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> The only yak shaving sink I still have is Emacs and I'll get rid of it as soon as I find something better.

I'm a long time Vim user, myself (and no, not looking to spark a holy war here). One observation I have about my own habits is that I subconsciously slap the ESC key every time I'm done with something, even if I'm in a non-modal editor like Notepad or SQL Management studio. It's just become so ingrained in me that I can't stop doing it. Mostly because there's no negative feedback loop associated with doing it.
Don't recall the details, but I think this was for a few specific kinds of procedures (cardiac-related?).

There certainly is a problem with iatrogenic deaths (those caused by medical attention itself), but it would be quite a bit too far to say that surgery is on balance harmful taken as a whole.

(And indeed, the point of my remark was that a falling traffic fatality rate isn't necessarily a good thing, once one looks at the entire picture.)
Or grab a little short scale bass like an Ibanez Mikro Bass. Cheap and a dream to play.

The scale length on the Mikro bass is only about 28-29 inches so coming from a “real” bass guitar it feels barely any bigger than a Stratocaster. I carry mine in an old Strat gig bag and it fits fine.
Not necessarily true, I'd argue the "perfect" dark mode uses the system's theme by default like you said, but still allows visitors to manually set light or dark should they wish to view the site a particular way (perhaps they prefer the light mode, etc.)
Interestingly that list contained Greenland until very recently.

EU countries are also not included in the list, so no Luxembourg etc
> That's the very nature of "experiences" and some might argue precisely the point of describing those.

It's also why we need controlled experiments.

> Never said that. Do you even know what you mean by "pill" in this context?

Of course I do: A pill with a controlled amount of the active ingredients and a neutral binder.

> Maybe you should read the article first?

Maybe you should stop trying to condescend to me and answer the question?

> They want to reproduce a mushroom trip

Obviously not. They want to treat mental disorders.
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Larger companies would just give their employees raises in order to be able to increase executive salaries, and smaller companies couldn't afford to compete with that. Your suggestion would further increase the dominance of large companies.
> That's not a real problem. Facebook public posts can be edited, shared, and liked. No one complains about that. I frequently edit my public posts to correct typos and such.

Socially, Twitter is more of a public forum than Facebook, though. That could change how people use and perceive the feature on the different platforms.
No it's not. The government won't own any shares that benefit from an increase in share price, nor will they receive dividends. The government can only receive the government aid back. It works as a forgivable loan. Loan-holders almost always come before equity-holders, and they could require full payment before dividends to equity holders.
Because taxes.. Warren has explained this himself many times. The US Tax system makes it better to have rising stock prices, than dividends.
The topic is really interesting, and this book had a big impact in my understanding of the world, yet I found it pretty annoying to read. The grudge born by J. Pearl against the statistics community who rejected his ideas is way too present in the book IMHO. He's almost like “I was right all along you fuckers, who's the boss now!” on every single page, and I feel it's really disserving his ideas.
Yes, that is the role of government, deciding who does and does not get a bailout based on criteria developed by policy makers, using taxpayer funds. Bailouts are not entitlements.
Russia is less oil dependent than SA...

Are you sure? Everything I've read has said some variation of _Russia is heavily dependent on oil exports_ [1]. Russia has a massive cash reserve to weather this crisis but they're still being hurt just as badly as KSA.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/03/12/814824039/how-russia-is-react...
> The government should take a small ownership stake in companies that receive that kind of money.

This sounds absolutely reasonable. Bail them out by being some sort of "angel investor" and get a piece of the company
The Pomodoro technique has been hugely valuable to me over the years. So much so that I recently built a web app for it that doubles as a work log with social accountability:

https://timmytimer.com
It's the reason I quit hanging out with the "child-free" folk at a major software company (they even had an internal distribution list). For many it seemed, their whole identity seemed wrapped up in not having kids, and dinner conversations turned into "can you believe parents?" and conspicuous consumption because you're not spending it on kids.

I like kids well enough, and though they stress her after a while, so does my wife. We just don't feel the need of any of our own. And that's what it boils down to. You think you're going to talk your spouse down when they have Baby Fever because the economics don't work out? Because you value "your freedom"? Just get the divorce over with now, or get used to the idea of kids. You needed to start working on being less of a selfish prick anyway.
I agree with you partially.

Dark Mode is pretty easy to do in CSS. I purposely picked jekyll with no javascript for my static site, and despite contributing a plugin for Gatsby, I do not use it these days.

Yet, there is at least some modern applications that can be made thanks to javascript, and React. We do not need to go back, but it is perfectly acceptable to say that not everything is a nail and you do not need a hammer for every single task.
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Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life
Actual quote was by the Sheikh of Dubai:

"My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_bin_Saeed_Al_Maktoum
Can I drink from the firehose afterwards?
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Hi Hackernews,

I created Spacedtime because I'm known to have a horrible memory. Maybe people are kidding but I wanted to change that. There are flashcard apps out there but I wanted to create one that is focused on creating cards for my personal memories. My personal goal is to store and recall all that is dear to me.

