mertd

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by mertd 29d ago
I'm equally confused here. Who searches "Seth Godin The Knot" and if the first result isn't that exact book, goes and buys a book about knots or weddings or something? The book should be there in plain view at the top of
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by mertd 1mo ago
Walking navigation is immensely useful for me when I am going somewhere in an unfamiliar town or neighborhood.
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by mertd 5mo ago
What I observe as a parent; 95% of the teacher's job cannot be scaled with technology.
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by mertd 7mo ago
> Going to the gym is very boring for me. Try group exercise studios, if you have one available. The classes are usually one hour. It makes planning very easy. Same time, every week. All you need to do is to show up.
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by mertd 8mo ago
Ç is a brilliant name
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by mertd 8mo ago
I must be the minority that barely noticed any changes after upgrading to Tahoe.
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by mertd 8mo ago
Good luck getting Americans eat sufficient broccoli to source their protein without also adding a ton of cheese or fat/sugar based sauces.
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by mertd 8mo ago
My personal anecdotal experience is that once you make a conscious effort to avoid added sugars, your taste buds eventually recalibrate over the course of a few months and you end up perceiving stuff with added sugar as way too sweet.
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by mertd 9mo ago
They have a standalone keyboard product that snaps with magsafe.
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by mertd 9mo ago
That's a phone compass problem no? Perhaps the specific way you're holding the phone is confusing for the algorithm?
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by mertd 9mo ago
There is a million ways where that interaction goes sideways and becomes a drama between the parents nowadays.
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by mertd 9mo ago
What's the play here? Afaik there are no monetary perks to being a top maps contributor.
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by mertd 9mo ago
I was reading about shield volcanoes and it sounds like the low viscosity lava is the defining feature. So the flow is par for the course.
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by mertd 10mo ago
That's not very useful? For homeowners, the real estate transactions are public and majority of white collar people have LinkedIn accounts.
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by mertd 10mo ago
Did you read or even skim the article? It mentions fire safety codes specifically, violation of which is the very reason that fire happened not because it was a tall building. Do you understand why California wild fires are more lethal as o
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by mertd 10mo ago
Also not very clear how they attributed the failure to solar radiation.
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by mertd 10mo ago
I meant to say it's not new information. The blog post I linked is from a month ago. It is also more accessible for casual reading.
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by mertd 10mo ago
This is hardly a secret. Matt Levine blogged about it: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-10-29/put...
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by mertd 10mo ago
The start menu cluster, incessant pushing of Edge and OneDrive are the reasons I installed Linux after about a decade of not using desktop Linux outside of work. I am genuinely shocked and impressed how clean and snappy the experience is (A
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by mertd 1y ago
Do coding in non-assembly programming languages make you a worse programmer in the long run because you are not exposed to the deepest level of complexity?
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by mertd 1y ago
Bike infra is forever stuck in the limbo of building half-assed solutions and then complaining not enough ridership is taking it up.
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by mertd 1y ago
It's really hard to reply without making a statement on politics but you really should diversify your news consumption.
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by mertd 1y ago
The author claims to be 8 years old in 2015. So that makes them still a teenager. It is pretty cool IMO.
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by mertd 1y ago
I wouldn't recognize the Volvo EV semi pictured in the article while driving. It looks generic.
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by mertd 1y ago
California has this and it's great. https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240ab...
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by mertd 1y ago
Oh yes it does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squat_toilet .
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by mertd 2y ago
Sorry but this is a bad take. The active light on "screens" is stimulating, causes eye strain and keeps you awake. The two technologies are not the same.
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by mertd 2y ago
You are correct. Technically it is a zoning problem. But such zoning only became feasible after cars went mainstream. There are many self perpetuating elements of exclusionary zoning and car dependency.
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by mertd 2y ago
Initially people assumed without evidence that the wireless signals from portable devices would interfere with avionics. It was the days where you could prophetically "hear" that you are about to get a call or sms through your com
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by mertd 2y ago
I don't believe the SEO blame. I think in reality microblogging won. People get the same engagement with 2% of the effort.

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