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by icosa 3y ago
I want to know how well supported each language is. Rate support as Alpha, Beta, Full so I can decide if I want to use your app.
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by icosa 3y ago
As a reference, $245,573 in 1995 is like $495,962 in 2023.
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by icosa 3y ago
All the public libraries I've been to in the US use a decimal classification system that I assume is Dewey Decimal. For example, programming books are under 005.* AUTHORLASTNAME.
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by icosa 3y ago
If you own a Mac, https://github.com/glyph/Pomodouroboros/ shows the timer on your whole screen and runs it all the time.
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by icosa 4y ago
I floss first, rinse, then brush. No more food bits left after I spit out the extra foam.
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Ask HN: Best typing training for symbols and numbers?
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by icosa 4y ago
Exercise helps because it completes the stress cycle[1]. When burnt out it can be hard to find time, so try one of these and see if they help: * High intensity intervals. Do 2 minutes of light intensity cardio as warm up. Then alternate 20
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by icosa 4y ago
Radiopaper is both empowering and requiring every user to be a content moderator. Let's say Alice and Bob sign up and start holding interesting conversations. Then Nasty McNasterson starts sending hate mail and death wishes to Alice an
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by icosa 5y ago
I think Sean McClure's advice only applies when you have so much of one resource that you can afford to be inefficient when trading it for another. If you have so little cash you have to choose between paying the water bill or the gas
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by icosa 6y ago
Warning signs about the trustworthiness of this site's reporting: - Top banner says "News that impacts your health that other sites may censor!" -- a common claim of pseudoscience / conspiracy theory sites - The bottom b
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by icosa 6y ago
It's an interesting read of someone struggling with a hard idea. Im glad he started to think about the context, and why it's different for him to write about a Belgian nun than if he wrote a book with a black or trans main charact
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by icosa 6y ago
Now there are devices for clinical at-home sleep monitoring, say for screening for apnea. Still uncomfortable but at least you are at home.
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by icosa 7y ago
The daily limit on adventures is an example of trade-off #2. Their implementation is generous (40 adventures per day to a max of 200 means you need to check in every 5 days) but it still means that you can't take a full week off the ga
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by icosa 7y ago
Science for the People does in-depth interviews about science and technology, including history and impact. One topic per podcast, and they stay on topic without unrelated asides.
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by icosa 7y ago
Re #2, keys, scales, and chords are fundamental units of Western music. You could compare them to words, which are joined into sentences. Chord progressions are sequences of chords, which only make sense in the context of the current key an
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by icosa 7y ago
BMI uses height and weight to estimate body fat % because those were the easiest statistics Quetelet had access to. There's speculation that BMI is effectively a proxy for waist size, given assumptions about body shape (how high the pe
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by icosa 8y ago
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/cafeRestaurantNoiseGenerat... is oddly helpful. The unintelligible babble sounds cover up real chatter.
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by icosa 8y ago
Genevieve Cogman's Invisible Library series features a library that connects to multiple parallel worlds, with the portals anchored by books in its collection that are variants unique to that world. e.g. an original edition of Grimm&
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by icosa 8y ago
Online courses that aren't MOOCs either: 1. Allow a limited number of students to sign up for a run of the class, which is on a specific schedule, and there's high interaction with and feedback from other students and the instruct
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by icosa 11y ago
UnityScript is closer to ActionScript or Javascript-flavored C# than it is to Javascript. It uses class-based instead of prototypical inheritance and generally uses the conventions and concepts of OOP instead of functional programming.
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by icosa 12y ago
Shannon Appelcline has a great overview of rating, ranking, and other systems in the article series "Collective Choice": http://www.skotos.net/articles/TTnT_/TTnT_178.phtml . The key points are that most
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by icosa 15y ago
Women get a whole other dimension of online harrasment that men don't. For a gaming-centered sample, look at http://fatuglyorslutty.com/ .