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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Learning? on Friday June 25, 2021 @11:13AM (#27631808)
practical common lisp
is it possible to refill the aquifer using technology ? sea water desalination perhaps ?
i hope there is a toggle button in front menu to disable javascript just a click away.

not buried levels deep in settings.

Re:Ask HN: How can I improve my intelligence? on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:13AM (#27103496)
use simple but powerful tool, like math.

for programming language, the more math-like, the better.

Re:The Wright brothers: The O.G. startup founders? on Saturday May 01, 2021 @11:21AM (#27006996)
what is o.g. startup ?
Re:Where did the other dollar go, Jeff? on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:25AM (#26978661)
10+10+10 = 30 = 25+5 = 25 + 2 + (1+1+1)

9+9+9 = 25+2

can vaccine be open sourced?
Re:Ask HN: How are you hedging against inflation? on Friday April 23, 2021 @08:04AM (#26913835)
gardening
Re:Largest card grading service halts submissions on Saturday April 17, 2021 @07:37AM (#26843478)
how hard is it to make fake cards that pass psa grading ?
Re:Ask HN: What to use instead of Bash / Sh for scripting? on Saturday April 10, 2021 @11:38AM (#26762250)
#!/usr/bin/newlisp
Re:The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:53AM (#26500224)
greed
Re:We created a fake language to root out resume liars on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:34AM (#26409484)
... just when i wanted to order the o'reilly mova book
Re:Fun with a Functional Programming Interview Question on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @02:15AM (#26074744)
newlisp:

(set 'L '()) (dolist (s (explode "aaaabbbcca")) (if (!= (ref-all s L) '((0 0))) (push (list s 1) L) (inc (L 0 1)))) (print (reverse L))

Re:When costs are nonlinear, keep it small on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @03:24AM (#25843911)
cron to the rescue
cron rem
Re:Japan developing wooden satellites to cut space junk on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @07:19AM (#25569042)
how do satelite companies ensure there's no debris in each satelite's spot in space before launch ?
won't the droplets dry after circulation?

possibly killing the virus?

Re:Ask HN: What was a book that changed your life? on Thursday December 24, 2020 @04:33PM (#25531640)
Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist

by Diana Walstad

svelte
Re:Ask HN: How Do You Learn? on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @05:04AM (#24774626)
practice a lot, redo exercises, always start with blank editor
Re:Awfice – A collection of tiny office suite apps on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:52PM (#24757226)
browsers have the bad habit of autorefresh
Re:The Nature of Lisp on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @01:46PM (#24557608)
typing 'end' instead of ')' is two characters too much
Re:Vue.js 3 on Friday September 18, 2020 @01:16PM (#24519362)
i learned vue2 3-4 years ago.

should i learn vue3 or svelte instead?

can you vary the pressure of sprinklers? like max pressure on corners that a perfect square irrigation can be obtained.
probably because the most vulnerables are already phased out leaving the more resistant types
Re:New facts about the leadup to the Beirut explosion on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @06:25AM (#24281087)
it's the weapon factory that should be responsible for the explosion because they made the KNO3
Re:Firefox 80 on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @03:49PM (#24275290)
there's no easy way to disable javascript on site viewing. brave got ir right with brave shield.

add disable image on the ff shield then it's even more useful.

brave suffers chrome's always forced refresh when stale tab is reopened or when page is scrolled up to induce reload wheel

sometimes users do not want the freshest page. there's a reload button for that. sometimes we just want to save the stale page.

pass the tax & expenses to customer

they'll become taxi company (without obtaining medallion)

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