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procinct··on Show HN: Tarot Arcana—AI tarot card readings
Seems to just crash for me after initialising on iPhone 13
procinct··on Microbial Odor Profile of Polyester and Cotton Clothes After a Fitness Session
The big issue with cotton is that it stays wet and then chafes. In my experience, it also doesn’t breathe well. I find cotton is fine for a 5km run but especially as I get above running 15km, it’s just asking for pain.
procinct··on Ask HN: How to give a crash course on Git?
I agree with the others saying to just go ahead with teaching him the CLI, however I also think you are overestimating the amount of work required for scoping out a GUI client. Pretty much all of the mainstream clients you could get dropped into and if you understand git, could understand the GUI within about 20 min of poking around.

I actually switched from CLI to a GUI a couple of years ago because I found one that was a pure UI over git (not trying to abstract it) and that had a lot of useful features that were difficult to do from the CLI. If looking for a GUI to check out, I’d really recommend sublime merge, created by the same people as sublime text. You can also see exactly which commands it’s running which makes for an easy transition imo.

With that said, I switched to Sublime Merge purely because of advanced features that were difficult in the CLI. For just learning git, the CLI should be totally fine.

procinct··on Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)
It’s actually never been confirmed which state they live in :)
procinct··on Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine
Not trying to argue with you, but that sounds more like a rehab programme than a programme designed for someone who is fully able and just wants to start resistance training. The bar is generally a fine starting point for most people but smaller dumbbells could also be used if the bar was too heavy. Also, you should be squatting in a cage with safeties, which mitigates a lot of the risk when squatting. It absolutely should not take a healthy abled person a year to start squatting 20kg.
procinct··on Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine
They’re likely just meaning it makes it harder to progressive overload. If you stick to a programme, you know it’s just about modifying weight, reps, rest, time under tension etc. But if you are changing exercises constantly, it can be difficult to know what weight or rep range will get the right results from that exercise since it’s not really comparable to another exercise.
procinct··on Sleeping through the technical interview (2022)
The tone is styled off another popular series :)

https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview

procinct··on After Vietnam, the Philippines could be next to ban 'Barbie.' Here's why
Ah, apologies you’re correct.
procinct··on After Vietnam, the Philippines could be next to ban 'Barbie.' Here's why
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procinct··on Magit
If you’re interested, you should take a look at Sublime Merge. I switched to it a couple of years ago. Made by the creators of Sublime Text so it’s as snappy as you’d expect. And it has some surprisingly powerful tooling when it comes to searching the history (list all commits that changed a file and by a certain author etc). I also like that you can see a log of all of the git commands it’s executing behind the scenes.
procinct··on Thousands of Reddit communities will be inaccessible on Monday in protest
Can you give a hint on the subject matter of the sub?
procinct··on Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
A Reddit client. It’s what the headline of TFA is referring to.
procinct··on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release
It probably would be fine but you should consider just playing BOTW. I don’t think this game will be a huge technical leap ahead given it’s a switch title anyway. BOTW holds up very well imo so you would be doing yourself a disservice to skip it.
procinct··on Bard coding update with Colab exporting
But copilot actually outputs code into your project, do you really want citations there? I prefer to just enable the setting for it to not reproduce code verbatim from other projects.
procinct··on Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
I agree that the UX has become cluttered but Heardle was never integrated into the apps UX, it was a totally standalone website.
procinct··on Twitter is now blocking Matt Taibbi from search results
Blue Origin? Virgin Galactic?
procinct··on Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
Wait is this true? Doesn’t it also use SQLAlchemy at least? Which then likely has its own dependencies? I’d be really surprised if Django had no dependencies at all.
procinct··on Google nixes paying out rest of medical leave for laid-off employees
The reason why it’s qualified by people who are adopted is because people who aren’t would just refer to them as “parents” not “birth parents” since there is no need to make a distinction.

People who are adopted have two sets of parents so it’s used to distinguish who they are referring to.

procinct··on Google nixes paying out rest of medical leave for laid-off employees
It’s been a common term in my country for as long as I can remember so it might be cultural. I’d say “biological parents” has a more clinical connotation to it but would be just as easily interpreted.

Most commonly used by people who are adopted to refer to their biological parents (especially I would say if they have a relationship with them). I definitely wouldn’t view it as a woke term (I wouldn’t see how it would serve that demographic) unless it’s being used in a different way to the definition I posted earlier.

Reading the article it might have a new meaning which potentially refers to the parent who actually performs the birth? I still don’t think I’d consider that woke but I’ve never heard it in that context and would find it a confusing term since I’m used to the other definition.

procinct··on Google nixes paying out rest of medical leave for laid-off employees
That term has existed since before “woke” was a term. There’s nothing woke about it.
procinct··on Google nixes paying out rest of medical leave for laid-off employees
Yes, they are generally synonyms. It’s not a new term.
procinct··on Google nixes paying out rest of medical leave for laid-off employees
What? Fathers are also birth parents. As opposed to step parents or adoptive parents.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/birth%20parent

procinct··on “Healthy obesity” doesn’t exist. It is unequivocally bad for you
Cardio is certainly important for old age given how common heart disease is. Ideally you would train strength, cardio and mobility.
procinct··on Games should have “optimise for streaming” option
It often doesn’t. Plenty of competitive games are free to play and make their money from cosmetics and battle passes. I’m not a huge fan of those things either but I don’t think you could call LoL pay to win for example.
procinct··on Games should have “optimise for streaming” option
Isn’t the article talking about live streaming like on Twitch? As opposed to game streaming over a system like Stadia
procinct··on Ask HN: Is Windows That Bad?
Do you ever find it an issue that your WSL filesystem is generally seperate from the standard windows filesystem (e.g. incompatible line endings, weird permissions etc). Also do you connect your editor to the WSL filesystem version of the repo remotely? Or are you able to do it “locally” as well?

I’ve found using WSL often feels like using two computers except the Linux one is generally headless.

procinct··on GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
Only on a freeze frame of the screen though. Not like in a slack huddle.
procinct··on My 2022 self was wrong about meditation, monitors, and sleep
My point was more around him saying that focus on psychological health will be looked back on as one of the worst things to happen for humanity.

Also, I’m certainly not saying sleep the day away, but sleeping until you feel well rested feels pretty obvious. There’s a big difference between getting the minimum amount of sleep to get through a day and getting enough sleep to get through a day with high energy levels (as the author also found).

Also, if you do any sort of intensive working out (as most people should) sleep is an absolutely necessary part of your recovery.

procinct··on My 2022 self was wrong about meditation, monitors, and sleep
Not to mention asserting that something is terrible when you haven’t done any research into what that thing actually is…
procinct··on My 2022 self was wrong about meditation, monitors, and sleep
> in 2050 it will be an accepted fact that focus on psychological health (including meditation) was one of the biggest biggest disasters for the advancement of humanity ever

> Get minimum possible sustainable amount of sleep

Wow those original opinions were some seriously hot takes. Please don’t hustle and grustle yourself to the expense of your mental/physical health.

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