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trick is to get higher quality produce, make multiple services, and lean how to store things. Cheap produce goes back quicker. I live alone yet go to Costco every 2-3 weeks and I expect everything I get to last.

Meat is split up, vacpacked and frozen. produce is put in the fridge in containers that best store them: some lined with paper town, some not, some with lids, some not. I have 2 week old tomatoes peppers cucumbers romain for salad that is totally fine. Onion garlic and potatoes go in burlap in the pantry. Rice and grains are put in sealed containers. And so forth.

And when I cook it’s always multiple servings. Today and tomorrows dinner, 5-10 servings of soup and I freeze most.

Storing food so it keeps is a skill.

150-200$ every 2-3 weeks, much cheaper and healthier then ordering in or frozen.
(I'm not a driver, but I learned about this in German driving school)

> If I run out of gas on the side of the highway, I call AAA and they can deliver me a couple of gallons of gas or I can walk to a gas station. If your EV runs out of juice, you have to have it towed to a charging station.

AFAICT, if your diesel car runs out of fuel (completely), it also needs to get towed, maybe even to a garage to get serviced.
I'm sure AA vehicles will - if they already aren't - be supplied with a generator to put some juice back into electric vehicles on the roadside. Probably lighter, more compact, and less hassle than carrying around spare batteries.
AAA has offered mobile charging for electric vehicles for over 10 years.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15346575/placebo-on-wheel...
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Thanks that’s probably good advice

Pineapple fried rice here I come
That's why I prefaced my comment with "If you're looking for work-life balance...."

If you have other goals (just money), then the trade-offs might be worth it.
Lithium batteries are dangerous in a way gasoline tanks are not: while a punctured tank (say, due to a unlucky collision with a piece of debris or a crash) is dangerous, it does not guarantee a fire or explosion. A punctured lithium cell will almost always burn.

There are also more ways to screw up a battery. Overcharging, manufacturing defects, and so forth. A gas tank is literally a chunk of cast metal with a pump in it.

Additionally, metal fires are severely hard to fight. Gas fires can be extinguished in the usual ways, but a self-oxidizing metal fire require special considerations, and that's if it can be reasonably extinguished at all. That isn't even mentioning the need to de–energize the battery before attempting a rescue.
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No, re-read my comments. I said taking a mortgage on a much larger home than you need, or taking out multiple mortgages, or doing debt arbitrage (all, risky moves). You threw in the word "standard" as a means to misrepresent my argument.
Who said you need a reason? This is great!
This one showed up
Why even care? You should be aware whether u have the credentials and experience. Most of the time the rejection is a subjective decision by a small group of people. And as of lately big tech is freezing their hiring anyway.

Keep applying and don't wait for any one company to give any feedback.
I think there's some genuine confusion in this comment. Do you think that you are helping Americans get healthcare by... not working for healthcare companies?

Most of these startups are aimed at improving access via telemedicine, accessibility apps, price comparison apps, etc. I'm not sure what you're imagining.
You're both widely overestimating the fire risk. It shouldn't even be a consideration from the consumer perspective. The color of the car probably matters more.
Or a bike accident. Yeah it's going to hurt, you might even break some things, but for it to be any more than that would be the definition of a freak accident.
But you're still getting interruptions, or micro-interruptions if you want to call it like that and that takes a tool on focus and deep work. I have a smartphone but will keep it on silent and out of view to deal with interruptions: for me everything can wait.
While this is unfortunate to have happened, this says more about CT being smart and having an over abundance of caution, than lack of faith in a technology.

BART, which has been running for 50 years recently [1] had an issue with the heat that caused a train to derail. For several days that section of track was totally shut down. For weeks afterwards they ran the trains at an extremely low speed through the miles of surrounding track - for safety. It's been a month and I'm honestly not sure if they are running "at speed" again yet.

It's good to be cautious when you don't know the cause of an issue or aren't sure what happened. Someone could have shot the bus's battery... or it could be wired in a faulty manner... or they could have a design flaw. Lots of options, good to ground them until you know why. Lest we have another MAX8 debacle.

[1] https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/06/21/bart-train-partially...
I'm a heavy user of LT. Very happy with it.

A really nice feature of LT is that you can add your own rules. A rule editor is provided here:

https://community.languagetool.org/ruleEditor2/

Basically, whenever you catch an error in your writing you add a rule to ensure that it is caught the next time. After a few years your rule set will catch a large portion of your writing errors. It's fun too.
> But there are plenty of real projects that are based on blockchain.

There are plenty of real projects based on blockchain, where if you take the blockchain out or just replace it with tech we've had for 40+ years, nothing of value is lost.

That's the real blockchain problem.
> I remember WindowMaker not recognizing full screen YouTube videos

I'm using Window Maker for years now and full screen YouTube videos work perfectly fine. Perhaps you used some very ancient version? The latest from the official site[0] should work (though getting the "next" branch from git might be better if you want all the latest fixes - and bugs :-P - as releases happen infrequently).

