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bil7··on A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout
that's standard pomodoro timings which are globally popular
bil7··on Tell HN: Reddit mandatory login to see sensitive pages
large number? Reddit has seen by far the most growth after switching to the new UI. The old reddit has already not been maintained to support new features such as polls.
bil7··on The strength of the strong force
wave function does not have to collapse for particles to exist. Particles and wavefunctions are just different lenses for which to make sense of excitations in quantum fields
bil7··on Don’t call it a comeback: Java is still champ
do you have some other anology we should all switch to? maybe a ferrari level analogy that's way better?
bil7··on Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it
might actually work if you use identity based language, such as:

My Rules:

1. When I feel like not working, I will commit to doing just 5 minutes of the task.

bil7··on Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
>the increasing over-clickbaity titles and thumbs

an unfortunate appeal to the recommendation algorithm that is now a must. You are leaving views on the table without employing these clickbait methods. One solution that many channels use including Veritasium is trying out various clickbait packaging for the first 24-48h, then swapping to something more descriptive.

When these videos represent not only one person's livelihood but also the salaries of a team of producers, camera operators, scriptwriters, etc it just makes unfortunate sense to appeal to the algorithm

bil7··on Show HN: A CLI to avoid remembering HTTP status codes
i keep underestimating the power of bash. KISS!
bil7··on Ask HN: How do you keep code reviews from taking forever?
haha, I've definitely seen some of those. Comment standards are worth obeying, personally I like the code review pyramid https://www.morling.dev/blog/the-code-review-pyramid/
bil7··on Ask HN: How do you keep code reviews from taking forever?
> "I reviewed a bunch of PRs yesterday" sounds bad in standup

The real problem is here. Code review must be a first class citizen of your team culture to be successful. It is the responsibility of management/scrum master/etc to foster and if necessary enforce the culture

bil7··on Deepest infrared image of universe
Call me gen Z but I prefer my knowledge in video form. Can highly recommend PBS Spacetime's coverage of the topics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g
bil7··on Deepest infrared image of universe
you may like to read about the "rare earth" hypothesis and the "fine tuned universe" theory.
bil7··on Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity
awesome. Maybe make the ranks and wtf buttons more visible.
bil7··on Problems at Roblox
i think the author conflated "is openly sexual online" and "works on a game targeted at children". As you say, strong evidence in the article, cloudy delivery.
bil7··on Playstation Store removes Studiocanal movies, no refunds offered
Fair enough, that makes sense. I meant to ask "why should I", my miscommunication.
bil7··on Playstation Store removes Studiocanal movies, no refunds offered
why? I have never used a VPN for decades and terabytes of torrenting. Not a peep from my ISP (virgin media, uk)
bil7··on Show HN: PDFs that are readable by human eyes only
I understand that. And I understand your personal use case was valid. But I think your "Human Eyes Only" name and domain is a little deceptive.
bil7··on Show HN: PDFs that are readable by human eyes only
> I didn't realize that there are (common?) tools to OCR screenshots.

This seems like quite the oversight to me...

bil7··on Felt
there's no way they've implemented each pan, move and zoom to require a server roundtrip. Their client side is not performant.
bil7··on Felt
same here on an m1 macbook pro
bil7··on Ask HN: BeReal Shows Who Takes Screenshots with No Notice to Users
i only share my BeReal with my friends. I don't really mind or care if they take a screenshot of me at my desk at work.
bil7··on Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022
DDG usually shows a SO preview in the right hand gutter for code related searches. I guess that must be a bing feature.
bil7··on Potato diet community trial
anecdotal but I didn't eat meat for about 8 years and had absolutely no problems transitioning back to frequent carnivory, despite reading many warnings much like yours. Different strokes I guess.
bil7··on GitHub Copilot is generally available
> suggest patterns in the same codebase that you're working

Sometimes, with variable results. I think I've only observed it guess patterns from the current directory

> Does copilot work for shell scripts?

Yes, it gave me this earlier today while editing my .zshrc:

  # kill a process on a given port
  killport() {
    lsof -i :$1 | awk 'NR!=1 {print $2}' | xargs kill
  }
bil7··on A look at search engines with their own indexes (2021)
> basically turned the browser into a funnel that sends all internet users to https://google.com

Exactly right and completely intentional. I saw they also pay Apple $15bn to be the default search provider on iOS [0]. Annually.

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/27/google-could-pay-apple-...

bil7··on Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
lol, Jeff (the video creator and narrator) will probably take this as a compliment.
bil7··on Ask HN: How broken is YouTube these days?
great little extension, apparently it's skipped over 10 hours of ads for me!
bil7··on Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
fans of bittorrent and fans of services with auto content moderation share at least one common factor: they are free to use. Many people are not motivated much further than keeping their hard earned cash.
bil7··on Stop Interviewing with Leet Code
I understand what you mean, I could also probably pass the test. But what is the utility in an arcane test like this? If I'm hiring web developers, I'd want them to see how they apply their knowledge to a realistic scenario. There is a real chance that a potentially great hire with decent experience in a desirable technology will fail the inversion task.
bil7··on Stop Interviewing with Leet Code
if the "simple questions" are realistic problems they might face day to day, fair enough. But the classic example in these articles is an exercise like invert a binary tree, which most people never have nor will need to do, making it a poor test.
bil7··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2022)
your website is inspiring
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