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jbc1··on The Yoghurt Mafia
I'm going to pick one of these up tomorrow and I'm trying to work out how your modification fits in with the instructions on their website:

- Mix EasiYo Yogurt Sachet with room temperature drinking water (15-20°C) in the EasiYo Jar

- Add boiling water to the Yogurt Maker and place jar inside. Leave to set for 8-12 hours

- Refrigerate Yogurt until chilled. Enjoy

Are you cutting the amount of yogurt mix you put in short and adding milk powder? mixing the milk powder with water to create milk and then adding yogurt mix with that?

jbc1··on Show HN: Khan-dl – Khan Academy Course Downloader
There's software called ArchiveBox, it's not a thing they made up. Or are you aware and you were asking how to use it?
jbc1··on Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH
There actually is unclaimed land left on Earth. I know there's a bit between Egypt and Sudan. Claiming the land would worsen their claim on a different, better, piece of land that they both claim is theres; so neither does.

Unsure of the status of non-government large, well funded groups of people with guns there is though.

jbc1··on Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history
https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox
jbc1··on How to Navigate Being the Only Woman on Your Team
With the exception of people who need full time carers, everyone is the prime authority and advocate of their own interests.

It's the interrupted's job to correct the behaviour because they're the one who wants it corrected.

It could be someone else's job as well, but its still going to be the interrupted's job.

jbc1··on How to Navigate Being the Only Woman on Your Team
Sounds like you're a church of interruption person. Whereas this advice is about teaching women to go from meek to church of strong civility.

https://sambleckley.com/writing/church-of-interruption.html

jbc1··on Photos from inside a Typhoon class submarine
The Typhoon was also built to operate in the Arctic. The bigger it is the more ice it can punch through to fire missiles.
jbc1··on Get $15k to move to Michigan and work remotely
For many people the car free lifestyle is the main appeal of urban centres. More not being specific enough than moving goal posts imo.
jbc1··on Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship”
That's why the custom backgrounds is important. It normalises it. People can just think you're using one for fun.
jbc1··on Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition
Could you talk a little about your SRS algorithm as it is now?
jbc1··on Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition
Definitely looks more user friendly than Anki. Could you talk a little about your SRS algorithm? Are you using SM2?
jbc1··on Business Operations – Tech Stack
Wait, how was it that the sales department made that happen?
jbc1··on Ask HN: How are Digital Nomads coping with travel restrictions?
I know Indonesia introduced visa wavers back in March for anyone still in the country on short term visas.

I returned to Australia just before that and flights got shut down during my quarantine period. So I've been living in my mother's caravan while having already paid rent on a large tropical island villa that lasted until last month ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

jbc1··on They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]
Are there free email providers that let you bring your own domain?
jbc1··on On Browser Tabs
Safer and not a whole lot of work to backup your bookmarks if you're worried about changing or disappearing pages. Probably have a net time saving pretty quickly from regaining access to being able to use tabs as tabs again.

Can self host using

https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox

or pay a service like pinboard.

jbc1··on Qantas offers a seven-hour flight to nowhere
People should live in large barracks style accommodation attached to their place of work and live on nutrient paste made out of locally grown vegetables and insects.

It's a spectrum of trade offs.

jbc1··on Qantas offers a seven-hour flight to nowhere
Better flight time to recreation ratio.
jbc1··on Croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another
Thanks! I will be using this a lot.
jbc1··on What happened to Firefox Send?
I'm not sure about any audits or anything they might have had, but they're not a random fly by night. Used pretty heavily by a lot of people involved in media production.

Keep in mind that if security is important, you can still self host Send.

jbc1··on What happened to Firefox Send?
Up to 2GB

https://wetransfer.com

jbc1··on Mac keyboard shortcuts
Cmd T is super comfortable. What do you mean somehow? The T is right there next to F, the default resting area for your index finger.

Ctrl is the uncomfortable key. Requires bringing the pinky in to play.

jbc1··on Mac keyboard shortcuts
Arrow exists on Catalina as well.
jbc1··on Mac keyboard shortcuts
That's fantastic. Thanks!
jbc1··on $250k books sold, to save lives
Charitable acts being lessened by others learning about them is possibly the most harmful widespread opinion that exists today.

Your comment makes it less likely that others will broadcast their charitable giving, result in less people being prompted to give, and overall reduce the amount of giving in the world; all for no gain for yourself or anyone else. You want "a bit sad"? Dwell on that for a while.

jbc1··on $250k books sold, to save lives
Sounds like Derek Sivers did. Wouldn't be his first time giving to charity.
jbc1··on On eve of bankruptcy, US firms shower executives with bonuses
If I offer you a deal on a dice roll where if it lands on 1 through 5 you get $1000 but if it lands on 6 you get nothing, and to play you only need to put in $10, that's a fantastic deal for you and the profit maximising move is to play. If the die lands on 6, that doesn't stop it having been the right move on your part to have played.

Companies going bankrupt in extraordinary market circumstances doesn't mean they were mismanaged. Only that their 6 has come up.

jbc1··on Levandowski files suit against Uber [pdf]
Copy and pasted to a plain text sharing site.

https://rentry.co/7hzab

jbc1··on Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case for a basic income
If you’re treating people wanting to live cheaply without a job as a negative situation that should be avoided, then I don’t think you’re in a mindset to be evaluating UBI specifics correctly. You should just be wholesale against it. The whole point is to free people from wage slavery. You’re worried that it will work!

On an even broader level though, location caused cost of living differences being taken in to account in anything like this seems odd. I read it as the equivalent of “but what about people who want Ferrari’s not Honda’s!?” When it seems like others see it as “what about people who have expensive to treat medical conditions?”

COL differences aren’t some arbitrary accident. You’re paying more to live somewhere more desirable.

jbc1··on Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1
I haven't used it in a year so things might have changed, but it seemed to only have the last 20 or so messages with a person stored in memory and I'd have to wait for it to load if scrolling up to see more, and then only load them in batches of 20 or so at a time after that as well. It also didn't like me trying to paste screenshots directly in to it. instead I'd have to save them as a file and then upload that.

For my use case at the time, which was getting engineering support as a software salesperson in an organisation with poor documentation, that was a huge downgrade from slack. Those extra seconds waiting or it to load or messing around with image files hurt when you're on the phone with someone.

jbc1··on Fastmail Labels Beta
I can't see why they would ever be mandatory, but Fastmail is a big player when it comes to email standards, so if they're bringing in label support I expect that it's becoming a part of standard emailing and proper support will appear in external clients soon.
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