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There's a feed on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/with/5221053...

Gardening, followed closely by woodworking

The text this generates reminds me of the kind of text you'd see in a dream. The images look real enough, and the text looks like words; but totally unreadable. Kind of an uncomfortable feeling.

Yep, was logged out of some accounts and able to log back in on the web, but no timeline is loading.

We don’t use Slack for video chat.

Our team is all default ON, but nobody is shy about turning it off if they need to do something that might be distracting or just don't want to be on video for any reason. It's a lot easier to visually signal agreement / disagreement in conversations that way without having to use your voice.

I'm always default ON when meeting with people outside our company as well. if anything because I'm used to using body language in conversations and it seems to move things along more naturally than it would with a phone-style meeting.

Is the fuel supply only designed to keep it in orbit? What happens when it runs out of fuel and leaves L2? Can it continue to do science while "on the float"?

Linux works amazingly well on these machines, fwiw. I have a modded x230 that performs surprisingly well with Arch. Ubuntu worked great on it as well. So many Linux users use Thinkpads that the chipsets are very well supported.

This was a fun read, thanks for writing it up (and sharing it)

I jaywalk all the time and haven't been hit by any cars. How is it victim-blaming? What's the PC term for "crossing the street at not a crosswalk"?

TL;DR: Their neighbor was hit by a Waymo car being manually piloted by a human. Also, it might have been raining out, and the person who got hit might have been jaywalking? Either way, seems like an unfortunate case where a person got hit by a driver, who just happened to be driving a car with some fancy sensors on top.

Don’t have anything to add to the survey, but I have fun with Nim every time I sketch something out in it. When I get more time, I’m looking forward to using it for some arduino development.

I left .net around the 2.0 days and came back with .net core 5.0. It's a world of difference, and absolutely worth checking out again. If anything, you don't need Windows to run it, and there's great tooling support outside of Visual Studio (VS is still pretty nice though).

C# is fast and .NET core is cross-platform. It's good for games, web, and mobile development. F# is a great functional programming language. There are fun tools like SignalR (easy websockets), Blazor (write C# and run it in the browser through WASM), and LINQ (built right into the language and allows you to query objects like a database).

Toplevel programs should make it easier to experiment with C# if you're interested. We also have first-class support for C# commands in https://ab.bot if you just want to play around with the language and make a fun Slack bot or something, although it might take us a week or so to get move up to .NET 6.

I’ve done most of these upgrades minus the screen. The keyboard swap wasn’t too bad. Coreboot was a little more scary because of flashing rom and things. The 220 keyboard is pretty nice, although I had to buy two because the first one I bought had a dead key :(

My franken230 is my “thinking machine”… it’s what I use any time I want to write something out because the experience of typing on it is so nice.

Thanks for doing this! Just donated 100GBP (no idea why that was the default but it is what it is lmao)

Since we're in here talking about all kinds of F# goodies, has anyone spent time with https://wiz.run/?

I don’t own a car. I take public transportation everywhere. I recycle, compost, and consume very little electricity at home. Eating slightly more meat isn’t going to significantly change my environmental footprint.

I don’t. You could be right!

An anecdote: I have been 100% carnivore for the past two months. The last vegetable I ate was in August. I’ve eaten 10 grams of carbs in that time period (in the form of vitamin C tablets early on), and zero fiber.

My anxiety levels are subjectively lower, I’ve had fewer instances of insomnia, I’ve lost 20lbs of water + fat weight while maintaining an active lifestyle (standing desk all day + running 20+ miles a week). To be honest, I feel great! Much better than I expected I would going into this experiment. Originally I set out to do this in September and October after knowing someone who did something similar, but I may stay on it, or move to a more keto diet because I miss veggies.

My diet is more fat-heavy than it used to be, and certainly more meat-heavy. I used to eat red meat once or twice a month, versus once or twice a day. The lack of fiber does make for some interesting digestion, but in general it seems I’m producing less waste.

