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PotatoNinja··on I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)
> There is just no way you won’t improve significantly if you keep trying new things and bring yourself to fail ever day

Thank you for this.

PotatoNinja··on The Many Sides of Erik Satie
I like that he felt it necessary to point out that the fat came from dead animals, not live ones.
PotatoNinja··on A lost decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?
Krazam did a brilliant video on Small Data: https://youtu.be/eDr6_cMtfdA?si=izuCAgk_YeWBqfqN
PotatoNinja··on The Difference Between Municipal Fire Trucks and Airport Fire Trucks
https://www.govplanet.com/for-sale/Emergency-Vehicles-1985-O...
PotatoNinja··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
Happy user for many years!

Wishing you good luck with finding a maintainer.

PotatoNinja··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
I am trying to finish the first draft of my whodunnit novel, before I hit the two-year anniversary from when I started out. I've had good periods with streaks where I write 45 minutes in the morning, but also longer periods where the project lies dormant. 100 pages in so far.
PotatoNinja··on State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most of Chile into darkness
https://www.amazon.com/Blackout-heart-stopping-techno-thrill...
PotatoNinja··on West Point discovers time capsule from 1828
https://www.theonion.com/newly-unearthed-time-capsule-just-f...
PotatoNinja··on Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
I've been using longform.org with the Send To Kindle Chrome extension. That way, I've always had a library of articles on my Kindle. Sad to see them go.
PotatoNinja··on Sims initiating their own network connections
This is about SIM cards for mobile phones, not the game about the Sims.
PotatoNinja··on How to Operate an Airport in Antarctica
The potential additional distance between Denmark and Norway is nothing compared to the overall distance of sailing halfway round the globe to Antartica.