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Show HN: Morse Command – asteroid shooter that teaches Morse code (iOS)(morsecommand.com)
3 points by damascus 6mo ago|0 comments
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by damascus 8mo ago
Started a business with my wife as well. It grew successfully and we still got divorced and now we still work together. Thankfully we managed it beautifully but it was definitely the hardest thing I've ever done emotionally. Worth it i
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by damascus 8mo ago
Some cars and trucks from the last 40 years were built incredibly well and when a specific vehicle was maintained well and not abused can provide very good options vs new super tech heavy vehicles. I have a Ford OBS truck from the 90s and I
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by damascus 10mo ago
The venn diagram of 'homeschooled' and 'goes to church regularly' is not quite a circle but its not far off. Moderate to large churches also provide a great deal of socialization in this same way. Cross-socio-economic, r
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by damascus 11mo ago
I wonder how much is intentional as a painless / possibly even "pleasant" way to end things on their own terms. Its cheap, incredibly effecient, and leaves a better narrative than the more common alternatives.
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by damascus 1y ago
If they make the firmware there's no guarantee they aren't still doing it just without a broadcast SSID going along with it.
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by damascus 1y ago
My gf and I are the stereotypical software nerd meets astrology girlie (but doesn't take it too far). She likes to do rituals every so often and I've found that it does create a moment of reflection that you can use however you li
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by damascus 1y ago
Wouldn't you say that most multiplayer video games are their outlet for social engagement and even community involvement?
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by damascus 2y ago
It takes a lot more tech staff to build a tech company than it does to run a tech company.
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by damascus 2y ago
> If the pendulum can swing so broadly ever 4 years I'd better watch it, right? Honest question: If, other than voting every 4 years, you have no ability to impact change, why spend the time watching it? Why not spend the time doing
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by damascus 2y ago
Incentives, the opportunity cost of time, and monogamous cultural influence, mostly. Touching another person is widely considered an intimate act and most of the general mainstream today are only intimate (physically, or emotionally) with t
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by damascus 3y ago
When I first started down this path my first red flag appeared when I started asking poly people how long they'd been poly. The first 30 people I asked over a period of about 4 months, the longest anyone had been poly was 14 months. It
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by damascus 3y ago
Don't attribute to reality what happens for engagement on a tiktok video. BlackRock, Fidelity, and about 10 others have all filed S1s with the SEC who continues to meet with them and ask for specific technical adjustments. It is highly
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by damascus 3y ago
Accidents happen all the time for any number of products. As was linked earlier over 700 people die every year in the US from being tangled in their bed sheets. Banning something because its involved in an accident is rarely the correct mov
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by damascus 3y ago
From Investopedia: Capitalism is focused on the creation of wealth and ownership of capital and factors of production, whereas a free market system is focused on the exchange of wealth or goods and services. It's not the free market pa
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by damascus 3y ago
A private person who controls the production of his work and sells it in an open market economy is definitely capitalism.
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by damascus 3y ago
'Brutal honesty' and 'not sugar coating the truth' are both lines used by emotionally immature people protecting their own values and ideals. Anything that needs to be said while being "brutally honest" can als
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by damascus 3y ago
Few issues highlight just how different the US is from most European countries as well as public transit. Intellectually we all know the US is huge but we don't have a conceptual model of just how crazy big it is in comparison to any E
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by damascus 3y ago
I just moved out of a metro area to about 20 miles out of town and have been running these numbers. How you calculate time is something few people talk about but seems incredibly relevant to this calculation. I'm an independent hourly
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by damascus 3y ago
I took a queue from Seth Godin in his book 'This is Marketing' where he basically breaks it down to: People like me do things like this. I adopted a certain baseline of living as part of my core identity. People like me keep the h
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by damascus 3y ago
You can drive whatever you want on private property. It's the 'going on the road' part that adds on the government oversight.
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by damascus 3y ago
The iOS Weather app from Apple does tell you if its going to rain in the next hour. Even down to the minute and for how long.
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by damascus 3y ago
That looks like a great addition to the overall design portfolio. Thanks for sharing! I was hoping for some AI to show me ideal (or at least a few good) layouts instead of me having to come up with them myself but at least this helps get t
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by damascus 3y ago
No, every one of those is the same as I mentioned. They are staging AI apps. None of them offer the ability I asked for, which is to change the layout of a house / set of rooms.
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by damascus 3y ago
'use upwork to generate this' meaning just hire someone to do it for you?
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by damascus 3y ago
Most of the apps I've found so far are just how to stage an existing room, not change the actual room layouts themselves as well.
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Ask HN: Are there any modern AI-assisted Interior Design / Layout remodel apps?
4 points by damascus 3y ago|8 comments
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by damascus 3y ago
Humans still need 'prompt engineering' to answer questions more accurately though. * What's the best way to get to Radio Shack from here? is not the same as * What's the easiest way to get to Radio Shack from memory when
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by damascus 3y ago
I'm not sure I follow. The mass extinction event is mostly due to habitat destruction AFAIK right? The reason for that is seeking new resources aka energy. You don't need to cut down the rainforest to plant low yield crops if you
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by damascus 3y ago
But don't tell them how much food or other preparations you have in detail. If you have to go a month without the ability to get new food you don't want the entire neighborhood at your door. Better to generally recommend how much

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