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Re:Filing the Corners Off MacBooks on Saturday April 11, 2026 @11:10AM (#47731300)
a positively angled keyboard is actually less ergonomic (at least for most people), and a holdover from typewriters.
Re:Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @10:22PM (#47257125)
Ran by this dude "Russ George", they dumped 120 tons of iron dust off the coast of Canada into the Pacific, created a massive algal bloom, and subsequently had the 2nd biggest salmon harvest on record (219M): https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=pressreleases.pr1... despite a forecast of 54M https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/fishing/PDFs/commercial/s....

He got fired. More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_George

Re:Open Source Iran War Cost Tracker: 45.7B on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:29PM (#47252573)
Thank you for the feedback, I'll take it into account. Much appreciated!
Re:Open Source Iran War Cost Tracker: 45.7B on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:00PM (#47252185)
Pretty certain from this that it's a US asset: https://www.wpafb.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/111460...
Re:Open Source Iran War Cost Tracker: 45.7B on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @01:58PM (#47252149)
Mine seems to be a bit more focused and comprehensive on the financial expenditures by the US government, and open source. Also iran-cost-ticker.com seems to be "on hold" when i visit it.
Re:Open Source Iran War Cost Tracker: 45.7B on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @01:30PM (#47251732)
I made a site a couple of days ago to track the cost of the iran war. It's open source, feel free to submit a PR or open an issue: https://github.com/koverda/iranwarcost.com
Re:Iran War Cost Tracker on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @03:57PM (#47238890)
neat! I made (vibecoded) and deployed something very similar yesterday iranwarcost.com
Re:Weak-to-Strong Generalization on Thursday December 14, 2023 @01:10PM (#38644817)
spam?
Re:Tesla Normal Operating Sounds on Saturday November 25, 2023 @01:44AM (#38411741)
what do you mean?
Re:Dear Websites, Stop Asking for Ransom Sign-Ups on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:38PM (#36964824)
cart rescue campaigns technically qualify as "transactional" campaigns, rather than promotional campaigns. that's why that happens
Re:Reddit has disabled copy/paste on right click on Thursday June 29, 2023 @05:36PM (#36527078)
there's also no mention of this at all on reddit.
Re:LED Lights and Screens Are Killing You on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @11:56PM (#34906946)
Regarding the quoted e-book study:

> Third, in the present study, the LE-eBook was set to maximum brightness throughout the 4-h reading session, whereas, by comparison, the print-book condition consisted of reflected exposure to very dim light.

Yeah, max brightness is probably going to make an impact. I bet if you were in a room with a bright light reading a book, with an equivalent amount of lumens going into your eyeballs, you'd probably have a tough time sleeping. This study seems like it was set up to generate a certain set of results. I wonder how it would look if the quantity of light was controlled for.

Additionally, the comparisons to the incandescent spectrum and the freaking out about the blue peaks (which seem pretty small) was over the top. The incandescent spectrum contains blue, and the "peak" of the other spectra would contain an equivalent integral of blue light as compared to a slightly brighter incandescent light.

Just turn the lights down low at night and get some warm spectrum bulbs and you'll be okay.

Re:'artificial photosynthesis' claimed 10x more efficient on Monday February 20, 2023 @09:15PM (#34875645)
We can just store the fuel for carbon capture in that case, right?
Any sources on that?
Re:Facebook Down? on Friday October 28, 2022 @04:00PM (#33376963)
down for me
Re:Facebook Down? on Friday October 28, 2022 @03:58PM (#33376932)
facebook's status page shows up, downdetector shows an issue.

https://metastatus.com/ https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/

Re:AirPods Pro (2nd Generation) on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @04:03PM (#32755971)
Sure do, i wonder if these new ones have fixed that. The talk about a microphone update on apple's site...
Re:Ask HN: Why can't we comment on “X is Hiring” posts? on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @06:00PM (#32586338)
I noticed the opposite, there's a lot of people leaving positive comments on a lot of ads.
also seeing some issues ...
managers are employees too
beans, $700 / metric ton [1] rice, $500 / metric ton [2]

a meal of 65g dry rice and 55g dry beans per person.

700m * 3 = 2.1b meals per day 115,500 tons beans = $80.9m 136,500 tons rice = $68.3m

Total $149.1m/day

I'm sure at these quantities you can get much better prices of rice and beans, even just browsing on alibaba. I'd guess we can probably get that down under $100m from alibaba. Probably even lower at the quantities we're talking about.

1 - https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/red-bean-wholesales-s...

2 - https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Jasmine-Rice-Long-Gra...

It uses boron nitride which seems relatively easily available in large-ish quantities: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/nano-boron-nitride-po...
Re:Scratch is a big deal on Saturday July 16, 2022 @03:01PM (#32120906)
Can he read yet?
Re:LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor on Saturday July 09, 2022 @01:15PM (#32037206)
I’m up to dual 75 inch 8k and it feels just right. Tried going down to 43 inches and it felt cramped.
Re:Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @01:22PM (#31494948)
Yeah I do use it sometimes.
Re:Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @12:47PM (#31494464)
I miss the K810 for it's perfect flatness. I've since switched to a lenovo thinkpad wireless trackpoint keyboard. It's flat, compact and awesome. I'd suggest to check it out.

Ask HN: What supply chain and ops management resources do you recommend?

Hi HN,I'm a founder at an IoT company and we've been having a tough time with supply chain and ops for the last year, if not longer. We're constantly out of stock or scrambling to catch up on backorders.I figured I would ask what books, tools, resources, etc you guys all use to manage your operations and supply chain.Thanks!

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