flying_kangaroo

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by flying_kangaroo 2y ago
I used to give preference to Southwest for cross-country (US) flights, partly because of availability on particular routes, but over other direct flights because of the boarding experience. For $15-20 (not sure what it is now) I could pay f
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by flying_kangaroo 5y ago
The way I've heard it, BMI can be inaccurate on the individual level, but it was created to analyze populations more broadly, where it can be a somewhat useful heuristic. I would guess athletes with obese BMIs are a small enough portio
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by flying_kangaroo 8y ago
If that's how we're looking at it, wouldn't that be the same essential idea as leaving a bookmark and juggling a few books at once?
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by flying_kangaroo 8y ago
If you do a search across his blog there's various articles touching on different parts. Here's one such: http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers-are-...
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by flying_kangaroo 8y ago
At a minimal level, Apple also provides a do-not-disturb mode that ignores everything but calls from contacts that you specifically add to your "favorites" list.
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by flying_kangaroo 8y ago
This reads like advice for how to train a cat and I would feel kinda weird doing it to a child. Is this actually effective?
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by flying_kangaroo 8y ago
The counterpoint to your potential Instagram downfall is that "kids these days" are making "Finsta" accounts, or fake accounts that they only add their close friends to, so they can post things they don't want the f
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by flying_kangaroo 8y ago
"Back in your day," were you allowed to just pull out a newspaper in the middle of class and read it? I find that doubtful.
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by flying_kangaroo 8y ago
This reminds me of all those subreddits of people asking how to quit reddit :). There's been periods where I don't check HN much at all for a few months, but I notice that when I "stop checking these specific time-sinks"
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by flying_kangaroo 8y ago
/r/popular will come close to it, and includes a level of customization based on your general location (as the default front page does).
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by flying_kangaroo 8y ago
You could even have the commentators take a break during tv timeouts, and just have some chill crowd shots. Maybe get some teams on board to show what they'd do on jumbotrons during the breaks in action.
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by flying_kangaroo 8y ago
If it helps you understand, originally cable tv was a way to pay for tv (as opposed to free OTA) that then had no ads, almost like how HBO operates today. Of course, that could only last for so long.
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by flying_kangaroo 9y ago
calories in vs. calories out in around 99% of cases.
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by flying_kangaroo 9y ago
From what I remember it was mostly too many advertisers trying to push their accounts/products to the front page and killing a lot of the user-generated content people wanted. Helped that reddit was primed and ready as exactly the site
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by flying_kangaroo 9y ago
The seat upgrade procedure is pretty nice. $20 for priority boarding on southwest vs. multiple times that for a "economy deluxe" seat on other airlines? Sign me up.
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by flying_kangaroo 9y ago
On the flip side, however, reddit is (as of today on Alexa) the 4th most visited site in the US. Given that user-base, I think a lot of internet users have noticed this.
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by flying_kangaroo 10y ago
Can't have people watching two streams on the same computer. Common sense or something.
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by flying_kangaroo 10y ago
I'd say "is" rather than "could become", personally.
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by flying_kangaroo 10y ago
I thought 21 Jump Street hit the nail on the head w.r.t. (modern?) high schools, a lot of the most popular kids in that movie were also the smart, "nerdy" types. Could be a regional thing though, who knows.
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by flying_kangaroo 10y ago
Until a few years ago, Chromium was built on top of WebKit, then had a falling out with Apple / Safari and we got Blink.
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by flying_kangaroo 10y ago
On the flip-side, (again, anecdotal sample-size-1) I've noticed a definite improvement in battery life after uninstalling the app, and I definitely don't needs any of Facebook's notifications to propagate through via the app.
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by flying_kangaroo 10y ago
It's the most helpful advice in the article.
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by flying_kangaroo 10y ago
Not OP but also had to write my own shell, as well as the kernel APIs for forking and whatnot. The kernel APIs are definitely interesting, but I think the biggest dopamine rush was once the way to parse and structure commands "clicked&
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by flying_kangaroo 10y ago
tbh I read it as "commuted" anyways. The human brain is quite the work of art.
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by flying_kangaroo 10y ago
Cool site, would be nice to see a breakdown of how much each answer contributed to the final estimate, though (unless I missed something on the last page).
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by flying_kangaroo 10y ago
Ad networks don't want to trust publishers to accurately report page hits with inline images, they also would presumably like to be able to track users and serve up "tailored" ads, which they can't really do if they don&
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by flying_kangaroo 10y ago
Good old clickbait titles. Gotta love 'em.
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by flying_kangaroo 11y ago
> There's an order of magnitude fewer NFL games compared to the NBA, MLB, or NHL Strongly agree. I've tried many a time to 'get into' baseball, but every day is just way too much. It also tends to increase the importa
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by flying_kangaroo 11y ago
From what I've heard, MIT does the same thing with CS101, except in Scheme. Starting the curriculum that way seems like a good idea (in the long run, since internships and whatnot all want Java or C++/C#), between leveling the pla
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by flying_kangaroo 11y ago
A lot of heavy powerlifting programs have a few minutes rest between sets, which while not great for longform, does allow for a minute or two reading once your heartrate comes down a tad

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