[0] https://www.windowmaker.org/
Living in Eastern Europe, I have to say that I've always felt that there was something brutal and thuggish about both Russian and Ukrainian culture (they are more similar than Ukrainians want to admit). The article merely hints at this while talking of the "illiterate peasants" that create the foundational popular culture.

The Russian people's spectrum is incredibly wide though, and have also produced some of the deepest writers, musicians and filmmakers humanity has seen.

Admitting both of these truths at the same time is something people have a hard time doing, and that's the real issue here.
BGP is something that makes everything more resilient when it's achieving its goals, not like an unknown assassin. Large-scale BGP harm almost always comes from a trusted, good-willed peer making an honest mistake.
And too many people expecting rents to fund their lifestyle. The core problem is not enough people actually doing. Those that are doing don't see the excessive availability of investment cash as a problem.
> And yes, I understand technically how NFTs work.

That follows from what you said before. I have yet to see anyone not a scammer who understands them but still thinks they are great.

And I say that as someone who’s vastly more into crypto than the extremely anti-crypto HN.
I've been running a technical podcast focused on interview prep/insights for the last two years that has OKAY traction but is still a long way from making me any money. It's hard! It cost me money. About $500 a month right now, not counting my time. I enjoy doing it but I've certainly had tough months when I wanted to stop.

Doing freelance work has been the easiest way to bring in some extra cash as an engineer but damn do taxes really hurt that extra income.
Mullvad is absolutely killing it with this stuff.

Mullvad: PLEASE don't sell your company.
Diesel is generally considered a safer fuel than gasoline, it's a lot less gaseous or flammable.

That said, yeah it's not like ICE vehicles are any safer when it comes to fire hazards. They're probably easier to extinguish though; EV fires are a pain, to the point where fire brigades bring in containers, fill them with water and dump EV car wrecks into them until they've stopped reacting.
Free tier is great, especially if you invest in writing your own rules.
> Some directors and actors now prefer a naturalistic approach to delivering and shooting performances that might be harder for the sound crew to record.

This is almost the answer.

The answer is, yes, naturalism, but it's not about difficulty recording.

TV and movies used to emphasize diction and clarity a great deal, where every word could be perfectly understood. The problem was that this could all feel a great deal "actory" -- it felt like you were watching actors on a stage performing for an audience rather than real life happening in front of you. Of course, for multi-cam sitcoms, they were quite literally actors on a stage performing in front of a studio audience.

Over the past 20 years, audiences have grown tired of how "fake" it seems. They've demanded more naturalism. "Stagey" multi-cam sitcoms have almost disappeared, almost everything is single-cam now. And with the greater "realism" of single-cam, speech has become much more naturalistic.

In real life, people mutter, muddle their consonants, speak low, etc. And so the same thing is happening on TV and film now, because it seems more true to life. The same way darker environments are more true-to-life, lighting has been trending more naturalistic, accents and ethnic casting are more accurate... on the whole, everything is trending towards greater naturalism. And so this includes diction.

So the problem in general has nothing to do with sound recording or mixing -- the technology behind these is better than ever. To the contrary, it has to do with a conscious artistic choice to prioritize naturalistic speaking over "actory" exaggerated diction. Realism over clarity.

And I suspect that it's actually been partly enabled by the fact that subtitles are so easy to turn on now, that for people who don't like this, they can just turn the subtitles on. That wasn't the case most of the time 30 years ago. (The same way you can turn up the brightness on dark scenes, if you must.)
3-in-1 is nice. So many people don't realize WD-40 isn't a lubricant. I worked at a bike store and had to explain to hundreds of DIY'ers every year after they completely ruined their bike's chains and washed out the cassette's internal lube.
Thanks for the bug report, I'll get on that!
Under the Soviet Union, the same logic was used against Protestant Christians (my parents experienced this) as many had “ties” to the United States.
Oh that's crazy. Thank you for that. That's something I never thought of.
I'm obsessed with prettiness but at the end it have to be functional and all you writing about is something that is also something important BEFORE prettiness.
Thx for that.
Gasoline doesn’t burn. Gas+air mixture burns and the concentration of gas has to be surprisingly low for the reaction to work - 1 part gas for 14.7 parts air.

Batteries provide their own air and will burn submerged underwater, if they want to. The firefighting protocol is “Contain fire and wait, sometimes for days”. That’s why the containment cell is designed to be nigh impervious and fire is unlikely. But once a fire starts, good luck.
Because you don’t need them in other languages.
They could have used any spam filters they might have written to simply flat numbers so their customers could decide what to do for themselves. Instead we have to rely on third party services (and thus share private information with those parties).
Do you think they all fell for it or do you think some were just exploiting it?

