sprainedankles

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by sprainedankles 4mo ago
Very nice! I'd recommend that the landing page either shows an example right away (the Carl Sagan one is great) or make it more obvious to take a look at one first - took me a minute to figure out what this was for, but the example mad
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by sprainedankles 8mo ago
Impeccable timing, I finally got around to putting some old hardware to use and getting a home assistant instance (and jellyfin, and immich, and nextcloud, ...) set up over winter break. Claude (and tailscale) saved hours of my time and ena
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by sprainedankles 10mo ago
Congrats on the updates, TIL I've been using the original version for 4 years now!
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Ask HN: What tools are you spending your money on?
3 points by sprainedankles 1y ago|0 comments
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by sprainedankles 2y ago
That's a fair point! Fortunately, our company culture plays a big role here - unless folks truly don't want to take much time off, everyone seems to take about 6 weeks off. Some teams even plan entire weeks off near holidays so th
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by sprainedankles 2y ago
My first job (2018) provided 2 weeks of PTO, with an increase to 3 weeks expected after _five_ years. Folks in the U.S. can't quite comprehend having more than that (or any at all, depending on the job). I am very grateful for my curre
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by sprainedankles 2y ago
Neat! Pretty cool to see the traffic "snake away" right afterward. I was a few states over in Maine and can confirm it took nearly twice as long to get home afterward - I really not sure I'll ever see that kind of traffic in
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by sprainedankles 3y ago
Any resources/examples you'd recommend for a Vue frontend w/django? I've been pretty firmly in backend land for a while and would to experiment with the other half of the puzzle!
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by sprainedankles 5y ago
As someone with moderate hearing loss in both ears since ~1st grade, I'm all for expanding access to hearing aids. It took changing doctors in high school to finally get a prescription, and it was life-changing. Not cheap, but entirely
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by sprainedankles 5y ago
Thanks for the links. I have to say, getting hit with an ad right as ignition was about to take place really encapsulated the whole experience for me. What a (weird) time to be alive.
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Ask HN: How do you analyze USB-C (hubs)?
2 points by sprainedankles 5y ago|0 comments
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by sprainedankles 5y ago
I'd push back on that a little bit. I grew up on a farm that's still operating today, and it truly is difficult to find people to work those jobs. The farm pays just as well as any other job in my rural hometown, so from my experi
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by sprainedankles 5y ago
Interesting...I've collected and read a lot of old Maine books over the last few years, and now I'm trying to remember if any of them mentioned this sort of behavior in passing. The qualities of lumberjacks that worked deep in the
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by sprainedankles 6y ago
Interesting. Will take a look at the links, thanks for the info!
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by sprainedankles 6y ago
I'll look into it. Thanks for the link!
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by sprainedankles 6y ago
Good call, thanks for the clarification!
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by sprainedankles 6y ago
Yikes, I grew up in that area (on the U.S. side) and my neighbor down the street passed away from a disease related to mad cow disease about 10 years ago. The article lists mad cow as a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease...I wonder if thi
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by sprainedankles 6y ago
I had never even heard of Angkor until I listened to this episode of the Fall of Civilizations podcast (I highly recommend it): https://youtu.be/ghmjIBD2Fd4 Resource management intertwined with poor leadership is a common t
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The Inca – Cities in the Cloud(youtube.com)
1 points by sprainedankles 6y ago|1 comments
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by sprainedankles 6y ago
Another great episode from Paul Cooper's "Fall of Civilizations" podcast
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by sprainedankles 6y ago
Seeing this made me wonder if the author pulled it from the song _or_ if the song/author pulled it from somewhere else. A quick search seems to indicate it's a Pinegrove original, which makes me happy. One of my favorite bands!
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by sprainedankles 6y ago
> The Arctic has been warming at least twice as fast as the rest of the world for the last 30 years, an observation referred to as Arctic amplification. I didn't realize this (or at least, am surprised it's _twice_ as fast). Ap
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by sprainedankles 6y ago
I agree, the pretending to be asleep part usually works for me too. But as soon as I realize it didn't work...then my mind takes off. Checking the doors and looking out the windows aren't things I've tried yet, though. Thank
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by sprainedankles 6y ago
These seem great, I'll give them a try. Thank you!
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Ask HN: How do you fall (back) asleep?
4 points by sprainedankles 6y ago|14 comments
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by sprainedankles 6y ago
If it defeats the purpose for you, sounds like this product isn't relevant to you? My guess is something as nuanced as a workplace (of which, there are MANY types, and you're right, a lot are just moving to remote work per COVID)
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by sprainedankles 6y ago
While an 18-month fog sounds terrifying, I'm absolutely fascinated by the amount of clues we can gather from geological formations like glaciers. The universe has encoded information in so many neat ways, and our ability to cross-refer
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by sprainedankles 7y ago
> The four of us made a dating program where you would input men and women and their traits, and then generate a good matching between them with an algorithm of our own invention. Could this be the very first "dating app"?! Ama
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by sprainedankles 7y ago
> The challenge we face as a society is to build the structures of popular power to decide collectively which burdens are worth their weight, and how to distribute them justly. These are not choices we should leave to politicians, or eve
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by sprainedankles 7y ago
That's true, but those distributed goods primarily come from rural areas. Obviously we need both rural and urban areas, but I suppose my "born in a small town" bias wants a better balance between the two than we currently hav

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