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Re:Stimulation Clicker on Monday January 06, 2025 @04:03PM (#42615779)
Don't click it, that's most of a year I'll never get back.
Thermal sensor won't help without advanced smarts, those devices are hot too!
On the other hand, with "99% perspiration" the water cooler is essential to prevent dehydration.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022) on Thursday December 01, 2022 @09:24PM (#33825940)
Thanks! It's opened up more recently and we're working on adding it. Today it's a special preview for HN readers.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022) on Thursday December 01, 2022 @05:19PM (#33823768)
Principle Studios | Remote | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-level Software Engineer, Engineering Manager | https://principlestudios.com/careers/

Principle was created as a lifestyle design and technology consultancy. Its goal is to prove that caring for our customer’s needs, caring for our community and caring for our team’s well-being are not mutually exclusive.

I'm the Director of Engineering at Principle, and we're looking to hire a number of senior and mid-level engineers to join our team! We have the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies, and right now we are hiring people with a depth of experience in React, C#, and/or managing engineers. This is the best, most talented, and friendliest team I've worked with - we're growing, and I'm excited to bring more people into our culture of excellence without the exhaustion and burnout so prevalent in our industry.

Excellent benefits include: 401k matching, unlimited PTO, profit sharing, company-covered insurance, and stipends for home office, training, and fitness.

We're fully remote - if you're a US citizen/permanent resident and can do US timezone hours, you can work wherever you want!

Contact me to apply or for more info: [email protected]

Re:How to design a house to last 1000 years on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @01:32PM (#29812986)
Carve it into the side of a mass of stone that has survived all the other earthquakes already.
Not just that - monastics practice 'prayer without ceasing', hesychasm.

There's a great book "The Way of the Pilgrim" that explores a man's journey to discover what 'prayer without ceasing' means and how it could be possible.

There's also a monastery that was called 'the unsleeping ones' where they divided the hours of the day into shifts and had monastics in prayers throughout the day and night continuously.

Gundam Wing! It's not a huge commitment either - 50 episodes plus a couple movies.
Re:1.1.1.1 for Families on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:20AM (#29026433)
https://nextdns.io (fixed typo)
I've never had a more visceral reaction to a comment.

Thanks, I hate it.

Re:Twenty percent of a picture of a dog on Thursday September 09, 2021 @04:32PM (#28474309)
I really like this and how it explained current events re: NFTs.

But then I read this paragraph and it's so incorrect that I can't trust the rest of the article:

> ... One thing that I like to think about short selling is that it creates new shares of a company, and to some extent those shares compete with the shares issued by the company. If you short a bunch of oil-company stock, someone who wants to buy oil-company stock might buy it from you instead of from the company. In the limit, if enough people embrace the idea of shorting oil stocks, they will crowd out the oil companies; it will be impossible to finance oil drilling because any money you put into oil stocks will go to short sellers, not drilling.

Re:Anatomy of a Catastrophic Boiler Accident (1997) on Thursday September 09, 2021 @09:55AM (#28469710)
The rate of steam generation can't be controlled in the same way as electricity, no? As I think about it, I suppose electricity generation also can depend on large amounts of moving water - maybe it would work by having extra capacity that is 'bled off' when not needed.
Re:Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @04:51PM (#27597026)
Lucky for you, it's going to be the future soon:

https://open.spotify.com/track/2chEZfdAqJvlw9dM3hAU6p?si=c8f...

Re:Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @11:32AM (#21515379)
And editable! Last time I drew a sequence diagram on a whiteboard I instinctively tried to drag and drop a box to another location. I was sorely disappointed.
Re:GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract on Friday November 01, 2019 @12:44PM (#21420816)
The important distinction is that Project Dragonfly was being built to serve a single customer and purpose, both of which employees were not comfortable with. GitHub is built to serve any customer and has a defined purpose that is generally useful. Employees are now uncomfortable with their generally useful tool being used as intended by a customer they do not approve of.

It's not really an apples to apples comparison.

Yes, because there are more factors than the treatment itself, and it is important to be able to ascribe benefit/harm to the treatment vs. the other factors.

As mentioned in another comment, the sad state of Alzheimers patient care today includes infrequent attention. It is plausible that two visits from another human each day would in itself cause the same kind of improvement seen in the study.

Without a control group, it is impossible to ascribe the results to the treatment or the other aspects of the study.

Re:Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorching Heat on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @12:25PM (#20697127)
My cold water is coming out of the tap a lot warmer than usual, and that's from underground! I'm super interested in bringing back older tech to make us more sustainable and self-sufficient.
Re:Stun Belts in Court on Friday August 02, 2019 @04:38PM (#20596430)
Nope, you're still visible.
This is a ridiculous representation of Protestant Work Ethic.
Re:Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements on Thursday May 30, 2019 @01:37PM (#20053807)
Thanks, haven't seen it abbreviated that way before.
Re:Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements on Thursday May 30, 2019 @12:23PM (#20052811)
What is "ubo"?
Re:Ask HN: Best way to test accessibility of a website? on Monday March 25, 2019 @03:55PM (#19486165)
https://www.compliancesheriff.com/

Compliance Sheriff helps identify compliance issues with WCAG and Section 508 standards, and their scan will give output with visual indicators of the non-compliant areas. Haven't seen that in any other tool.

They have a free test for up to 10 publicly facing URLs too.

Re:Golden Rules for Making Money (1880) on Monday March 25, 2019 @03:24PM (#19485897)
More charitably, perhaps he is relaying advice he learned the hard way.
Re:Strength in Numbers: An Entire Ecosystem Relies on Tor on Sunday January 13, 2019 @07:10PM (#18899586)
This is where "parallel construction" comes into play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

The entity using the information works backwards to construct a plausible fake chain of events which is acceptable to a court and hides the true source of the information.

Re:Startups Rejecting Venture Capital on Friday January 11, 2019 @01:40PM (#18885729)
It's not for everyone, but it sounds like you know what you want, and you are in the position to do it. Go for it!
Re:Google One on Friday December 14, 2018 @12:50PM (#18682805)
It doesn't even include a messaging platform!
Re:Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents, Only Poorer on Thursday November 29, 2018 @01:26PM (#18562465)
That's really our only hope at this point.

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