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Re:Obsidian Bases on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @03:39AM (#44949190)
Hm I was hoping this would be about Obsidian-based Wikis.
It feels like a lot of complications the watchmakers are building now are stuck in the early 20th century. Sure, perpetual calendars will always be useful, but what about:

* pomodoro focus timers * multiple TZ support - like GMT watches but more than one additional TZ shown at once * timers * alarms

Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities on Friday February 16, 2024 @07:35AM (#39396117)
In addition to Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine were also invaded in 2014, and a lot of the area that was invaded then is still occupied today.
Re:Germany explores 4-day workweek amid labor shortage on Thursday February 01, 2024 @02:37PM (#39220228)
Instead of a 4-day workweek how about setting reasonable hiring standards so that hundreds of thousands of people out of work, especially non-native German speakers, have a chance of getting past the job application screen.

Most jobs, even in tech, in DE currently require good knowledge of German, and "good" is being interpreted as near-native.

Just to clarify that the Starlink service isn’t being provided for free — many of volunteers (and not just them) are paying for subscriptions with their credit cards. [1]

I’m sure there are additional costs for Starlink operations in Ukraine vs other countries, such as extra measures against jamming etc so the operation is less profitable in Ukraine than elsewhere.

And from what I understand there are some terminals that work without a subscription (although I haven’t seen any info about them specifically).

But it’s not free for many users in Ukraine.

[1]: https://wccftech.com/ukrainians-are-paying-for-starlink-them...

Re:Estonia: Become an E-Resident on Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:04AM (#33639798)
There is an open company registry, it’s possible to see the companies a person owns in Estonia, and how much revenue those companies have generated in the past quarter through rik.ee. Doesn’t require registration to search.
Some providers in DE also don’t allow eSIM on prepaid plans - you have to be on a contract to be able to use eSIM at all (looking at you, Telekom).
Used to be called dashdash.
Re:Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone on Sunday May 23, 2021 @05:36AM (#27253669)
TIL! Thank you.
Re:Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:35AM (#27253345)
More specifically:

Settings.app —> Privacy —> Location services —> Camera

and turning off the “precise location” option for the Camera app that way.

It would be ideal if there were an “EXIF data” toggle in the Camera section that could allow sharing pictures with apps but with all metadata removed.

Re:What I learnt after burning $10M as an entrepreneur on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @08:30AM (#26646364)
Right, and beyond the value proposition of the email service, you are also serving your customers _by_ being profitable. Because this suggests that your service will be around in many years and hopefully won’t change in ways that users won’t appreciate (which is common with funded companies these days).
Re:Coinbase S-1 on Thursday February 25, 2021 @08:12AM (#26262359)
Agreed, I personally view them as a bridge between the traditional brokerage model that more traditional investors can understand and use, and the crypto world that is looking to be separate from the traditional model.
Re:Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011) on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:47AM (#25033414)
Are there any similar studies that compared modern organically farmed vegetables or fruits with the 1950s versions?
Re:Global air pollution maps by the European Space Agency on Thursday June 11, 2020 @03:05PM (#23492263)
Was going to ask the same question. There also is a spot in Poland that’s not in a large city - was curious about that one as well. Some sort of NO2-generating production? Also between DRC and Angola.
I found my friend Jason Long’s book to be very useful:

https://www.howtokicksaas.com

The SaaS Build section focuses on building with a team, but other sections don't make assumptions about team vs one-person business setup.

Lots of specifics which certain other books lack. The book is not 100% finished.

Re:Cooking Patterns on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @02:24PM (#8999037)
Patterns to ride a bicycle? Sounds interesting…
Re:Cooking Patterns on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @02:23PM (#8999028)
Yep, foodpairing.com is a great tool for this. In the longer term I would prefer to not to need it at all, but for now foodpairing + a set of cooking patterns is what I am concentrating on.

Thanks for the book titles, added to the top of the reading list!

Re:Cooking Patterns on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @02:21PM (#8999010)
Sincerely saying, I have never made a demi-glace, although I should have. Will try after studying the process, thanks for sharing!

For me, Escoffier’s book is probably comparable to Bjarne Stroustrup’s “The C++ Programming Language”, at least by complexity of the material, so I am somewhat afraid of using it. As far as I know, “Le Guide Culinaire” is used as a source of recipes for the Master Chef exam, for example.

Maybe I should try approaching it again with some patience. Cheers!

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015) on Sunday February 01, 2015 @05:30PM (#8981950)
I think I just understood where I am going to spend my next weekend :) Hello, Alto Adige!
Re:A system that pours a glass of wine without opening the bottle on Thursday December 25, 2014 @01:39PM (#8796836)
I wonder if there will be a grey / black market for non-original capsules. Seems promising since, as far as I know, argon is not _that_ expensive to buy.
Re:Show HN: Artful for Mac on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @04:30AM (#8728412)
That would be impressive.

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