I agree by the way, it's just I hesitate a bit because a lot of people speaking positively of NFTs were too smart to be mindlessly bullish. I suspect some of them thought it would make for positive press and drive some hype. Like with Elon and Bitcoin/Dogecoin. I'm convinced 90% of the stuff he says and does is to keep Tesla and himself in the news.
Yes.

Or, more accurately, you're an idiot if you blame your phone for feeling distracted all the time. It's not your phone's fault. It's your brain's fault. Without taking conscious action to stop thinking about the distractions you'll just move from one distraction to another when you choose a dumber phone. Getting a phone that can't run apps isn't going to magically make you pick up your side project. You'll watch more TV, or play more video games, or just play Snake on the dumb phone, or post more on HN or something.

Being distracted by your phone is a symptom of a problem, not a cause.
How well do these safety feature survive 2,000+ºF fire burning next to them?
Oh my...RUN FOR THE HILLS! Seriously, search for the complaints about them on Twitter.

Thank you so much for revealing this to everyone.
What's hilarious is it doesn't seem to prevent exam cheating in any meaningful way anyway, according to some students I've chatted to.
Switzerland, and to a lesser extent Germany, are very very conservative. Switzerland's credo is that the 1950s was a good time, and things should remain exactly as they were then, with minimal changes. When did women get the vote there, again?
Always wear a helmet, don't drink and ride, and don't ride a bike that's too big for you or too powerful for you. Beyond that, continually practice your basic riding skills - especially swerving. If you do that, which granted many riders don't, then your probability of serious injury is vastly diminished.
People supported by Emmaus usually are not a good fit for job market. The goal is to help them grow. In the end, most of them will stay there. It's not an achievable goal for everyone. I don't think you can blame "frozen mediocrity" for this. Many supported people have not been raised in France.
Typically layoffs hit civil servants with a lag of a few years since government budgets are already decided before economic down turns, and only really impacted when the next budget is decided.

For example the friends I had working in the public sector during 2008 didn't start to get really hit until 2010.
Does the phone use Android or another operating system? I looked into the Kyocera phones but couldn't really understand this. Presumably it's Android if you can sideload APKs, but then, is it google Android or another version?
If it wasn't for 1. maps/transit directions (Google Maps is the only service that is useful for this where I live) 2. video calls with family, I would probably be OK with an early 2000s Nokia. But I want both of those things, so I keep reluctantly using an iPhone.
There is this really great South Park episode where one of the characters has the 'ability' to distinct between actual news content and advertisements disguised as news [1].

I feel like this is - sadly - more and more required as well when browsing HN as there seem to be more and more postings where an advertisement is disguised as 'hacker news'.

Can someone enlighten me how the availability of coupon codes for a VPN provider on Amazon is considered news?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7XOCG_P6o4
Almost no one, besides some country with the biggest population on earth. ;-)

Btw:

http://www.emojidick.com/
I vouched this because if this was KGB and a Russian company it’d surely be upvoted. In those cases referring to CIA and Google would be seen as whataboutism, if it can’t be discussed there this should not be flagged.

Surely this is an interesting topic we can have a mature conversation about.
Why? The middle people in a pyramid scheme are still winners.
I could see this being an option for Enterprises with concerns around intellectual property or sensitive data leakage.
I have seen it mentioned before in other articles/implementations of garbage collectors. I think anyone interested in GC will come across, although certainly no as often as ones that are currently popular.
This is a pet peeve of mine, but why not spell out the word “people” when you’re spelling out every other word in your post?
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I see. I missed the _drying_ part. The moisture has to go away from the glue for it to dry. We can help here by placing a flat water absorbing material on the tape!
You really nailed it with that car analogy.

Most "car people" would agree that changing the oil in your car is super easy. To me, it is not easy. It's not something I'm willing to do, even though I know the steps of how to do it. I just don't know what I don't know. When I have my oil changed, the mechanic tells me what I should be concerned about. He tells me what upcoming work I need to have done, how much it will cost, and what could happen if I don't do it. He has experience, expertise, and specialized tools. He had knowledge gathered over years to be highly proficient in his profession.

I could do those things. I could read, and listen, and learn. I could be under my car every day learning new things about how to install this, or replace that. But I don't really have the drive or inclination to do so. I'd rather leave it to the pro. I also have the added novice-worry of screwing something up, and hurting myself or others as a result. I don't want that kind of pressure. I don't want my car breaking down while doing some long journey - I just want it to run when I need it to run, without any scary warning lights coming up on my dashboard.

To bring the analogy back to computers, I still know people - people in their 20's or 30's - who do not know how to copy and paste with keyboard shortcuts. I will sit there and see them highlight, right-click, click copy, move their cursor, left-click, right-click, choose paste. I'll tell them how much time they could save if they "just did ..." and get a basic "Yeah...I just don't really care though, ya know? This works." The thing is, there is no investment on their part to want or need to do that more efficiently. They get by well enough with not bothering.

