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strig··on Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms
Super impressive, great job!
strig··on More bosses give four-day workweek a try
They could do 4x 10 hour days instead
strig··on Show HN: Regex Cheatsheet
My go-to is https://regex101.com/
strig··on This Page is Designed to Last
Another commenter suggested https://joplinapp.org/, it has a nice search feature and has apps for most platforms.
strig··on Undocumented Catalina file access change
UAC is even more useless, it just tells you "Do you want to allow xyz to make changes to your computer", without telling you what any of those changes or permissions are. Android permission prompts are way better.
strig··on Nerd Fonts
They also have actual fonts:

https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads

strig··on Why Are Canadian Construction Costs So High? (2018)
That's probably more due to zoning regulations that construction costs, no? I was under the impression that zoning in the Bay Area makes new construction very difficult.
strig··on Open-sourcing Clusterman, a cluster autoscaler for Kubernetes and Mesos
Engineers on the ground developing technologies generally aren't responsible for overarching business decisions, no.
strig··on Project Silica proof-of-concept stores movie on quartz glass
> The team has baked, boiled, microwaved, demagnetized and scoured similar pieces of glass with steel wool — with no loss to the data stored inside.

That's really cool.

strig··on First carbon dioxide battery is seven times more efficient than lithium-ion
What kind of implications does that have? Is molybdenum very expensive to use in batteries?
strig··on Tests show bootleg marijuana vapes tainted with hydrogen cyanide
You can buy high-CBD flower though.
strig··on The Octopus: An Alien Among Us
I actually enjoyed it a bit more than Children of Time. Both are great books.
strig··on French high court rules that Steam can’t ban users from reselling digital games
They wouldn't necessarily need to implement that though, just a way of transferring licences to someone else. People could figure out their own payment.
strig··on Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism
Norway is already very expensive to visit
strig··on Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 per hour
I would argue that EMTs and surgical residents are ludicrously underpaid if that's the current reality.
strig··on Ask HN: What is the best chair for developers?
I use a Steelcase leap, it's great.

I wouldn't recommend buying any expensive office chair without testing them out and making sure it feels comfortable for you.

strig··on Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Electric Cars
Great and all, but I'll never purchase an automobile if I can help it. They are garbage, in my opinion. They feel like cheap toys, like kids' wagons. I've driven and ridden in horseless carriages and, aside from the acceleration, there's nothing special about it. Besides, as a horse rider, even the Ford Model T 0-60 isn't anything magical. It's...mundane to riders (who aren't on donkeys). The Bugatti Type 13, however, is objectively insane. Call me a luddite, but I want to feed and care for my animals. I want an 6 or 8 horse team that puts out gratuitous amounts of power and, yes, NOISE. I want sharp steering feedback and beefy leg muscles and stiff, aggressive saddles. I don't want a damn horseless carriage, I want a real freaking racing horse with all the money poured into the performance, and none into comfort.

There are tons of buyers like me, too. SoCal has a huuuge horse culture of guys who buy old stallions, mares old and new, donkeys, oxen teams, carriages, carts. Tons of us LIKE riding. Tons of us LIKE offensively smelly animals. Tons of us LIKE manually commanding our animal to move. What about us? What happens when other people finally surrender their autonomy to shitty oil powered machines?

What Ford should really do is build a mid/rear saddled mustang-based sport carriage. Enough of the gasoline automobile nonsense. It's over a decade away anyway. Let the people who like riding, ride!

strig··on Launch HN: Cloosiv (YC S19) – Order ahead from local coffee shops
Depending on the location, it should probably just tell you driving duration instead of walking.
strig··on Lessons from Hiring a Remote Team
Most of this advice also applies to hiring onsite employees.
strig··on Show HN: A live map of sunlight on earth
I always use this tool if I want to check local times: http://www.worldchatclock.com/
strig··on How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess
These subscription services are a great way to try out games without paying full price. I spent 10 bucks on EA access to try out Anthem and it saved me 50 bucks in the end since it wasn't worth buying.
strig··on How Discord Went Mainstream
That's not in any way a replacement for discord.
strig··on Did Strava copy its mobile route builder from another app?
And publicly disclosing user screenshot counts and times is extra creepy.
strig··on Fully managed PostgreSQL databases
Sounds cool, I'll check it out.
strig··on Fully managed PostgreSQL databases
Well yeah, of course. I was hoping they would offer something managed to compete with Heroku's free/$9 tiers, but this is the cost of three droplets and isn't worth it for me at the moment. I'll probably test it out for a bit though but it will be too expensive for hobby/throwaway projects.
strig··on Fully managed PostgreSQL databases
Does that mean this is the lowest tier we will see?
strig··on Fully managed PostgreSQL databases
Any chance of a cheaper, low-performance tier for hobby projects? I was hoping to see something at $5/mo like the the lowest droplet tier.
strig··on Why Starting a Business as a Software Developer Is a Good Idea
Yeah, sounds cool
strig··on Open-Source Controller for the IKEA Bekant Standing Desk
The new Ikea Idasen desks have Linak motors.
strig··on Open-Source Controller for the IKEA Bekant Standing Desk
I just picked up one of their new Idasen desks. It's a lot sturdier than their previous ones that I've seen.

I get minimal wobbling of the desk surface at full height, but my monitors do still wobble a bit. At normal desk height there's no wobble. I think most of the wobble comes from the cheaper VESA mount, if I'd gotten a more rigid one it would be better but I wanted more flexibility in arranging the monitors.

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