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fdiskl··on Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
thule chariot bike trailer
fdiskl··on Los Angeles urges everyone to mask up because of delta variant–even vaccinated
why don't you ask the virus what its future plans are?
fdiskl··on How did Replit respond to this blog post?
this fiasco reminds me of those YouTube guys who started sending notices to people doing reaction videos about stealing "their format"... when reaction videos had existed long before YouTube and certainly before those guys got involved.

Kinda the same thing here

fdiskl··on Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
I just use regular rss. thankfully there is still some content out there which uses rss. I like the fact that anyone can put uo their own rss feed with whatever they want without needing to be "curated" or "evaluated against terms of service" of some central system
fdiskl··on The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
I love this site. Often if I solve a Project Euler problem of the form "what is the xth element...", after I solve it, I will look at the first several elements in the sequence and start seeing where else the sequence is used.
fdiskl··on Call centre staff to be monitored via webcam for home-working ‘infractions’
the difference is that they're policing somebody's own home, not company premises
fdiskl··on U.S. Government Finally Gets Serious About IoT Security
Great explanation, and exactly right in my experience. It isn't about "you're breaking the law and the Govt is gonna getcha," but you can't do business without meeting the guidelines and would be in breach of contract if you take on a project where you don't conform.
fdiskl··on Gitlab default branch name changes to main
"I allowed this ip" "I denied this ip"

that these are stored in a particular data structure isn't the important part IMO

fdiskl··on Divorce rate cut in half for couples who discussed relationship movies (2014)
Deep Blue Something was onto something.
fdiskl··on World Beer Index 2021: The Cost and Consumption of Beer Around the World
i had the same conclusion. Most people would be buying (for example) Franziskaner 500mL cans at ALDI for 80 cents, or getting a crate of beer for about 1 EUR / bottle. I have never even seen a Corona beer in Germany besides at an overpriced Mexican restaurant
fdiskl··on Cancel The New York Times
did anyone actually read this whole... thing? If so, does it ever get to a logical or sane point or reasoning?

After about 20% through I started scrolling through, looking for something, but this seems to be just... a bunch of words? Maybe the author should have just kept it in one of those paper notebooks that was mentioned.

fdiskl··on Free Music for Your Videos
yes, Kevin MacLeod who runs that, also has well composed and just good music. also, it isn't a half-shady looking site like the one linked by OP
fdiskl··on Free Music for Your Videos
how do you figure? audiak appears to have only a handful of songs, mainly of the same genre and not necessarily well composed, and no way to search or otherwise make use of it in a serious way without just listening to them all
fdiskl··on Free Music for Your Videos
there are some cc by artists on freemusicarchive who are quite original. the ones that immediately come to mind are Kevin MacLeod, Andy G. Cohen, Jahzzar, Scott Buckley
fdiskl··on Free Music for Your Videos
Freemusicarchive is the place where a lot of people typically get music. You can search by license, genre, length, etc.
fdiskl··on Free Music for Your Videos
any reason to not seed this with the massive semi-curated collection of cc-by music on freemusicarchive?
fdiskl··on Johnson and Johnson single-shot vaccine appears 66% effective in global trial
i think you mean half a billion (or milliard).
fdiskl··on Ask HN: How can I use my phone to create things rather than consume them?
I am a musician. I use my phone for the things I can do while I'm outside the studio / with no access to an instrument. This means like listening to demos, taking notes on things I'd like to change, humming into the recorder app to save an idea for later, etc. So in that tine on a train, waiting for the doctor, etc., I consume my own stuff so I can possibly better create later.
fdiskl··on Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in
Read the GDPR or national equivalents in the EU and that will show the legal argument - literally that there are a group of laws defining that this isn't allowed in those jurisdictions. Whether or not you're convinced or not is of no consequence to the laws.
fdiskl··on No More Google
I try to remove Google where I can, but for search... let's be honest, ddg and qwant just had inferior results. I try to use one of those, but find myself having to type !g or &g on a disturbing number of searches