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Re:The Aging Programmer on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @02:18PM (#42637492)
I know it really doesn't count for much but I suffer from hyper-mobility and have ADHD as well. So hey we have an n of one so far.
Re:Do You Need to Shower Every Day? on Monday October 23, 2023 @02:58PM (#37990035)
This is the exception to the rule that when a headline is phrased as a question the answer is always no.
Seems like this version hides or deletes your queries with a push to some cloud login. I'll be looking for an alternative if this is the direction Insomnia is headed.

https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6585

I view Ramda as a redflag in most any code base I see it in. Anecdotally, every large codebase I have worked with that heavily used Ramda is generally held together by one very smart engineer. Once that engineer leaves the company, the code base falls apart because no one else can understand it very well and it takes ages to fix bugs or ship new features. So these days I champion against Ramda simply because I think it just takes to much effort for a typical engineer to understand and it is usually at odds with the rest of the companies code.
One item I believe that hasn't been mentioned are the effects of carbonated water/soda on ones oral health.
Re:Is everything falling apart? on Friday April 29, 2022 @12:13PM (#31207077)
This is one of the most factually incorrect things I see repeated over and over. I know it is quite a long read but it's explained pretty well here https://acoup.blog/category/collections/the-fremen-mirage/
Re:Postman Now Supports gRPC on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:18AM (#30179617)
This sounds like a really bad idea. With orange juice it takes less than 30 seconds to differentiate the versions. If this was done with something like Microsoft Word you would probably have to spend the better part of a day teasing out exactly which features you needed or wanted. I think a semi relevant modern example would be how the release of hitman 3 worked out. They had to make a flow chart of how to buy the right copy of the game with the features you wanted.

https://i.redd.it/cfnqsnldc1d81.png

Re:Why it's so hard to find dumbbells in the US on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @09:24AM (#24271056)
I wouldn't say its inferior by any means. I think the biggest difference is accessibility. When one uses weights, progression is very simple, just increase the weight. With body weight exercises one must switch exercises to increase / change the leverage and make the exercise harder to continue progression. A good example of this is going from a regular push up, to a diamond pushup, then moving toward pseudo planche pushups. The move from regular to diamond is not too bad as you only need to move your hands closer together, but to make progress towards PPPU, you have to learn how to do a planche lean forward a tiny bit more each time you attempt PPPU's eventually moving your hands from under your shoulders to practically under your hips for generating the push motion. So I guess the main point is body weight exercises require more study and coaching generally to see progression than exercises with weights and the progression you do see is less noticeable than simply adding more weight each time you workout, but they are both very good at gaining strength.

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Re:At an Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms on Monday October 21, 2019 @06:21PM (#21318163)
Reminds me of a good story.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Re:Slack’s Shares Plunge After It Predicts a Larger Loss on Thursday September 05, 2019 @09:57AM (#20886666)
I just wish they had not acquired Screen Hero. That was a beautiful standalone product that I wish I could still use.
Isn't this kind of already a thing? http://www.emergent.info/
Re:The Rise of Edible Insect Farming on Thursday July 05, 2018 @04:37PM (#17466604)
The lobsters they were given were pretty old by the time they got to the consumer so they were more than likely rotten.
Re:Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk? on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:59PM (#16758428)
Overcoming Gravity

For most of my life never really had an interest in working out but learning more about calisthenics and body weight fitness in general has really changed things for me in a positive way, and this book really shows how to progress without access to weights or a gym.

Yeah typo my bad.
I use screenhero daily for work and I am incredibly sad to see it go, even though we all knew this day was coming. It hits even harder for me since my company just moved us off of slack due to their lack of hippa compliance and cost issues, so not only is the standalone screenhero gone, I've lost the ability to use it in slack too. Does anyone have a good suggestion for an alternative?
Seismic waves traveling through the earth refract for the same reason that light refracts when entering different substances (e.g. air, water). The inner core has a different density from the outer core, and this difference in density tells us that it is solid. Of course the density difference could be due to something we don't know yet, but this is out current best guess.
Click bait title much?
Re:Agile is not a Fucking Noun on Friday May 20, 2016 @11:11AM (#11738445)
I would say that their business goals have just changed over time, they went from being a company that spits out games, to a company that spits out money. While the end results have changed there is still underlying software that powers all of these things. Look at the in game cosmetics economy that has sprung up around dota2 and cs:go. If anything this is the definition of being Agile.
Would love to see the results for CouchDB in comparison to these.
In reality they will most likely go down both paths. Amazon and others looking to ship goods via drones will want something bigger, while sports enthusiasts will wants something smaller.
Re:Why men on earth outnumber women by 60M on Thursday June 11, 2015 @03:12PM (#9701667)
Logged into HN just to agree with you guys on how terribly that site is designed. I think the big issue is how if you keep scrolling it just pops another article into the feed so you can never stop scrolling. So there is no way to easily find the end of an article.
Re:How “Legal” Are Seed Libraries? on Friday August 15, 2014 @03:32PM (#8183741)
As much as I hate to say this, but I almost agree that there will need to be some form of oversight into how water is obtained from natural sources and then distributed. You can see all of the crazy issues going on right now in California due to the current drought. However, I also see water as a basic human right, and should not restrict anyones access to it, but these topics get very murky when we start discussing the needs of the many for sustenance, and the needs of the many for I want my lawn to be green or I want to bottle it and resell it.
Is it legal or even possible to prevent these scanning devices from working by having say a ring of infrared LED's shining on your license plate to prevent a camera from being able to capture it?
I imagine they would have some idea of the age of the rock layer the crystal was found in and thus be able to approximate the age of the crystal before more advanced aging techniques become involved.
Just wanted to say you guys need to focus on removing the facebook login requirement before anyone in this community will take it serious.