Given the personal nature, I do plan on spending a lot of my time on protecting the user's information. Today, Spacedtime does not have a server and stores all information locally. The command-line app stores information in a local JSON file and the web app stores into Local Storage. However, I'm not sure what is the best user-friendly way to go about the encryption layer and how it should be applied.

I've posted to Product Hunt, [Lobste.rs](http://lobste.rs) and Indiehackers so far. I've been saving my self from posting to HN till now. It is still an MVP but at least it is not the first version :). I've been pretty aggressive in publishing my work.

I'm looking forward to everyone's feedback!

Best,

-James
I used to have some trouble with this one but if you think about it it's the same as "why would anyone want a dollar, it's just a piece of paper". The answer is that for literally anything, if you can exchange the thing for value, then it effectively has that value.

(Or alternatively, you say that dollars are also vanity plates, and are as worthless as stocks.)
It isn't ethanol at fault, it is the cheap low grade gas in the ethanol that degrades. Pure ethanol is very shelf stable.
they are late because being on time is inherently inefficient and detrimental to maximal value extraction from the lives of individuals and humanity as a whole.

if you code then easiest analogy i can think of is that people tend to optimise for a certain wait time on average rather than always have cpu time available exactly when you need it.this is like - everyone should shoot to be at a meeting / event within a certain time frame that reflect the length of time this event is going to block them out for, how far it deviates from their planned activities and how much noticed they had.

If everyone is sometimes late then many more important things will get done much faster as people didn't just drop what they were doing to be on time.

rather than get upset by lateness I try to just never ask for people to be anywhere any given time..and if i am asking them then i think about how much extra time it takes out of their life to do it exactly when i asked (not 5 mins after or before - as both cause problems).

I also factor into these considerations that time is an abstract concept - so humans will never really give a hoot what it has to say, outcomes matter. i have never met an "always on time" person that doesn't spend way to much pointless time checking the time and thinking about the time... much like the ridiculous lengths you have to go to when programming to stop processing something at the correct time (e.g. truly deterministic control systems or games with a strong commitment to never drop a frame but carry out tasks that take way more than a frame to do)
If you read that recent random sampling from Stanford the numbers are probably 50x-85x higher
Not sure who you're replying to. I didn't mention suing anyone or any idea of wage theft.
Yep, Commodore beat Apple and outsold them. Heck, the Apple II was outsold by both Commodore and Atari. Woz did an amazing job on the II using off-the-shelf parts, but Jay Miner and crew built a better computer in the Atari 800 with a custom chipset.
Hadn't read this in a while - this made me think of similar applications of the same idea. I remember when I was shooting IDPA competitions, I made myself physically touch the chamber every time I cleared a firearm to ensure there was no ammunition there. If you're tired or distracted, it's too easy to just do a quick visual glance and maybe miss something. Physically touching it forces you to slow down and pay attention.

Techniques along this pattern seem like a good idea for anything that people do that has serious consequences for any screwups. Fortunately, current dayjob has plenty of procedure for production deployments. I've tried to come up with similar things when working for smaller teams with less procedure. When you're distracted, panicked, or in a rush is the highest risk for screw-ups, and so the most important time to slow down, double-check everything and make sure you get it right.
> Companies that pay dividends or make share buy-backs are more vulnerable in a crisis (not only the current one), meaning they are riskier investments.

You present that as a statement of fact; but it's not at all clear to me why that should be true. Can you give your thinking on that?

A company may not be paying a dividend because it's reinvesting; or because it's unable to do so because it's making a loss.

Do you think Facebook (no dividends; almost completely dependent on advertising budgets) is a less vulnerable, less risky investment than AT&T (regularly pays substantial dividend)?
I only made it halfway but my impression was, "maybe your critics are correct because I can't tell if any of this makes sense."
Oil Companies Are Spending a Fortune to Store Unused Crude at Sea
How do you deal with ciliary muscle exhaustion from staring at a computer screen for extended periods?
I live in Ames, IA (technically next town over now), and we have excellent tap water. To the point that someone created a website [1] to sell hats and shirts and such that just say "Ames Tap Water". It is objectively very good water.

