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Climate Breakdown Has Begun with Hottest Summer on Record(press.un.org)
3 points by fancy_hammer 3y ago|0 comments
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by fancy_hammer 3y ago
NEET was code for bums/ layabouts/hikikomori right from the beginning I suspect. ;)
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by fancy_hammer 3y ago
That is 100% not what the link says.
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Ask HN: How many people use touch on their touchscreen laptop?
2 points by fancy_hammer 4y ago|6 comments
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by fancy_hammer 4y ago
Stopping social drinking was tougher than stopping binge drinking for me. What helped was deciding to go 100% cold turkey for a year. It forced me to learn how to socialise sober. Before that it was too easy to opt out of sobriety "jus
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by fancy_hammer 4y ago
How many tons of earth need to be processed to end up with 80k tons of neodymium?
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by fancy_hammer 4y ago
I'm a fan of writing things in my own words. Don't just copy and paste chunks of text verbatim. Andy Matuschak has written about his techniques for keeping notes. https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes
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by fancy_hammer 4y ago
Ha, what did you do right or wrong to end up with declining income?
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by fancy_hammer 4y ago
It’s been a while since I looked at IPCC report. Is the worst case still apocalyptically bad? We’re nearing 1.5 degrees above average and the results are bad enough already. (Not looking forward to another summer of fires like Australia had
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by fancy_hammer 4y ago
Would love to read a blog post about what this kind of code looks like!
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by fancy_hammer 5y ago
Sounds fun!
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The Internet Is Dead: What's That Mean?(thought-science.com)
3 points by fancy_hammer 5y ago|1 comments
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Remix vs. Next.js Comparison(sergiodxa.com)
1 points by fancy_hammer 5y ago|0 comments
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by fancy_hammer 5y ago
Your four emotional needs ring true to me. I’ve also spent a good chunk of time playing video games. Can I suggest trying out mountain biking as an alternative source of adrenaline? IME it’s possible to balance the risk if you stay consciou
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Microsoft CSE Code-With Engineering Playbook(microsoft.github.io)
2 points by fancy_hammer 5y ago|0 comments
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by fancy_hammer 5y ago
> Is it the way the cows are slaughtered? Is it that we take their life? Is it how they live their life? Do cows have emotions and awareness of the world they live in?
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by fancy_hammer 5y ago
> the people buying houses in the outer-inner-suburbs that would still be vastly outside their price range without massive help from both sets of parents; these buyers are unfailingly couples. I suspect there is a big difference between
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by fancy_hammer 5y ago
There are sooooo many VST plugins out there. If you don't see the value in the cost of Omnisphere don't buy it. Look for other options. It's an extremely competitive market. Ableton Live Suite has a tremendous amount of tools
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by fancy_hammer 5y ago
Elixir possibly has some of this flavour. If and switch are both expressions and return values. I dig it.
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Browsing the Web, 2021(twitter.com)
3 points by fancy_hammer 5y ago|0 comments
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by fancy_hammer 5y ago
> It's a shame because Perth and even Melbourne used to have a relatively low cost-of-living and high quality-of-life. I honestly don't know how anyone does it now. The experience of living in Melbourne in 2000 as someone not o
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by fancy_hammer 5y ago
> I'm always kind of surprised by people who move to Australia. It's a country that has had an active policy of censorship on entertainment for a very long time - books, video games, movies. The fact that the populace is okay w
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by fancy_hammer 5y ago
What happens in 15 years?
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Vestager warns Apple against using privacy, security to limit competition(reuters.com)
1 points by fancy_hammer 5y ago|0 comments
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by fancy_hammer 5y ago
Nice work! Is voice triggering with midi sample accurate? What's the story for building VST plugins? How much c++ glue code do you need to write? The amount of effort required to build a VST plugin is very off-putting. IMHO it's h
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by fancy_hammer 5y ago
6 solid hours of coding solo is pushing my daily limits. I can do more but productivity goes down. Day in day out pair coding sounds for 6 hours sounds more intense again.