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badhabit··on Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
practical common lisp
badhabit··on Hoover Dam reservoir hits record low, in sign of extreme western U.S. drought
is it possible to refill the aquifer using technology ? sea water desalination perhaps ?
badhabit··on Behind the design of the fresh new Firefox coming June 1
i hope there is a toggle button in front menu to disable javascript just a click away.

not buried levels deep in settings.

badhabit··on Ask HN: How can I improve my intelligence?
use simple but powerful tool, like math.

for programming language, the more math-like, the better.

badhabit··on The Wright brothers: The O.G. startup founders?
what is o.g. startup ?
badhabit··on Where did the other dollar go, Jeff?
10+10+10 = 30 = 25+5 = 25 + 2 + (1+1+1)

9+9+9 = 25+2

badhabit··on Bill Gates says vaccine formulas shouldn't be shared with developing world
can vaccine be open sourced?
badhabit··on Ask HN: How are you hedging against inflation?
gardening
badhabit··on Largest card grading service halts submissions
how hard is it to make fake cards that pass psa grading ?
badhabit··on Ask HN: What to use instead of Bash / Sh for scripting?
#!/usr/bin/newlisp
badhabit··on The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make
greed
badhabit··on We created a fake language to root out resume liars
... just when i wanted to order the o'reilly mova book
badhabit··on Fun with a Functional Programming Interview Question
newlisp:

(set 'L '()) (dolist (s (explode "aaaabbbcca")) (if (!= (ref-all s L) '((0 0))) (push (list s 1) L) (inc (L 0 1)))) (print (reverse L))

badhabit··on When costs are nonlinear, keep it small
cron to the rescue
badhabit··on Ask HN: How have you used automation to simplify your life?
cron rem
badhabit··on Japan developing wooden satellites to cut space junk
how do satelite companies ensure there's no debris in each satelite's spot in space before launch ?
badhabit··on Possible Aerosol Transmission of Covid-19 Through HVAC in Seoul, South Korea
won't the droplets dry after circulation?

possibly killing the virus?

badhabit··on Ask HN: What was a book that changed your life?
Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist

by Diana Walstad

badhabit··on Ask HN: What new/experimental technology should I learn for the next 10 years?
svelte
badhabit··on Ask HN: How Do You Learn?
practice a lot, redo exercises, always start with blank editor
badhabit··on Awfice – A collection of tiny office suite apps
browsers have the bad habit of autorefresh
badhabit··on The Nature of Lisp
typing 'end' instead of ')' is two characters too much
badhabit··on Vue.js 3
i learned vue2 3-4 years ago.

should i learn vue3 or svelte instead?

badhabit··on The Unexpected Elegance of Irrigation Systems from Above
can you vary the pressure of sprinklers? like max pressure on corners that a perfect square irrigation can be obtained.
badhabit··on Covid-19 is becoming less deadly in Europe but we don't know why
probably because the most vulnerables are already phased out leaving the more resistant types
badhabit··on New facts about the leadup to the Beirut explosion
it's the weapon factory that should be responsible for the explosion because they made the KNO3
badhabit··on Firefox 80
there's no easy way to disable javascript on site viewing. brave got ir right with brave shield.

add disable image on the ff shield then it's even more useful.

brave suffers chrome's always forced refresh when stale tab is reopened or when page is scrolled up to induce reload wheel

sometimes users do not want the freshest page. there's a reload button for that. sometimes we just want to save the stale page.

badhabit··on Uber is dependent on fulltime drivers but can't afford to pay them like employee
pass the tax & expenses to customer

they'll become taxi company (without obtaining medallion)

badhabit··on LFE: Lisp Flavored Erlang
no openbsd port for lfe yet?
badhabit··on Peter Thiel: The Education Bubble Is Becoming Dangerous (2018) [video]
don't discriminate much, take every idea, the odd idea that gots strong reaction (in a good, strange, nonobvious way), probably is on to something.

same idea with anova, the variable that causes a lot of variance is probably significant.