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sourcecodeplz

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sourcecodeplz··on Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking in US first
It is common in family/small types businesses to start drinking at the office after lunch, this is Sweden/Norway/Denmark/Finland. It is dark and is sucks, what else you gonna do?
sourcecodeplz··on GPT-4o
It is quite nice how they keep giving premium features for free, after a while. I know openai is not open and all but damn, they do give some cool freebies.
sourcecodeplz··on A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair
Working on the bike for me is therapeutic. It’s like trimming the plants/trees.
sourcecodeplz··on World Wide Web (1991)
Kind of awesome that some of the websites from W3 Servers (https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Servers.html) are still online, just a couple though.
sourcecodeplz··on Insatiable: A life without eating
I try to waste as little as possible. Would have been nice to live in a house with a yard and some chickens. Would give them leftovers. Otherwise just turn it into compost.
sourcecodeplz··on Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using?
Yes, pen & paper ftw. Get some stamps and envelopes too, then start playing chess via correspondence.
sourcecodeplz··on Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using?
Sublime text, Windows, Steam, VLC, OBS, Winamp, Chrome, 7-zip, Snipping Tool
sourcecodeplz··on MKBHDs for Everything
Absolutely! This product is building a NEW CATEGORY, of course it is not going to be perfect on first itteration.
sourcecodeplz··on MKBHDs for Everything
I honestly watch almost all his videos but I was kind of surprised on how he handled the Humane AI pin. He basically shit on it for not being perfect. Remember, this is a product in a NEW CATEGORY. Of course it is not going to be perfect. But saying it is the WORST PRODUCT EVAH, is really shitty and way in the clouds (not down to earth).

Anyway, I will continue to watch his videos because they are informative and entertaining. Of course I will decide for myself on what I buy and why, because I have a brain and my own agency AND can assess things using my own logic and values.

And please don't tell me you don't notice how a sweetheart he is to Apple and Tesla...

PEACE

sourcecodeplz··on SFMTA's train system running on floppy disks; city fears 'catastrophic failure'
Didn't it used to be that they broke often when you would keep them in the sun, even for a little?
sourcecodeplz··on Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness
Depends on where you live and maybe for how long. For me for example, I live in the city in an apartment. I go out in the morning to buy bread. It is 50% likely I will meet someone from my neighborhood and chat for a minute or just say hi.

If I really want to chat a little, I will go to one of the other small shops next to me and buy a beer/coffee and talk with the owner or whoever is outside the store.

Because I work from home most of my friends are at work during the day. But come evening and you can hang out for at least an hour, with someone you know, every single day if you want. There is no planning, you just go to the places you know people hang out, and they will be there. And if you don't want to talk much, you can just listen.

I feel I am blessed to have this because I was an expat for some years and you don't know what you have until you don't have it anymore.

sourcecodeplz··on Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness
I am into wildlife & nature in general. In my country, public institutions in charge with wildlife & nature have started for some time posting interesting videos, projects and images on facebook. They don't post them anywhere else, if you can believe it.

Here, everyone has facebook, from your grandma to your little cousin. My family is spread all over the country and you can keep in touch via text, phone but seeing what they are doing with pictures on facebook is very convenient and helpful.

Yes, the older/younger crowd do eat up conspiracies on facebook, sadly. They also don't read news sites, all the news is from facebook and TV maybe (older crowd).

Still, you are missing out a lot if you don't have it here. For example like meeting new people even. That "friends of friends" feature is immense. Kind of a social proof that you are normal/not a creep/have friends.

In the end it comes down to education. The first 7 years at home are ridiculously important. Then you have primary school for another 8 years, which is almost as important.

sourcecodeplz··on Live NASA telescope feed for today's solar eclipse [video]
Nah, when I saw it as a kid it was amazing.

It got cold & pitch dark in the middle of a summer day.

Chickens went to sleep.

sourcecodeplz··on The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming
For when the power/internet turns off, get some books, old magazines, crossword puzzles and candles + flashlights. DVDs wont help you much.

edit: my battery powered radio was pretty great too when the power went out.

sourcecodeplz··on Core I9 14900KF Breaks World Record, Almost Achieves 9.1GHz (2023)
Dunno what happened but way in the day tomshardware writers were very knowledgeable and quite witty + smart too. Guess it got sold? I can't pronounce the name of more than 80% of their writers now.
sourcecodeplz··on A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates
I never got this. Yes, higher res looks better but I watch movies/shows for the story.
sourcecodeplz··on A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates
I just use streaming sites from Asia... ad-block ftw
sourcecodeplz··on Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud (2023)
They crawl all the time, their instances could go down and no problem, there are still hundreds doing the same task. They consume waaaay too much traffic for the cloud to make sense financially.

Hybrid approach is best in cases like this. Use the cloud for client facing interfaces and rent dedicated servers for the spiders.

edit: even better, build your own data center instead of renting.

sourcecodeplz··on -2000 Lines of Code (2007)
Found it on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toSRmKKiosQ
sourcecodeplz··on Show HN: Creating custom coloring pages from photos. Great for parents/teachers
what language / image libraries did you use to build this? thanks
sourcecodeplz··on Airbnb is banning indoor security cameras
Vacuum, mop the floors, scrub the toiles and sinks, clean the dust / hairs. Of course there is a cleaning fee.
sourcecodeplz··on How to become a pirate archivist (2022)
Asia, Middle East….
sourcecodeplz··on Bring back private offices
What I minded most about open-office was the noise. the constant noise. always had to wear headphones to do any non-mundane work.

2-3 people in a real office was the best years of my working life really.

sourcecodeplz··on How to be a good listener
Don't wait for your turn to speak.
sourcecodeplz··on TextAdept
Give Sublime Text a try.
sourcecodeplz··on Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)
Yeah. I remember vacations the most. And that is enough for me.

Live your life one day at a time.

sourcecodeplz··on My PHP Problems
Good for PHP that it's getting more and more traction (attention) lately. Bad press is still press & PHP is quite not bad nowadays, when you start from scratch.
sourcecodeplz··on Ask HN: What means to live without a phone?
I think nowadays it is selfish to live without a phone. Your loved ones need to have a way to contact you fast if they need you.
sourcecodeplz··on Hacker Newsy: a pretty Hacker News client
Nice but I just use a Chrome extension (Stylish) that has tons of styles for many websites.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/stylish-custom-them...

sourcecodeplz··on U.S. army drops requirement for high school diploma (2022)
Education trains your brain, regardless where you are getting it from. An untrained brain equals to a dumb individual who will make mistakes whatever he is doing.
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