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I'll set my watch for the next iteration in about 18 months.
Luckily for me, I only have a few more cycles before I can gleefully ignore this type of thing. Retirement is looming and the garden needs tending... wonderful days are ahead...
Are people really so detached from nature these days that the smell of wet wood puts them off? I do despair for humankind some days when I read this sort of thing.
Sorry if I never really got to the point. Just wanted to say that I was in a rush - but of a different sort back then.
It's rare that linting will actually make the code work better. Granted, it could catch some security bugs. But they can - and will - introduce new bugs. You just have to ask if it's worth the risk.
Why was the leading "No" removed?
It’s now August and I’ve not had an episode for a few weeks.
Just one of those things I guess?
I wonder what makes techie types so ornery?
The w/o cat photos also show the faces straight on, which makes them look more masculine. ie. thicker neck, more prominent jawline. There are too many subtle differences to list.
I'd like to see this done with identical photos with only the cat being the difference. My belief is that the results would be similar, but with a smaller significance.
Hits on the key point, in my opinion. Repeating songs, phrases, rhythms can by hypnotic and put the listener/performer into a trance-like state. Something that can be quite enjoyable and even addictive.
I find that listening to music with lyrics simply won't do it for me. It must be instrumental only. Something like Keith Jarrett, Earthless or a good Frank Zappa vamp. Time no longer has meaning. It's wonderful!
(sorry if this comment doesn't abide by the HN rules. i just thought it would be appreciated around here)
But have at it if that's your thing!
I'll be waaaay over there. Upwind -----------> :)
This advice should be qualified. I live in outer London in a mid-century house. My garden soil has been collecting lead-laden dust for most of those years until leaded petrol was outlawed. If I were to plant directly in the soil, there is no telling how many heavy metals would be pulled into the vegetables.
Not to mention, I was digging one day and about 3 feet down I found a discarded television. What else could be buried there? Did the previous owners operate an illegal motorcycle repair yard? There could be gallons upon gallons of who knows what in the dirt. I've heard stories about the next door garden which was used to breed all manner of house pets. Dogs, hamsters, rabbits and snakes. Then there are the pesticides from the perfectly manicured gardens that one might inherit when buying a house. Although I think they degrade after a short while (could be wrong about that)
Point being... if you're in the city DO NOT just plant in the earth. I suppose you could get the soil tested, but I'd rather spend an afternoon and a little bit of money on lumber and build the boxes. And free compost from reliable sources is easy to find on the internet.
Thanks for the motivation :)
What I love about HN is the exposure to new ideas and suggestions. I've seen suggested here that fly.io is a cheaper alternative that people rave about. I had a quick look at their site and so far I like what I see.
So come Monday morning I'm going to add a ticket to the dev queue: Investigate moving from Heroku -> Fly.io
We'll look at the pros and cons. Pricing. Ease of use. etc. The usual. And my gut tells me that heroku might be losing yet one more customer and the tens of thousands per year that my company is currently spending with them. We're a small team, so it was decided to spend the money on a PaaS instead of a large ops team. It's worked well enough for the past 15 years. So maybe time to move?
Stuff like `Foo.find_by_bar`
When all you did was define a db table "foo" with a column "bar".
In the early days of Rails, that WAS magical! PHP certainly couldn't do that. I'm not sure how advanced Java's retrospection was in those days. But it seemed as though Ruby/Rails was the only (popular) language around at the time with that sort of trick up its sleeve.
I love a good pun! Even if it makes me feel old.
But what really annoys me (and maybe I'm doing something wrong) is that one page of (slow) results is not enough. I understand that Google's 1,000,000+ results is also not necessary. But I often need more than 20. Come to think of it, I rarely need pages 2 and beyond when using Google. So maybe that's saying something about the quality of the Brave results? They're just not as good.
They put me up in a hotel for 10 days. Fed me 3 times a day. Checked on me twice a day. And on day 10, opened the door and I was on my own.
How I could have managed that without Google translate, I don't know. None of the doctors or nurses spoke more than a few words of English. And I could barely say hello, goodbye or thank you. (I can now!)
As you say, life would have been difficult. It was difficult even with google translate. But it made the interactions much easier on both parties involved.
I would hope that if someone was visiting my country on holiday, or to visit their relatives, and happened to get sick, that the hospital would do all they could to communicate with them and not treat them like they shouldn't even be there.
HN gets upset when the Winkelvoss brothers do this sort of thing with website, but it's ok when it's OSS?
Just be sure to use the paper filters and not the reusable metal ones. Only the paper filters remove the oils responsible for raised LDL.
A side benefit is that Aeropress coffee tastes great! I highly recommend it.