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Re:Ask HN: Best way to increase typing speed? on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:56PM (#22610327)
Das was great, but starting with the 4 they changed manufacturers to china and have lame quality for the price. (I say this as someone who has a 12 year old das in front of me that I'm using to type this) I do totally recommend a blank keyboard, though! Just check out wasd or kb paradise or something

Here's a up to date buying guide, find one that lets you get blank or has a standard layout you can swap with a set of caps you like https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/buying_gui...

Re:Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:00AM (#22118633)
Valve experimented with episodic games with half life. The idea was to release small, couple hour episodes as a continuation of the story frequently, instead of waiting a long time to make a half life 3.

Clearly that didn't happen.

What you need to know is that it's more campaign for half life 2. If HL2 is a movie, episode one is the first episode of the TV show. Smaller, but still good.

Re:Around the World in Rare and Beautiful Apples on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @08:59AM (#21991450)
One of the weird things about apples is that every seed contains very different DNA than whatever it came from.

It sounds like that was just a random variation that someone planted. Did the apples taste any good? If they had, you might have been able to sell them. It's very possible that particular variety of apple will never exist again.

I'm going to use this for every internal page I write, even if charts aren't necessary
Re:Ask HN: Best Noise Canceling Headphones on Monday November 18, 2019 @07:30AM (#21563776)
As far as noise cancelling goes, there's really only 3 phones that are worth considering:

WH-1000XM3

QC35

Bose 700

As a side note, I use a pair of beyerdynamics DT770 80 ohm headphones, and they have positively excellent isolation. With music on, I can't hear anything outside, and nobody can hear anything I'm hearing at all. Have you tried to see if closed, isolated headphones fit your use case? There's way more options in that space, so you're more likely to find something comfortable and with a sound signature you really like.