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W0lfEagle··on Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time
Just swap it for a more efficient smaller 11yo car?
W0lfEagle··on The Delete Act
Right? Pro-birth pro-guns.
W0lfEagle··on Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers
This feels like a very naïve viewpoint. The reality being that you can't rely on insurance at all. You might have insurance but that certainly doesn't guarantee you'll be financially supported through health issues. You'll also be required to engage in legal battles with your insurance company which might be prohibitively complicated after a brain injury.
W0lfEagle··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
Seems not right
W0lfEagle··on Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons
Downvote me but: kids shouldn't have phones. No disrespect to the author and congratulations on the launch and all. I just find the entire concept completely dystopian. Like, play, enjoy your life kids! There's plenty of time for entirely unnecessary "tasks"/"work" later in life.
W0lfEagle··on Kagi News
I really like this for practising a foreign language by switching the content language. I do agree with other comments here though that it will need greater control over which languages are translated.
W0lfEagle··on Why I gave the world wide web away for free
Consent or pay or decline on this particular platform. Since things do have some value. You're reading an article by a human on a platform with content (exclusively?) researched and written by humans. There's a reason the guardian often has articles reaching HN where other "news" outlets do not.
W0lfEagle··on Just let me select text
100% agree and living in a foreign country I have found myself completely reliant on the "circle to search" feature on Android as I'm far too often blocked by text protection and the instant translate is very handy. This has already been mentioned in other comments and I appreciate it is a circumvention of the problem. Just let me circle to search though also (sometimes it is blocked).
W0lfEagle··on Find SF parking cops
Oh if you haven't seen it you're gonna love this.

https://youtu.be/bzE-IMaegzQ?feature=shared

W0lfEagle··on New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles
Be aware that any comment here or anywhere on the internet or in private messages or spoken in private near a device with a microphone might also be used against you by the US government (yay freedom). You might think it's fine. At some point your personal views too will be at odds with the government.
W0lfEagle··on Show HN: VS Code extension to share code snippets instantly
Something is interfering with scroll on your website. Let's please all stop letting things interfere with scrolling. This could definitely just be a personal preference but even Apple, who should be able to do it well, fills the page with scroll effects that just don't feel good. Especially on mobile which by now is the primary device for web browsing. Rant over. I'm sure it's not the authors fault and just some unnecessary code in the template. I came for the snippet share because I was intrigued. The info on the site didn't really explain what to expect. It shows me how to install it but what does it do? Put an example link maybe? Does it create an image? Does it link back to remote repo?
W0lfEagle··on LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego
Great. Please do cabinets next. Constrain to some specified material such as 2.5m by 1.25m 18mm ply. Iterate designs by text and output the model, cutlist and assembly instructions. Simple right?
W0lfEagle··on The Origins of Wokeness
If you're being a dick then someone will call you out for it. They can do that. You can get hung up on them being woke and woke being the problem but you were still a dick.

- a dick

W0lfEagle··on Chimpanzees 'self-medicate' with healing plants
Shout out to my mum Dr Cindy Engel author of Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Well And What We Can Learn From Them
W0lfEagle··on Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster
My guess is that it would probably feel quite cathartic to unplug from all those digital distractions and just use your hands on a physical task for a while for many people not used to doing things like this.

If however your washing machine breaks and you need to wash by hand AND do all the other hundreds of tasks filling up your time it will probably feel like a massive waste of time.

W0lfEagle··on Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
I feel like I read this comment on another thread a while ago. Did I?
W0lfEagle··on SpaceX punched a hole in the ionosphere
Zero?
W0lfEagle··on Yeovil's Virtual Museum
+1! Well, I'm just nearby. For those unfamiliar with local names and for your entertainment I'm at Tizard's Knap in Whitchurch Canonicorum
W0lfEagle··on Yeovil's Virtual Museum
Hey Yeovil. Nice to see you here in hn x
W0lfEagle··on The lefty Europeans who want to deliberately shrink the economy
Who's cheering what? Everyone I know is struggling.
W0lfEagle··on Launch HN: Second (YC W23) – AI bots that add features to web apps
Just seen your replies and joined your Discord.
W0lfEagle··on Launch HN: Second (YC W23) – AI bots that add features to web apps
Bug/security risk: Something unexpected just happened when giving this a try. Hoping there's just a default string left in the project and some bad error handling. 1. Created new account in Second linked to my personal github account 2. Created project "newproject" in Second selecting link to exisitng repo 3. Success message "git clone https://github.com/<not_my_profile>/newproject" 4. Create new project now shows the same <not_my_profile> account in the Select GitHub Account select field. 5. Stuck with no log out button

edit: delete cookies, private window fresh login with personal account details still showing <not_my_profile>

W0lfEagle··on Cheap Land Colorado: What going off the grid really looks like
I want the same for my family. We rent in England and can just about afford a big (not US big) country house with a garden and poly tunnel to grow our food. Trouble is, I spend 40+ hours a week writing code to make the money to pay the rent and bills etc and don't have much time left to live the life we're trying to build. We'll never afford the £1m mortgage to own the kind of house we want.

My wife recently found the ecological land coop. You buy/rent your parcel of farmland in a small group of people doing the same thing. Rights to live and work on the land with some shared resources.

https://ecologicalland.coop/

W0lfEagle··on Cheap Land Colorado: What going off the grid really looks like
I also want this. We're renting in UK countryside with big enough garden to grow vegetables and have a happy toddler running around but we're a very long way off being able to buy land and build what we want here. It feels like there must be so many of us wanting to live this life but barred from it by our petty planning laws. I'd love to find a loose but inclusive international community of people living life away from the bs without having to join a cult.