They could get super into computers, and learn something as "technical" as `git clone https: //github.com/some/repo` and follow the process to configure and run a script. They could learn to do those things. But they don't really have that time to invest in it, or don't have that passion for it, or have a professional investment in needing to do it.

They want it to work. They want to not get hacked. They want to not have to think about computers at all. Computers are the interface to do "the thing" more easily. And if the computer breaks? They want it fixed so it won't happen again. The computer "does the internet thing". And I can respect that because they focus their energy into knowledge into other topics that I don't have a clue about, the same way I don't have a clue about cars, even if I know oil changes are "easy".
Totoro is one of best "feel good movies" I've ever watched?
Monkeypox!

https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?+=rt
I think you needed to add the plus sign with the mouse rather than typing, but I'll work on making that error clearer or just having it parse the expression for you
Ask HN: Unique startup landing pages you encountered recently?
So it's seems that almost all landing pages look the same - logo on the top left side, menu on the right side with a CTA, etc...

What are some unique landing pages you encountered recently?
There is what's probably true and then there is what can be proved.

I don't think we're going to see another Clinton run for public office again.
I have two college aged kids and soon they will leave home and return only to visit. That may be a ways off for you now, but it will be here sooner than you think. When that happens, those photos will continue to give you positive feelings about your past but I'm not sure they will do much for your present or do anything to help you navigate into the future.
There's a Gherkin, and there is cool.

But the is no cool as a cucumber, or Pickle Rick for that matter.
Two things that Motif has going for it is that nowadays it is very lightweight without missing much functionality (at least from a pure "functionality" perspective) and the API has been stable since the 90s, so code breakage is rare (though it can still happen since AFAIK some Unix vendors did make customizations that weren't 100% compatible).
Why run? I've hit a brick wall going downhill on a bike. It hurts like hell, but it just hurt like hell. 25 mph is not enough to even guarantee a serious injury (even though it can lead to that, and yeah, in freak accidents can even kill you). However, this vehicles absolute top speed is 25 mph, unloaded. That's why I called out the top speed. It's not going to go 25 mph 99.99% of the time, it'll be going 10 or 15.
When was the last time you heard of a gasoline fire in a modern vehicle? Why is it that EV fires are so common?

> Other than being afraid of new technology.

... but then you resorted to ad hominem. Why would someone have to be "afraid" of new technology in order to have serious and legitimate concerns about it?

To help you out a bit, we also saw very bad lithium battery issues in laptops about ten years ago (just search youtube), to the point where airlines were seriously considering banning laptops and phones from being brought on board (and did ban one version of the Galaxy Note, IIRC). That was resolved, so it stands to reason that as EV improves, the risk of catastrophic fires will improve as well.

(Of course, those batteries were not being violently and physically damaged, so it's unknown whether software will be able to assist with accident-situations with an EV.)
The article says that Shopify is reeling from a post-pandemic fall in demand that the execs didn't see it coming. But forecasting is hard, and even if they had seen it coming, they probably would have needed to hire broadly anyway.

One solution here is to move from 'at will' employment explicit 'tours of service' [0]. If you had hired a bunch of staff in June 2020 under a 2 year contract, with renewal not guaranteed or even expected, you essentially have a built-in mechanism to match employment to the at-home shopping surge.

If you had thought the pandemic would just be one year, or three, you could write the contract accordingly.

This is probably pretty hard for roles where it takes a while to get up and running, but not so hard for, e.g., sales and operations roles.

I personally would appreciate this because every 1-2 years I yearn for a long break.

[0] https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/waeDDnaQBTCNNu7hq/...
Yeah, I really don't get it here.

For competitive games, I can see the argument and demand for anti-cheat.

Here, though? Any actual problem it would solve is better addressed either server side or on the counterparty clients. It seems backwards to require full control of all client software rather than filtering out spam on the receiving and/or intermediary ends.
Wow, I can't imagine living somewhere so remote. I wish I was better at meal planning/prepping/organizing, but it's a work in progress. I also want to get into preserving, pickling, etc. I think since fresh food is readily available where I live and I have the privilege of usually being able to afford fresh produce I've lost touch with how to have a "cushion" in case of emergency (which is something I was raised with).
"When you have both parents working more than 40 hours a week, are you really surprised that they don't have the energy to cook from scratch?"

Yes, because cooking costs like zero energy. The physical activity consists of standing for some 20-30 mins.
Wait, what's corrected?
> As much progress has been made in EVs, I have no interest in sitting atop of a napalm bomb while zipping around town.

That is literally what you are doing with gasoline car. And fuel being much more energy dense than a battery, it is actually more dangerous.
Car burning was a thing way before EVs.