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DougMellonon Ask HN: How do you keep up with replies to comment threads on HN?

I have subscribed to the RSS feed of responses to my comments.

DougMellonon Atlassian products have been down for 4 days

I have have been using it all week - up to and including yesterday. No issues.

DougMellonon Question Does Not Exist

Yup, I totally did. Oops.

DougMellonon Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames

> Multi-layered acronyms: AIM: "AOL Instant Messenger," in which "AOL" originally stood for "America Online"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym

DougMellonon Question Does Not Exist

Previous discussion: https://stackroboflow.com/question/332846

DougMellonon Google Wave

https://github.com/apache/incubator-retired-wave

DougMellonon Mysterious benefactor returns Charles Darwin’s missing notebooks after 20 years

I can’t imagine being the individual that believed they had misplaced them.

DougMellonon Ask HN: Share your personal site

Wow, your wiki is inspiring.

DougMellonon Show HN: Created a high protein recipes directory for Fitness

This looks awesome. I’ve found a lot of the recipes on bodybuilding.com to be incorrect.

DougMellonon Ask HN: What old or deprecated software do you wish was still updated?

This was my exact thought as well. There was just something special about customizing it and using it as your digital media console.

I feel as if everyone was always excited to show off what skin they were using. https://skins.webamp.org

DougMellonon What it’s like to get custom earbuds made

The Moondrop x Crinacle Blessing2:Dusk is probably the greatest bang for your buck IEM I’ve listened to.

https://shenzhenaudio.com/products/moondrop-x-crinacle-bless...

DougMellonon Ask HN: How to move away from Google

For me, it’s sports schedules and scores. If I type MLS or NHL into Google, I get a schedule with todays games, standings, etc. DDG simply provides search results.

It’s honestly the only thing I still use Google for at this point.

DougMellonon Canada will ban sales of combustion engine passenger cars by 2035

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27232178

DougMellonon Ask HN: How to move away from Google

Maybe for some, but it's never been a thought that's crossed my mind.

DougMellonon Ask HN: How to move away from Google

I have been using Fastmail for roughly three years now and happy with it.

https://www.fastmail.com/gmail-alternative/

DougMellonon Sequoia, FTX Ventures and A16Z Lead $135M Investment in Crypto Firm Break

>Ethereum applications will now be able to access liquidity on Serum, the decentralized exchange built on Solana.

This might be a ridiculous question, but doesn't every layer that abstracts further from the blockchain lead to further centralization?

DougMellonon Sequoia backs Skiff, a privacy-first, end-to-end encrypted workspace

https://skiff.org/blog/series-a

DougMellonon [dead]

Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30853836

DougMellonon $625M worth of ETH drained on Axie Infinity's Ronin Network

The current address holding the funds: https://etherscan.io/address/0x098b716b8aaf21512996dc57eb061...

DougMellonon Asahi Linux alpha release

Any suggestions for a good way to learn driver development?

DougMellonon Asahi Linux alpha release

The work they have accomplished and the speed at which they have done it is inspiring.

DougMellonon How I learned to stop worrying and structure all writing as a list

I'll also add to this. From my experience in the military, there were often times when the PowerPoint presentations fell victim to over-simplification as individuals omitted important details that were difficult to break down — instead leaning on the talking points that were easier to list.

DougMellonon How to start learning code for non-coder?

This is a fantastic resource: https://fullstackopen.com/en/

DougMellonon Linux on an M1 Mac

Direct link to anyone curious: https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-1.html

DougMellonon Opinion: 114B transistors, one big meh. Apple's M1 Ultra wake-up call

> Our computers, our networks and our tools are more than good enough to offer anyone of any genre, any age, geek or normcore, a wow reward for creative engagement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30615959

DougMellonon Ask HN: What is the best book on the climate problem and solutions?

Related from five days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30611900

DougMellonon Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8

I currently own the Sennheiser hd 650's[1] with a Schiit amp[2] and absolutely love the combo. I also have them on a harman curve. You can get the HD 6xx from Massdrop for cheaper and it's the exact same driver[3]. My partner uses the Sennheiser 58x's[4] as well as she doesn't like to use an amp and they are probably the greatest bang for your buck I've come across.

[1] https://en-us.sennheiser.com/high-quality-headphones-around-...

[2]https://www.schiit.com/products/magni-1

[3]https://drop.com/buy/massdrop-sennheiser-hd6xx

[4]https://drop.com/buy/massdrop-x-sennheiser-hd-58x-jubilee-he...

DougMellonon Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8

I would also recommend checking Qobuz which is where I find most of my larger label FLAC files.

https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/shop

DougMellonon Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8

https://roonlabs.com/

DougMellonon CD sales grow for first time since 2004

>With vynyl and CDs, listening to a whole album shows you songs that you wouldn't normally consider or search for. Spotify makes it easy to skip a song you may not like but I tend to try out new songs on my record player and sometimes I like new things

We currently have an old Macbook Pro running Qobuz that sits next to our receiver. I used to stand up and skip to the next song if I didn't like a track but it grew old quickly and I now just let it play through.

I never realized how much good music I was skipping until now.