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Re:Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized on Monday July 14, 2025 @11:46AM (#44561528)
Can you post a picture of what your body looks like? Curious if a person who runs every day has a very thin body or if you are more well built still
Re:Ditching Obsidian and building my own on Monday May 19, 2025 @12:09PM (#44031341)
Do you have to hack the Apple TV to run tailscale on it or how does that work?
Re:HubSpot Acquires Clearbit on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @09:31PM (#38186054)
Very neat How do companies actually get/derive the data to do IP to business matching though?
Does your browser handle having 500+ tabs open? (I use chrome iOS and it’s totally fine with that many without anything being slowed down. I assume because they unload old tabs. This would be a blocker for me for your app if yours doesn’t do that since I wouldn’t want my phone to slow down)
Re:macOS command-line tools you might not know about on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @12:25AM (#36502278)
This is great utility I didn't know about! Thanks!

But do you know why it doesn't seem to work with the `pbfilter` function?

If I do directly `pbpaste | vipe | pbcopy`, then it opens vim and the clipboard text is pasted there. But if I run `pbfilter | vipe`, then vim opens with a blank buffer.

   function pbfilter() {
      if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
          pbpaste | "$@" | pbcopy
      else
          pbpaste | pbcopy
      fi
   }      

It seems that the number of args is 0 for some reason
Re:Ask HN: Are blog comments a thing of the past? on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @10:08AM (#30855430)
Why doesn’t HN have botspam then?
Did you have to set up deals with each of the publishers individually to publish their manga in your app? How did those conversations go?
The OP was not combative at all, they actually asked pretty nicely…

You’re the one who is actually being combative

Re:I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions on Friday February 11, 2022 @04:30PM (#30307217)
Isn’t your comment that you wrote here also just a bunch of “symbol manipulation“?

It definitely hasn’t learned math but it definitely has learned general concepts

Re:AI cannot be the inventor of a patent, appeals court rules on Saturday September 25, 2021 @08:52PM (#28657443)
There's a down vote button on HN? I only ever see only the upvote one
Re:Launch HN: Buoyant (YC S21) – Blimp drones for air freight on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:26AM (#28298319)
Isn't 650 lbs not that much? It's only a little more than 4 humans. So is this actually scalable to get to a bigger market?
Just curious, but how do you have so many friends in Hollywood? (Feel free to email me directly if wanted)
Re:How to Work Hard on Sunday July 04, 2021 @12:15AM (#27727185)
How do you motivate yourself to work hard if you feel like you're distracted and want to be lazy all the time?
I don't think a lot of people know what motivates them or what they want to do in life. If you could play video games all day and have fun or force yourself to study or work at a hard job all day, what would you choose? Wouldn't most people prefer the easier and fun option?

Do you have a solution to this? (I've been thinking about it for a while and I don't know)

Re:Technology “Addiction” on Friday June 04, 2021 @08:31PM (#27400784)
Wow this was definitely the best advice I got on this. Thank you so much for the time you took to share this.

I think my watching of movies or playing of video games is probably due to avoiding other things I don't want to face. I should probably try to address those things or change my environment to be in a more productive state.

Re:Technology “Addiction” on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:17PM (#27376504)
Playing games definitely make me feel bad because they're a waste of time and are unfulfilling, but the hard part is that they're also super fun and engaging while you're playing them, which makes it hard to kill that desire to have that feeling.
Re:Technology “Addiction” on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:14PM (#27376480)
Hm I actually think stopping completely is very important. If I let myself watch even one tv show or install one game to play then I'll have the urge to keep doing that action for hours and the next day as well.

I find it a lot healthier to eliminate these dangerous activities altogether.

But curious to hear if you have other thoughts

Re:Technology “Addiction” on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:12PM (#27376467)
Any recommended fitness games? I think the idea makes sense but I feel like I'll just be lazy and choose the easier game that doesn't require me to move when it comes to deciding what game to play.
Re:Technology “Addiction” on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:12PM (#27376455)
What if I go back and reinstall it again later? I've done this multiple times with some mobile games I've played that were really good.
Re:Technology “Addiction” on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:11PM (#27376447)
I tried to do this with reading books by putting a kindle on my desk so that I would see that want to read (I did a lot of reading in high school and it was very enjoyable so I'm sure I'll still enjoy it). But I just ended up ignoring the kindle and still continue to play mobile games on my phone or watch TV and movies on my laptop.

I agree with trashing things completely and I tried to do things like hiding the app store on my phone but I would still end up sometimes still opening the play store and installing a game. But I can't get rid of my phone completely since I do need it for other work things.

I want to replace these bad activities with a better activity but it seems hard when I can just start playing a movie and get that instant dopamine without needing to do any work.

Re:Technology “Addiction” on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:07PM (#27376424)
Haha that's a good idea on trying to ban yourself. Yeah I think I just need to abstain from all games in general since even if I let myself play some single player game I'll eventually let myself play a multiplayer one again later.
Re:Technology “Addiction” on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:06PM (#27376415)
Hm I feel like I wouldn't be disciplined enough for that though. If I got a taste of video games or TV, then I wouldn't want to stop. So I feel like it's just better to stop entirely and never touch them again.
Re:Technology “Addiction” on Monday May 31, 2021 @09:29AM (#27343866)
Do you have any advice for breaking video game addiction? I feel like it affects me a lot.
I'd be interested. Can you email me (email in my profile)
Re:I Shipped, Therefore I Am on Friday March 12, 2021 @08:56AM (#26435826)
What is a sidearm computer? How do you manage your infinite canvas?
Are there any use cases of satellite imagery that you think will emerge but haven't yet due to current costs?

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