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tren··on John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
2022 was the first VS in 64 bit, the increase in responsiveness was enough to make me switch back from rider
tren··on Ask HN: Better way to create Anki cards?
I agree with this. I generally spend a bit of time creating a single card, with the front being a question that I come up with myself based on the concept I want to understand.

For example, when I was learning about DIY Bio, one of my cards might look like:

Front: "What allows plants and algae to photosynthesise sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into energy?"

Back: "chloroplasts"

My memory isn't great and I think rewording what you've read helps in the process.

tren··on We're going to need a lot of solar panels
I think it has a good chance of happening with Mike-cannon Brookes and Andrew Forrest pushing it along. I hope it's better protected than the internet subsea cables, those things get cut about once per year.
tren··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)
eBooks.com | Full Stack Dev (.NET) | Full-time | ONSITE | Perth, Western Australia

eBooks.com (https://www.ebooks.com) is a popular ebook retailer with a reputation for innovation, integrity and independence.

Location: Perth, WA - Must be on-site initially

Compensation: 90K-110K AUD

A small, collaborative, harmonious team environment. Based primarily in Perth, but also London, Los Angeles and Melbourne. We're a smart, friendly and motivated team who enjoy the challenges of working in a competitive industry, up against One Huge Scary Competitor. Everyone has share options and, after a qualifying period, you can apply for a stake in the company too.

Your day to day job will be working with our other devs on our retail site and back-end applications. We have one formal meeting per week, the rest of the time you collaborate as needed.

Responsibilities:

* Develop new features, maintain, and upgrade our retail site and back-end applications

* Iteratively improve our development process, your voice is important

Experience:

* Skilled with .NET (C#, .NET Core MVC), SQL Server, HTML5, CSS (LESS/Sass)

* A solid understanding of how web applications work including security, session management, and development best practices

* Hands on experience working with RESTful APIs, dependency injection and unit testing is highly desirable

* Will tackle problems head on until they're resolved

Email your resume to: hn@ebooks.com

tren··on Ask HN: Companies hiring for a 4-day workweek?
This site is a start: https://4dayweek.io/
tren··on What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)
How about https://www.kolabtree.com/? Disclaimer: I have never tried it.
tren··on Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads
Try https://www.betterworldbooks.com/explore/explore-used_books - most of the time the cheapest price at Abebooks points at them anyway
tren··on In Argentina, inflation is a way of life
I've got a 100 trillion dollar bill from Zimbabwe, I think it was worth about 30c at the time of issue
tren··on Ask HN: What can I learn/do over the next 12 days that will make life better?
If I could tell my 26 year old self to get into something, it would be meditation. I started with the Headspace app but I think Waking Up by Sam Harris is better - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wakingup.a....

Most days I do 20 mins first thing when I wake up. With 12 days, you could finish the beginner course if you do 1 session in the morning and one in the evening.

tren··on Ask HN: Recommended Domain Registrars?
Another +1 for Porkbun. I usually use domcomp.com to compare prices and Porkbun is basically always in the top 3.
tren··on A theory that “elite overproduction” leads to political instability (2020)
Maybe in the US. In Australia bricklayers currently charge over $100/h, plumbers are pretty close
tren··on Playwright for .NET is now stable
Same guy does playwright sharp, he should really have more supporters
tren··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)
Hey, just FYI -- you need to fix your cert at https://synth.earth :)
tren··on Why Russians do not smile (2002)
If you want to improve your understanding about these sort of differences between cultures, I highly recommend reading "The Culture Map" by Erin Meyer.
tren··on Ask HN: Why startups avoid using .NET as their primary back end framework?
Previously, it was also tightly integrated with MSSQL. I like MSSQL but it becomes prohibitively expensive once you reach a certain size.

On the side I've been building a job listing site for tech jobs in Australia with .NET core, currently it's on a $5/m Vultr instance with a postgres DB. This wouldn't have been possible to do a few years back: https://www.headhunted.com.au

tren··on Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
Can someone explain to me what I'm missing with regards to how much they're currently earning? Looking at their base support sponsors (of which there are 4), they are each paying a minimum of $24,000 each ($96,000/year). There are 5 gold sponsors of at least $1000/month ($60,000/year) and 24 silver sponsors of at least $500/month ($120,000/year). That's already $276K without including the bronze/backer tiers.
tren··on Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders
Anyone know how to contact support through the web interface? In the FAQ it says it's possible to do so when you're logged in -- somehow by changing my shipping address the service address got screwed up.
tren··on Toxic positivity does more harm than good
Along these lines, it's worth reading The Culture Map by Erin Meyer. It gives some interesting insight into how different cultures approach management and decision making. I think it also applies when thinking about people from within the same culture to some extent.
tren··on Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency
DOI 10.1021/jf073398s @ sci-hub (not sure what the rules are about linking directly from here)
tren··on Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency
If you want to go the vegetarian option, shiitake mushrooms are good: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6213178/. Interestingly, the mushroom's D content is based upon how much exposure they have to UV.

Shameless plug -- I wrote an article about growing them at home, it's not too hard. We eat a lot of them: https://www.mushroom.guide

tren··on Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage (2018)
My Dad, (85 years old), recently posted an idea about using flywheels to store electricity -- it would give him a real kick if he knew people from here were taking a look at it: http://aoi.com.au/devices/KPW/
tren··on Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy
Apparently they're making it easier for people in tech post covid - https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2020/skilled-tech-m...
tren··on Show HN: Humans vs AI – A/B testing GPT-3
I feel like GPT-3 is going to unleash the next wave of SEO spam. Content spinning will be taken to the next level, will Google be able to detect GPT-3 content?
tren··on Ask HN: Suggest names for an open-source, self-hosted Mailchimp alternative?
If you want mailslam.com I'll transfer it to you. I was going to build something similar but in reality I'll never get around to it.
tren··on Ask HN: What is the ideal developer experience in 2020?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/get-star...
tren··on Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries
If you can, reach out for help. Talk to your GP and don't discount any advice they give you. If you can talk to a cbti sleep specialist (usually a psych), it's worth trying out. I did group cbti and in conjunction with other things, it helped a lot. I was in a similar boat to you a couple of years ago
tren··on Ask HN: What PostgreSQL client do you use?
I really enjoy using navicat too, it is much more intuitive for me coming from mssql
tren··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
Some guys in our city are doing this on a larger scale, schools in the area collect all plastic bottles and in return they get 3d filament: https://www.greenbatch.com/
tren··on Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?
I like taskade to manage this. I'll use the weekly Todo list template and it works well
tren··on I gave away my books and sales increased
I agree with this, I work for an ebook company and our sales are 2-3x what they usually are for this time of year.

Even so, well done experimenting with a different model Jeff, you'll have a larger (and more appreciative) fan base because of it.

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