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Re:Show HN: 1 min workouts for people who sit all day
on Saturday May 24, 2025 @05:49PM (#44084003)
I’ve wanted an app like this for ages. I’ve always suffered from analysis paralysis when trying to work out a good, short exercise routine. This looks like it will be the perfect solution — thank you!
Re:Can You Lose Your Native Tongue? (2024)
on Saturday February 22, 2025 @02:14AM (#43136848)
Bin bag, bin lorry. I grew up saying dustbin but most people just call them bins these days.
I believe “dustbin” is from the Victorian era where what little rubbish people had was burnt in the fireplace. The “dustbin man” would come by and take away your fireplace ashes.
Re:Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo completes first ever sub-57 minute hal...
on Monday February 17, 2025 @01:59AM (#43076014)
I’m not a doctor but perhaps try running with a smart watch that shows you your heart rate and put in an amount of effort that keeps your heart rate at about 60-70% of max. For now that may be a brisk walking pace not even a jog. As you get fitter your heart rate should come down for the equivalent speed. I also used to go for runs and hit max within a few minutes and stay there for the whole run but ultimately I think I was just pushing too hard.
Re:Piracy in the UK: the failed war on illegal content
on Sunday December 29, 2024 @02:18AM (#42538296)
When will the movie industry learn from the success of services like Spotify or DRM free music services like Bandcamp? I want media I can own, or consume from a single subscription. I would happily pay a few quid for a movie if I could download a high quality DRM free file. Piracy is not only free but provides a better product, a file you can do whatever you want with and watch anywhere.
Personally I don’t pirate, I prefer getting second hand physical media (funnily enough the movie studios miss out on any money there as well).
Re:When a Crystal Ball Isn't Enough to Make You Rich – Elm Partners
on Sunday December 15, 2024 @03:08PM (#42425616)
Read the post. It said that people trade in the wrong direction the majority of the time. So played the game with the strategy that I’d go 50x leverage long or short in the opposite direction to my initial hunch upon reading the headlines.
Ended up with a 1000% return. Just need a time machine now.
Re:Control iPhone with the movement of your eyes Support (SG)
on Friday November 15, 2024 @09:10AM (#42147082)
I love how many neat and handy features are baked into the iOS accessibility settings. Apple should make more noise about these features. I recently discovered there’s a white noise generator baked in which meant I could get rid of the annoying white noise app I had been using to keep my napping baby asleep. Another recent discovery was the on screen anti-motion sickness things that move around with the accelerometer. I get terrible motion sickness and they make a massive difference.
Re:Sleep on it: How the brain processes many experiences – even when '...
on Monday September 02, 2024 @03:44PM (#41428233)
Reminds me of a similar situation I experienced while working on a big project. I came down with the flu and woke up in a delirious, feverish state at 2am feeling like I was trapped in the codebase and I needed to make all the tests pass so I could escape. It almost felt like my conscious brain had somehow found its way into the unconscious part.
Re:Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple ver...
on Monday November 27, 2023 @02:08AM (#38429114)
This is cool. It reminds me of a research team I worked in a few years back that had built something like this for mobile devices. It used a camera overhead to provide info about device positions, allowing all the devices to act as a single screen on a surface [0].
Re:LLMs Confabulate Not Hallucinate
on Thursday October 05, 2023 @01:47AM (#37775270)
But do LLMs dream of electric sheep?
I actually find this acts as a useful heuristic to bound the complexity of a diagram appropriately. For example if I'm making a diagram with Mermaid and find the code is becoming unwieldy, I take that as an indicator that I'm trying to stuff too much info into one diagram and I should split it into separate diagrams or redo it at a higher level of abstraction.
Re:Lego axes plan to make bricks from recycled bottles
on Monday September 25, 2023 @08:11AM (#37642462)
People do try to throw them away. A good chunk of my kids' lego collection is a mixed selection of blocks we found in a skip.
UK air traffic control outage caused by bad data in flight plan
Re:Ask HN: What tech newsletters are you currently subscribing?
on Monday July 10, 2023 @03:21PM (#36671574)
https://www.dataengineeringweekly.com/
I’ve found this one very useful as a Data Engineer. Worth subscribing if you’re working in the data space.
Re:Writing summaries is more important than reading more books
on Sunday May 21, 2023 @10:44AM (#36021423)
Comes down to personal preference at the end of the day. Would you rather know a lot about a bit or a bit about a lot. I’m definitely in the latter category.
