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Re:What's Earth's dominant species by mass? on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @02:57AM (#49989289)
I didn’t realize the fourth book was out, I just ordered it! I loved the first three.
Re:Vacation isn’t the answer to employee burnout on Friday September 03, 2021 @07:10PM (#28410466)
I was thinking of various 80% flexible working models and there are some great set ups.

4 on, 3 off is usual

But if you break it up to two week cycles you get: 4 on, 2 off, 4 on, 4 off 4 on, 1 off, 4 on, 5 off

And even wilder if you do three week cycles: 6 on, 2 off, 6 on, 7 off

Imagine a full week off every third week! Of course, this likely is not very realistic because it would not line up with collaborators well.

A few people on my team use virtual backgrounds that say “be right back”. You can set your background to that if you need to step away from your computer. Some add little emojis (like brewing coffee) or other things to personalize it.
If you’re going to make a claim against what a reasonable person would expect, the burden of proof is on you to support your claim. You said tik tok like counts aren’t real and someone asked you for source. Then, rather than giving a source, you made another unsupported claim about Facebook doing the same thing. I don’t have an opinion one way or the other, but I do enjoy reading HN for lively conversation and debate. I’d prefer the debate to be in good spirit and based on fact, not conjecture.
If you’re going to post a comment of skepticism, please try to support your argument with actual criticism. Currently, all I have is your opinion on the article, which is in contrast to the # of people who upvoted the post.

I can easily say that I DO think the article is rigorous and scientific but then we’d disagree without any insight into what we disagree on.

Check out the mighty music player. It can download a certain amount of Spotify song/podcasts offline. It’s like 70-80 bucks. Battery life is alright, around 5 hours now I think. It does Bluetooth connection to headphones too, though that hurts battery life I think
Re:Entropy explained, with sheep (2016) on Saturday August 15, 2020 @08:29PM (#24173701)
I think the confusion is in the way that sheep as a word can be both plural and singular. Specifically, one sheep is as likely to be in any single spot compared to any other single spot. It’s when you get to more than one sheep that you see the distributions