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focom··on Why are online recipes so long-winded?
How can a professional chef end up on HN? I am curious. Did you turn into a dev later in life?
focom··on iPad Pro M2
Isn't stage mode the main star of the show? It looks like the first baby step to have an actual desktop environment on the ipad.
focom··on Celsius Network Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Mandatory: Not your key, not your coins
focom··on The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar
Yep can confirm. If I had a Canadian passport, I would have no reason to stick to freezing Canada.
focom··on Things I do every time I start a Django project
And also install Django Extensions (https://django-extensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

It makes the Django CLI comparable to rails. Notably the reset_db and shell_plus command

focom··on Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster
Yes its a shame django isn't as active as rails
focom··on Ask HN: Which are the best open source books?
The bible
focom··on Show HN: Meadowrun automates the tedious details of running Python on AWS/Azure
Cool stuff, I wish you guys success!
focom··on Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
dokku on a vps?

ref: https://github.com/dokku/dokku

focom··on Show HN: I built a website to find nearby cafes to work remotely from
How did you seed the first cafe? is it all crowd sourced? I only see two cafe in Montreal, QC
focom··on Don’t Do a PhD
Maybe only in Europe, where it usually spans over 2-3 year. With my understanding, I would avoid it in North America.
focom··on The next Google
> DuckDuckGo and Bing are not true alternatives – they’re just worse versions of Google.

Glad to disagree, DuckDuckGo is good enough if not great.

focom··on Incident: Air Asia A320 near Kuching on Feb 10th 2022, snake on the plane
~Snake eater theme playing~
focom··on Deploy a Gmail-like email server in 30 (ish) minutes
I think those projects:

- https://mailinabox.email/

- https://github.com/modoboa/modoboa

are better replacement. They are battery included with a webUI

focom··on GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta
I agree you pinpointed the real issue. People working on AI ethics are more often than not gate keeper to make sure AI is in the hand of the few. They also want AI to follow the leading moral of the day - Western liberal ideas
focom··on How I Use Notion
Yes I agree. I often time result to using a single .txt file with vim. And keep track of article in bookmarks folders.
focom··on Zinit author has suddenly disappeared
So weird, hopefully the community has a fresh branch to push somewhere. https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit/
focom··on Generate Unicode Calendars for Markdown
Is the lib to generate those opensource? Would love to try it
focom··on Using ASCII waveforms to test real-time audio code
Would love to use it as a library! Is it open source?
focom··on Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password
Would be great to have it with bitwarden.com as well
focom··on Ask HN: What are some other general link aggregators aside from HN?
https://techmeme.com/
focom··on Old photos of Bedouin nomads, 1898
Beside cell phone and some western clothing, it still is the same vibe more than 100 year after.
focom··on Ask HN: How to make computer elderly proof
I think a pc is not suited for this. I would try to see if an ipad is of any interest to them.
focom··on Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
So with PoS, we recreate a system where a few rich pool have decision over the network. Can someone enlighten me on how this is different from the current fiat system?
focom··on Scientists prefer studying pretty plants to dull ones
If you have to live and think day and night about a plant, I can understand you pick the pretty one. But like with spider I am sure some people will get affection for the less loved one.
focom··on Facebook plans to go after Clubhouse
I look forward to the audio flamewar in fb groups.
focom··on Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site
Great content man! Love the home made "bon appetit" vibe
focom··on Ask HN: Why are you still using Windows 7?
I believe you won't find anybody on HN still running Win7 on a personal machine.
focom··on Engineers, not racers, are the true drivers of success in motor sport
I am Caribbean but unlike you, I don't fall for the victim hood narrative. Racism is not the reason for every issues in our community.
focom··on Engineers, not racers, are the true drivers of success in motor sport
Reading the first line:

> Our statistical model finds that neither Lewis Hamilton nor Michael Schumacher is Formula 1’s greatest driver

So its lame to play the racist card here.

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