What seems to be the biggest impact is FAT. Getting a lot of fat makes me feel a lot better that day. Ketosis has been great too; I can go for a two hour run, then come home and clean my apartment and run errands without feeling like I’m wrecked all day.

Abbot (YCS21) | https://ab.bot | REMOTE | Full Time | Core Developer

Abbot is a programmable bot that turns team chat into a shared command center. We handle all the boilerplate of building and running these commands so that teams can focus on shipping faster.

We are a small team of former GitHubbers who got together because we saw the power of ChatOps and wanted to make it dead simple for everyone to use (see our Launch HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27974077)

We are hiring a developer to work on core product with us. We use .NET Core, JavaScript, Python, and a bunch of other fun stuff.

Some of the interesting projects you would work on if you were here:

  * Building out a hybrid-prem solution for enterprises.
  * Implementing a more composable approach to running bot skill functionality.
  * Supporting more programming languages like Go, Ruby, or WebAssembly.
  * Supporting more chat platforms.
  * Support local editing of skills in the editor/IDE of people's choice.

We have a full job posting up here: https://www.aseriousbusiness.com/jobs/dotnet-developer/ (we're technically "A Serious Business, Inc.").

If you're interested, please send me an email or follow the instructions in the job posting above.

As both a founder and a hobby angel investor, I don't think this is something I'd use. AngelList has terrible UX and it's never clear how things work. Combined with slow customer support, I can't imagine how this would be better than using the best of breed for each part of banking, cap table management, legal, etc.

What if they think that their current platform does do that? Scary thought.

Programming Scala is one of the best programming books I’ve ever read. Scala never stuck with me, but I’ve gone through the book a couple of times because it’s so well written and enjoyable to read.

This was a great blast from the past. A few friends of mine and I would write down instructions to draw crude pictures in Logo; the usual sorts of things you'd expect from kids (and one step away from calculator tricks that would result in 8,008,135).

I'm sure lots of other kids did the same thing; kind of a fun way to sneak into writing programs - a low barrier to entry, and immediate results you could tinker with.

Is there something popular like this today?

There were impacts to my mental acuity the day after that outweighed any benefit I felt I got. I will take an edible or vape something recreationally with friends occasionally, but it’s been quite rare the last few years.

I used to do this when going on long runs. The biggest quality of life improvement I found was that it was a lot less boring to run for 90 minutes. Perhaps because of that, those runs did tend to look better on paper. I always figured it was because I was still “having fun” at the end of the run, even if I was tired as hell.

I've been using Zen for a couple of months now, and it's been really helpful in helping me stand up straight (I use a standing desk). Very unobtrusive and still works even though I'm on Zoom all day. The team is great too -- they've been super responsive any time I've run across a weird edge case (it's been a long time since it's happened, but when it did they had it sorted super quickly)

Really love this style of thinking. Tool building done well can have such a huge impact on everyone around you; especially if it’s easy to build good tools.

We’ve been building something with this in mind; to try to make it way easier to focus on the important parts of tooling, and abstract away all the annoying boilerplate. You might be interested in checking it out at https://ab.bot. We’re in the current YC batch and had a Launch HN a few weeks ago.

I wrote about our love of toolmaking here: https://blog.ab.bot/archive/2021/07/15/tools-for-inside-the-... :)

Download https://tails.boum.org/ and put it on a thumb drive. Keep the drive somewhere safe.

If you use any cryptocurrencies, put them in a cold wallet and encrypt + hide your keyphrase (not on the usb drive, somewhere that's safe and away from where you are).

After that... keep your head down and don't make yourself a target!

One additional note, even though you said you're not worried about your physical safety -- set up meeting points with your loved ones away from your home in case something should happen and you can't get back there. If someone runs into trouble and can't communicate, it can be helpful to know where to meet up (same suggestion I'd give to someone moving somewhere with lots of natural disasters, fwiw)