[1] https://www.amestapwater.com/
Berkshire Hathaway has only paid 1 dividend ever (in 1967). Buffett can invest that money better than I can, so why bother taking money out of the company.
I'm for buying slightly more expensive butter if that would incentivize breeding cows for milk rather than meat. Butter still being more of a small treat than main source of fats.
Do it. I just did a budget build around a SilverStone SG13 case for my htpc, see the image of case size comparison in the article. This was to replace an old full tower Antec case that was unsightly at this point.
true that.

not just cruises. nor just leisure and touristic activities either. tons of jobs have similar working conditions. and tbh, i am not sure avoiding or banning these activities is the solution.

i mean, we are not throwing our smartphones away yet, are we?
It's also true though that sometimes laziness can drive ambition. Maybe you come across something that's complex and a pain to do, so you create a better, simpler way to do it. It may be a progression in another, sometimes better direction that other people at first glance might consider 'lazy'.
That was probably a computer from Radio Shack, and yes, the 6809 was fun to program.
Facebook reveals Gaming app to rival Twitch and YouTube
I'd love to hear from someone that got stuck with the 1000 bushels of corn (or similar). What do you do? How in the world do you manage that?
Totally agree - my business needs don't override that. But it does mean we may not end up working together.
Would love to see an Open Source OS/2!
How many as a percentage of workers in the USA? How many of those are earning below 200k a year?
Windiness isn’t that big of a problem, usually, in part because the air is so thin.

Other than the Earth, there are only 3 places (other than the gas giants, where landing is literally impossible but dynamic soaring and balloons are feasible) where you can fly a drone: Venus, Mars, and Titan.

Mars and Titan are further away from the Sun so the atmosphere’s are not as energetic. Venus has crazy high altitude winds, but the wind shear isn’t necessarily too bad. Near the surface, it’s extremely hot (like a kiln glowing very dull red), so usual flight isn’t feasible but a metal balloon might be since the CO2 atmosphere is extremely dense, 2 order of magnitudes more dense than air & only an order of magnitude less dense than water. Higher altitudes are much cooler (like Earth sea level), although you do have to deal with acid droplets. Venus is the only place beyond Earth that there has been sustained flight. Two Soviet balloons.

Mars is super thin atmosphere but lower gravity. So travel is theoretically efficient if you can do wingborne flight, but there aren’t any landing strips and the landing and takeoff speeds are high. NASA did test the Helios aircraft at extremely high Earth altitudes (over 96,000 feet) which could in principle maintain near indefinite wingborne flight at Mars (especially with modern solar cells and Lithium batteries). A lightweight helicopter, though, solves the “no landing strip” problem.

Titan has both low gravity AND high density atmosphere, so flight is extremely easy. Winds are low. No sunlight to speak of, so it must be nuclear powered if you want very long duration, unlike the other two places. So NASA is sending a robotic multicopter there called DragonFly. Much heavier and more capable and longer range than the small Mars helicopter. https://youtu.be/xn3-0a19sC8
The model shown in that video is not to scale. It’s actually big enough to ride like a motorcycle.
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." (Goodhart's law)

A team that ships often is arguably doing great (because complex things that work are made out of simple things that work, and early feedback is important), but you can definitely just ship random shit and be satisfied with it if you've set your mind to ship often without regard to the proper way it should be done. Shipping often is easy, shipping often good things is hard.
What is the positive criteria?

Who gets aid, and how is the amount calculated? It's somewhat surprising that foreign company would be eligible at all.

Also, I'm skeptical of "common sense rules" being effectively implementable.

Company A1 owns intellectual property like trademarks and patents, registered in a tax haven. Company A2 manufactures & markets products in the consumer country. A2 could be paying licence fees to A1. A1 could be contracting A2 to do manufacturing and marketing. Either way, the idea is that A2 never makes profits. Any profits are made in A1, which also has no expenses.

This is/was Google & Apple's structure, with Ireland as the tax haven.

This is a simple example. Reality is usually more complex. It is generally hard/impossible to pick these knots apart. IDK of any country with corporate tax rules/enforcement that has picked it apart. Lots have tried. How did denmark do this.
That person is also defending the 14 words, saying "it's ok to be white", and throwing around phrases like "white genocide".

I'm pretty sure they're just a straight up white nationalist.
The hallmark of a good AstroTurf is that it looks spontaneous, even though it isn’t. It’s the subterfuge that makes it astroturfing.
If the site works; serves it's purpose then there's nothing wrong with it.

Maybe a wee bit dated but holds high nostalgic value

Generator: IBM HomePage Builder 2001 V5.0.0 for Windows
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Problems doesn't really exist. They are an abstraction that results from an individual analyzing what they perceive to be a mess. When someone proposes a problem, they really only reveal things about themselves and their thoughts than some "truth" about the nature of the world. There are no problems in nature. Without analysis and judgement, things just are.

You claiming that stagnating wages and corporate profit are problems is no more valid than a business owner/builder complaining about rising wages and dropping corporate profits. Both are equally valid depending on whose shoes you're in.

