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Re:Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?
on Sunday January 12, 2025 @01:36AM (#42671720)
This is interesting stuff. Though but my field.
Re:Ford CEO on why it's so difficult for legacy car companies to get s...
on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @12:55PM (#42636684)
F*ked on race day
Re:Swiss watchmakers put employees on state-funded leave as luxury dem...
on Thursday September 05, 2024 @11:47PM (#41462709)
Garmin are fairy popular in my circles and area.
Re:Brands should avoid the term 'AI'. It's turning off customers
on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:13AM (#41233384)
I prefer apps and desktop apps when they are available. They feel and work nicer mostly than web based. But we live more and more in a browser world and there is less and less choice and I understand I must move with the times.
Re:Kepler's 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery
on Friday August 02, 2024 @11:41PM (#41144531)
That’s putting a lot of eggs in one basket on an assumption. I would say let’s keep it in different formats.
Better to be safe than sorry.
Re:Kepler's 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery
on Friday August 02, 2024 @11:21PM (#41144451)
You’re assuming straight line civilisation. That we’ll always be as we are or more advanced technologically speaking. But civilisation isn’t straight line and one day who knows. Physical records will still be accessible even when digital no longer are.
Re:Kepler's 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery
on Friday August 02, 2024 @05:49PM (#41142970)
But are digital records really more resilient to catastrophic societal and global changes? Physical records don’t need anything to exist and be read and only time and simple resources to duplicate compared with digital.
Re:Safer roundabouts are replacing traffic signals (2023)
on Saturday July 13, 2024 @04:08PM (#40956519)
Roundabout’s are only suitable for intersections where traffic on each route is roughly equal. In NZ I can’t recall seeing roundabouts built where the routes are not roughly equal in size and volume. In saying that, mistakes happen and things change and there are roundabouts that suffer this sometimes.
Re:Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other strea...
on Thursday June 06, 2024 @04:30AM (#40594971)
Not very often companies will absorb the costs IME. Sometimes though it’s delayed or through some other side effect.
Re:What We're Working on in Firefox
on Thursday May 30, 2024 @05:21PM (#40528850)
Firefox does have profiles and has had for as long as I’ve needed them. For some reason they’ve always been hidden away and needed different args on start to change the profile being started, or the use of an extension to allow profile switching. I don’t use them anymore but from what I remember they worked well and were very isolated. Hopefully they’re using the current implementation and just making it more user friendly?
Re:Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness
on Saturday May 04, 2024 @04:36AM (#40255963)
Let’s not forget the other kingdoms. We’ll have to be pretty convincing with convince the fungi to stop eating everything they can get their tentacles on
Re:Spotify moves lyrics behind a paywall
on Thursday May 02, 2024 @03:17PM (#40240346)
It’s still a good option, maybe not the best. No ads on youtube in and off its self is worth it. Especially when you have kids and you don't want them blasted with every ad under the sun every few minutes.
Re:Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?
on Monday April 22, 2024 @08:20PM (#40127123)
Everything. Everything I look at or touch I soon realise it’s way bigger and deeper than I thought. You could choose nearly any topic and turn the study of it into a phd if you really want.
Re:Postman Has Acquired Orbit
on Friday April 12, 2024 @06:42AM (#40011140)
Is there a good alternative to postman. I recently tried Bruno and liked it but it was lacking in so many little ways I had to revert to postman. And not for the first time either, I’ve tried other solutions. Postman seems so heavy and annoying now but everything else seems lacking somewhere
Re:California rains resurrect a long-dead lake in dry Death Valley
on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:08PM (#39632386)
Indeed a single quote is. But it 3500m being close to 11000ft feels very coincidental.
Re:Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques from Clogged Arteries
on Thursday March 07, 2024 @12:15PM (#39631531)
I've seen these videos on YouTube. If it's real why is nothing getting said. I'm a little confsed on whether to believe it. Would appreciate some reliable and factual source/report on this.
Re:Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques from Clogged Arteries
on Thursday March 07, 2024 @12:12PM (#39631486)
It's won't be contained to any one generation. This is multi generational both now and in the future.
Re:PG&E claims no connection between rate increases and $2.2B jump in ...
on Monday March 04, 2024 @07:11AM (#39589484)
I don't think they said profit is the problem. They said it being expected increased profits year on year is the problem.
Re:California rains resurrect a long-dead lake in dry Death Valley
on Monday March 04, 2024 @06:54AM (#39589366)
Maybe they were using earth measurements? 3500 metered is getting pretty close to 11000 imperial feet.
Re:Wear OS "Hybrid" design has two OSes, two CPUs, "100 hour" battery ...
on Friday March 01, 2024 @03:53AM (#39559948)
Happy with my up to 31 days amoled watch.
Re:I bought the Apple Vision Pro, even when the technology is amazing ...
on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @05:41AM (#39272887)
So adding to global pollution and consumption for use of and production of items that will end rubbish is ok then when it's not really essential.
Re:Orion Browser by Kagi
on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @02:58AM (#38443453)
Does if have a mobile version or can you sync with a mobile browser of another vendor?
If not then it's not for me at this stage
Re:Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024
on Thursday November 16, 2023 @10:25PM (#38299096)
Does librewolf have a mobile version or can I sync Firefox stuff to libre so I can sync between Firefox and libre where needs require one or the other is installed?
Re:Ask HN: What are you reading these days?
on Sunday November 12, 2023 @01:39AM (#38237906)
Red Mars.
Re:Kagi finally let me lay Google Search to rest
on Thursday October 12, 2023 @01:56AM (#37853883)
Don't use Kagi for this instances if you're that way inclined
Re:Kagi finally let me lay Google Search to rest
on Thursday October 12, 2023 @01:55AM (#37853874)
I use Kagi now and love it.
But I used DDG for a few years prior and rarely ever used Google. I think DDGs results are subjective in that for some people they are better or as good than Google's.
Let's hope Kagi keep up the good work.
Re:Apple will no longer fix the $17,000 gold Apple Watch
on Monday October 02, 2023 @06:39PM (#37745411)
I assume these are solid gold and it can be cast into something useful for many more years?
Re:Digging In: Why Don’t Americans Eat Mutton?
on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @11:37PM (#37669716)
Mutton in NZ and Oz is older sheep, hoggart is sheep between lamb and mutton in age and lamb is well, the youngest and called lamb.
https://www.handsourced.com.au/behind-the-scenes/whats-diffe...
Re:Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
on Saturday September 23, 2023 @06:21AM (#37621981)
Does this apply to the legacy pro plan as well?
Re:Half-million-year-old wooden structure unearthed in Zambia
on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @02:19PM (#37587816)
Awesome find and I am not surprised at all by the age. I wonder which species it was?