Re:‘No mow’ movement could transform our lawns
on Saturday April 22, 2023 @04:51PM (#35670811)
My grandfather was famously anti-lawn-mowing[0]. His un-mowed lawn eventually sprouted some rare bee orchids among a vast array of other wildflowers. It always looked beautiful when we pulled into the drive when we went to visit.
[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-ga...
Re:Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists in City of London
on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:19AM (#35232796)
I greatly minimise the risks in several ways:
- Planning routes that avoid particularly risky roads or junctions and take advantage of separated bike lanes where possible. This is trivial in a city as there's hundreds of possible routes between two places.
- A cargo bike itself is a much larger and more visible presence on the road than a regular bike. That combined with the visible children on board usually means motorists do a better job of staying clear than they do when I'm on a regular bike.
- Staying well clear of HGVs in ALL circumstances. Once you start cycling in a way where you treat any HGV as imminent death on wheels, you notice how many potentially dangerous situations you avoid.
More generally, I find cycling in London feels quite safe. This is because drivers in London are mostly used to cyclists and generally act appropriately around them. Also traffic speeds are generally 20mph or less.
Re:Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists in City of London
on Monday March 20, 2023 @10:08AM (#35231716)
I live in London. We have three kids, no car and an electric cargo bike which they can all fit in. It's brilliant and all we need for getting around London. I've also used it for picking up furniture and building materials - such a versatile vehicle and much more enjoyable to use than a car.
Re:Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” response to ChatGPT
on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:11AM (#34791440)
They have lost their mojo in that they've failed countless times to diversify their business revenue stream. They're in the same boat as Meta in that regard. Especially if you compare them to Microsoft, Amazon and Apple who have all made good progress in diversifying over the last decade or so.
Re:Citizen scientists report global rapid reductions in the visibility...
on Friday January 20, 2023 @03:30PM (#34459412)
"Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out."
Onboarding Driven Documentation
Re:Tell HN: Best Use for old iPads (that I found)
on Sunday January 15, 2023 @05:38PM (#34394404)
A smoker friend of mine used to carry around one of those little camera film canisters to put his cig butts in. Obviously being careful to extinguish them fully first beforehand so the plastic didn’t get melted.
Re:The iPhone Keyboard – Make It or Break It (2022)
on Saturday January 14, 2023 @02:22AM (#34378061)
The iPhone autocorrect has got noticeably worse over the last 4 years or so. I’ve been an iPhone user since 2012 and I’m sure it used to be so much easier to type on despite having a significantly smaller screen.
The thing that grinds my gears most is if something happens to be an apple trademark, it will auto capitalise it. For example “power nap” (the name of a feature on macs) becomes “Power Nap”.
I’ve seen a few people saying that the iPhone typing experience has gotten worse lately. I wonder if there’s any analysis to back this up or if Apple are aware?
Re:‘That Girl Is Going to Get Herself Killed’
on Monday January 09, 2023 @10:26AM (#34311332)
There was a good discussion about this a few months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32933603
Re:The Problem with Dependency Injection Frameworks
on Sunday January 08, 2023 @05:05PM (#34303690)
Yes I’m aware. My point was it’s not that concealed once you’ve invested the time to read the docs and peek at the code of whatever framework you’re using. The time to do that is nothing compared to the time saved using these frameworks.
I wasn’t sitting there thinking Harry Potter wrote Spring Boot.
Re:The Problem with Dependency Injection Frameworks
on Sunday January 08, 2023 @03:43PM (#34302894)
> I need to know everything that’s going on in my code. I need simple, straightforward function calls. Nothing else! I want to be able to start at main() and trace through the code. I want to look at callers and find where every parameter came from. Reading code is hard enough already. Magic frameworks make it harder.
But these frameworks aren't magic. They're just code. Sure it means you have a bit more code to read through to work out what's causing a problem but it's still just code. The time cost of potentially more difficult debugging when things go wrong is nothing compared to the time saved not having to wire things together manually.
I also find DI frameworks actually encourage good design by making it easier to write small, single purpose classes. You don't need to spend time working out where to initialise them so they can be passed to all the dependent classes.
Will generative AIs curate our history?
ULID – Sortable Unique Identifier
Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information
on Friday January 06, 2023 @07:10AM (#34273826)
Goodreads and its “Want to read” shelf is good for this approach with books. I just add any book I see someone recommending to that list then when I need a new book to read I can pick from there. The ratings on there are handy for sanity checking if a book is worth your time. I’ve found anything with a score of 4.0 or above is usually worth a read.