You can also be in either person's shoes and arrive at a different analysis and perceive different problems depending on who you are as a person and how you see the world.
White House Has Erected a Blockade Stopping States, Hospitals from Getting PPE
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It would be interesting to see a Wine-like compatibility layer for OS/2 applications. It could even be included in Wine itself, seeing as there are quite a few analogies between Win16/Win32 and OS/2.
What what about citizens who don't have those things? There are plenty of homeless and/or destitute people around.

That's why this is a class issue.

And then look at the racial make-up of those on the lower rungs of the class system.

That's why this is a race issue.
Hasan Minhaj did a segment on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nCT8h8gO1g
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There is a difference though. Some people really can taste wine blind and tell you, for example, what grape was used and where it was grown. A relative of mine with this skill used to win wine tasting competitions. But nobody can distinguish expensive speaker cables in blind trials.
It doesn't make any sense as a joke - oil isn't sold like the setup of the joke says.
I often visit the cat sanctuary in Metro Vancouver and they have lots of very weird and funny 'cat architecture' pieces. https://catsanctuary.ca/

Usually these seem to come out of small little fix ups to make it easier for cats to do what they're trying to do anyway.

Plenty of ladders, catwalks and holes out to allow semi-feral cats the ability to dart of when someone walks into the room.

For example they have the 'dryer gang' of cats that like to sit on the dryer, and I've seen photos where there's like six of them trying to snuggle in there and not fall off, so of course the sanctuary responded by adding in a shelf above the dryer so more cats can linger around it.

My favourite bizarre piece of cat furniture is in a washroom where someone bolted a small skateboard right over top an electric baseboard heater, allowing a single cat to snooze there and take in all that heat.
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I have my truck on a battery maintainer. Saves having to start it for a trip I otherwise wouldn't make (or would use a car for). I use it only when I have a task that needs a truck which only happens a few times a year, everything else I take the bus.
I was using "salt healing" and "crystal healing" interchangeably because you mentioned specifically sodium chloride crystals.

And I don't see a communications failure; you're communicating your idea fine, it's just based on not having read, and misunderstanding, the heuristics the author advocated for "when to require an RCT".

>And what the CDC appears to be doing-- requiring a RCT-- can be seen as an extremely rigorous (a).

And once again, it's a poor handling of evidence, for exactly the same reason it would be to "not advocate parachutes for jumping out of a plane" until the RCTs come in. That can only "be seen as rigorous" if you ignored the very considerations the author mentions.

I'll just excerpt a characteristic portion so you don't have to go to the site:

>>Goofus started with the position that masks, being a new idea, needed incontrovertible proof. When the few studies that appeared weren’t incontrovertible enough, he concluded that people shouldn’t wear masks.

>>Gallant would have recognized the uncertainty – based on the studies we can’t be 100% sure masks definitely work for this particular condition – and done a cost-benefit analysis. Common sensically, it seems like masks probably should work. The existing evidence for masks is highly suggestive, even if it’s not utter proof. Maybe 80% chance they work, something like that? If you can buy an 80% chance of stopping a deadly pandemic for the cost of having to wear some silly cloth over your face, probably that’s a good deal. Even though regular medicine has good reasons for being as conservative as it is, during a crisis you have to be able to think on your feet.
If you read the article, the complexity did not come from React, it came from meeting the author's specific requirements, which are not achievable with CSS alone.
I wouldn't be surprised if Valve have at least thought about going down this route.

They seem to be really enthusiastic (perhaps terrifyingly) about Brain Computer Interfaces, being able to project directly onto the Eye in a VR headset might be a good stepping stone for them.
My mother is blind and was a rehab teacher. Learn to use a screen reader now, while you can still map the words to the visual structure on screen. The structure applications expose to screen readers is often drastically different than what we intuit from looking at it.

Learn braille. It's hard, resources are scarce, lots of people don't do it any more. This is why, with practice you can read braille off a computer braille display about as fast as sighted people read text. No screen reader can ever be intelligible that fast. Braille is also a much better way to read code syntax.
Funny, coincidentally I've been researching this topic of SFF builds in the past few days. Found this amazing YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYOj4DmyxhBVrdvbsUwmAA

But the problem with it, as well as /r/sffpc is that their top priority is a gaming PC, and they optimize for putting in a latest, most performing GPU.

I as a developer, don't need a discrete GPU for nothing more that to connect several (2, actually) screens to the pc.

That said, I haven't found a small case that doesn't optimize for "normal-size" GPUs (too big for non-gamers) and doesn't cost a fortune, yet.
Not just Carter, the Supreme Court too. After Congress made a law to specifically make the seizure legal, the bank challenged the constitutionality of changing laws to be interpreted against the bank only when applied to that bank’s seized Iranian linked account. The Court sided with the government 7-2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Markazi_v._Peterson