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abid786··on How to clean chemistry glassware
As an organic chemist who became a software engineer, I’ll say that it’s more than just money (Or curing disease) that drives a lot of people. There’s just something inherently amazing about having the literal world supply of a compound that you made using your own hands (and the laws of nature). And in organic chemistry, there’s a bit of subjectivity and art too - designing compounds, designing a chemical route to synthesize them, etc.
abid786··on A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32
Completely agree - I think it can go one of two ways. Software is more malleable than airplanes are and that also comes with downsides (like how much time and effort it takes to bring a new plane to the market)
abid786··on The new Paris métro
I am not the parent but the comment does have some merit (and I say this as a Canadian). For a lot of things we simply gloat that we’re better than the US and then end up thinking that our work is done.

Classic case is health care (‘look, we spend less than the US and have free healthcare’) where instead of looking up to countries with better healthcare outcomes than us, we look down on America and act smug. Other cases include our climate record, and post secondary education.

abid786··on Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it
I don’t think this is using local storage. There’s a web sockets based server that is sending clients the location of the other boxes as they are moving
abid786··on The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see
Is English not your native language? Catching hypothermia is a pretty standard phrase.

And he clearly failed to deliver on his side of the deal.

abid786··on Current thoughts on social media
Google+ had 540 million active users
abid786··on Barnes and Noble Sets Itself Free
Clearly you didn't read the article
abid786··on Show HN: See library availabilities for your Goodreads want-to-read list
You can filter by books that are available immediately too I think
abid786··on Indoor wood burning raises women’s lung cancer risk by 43%
The science speaks for itself, but to a climate skeptic that might not be true.
abid786··on Is this ‘which’ dead?
You’re right but the word dont always poses trouble for English learners of French
abid786··on Show HN: Learn piano without sheet music
You’re probably not very good at playing the piano. I’m not sure what you mean by far enough, but not being able to sight read a piece is not the same as being unable to read sheet music at all.
abid786··on I got paid to live in Antarctica
To someone poor who is dying of a curable illness, healthcare that isn't executed well is infinitely better than care they can't afford.

It's great to make decisions about how to spend your income, unless... you have no income.

abid786··on Show HN: GitHub Stats Dashboard Powered by GraphQL API and GitHub Action
Please don't. It's a nightmare from an accessibility point of view
abid786··on Rails Cheat Sheet
It’s really a pity because nest.js is an awesome and very intuitive backend framework. Because it’s written on top of express, the real power comes from being able to drop down to the express layer anytime.
abid786··on Accenture would cut 19,000 jobs
This is actually standard usage of the conditional tense in Indian English.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/222166/which-dia...

abid786··on Accenture would cut 19,000 jobs
I’m not sure if OP is Indian but in Indian English this is a pretty standard way of using the conditional tense in that variety of English [1]. It has led to misunderstanding and miscommunication on my part, so I’m not surprised to see such confusion here

[1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/222166/which-dia...

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