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meremortals··on Ask HN: Bitter-Free Coffee
Start with "James Hoffman - A Beginner's Guide to Coffee Tasting" on YouTube.

"Bitter" might mean something different than expected, and knowing the differences might point you in the right direction to finding coffees you enjoy

meremortals··on Ask HN: What have you done to help with yearlong burnout?
Very intrigued. Mind sharing your approximate age? Is the plan to get a foot in the door via IT work and transition to astronaut work?
meremortals··on High-fidelity remote communication
Thanks!
meremortals··on High-fidelity remote communication
any recommendations for a budget - midrange XLR interface?
meremortals··on How to build a search engine with Ruby on Rails
What would you change about Rails?
meremortals··on Ask HN: What is the HN of Cryptocurrency?
Possibly https://www.realvision.com/ but more likely a Matrix or Discord channel I don't get know about
meremortals··on I still use plain text for everything. (2016)
Dendron is open source:

https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron

meremortals··on Tiddlywiki with Roam Research like functionality
you might like Dendron:

https://www.dendron.so/

meremortals··on Reinkstone 10.1” Color E-Paper Tablet Powered by Android 11
color me intrigued
meremortals··on Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018)
looks like OP got into woodworking based on his profile: https://www.longwalkwoodworking.com
meremortals··on Human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface
The Mood Organ from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
meremortals··on FairEmail: Open-source, privacy friendly email app for Android
I've been loving FairEmail for the last 6 months
meremortals··on Ask HN: What are the most annoying parts of job hunting for you?
1) External application systems (when Indeed and LinkedIn link to a new Workday/custom application system, where I have to manually fill out individual fields and re-submit my entire resume)

2) Getting through the ATS

3) A|B Testing -- Wondering how I might have improved my odds of getting a non-rejection (interview offer)

  - would a Masters degree or MBA have helped me?

  - would a different name have improved my odds?

  - would different keywords have helped?

  - would a different design have helped?

  - etc
meremortals··on A Beginner's Guide to NFTs
NFTs are intriguing to me, but I empathize with the comments that there is no compelling reason to spend more for a 1:1 copy of a digital file...

I often daydream about each digital copy being slightly or significantly different from the "original", adjacent to what Jai Paul did with https://jaipaul.bronze.ai/, though it doesn't solve the replica issue, as people could continue passing around copies of the respective "version"

meremortals··on The computers rejecting job applications
I'd also really appreciate this person's info! shawndebray@gmail.com
meremortals··on I Still Use RSS
I've been loving Fraidyc.at for RSS

While https://rssbox.herokuapp.com/ is great, I wish more websites allowed RSS rather than resorting to hacky workarounds

meremortals··on IPFS Support in Brave
Which criticisms? I've just started using it after Firefox's blog post
meremortals··on Ask HN: How have your recent job application experiences been?
same experience
meremortals··on Element – All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations
This was my friend's experience minutes after registering, searching for my handle (begins with nick): https://www.reddit.com/r/elementchat/comments/kvgbq9/is_ther...

He is black.

meremortals··on Getting Started with Brave
+ 1

ProtonMail indicated potentially entering the browser space: https://twitter.com/ProtonMail/status/1347930110553419777

meremortals··on To Lose Weight with Exercise, Aim for 300 Minutes a Week
You can't outrun a bad diet
meremortals··on Show HN: Stop creating bad resumes. Use Resoume
Very nice.

> 90% of large companies use ATS to analyze applications. You could get rejected due to missing keywords or formatting errors.

Any plans to incorporate an ATS-like analyzer/does this feature already exist?

meremortals··on Ask HN: What RSS feeds are you subscribed to?
I love fraidyc.at
meremortals··on Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian
Very cool! Hope you might consider adding a Firefox extension too
meremortals··on Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform
Love this and use it constantly. There's a useful Alfred extension too
meremortals··on Lab mice have a chill, and that may be messing up study results (2016)
+1 Summary: https://podcastnotes.org/portal-with-eric-weinstein/bret-eri...
meremortals··on Ask HN: List of companies NOT using Agile methodologies?
Basecamp
meremortals··on Ask HN: How to take notes?
consider Foam: https://github.com/foambubble/foam or TiddlyRoam: https://joekroese.github.io/tiddlyroam/
meremortals··on The US Navy Admits UFO Videos Are Real
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/explained-new-navy-ufo-vide...
meremortals··on Show HN: Vuiet – a music player and explorer for Emacs
Agree, would love to see this as a blog post!
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