat is also hugely popular here in SE Asia. However, it's usually recommended by doctors to rectify dehydration. I agree with the other commenter in the thread who says it's really not meant to be a daily hydration drink,
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by wyclif 4y ago
Laugh away, but Old Twitter was run by some pretty scummy people who allowed the FBI and CIA to backdoor the service. It was also a lot slower and broken compared to how fast it is now, especially outside North America (they recently added
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by wyclif 4y ago
The difference is that Twitter is better than it's ever been now, while Facebook and Airbnb continue to deteriorate.
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by wyclif 4y ago
This isn't a bad piece but the "demise of Twitter" stuff is laughably incorrect and sounds like Spaceman Bad brainworms.
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by wyclif 4y ago
Yes, a lot of people don't realise that bash (1989) and zsh (1990) are almost the same age and were parallel projects, not derivative.
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by wyclif 4y ago
Not just one day a week. A lot of churches open to homeless all during the week. It makes sense because it's a waste of resources to let a large heated building sit empty the other 6 days of the week that aren't Sunday when they c
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by wyclif 4y ago
Great question. If you were an American kid growing up in the US in the 1970's and '80's, football was considered an exotic import (unlike American college and NFL "football"). Youth leagues were a completely new th
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by wyclif 4y ago
Pelé certainly has a much better reputation than, say, Maradona.
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by wyclif 4y ago
It's because of the homeless and mentally ill problem that every big city unfortunately has now. But SF is absolutely the worst.
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by wyclif 4y ago
The one thing I miss in Brave is some kind of Vim mode.
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by wyclif 4y ago
It's a lot easier to cover on call if your company is fully remote, or at least the on call staff rotation is remote. Employees tend to resent on call a lot less if they're home with their families.
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by wyclif 4y ago
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but I have trouble believing that someone in your position would mistake "above" for "among" and not know the difference between "their" and "there." Surely a
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by wyclif 4y ago
The problem for me was never that Twitter had their own in-house term for shadowbanning. It was that they obfuscated and hid behind the term in order to avoid accusations of shadowbanning. It's like saying "this is not a sub sandw
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by wyclif 4y ago
Read this again with fresh eyes, then when bookmarking it saw that I had already bookmarked it back in 2019 and forgot I had. It's still great writing advice.
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by wyclif 4y ago
I'm dead. <skull emoji>
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by wyclif 4y ago
z and forward slash don't seem to work on macOS.
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by wyclif 4y ago
Yeah, a lot of review inflation in the US. I see loads of 4-star reviews on Goodreads as well as the restaurant review apps. I wish people would use the entire range as it makes the review more valuable.
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by wyclif 4y ago
Thing is, I've spent a lot of time in Colorado and there's a lot of beautiful places in the front range of the Rockies that are a short drive from Denver. So yeah, maybe not Denver the city but you're not far from Estes Park

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