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spread_loveon Ask HN: How did you get rid of your performance anxiety?

Do you struggle with anxiety in general? This sounds like a symptom of a bigger problem.

First step is cut out all drugs (yes even our beloved alcohol). As a depressant it might work in the short term, for the same reason long term it will make things worse.

Toastmasters is a good idea. Have you tried talking to a therapist?

spread_loveon Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station

How do you fence stolen gasoline? Is there a black market for the stuff?

Even if you got away with this, you're looking at $2000-$4000 in profit? Seems hardly with the risk (even if you're not concerned with ethics). Not to mention you have to safely store 800 gallons of gas somewhere.

spread_loveon Getting into Pinball

Is pinball seeing a resurgence in popularity?

A friend of mine is internationally ranked, and he started out much like the author:

> What if I built a wall cutting it in half and built a pinball room in the resulting new room

Their small apartment is now full of pinball machines, tools and parts

spread_loveon Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows

> we recommend Microsoft Word

Which now costs $159.99?!

spread_loveon Eighty Shades of Option Key

Like a train switching tracks! I never noticed.

So what does ⌘ represent?

spread_loveon Growing scientific interest in vagus nerve stimulation

Thanks for sharing. I'm considering VNS but frankly I'm terrified of complications and recovery time.

spread_loveon Acronym’s new computer with Asus is bonkers, but that’s the point

Word, remember the world before the hockey puck mouse? Strange to think we used to shape those like a human hand.

spread_loveon Acronym’s new computer with Asus is bonkers, but that’s the point

> You’d better know how to touch type. The Cyrillic-ish alphabet designed for Acronym by Rudnick is all part of the theme

Any high res photos of the keys/lettering?

spread_loveon Don't use Control Center to turn off Bluetooth on iPhone

> Turning off WiFi makes your battery life worse, because you'll forget to turn it back on

What? (I'm not OP)

spread_loveon Don't use Control Center to turn off Bluetooth on iPhone

Simply conserving battery life?

And according to the article iPhone users that thought their Bluetooth was turned off were vulnerable to attacks; that's not a superstition.

spread_loveon Can we please just go back to using smaller wheels and tires?

Throw some D's on that bitch [to keep the car safe and stable and meet the mandated safety standards]

-- Rich Boy

spread_loveon A Blog Post with Every HTML Element

...and <i> is supposed to mean "idiomatic text" now but let's be honest it's never used that way

spread_loveon Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions

just a joke, apologies :(

you leaving is actually part of the reason I left at the time, you were one of the few admins who regularly participated (it seemed)

spread_loveon Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions

By reading the source code? No wonder reddit used to go down so often...

spread_loveon Mark Zuckerberg: ‘It’s time to move on’ from potential fight with Elon Musk

Old Man Musk can talk it, can't walk it. This playground provocation was boring enough when it started, good call by zuck.

spread_loveon A Blog Post with Every HTML Element

Thanks! I should have specified it's impossible without a fixed height (height: auto).

spread_loveon A Blog Post with Every HTML Element

Most of these aren't widely used because they were quaint attempts at solving problems that no longer exist, could be better solved with CSS (as the author concedes with <small>), and very much depend on browser implementation.

I was excited when <details> and <summary> landed in all evergreen browsers for example, but just to get the content to slide open (guiding the user) instead of pop open requires JS (the best implementations I've seen use WAAPI), Safari adds a proprietary pseudo element, etc.

spread_loveon The average Manhattan rent just hit a new record of $5,588 a month

> without a slight risk of being stabbed by a crazy person

So you've never been to Port Authority...

spread_loveon The average Manhattan rent just hit a new record of $5,588 a month

Commute from BK or Queens is still feasible, they are BIG boroughs so it differs on which part. Prices are lower but climbing, especially in neighborhoods very close to Manhattan.

Bronx still has a high crime rate; depends on where. Tremont and Highbridge are pretty rough. Lots of the Bronx is still as safe or safer than, say, East Harlem (in Manhattan).

spread_loveon The average Manhattan rent just hit a new record of $5,588 a month

> Brokers say the lack of apartments for sale, due to higher interest rates, have forced many would-be buyers to rent

spread_loveon Theft of the Mona Lisa (2000)

Argue against me please: da Vinci's real Mona Lisa is not what's hanging in the Louvre; the original was never recovered. (This is one of my favorite conspiracies)

spread_loveon Vancouver has a photo booth where you can watch your photos develop

So much about darkrooms are tranquil, watching a b&w photo "come to life" made the idea of gelatin silver emulsion click for me. Great project!

spread_loveon An airline said her bag was lost, her tracker said otherwise. She flew to get it

Tile works with all phones, Android and iOS

spread_loveon Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)

Another "article" summarizing a reddit post. They even took the top comment and put it at the end

> wavy walls that lawnmowers surely detest!

spread_loveon Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)

I'm delighted to let you know that you missed the point. It was a very short comment.

spread_loveon Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)

I can see users misreading this as a "close" icon in the "share on..." section of every article

spread_loveon Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)

No, it changed ownership many times since 1999.

> On July 5 2017, Musk repurchased the domain name X.com from PayPal

They even took a little jab at him when it happened

> "We are delighted to sell the domain x.com back to its previous owner"

spread_loveon Social media is too much for most of us to handle

I went dark and lost touch with a lot of friends and family. I was just keeping up with their life by Liking posts instead of, you know, calling them.

spread_loveon MDN Playground

Freemium teaser?

I'd monetize this by adding features and hiding them behind MDN Pro+ (or w/e the subscription is called) in the future. Ala Codepen.

spread_loveon No CSS Club

You didn't remove all the default styling added by all browsers? This site is styled differently depending on browser.

I suppose that means "you're trying to cover up your lack of interesting information"?