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Re:Precious Plastic Is in Trouble on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @10:36PM (#44176728)
From my own personal experience, it sounds like mismanagement

If you have six months of funds, left to operate, then count your blessings and be grateful and be creative bro

come on now why are you complaining?

Re:Precious Plastic Is in Trouble on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @10:34PM (#44176720)
Six months before we run out of money oh my gosh, what a blessing, bro count your blessings and be grateful
Yo Yo Ma is pretty skinny

and hn is more like reddit than it used to be

Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly on Sunday March 05, 2023 @11:37AM (#35031131)
Any context, reasoning, or background?
Re:Building an Intelligent Emacs on Friday February 11, 2022 @10:25PM (#30309659)
I left a decade ago and came back using doom and have gained a new respect for both emacs and lisp.

Having such a configurable tool is an invitation to the subtle with an attention to detail.

Free Software is so far away from the mainstream consumer culture and it provides an immeasurable value to those who invest.

Re:Privacy preserving attribution for advertising on Friday February 11, 2022 @03:09PM (#30306409)
How much did Meta contribute to Moz as a part of the deal?
Re:Ask HN: Is startup PTSD real and possible? on Friday March 12, 2021 @11:41PM (#26444011)
What a wonderful list of mind opening activities for the burnt out.

Time off helps and is difficult to take for the chronically obsessed.

Chose your obsessions carefully and learn how to let go.

Re:Ask HN: Is startup PTSD real and possible? on Friday March 12, 2021 @11:32PM (#26443979)
Life is trauma. The more we take on the more punches we take. Let us not let our ambitions be weapons against ourselves. Leadership takes wisdom based on experience and learning.

The adrenals are the alarm, and the thyroid is the gas pedal. Trauma can offset both.

But yes, life and work is tough unless we have balance and willingness to grow from pain.

Keep breathing deep and take ashwagandha.

These times are more rough than most recent histories.

Sending love.

Re:90% of Everything Is Crap on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:41PM (#25852370)
There is a corollary to Sturgeon’s law which states:

This remains true for the remaining 10%

Re:A mysterious radio burst that keeps repeating on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @10:41PM (#24289658)
My favorite part of that story IIRC is that it only registered when people opened the microwave before the alarm went off.

I am more patient now to let the microwave complete after hearing about subtleties of the microwave emissions.

Re:Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devices on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @03:57PM (#21140188)
Courage over Escapism always /s
Re:Extremophiles and life in the most unlikely of places on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:19PM (#21021323)
Everybody is somebody's extremophile.
Re:Japan team maps trove of rare earth elements on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @03:30PM (#16814652)
My new favorite word combo

“Semi-infinite”

Re:Ask HN: What to do in Portland? on Thursday October 28, 2010 @08:18PM (#1845540)
so powells technical moved up 2 blocks (just across the main store on 10th and Couch) and is now called powells 2. as of last month.