mimo84

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by mimo84 6d ago
At first I thought they found something new, however it is known that exercise intensity should be of various types for the best health outcome. In my training regimen I already have a weekly session of high-intensity training, and other se
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by mimo84 7d ago
No fees for small transactions also means that merchants will be more willing to accept those form of payment, they have to accept but also not so happy to do so at the moment because of the fees eating on their margins.
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by mimo84 2mo ago
Yeah they work really well. I have tried Claude opus and ChatGPT 5.5
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by mimo84 2mo ago
I have been experimenting with more hand writing notes as well. What I have been finding is better retention and more focus on what is that I'm following, wether is a book or a meeting. I recently also started to review flashcards by p
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by mimo84 2mo ago
I have been using LLMs for this and they excel and understanding my very poor calligraphy. All I do I take photos of the pages I wrote by hand, and then ask the LLM to convert those notes to markdown and convert any diagrams that I might ha
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by mimo84 2mo ago
Looks like it's a well thought project. I might consider it to replace my old Kobo. There are only two things I don't see in the description: 1. A dictionary 2. A flash card creation functionality
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by mimo84 2mo ago
I recently read the book Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, a doctor. He emphasized how terminal care should focus on quality of life instead of attempting to prolong it and making it awful.
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by mimo84 2mo ago
I find using flashcards very stimulating, however to reach this status it took me quite some time and some trial and error. So if you're new at using flashcards don't quit just yet! Keep using them. My morning ritual is now coffee
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by mimo84 2mo ago
With the Temporal API will all of the browsers / nodejs etc be able to get the time right when performing operations around that time or will they need to be updated in order to not mess up calculations?
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by mimo84 2mo ago
I also started on spacemacs but then I wanted to learn the basics of it and switched to writing my own configuration from scratch. What helped me the most is reading though the Mastering Emacs book by Mickey Petersen which is an amazing re
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by mimo84 2mo ago
I have been using emacs for the past couple of years. Started because I wanted to try out org mode and stayed for the extreme flexibility it offers.
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by mimo84 3y ago
as content creator this makes me not wanting to create any new content, in fact this year I slowed down a lot, probably I'm going to a complete halt.
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by mimo84 6y ago
After struggling with different webcams, including the MacBook Pro camera, I opted for this setup: - Canon RP - 50mm Canon lens - Tripod located between my two monitors All it fully tax deductible, amazing quality and even more flexibility
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by mimo84 7y ago
what's anti-CCP?
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by mimo84 9y ago
Asia, Australia/New Zealand are well awake and almost at the end of their working day :)
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by mimo84 9y ago
How many of us are reading this article while "at work"? Just me? I don't think so. I open HackerNews four or five times a day and I read some of the articles. Right now I am in a company where I have to work at least 43 hou
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by mimo84 9y ago
I never had the problem mentioned in the article, but for misspelled commands I trust git autocorrect: git config --global help.autocorrect 1 It will run the correct misspelled command after 100ms. For example git stauts will be corrected a
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by mimo84 11y ago
I feel the other way around: I prefer serif fonts in general, however well designed websites should not have any issue with the font style chosen, as long as the basics of design and human vision are respected; e.g. contrast ratio, size, li
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by mimo84 11y ago
Human are made to interact one each other, love and enjoy life. Even if you feel alone sometimes because you might do not have someone that can understand you, you should try finding a person to love. Also love is the best feeling you can
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by mimo84 11y ago
I used to get contracts through oDesk/UpWork as well ( https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~015eaccf9967b4f9f4 ) However the quality of the jobs I can apply for are a continuously going backwards, even if the quali
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by mimo84 11y ago
I see how a lot of people in this thread are just conservative American thinking "government is bad" and "private is good". Very open minded for HN.
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by mimo84 11y ago
This is just a "positive" aspect of the TPP so that you can say it has positive things in it. Surely it has a lot of caveats for other industries, companies/lobbies. Typically corporations have lawyers working for them full t
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by mimo84 11y ago
It is designed to remove power from the people and give it to the big corporations.
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by mimo84 11y ago
Giving to a private company the ability to effectively sue a government is the worst idea ever. Imagine a world with no regulations because there are damaging the business. Welcome to a world where you need a mortgage if you are sick becaus
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by mimo84 11y ago
Just yesterday I saw here on HN a news about what the TPP actually means for intellectual property, which should be a quite known problem here in the community. Interestingly enough though that news has only got 10 points and right now it i
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by mimo84 12y ago
Where I work we decided to avoid using libraries and frameworks, because decisions taken at that level was do not give us the flexibility to deal with the problems that we face. The main issues we found were: 1. Change of behaviour between
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Solved by Flexbox Cleaner, hack-free CSS(philipwalton.github.io)
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by mimo84 12y ago
I'm been using Anki in the last couple of years and I got from zero to more than 4000 cards. The best way to effectively learn new words for me it's put the word with the English definition and than the same word with the translat
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by mimo84 12y ago
That's a known one, then there are the ones from the Soviet union.
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by mimo84 13y ago
I really like the idea of floating labels. I did the same but almost without JS using AngularJS directives: http://maurizionapoleoni.de/blog/Float-label-pattern-with-an...

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