amosj

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by amosj 17d ago
Brilliant
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by amosj 24d ago
I wonder about this a lot. I've been to small communities where children are still free to roam outside, with minimal to no adult supervision. It always seemed nice. Now that I have a toddler, it seems like a crime not to have it
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by amosj 1mo ago
For a second I thought this was going to be about abstract-algebra/category-theory
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by amosj 9mo ago
Well written, this has given a concrete description to a vague notion that has been in my mind for a while
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by amosj 11mo ago
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39990346
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by amosj 5y ago
I second this, this video is amazing. It had a big impact on my thinking the first time I saw it
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by amosj 5y ago
"We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was us that scorched the sky." [1] (note: I am absolutely for trying to save the great barrier reef, and I'm not qualified to judge the feasibility or cons
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by amosj 5y ago
Brilliant, I've switched to DDG recently and have been very pleased with it
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Show HN: Combat social media addiciton with foreign wikipedias(github.com)
1 points by amosj 5y ago|1 comments
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by amosj 5y ago
Greetings HN, This is an app I built to help me combat the (previously!) firmly-established habit of pulling out my phone to read the news / reddit whenever I had 5 minutes of downtime. The idea is to channel that energy in a more prod
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by amosj 5y ago
> MY NAME IS BEING USED IN A PHISHING ATTACK. > DO NOT RESPOND TO MAIL OFFERING MONEY FOR UNDERGRAD RESEARCH ASSISTANTS. I wonder if that's been effective. I suppose the targets are students at Princeton so once repeated enough,
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by amosj 5y ago
sincere question: what are the better alternatives? Do any have a (different) key technological component or do they mostly rely on other non-technology-based trust channels like a notary or a lawyer, as other comments have mentioned?
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by amosj 5y ago
Flutter is excellent, not too heavy and has decent cross platform support
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by amosj 5y ago
Greetings HN! Wikireader is inspired by two facts: - I like learning foreign languages - Some (most) days I will open certain news sites more times than I'd like to admit, "just to check if there's something interesting
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Show HN: Wikireader – website reader with a built-in dictionary(github.com)
2 points by amosj 5y ago|1 comments
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by amosj 5y ago
Emacs groks my soul. I can't defend it's flaws. But if I'm reborn a developer in a thousand years I sure hope it will still be around. Otherwise I'd rather be a shrimp or a dolphin or something (I hope those will be arou
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by amosj 5y ago
From wikipedia [1]: > Garum is a fermented fish sauce which was used as a condiment in the cuisines of Phoenicia, ancient Greece, Rome, Carthage and later Byzantium. Liquamen is a similar preparation, and at times they were synonymous. [
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by amosj 5y ago
This is an extraordinary book and one of my top 5 among many a science fiction novel. "You want a deepness that endures, a deepness that [we] can depend on? there is a deepness in the sky, and it extends forever" it's got VR
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by amosj 5y ago
I've said no several times when asked if I'd be interested in management - I like writing code and solving problems, management is only vaguely necessary in some bureaucratic unfortunate way. I would say that that approach to writ
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by amosj 5y ago
That's an awesome layout, I will have to try it. I actually have two twiddlers - the dream was to split the layout between the two, so that all letters would have easy 2-button chords and to achieve a higher wpm. It works fairly well b
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by amosj 5y ago
Thank you for sharing, especially your transparency about your doubts, your savings and your time. I find this inspiring and encouraging