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Re:Can Reading Make You Happier? (2015) on Saturday August 03, 2024 @11:26PM (#41150980)
Care to offer more context? I am interested in understanding more
Re:The Casino in Your Pocket on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @12:22AM (#37654317)
During the whole NFT boom I did stumble across a chess game where you could buy and sell NFT representations of chess pieces which gave you advantages. Can’t find the name of it now but it was a laughably bad concept
Re:Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server on Monday August 28, 2023 @01:49AM (#37290255)
Small nit, Notion has been rewritten into a native app on Android and iOS in the last year or so and the performance is significantly better.

Haven’t had the logging out issue either on iOS.

Re:Vscode.dev: Local Development with Cloud Tools on Monday July 24, 2023 @09:12PM (#36856531)
How often and for how long do you code like this? What has your experience been like? I always find the idea of coding in VR intriguing but am unsure of what the actual experience would be like.
Depends on your frame of reference but in Melbourne it can get to around 1 degree Celcius in winter (33~F). Sometimes subzero but very rarely
Re:Photographer documents all items that she owns on Monday July 11, 2022 @11:25PM (#32065206)
Reminds me of this video [1] by self proclaimed Minimalist Matt D’Avella who also counted all their possessions.

Fun stats:

- Between him and his wife, they had 1600~ items

- The average American has 300,000 items in their house [2]

[1] https://youtu.be/BB8o8-EdZY0 [2] https://www.latimes.com/health/la-xpm-2014-mar-21-la-he-keep...

Re:The most satisfying checkbox on Saturday June 18, 2022 @12:53PM (#31791586)
Re your second point.

It's discoverable enough because the next thing after tapping that most people try is dragging. And any dragging across any part of the screen activates the animation for the length of the drag.

It's plenty discoverable because they've made the whole screen control the animation

I imagine you could whip something together using huginn which is an open source IFTTT/Zapier alternative

https://github.com/huginn/huginn

Bouldering seems to be really popular amongst Software Engineers I know.

Taps into many things that Software Engineers typically like.

Walls often require problem solving as well as physical ability.

Walls are shorter than rock climbing walls (fast iteration cycles/“dev loop”)

Lots of different difficulties for a clear sense of progression.

Indoors (usually). Can be done solo.

Re:It’s almost impossible to lose anything in Japan on Saturday March 12, 2022 @04:47AM (#30650278)
As a resident of Melbourne, I have the same bad experience with GPS signals in the CBD. Something to do with the narrow laneways as well as the tall buildings obscuring the GPS signal
Re:The Curse of NixOS on Monday January 24, 2022 @08:40AM (#30057434)
Does guix also have any equivalent to patchelf?
This reminds me of a very similar product, QuokkaJs [0] which works across many popular editors, VSCode, Atom, Sublime, Jetbrains suite.

[0] https://quokkajs.com/