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peppertree··on 'Soleus pushup' fuels metabolism for hours while sitting
In this house we respect the law of thermodynamics!
peppertree··on Since mid-April, the Fed has withdrawn ~$140B of liquidity from financial system
I find it interesting the Feds is an independent branch run by unelected officials. Because your average voters are idiots that can't be trusted with important levers of society. If you look at Turkey it makes perfect sense.
peppertree··on AI Seamless Texture Generator Built-In to Blender
This is like bitkeeper vs git all over again. DALL-E is the early innovator but stable diffusion is going to clean the table.
peppertree··on DFlex – JavaScript framework for drag and drop apps
Having done something similar before, 2 things really hard to get right: - animate position shift when the list is reordered. you can't rely on natural dom ordering to properly animate all items - anything that has to do a tree structure
peppertree··on Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra
It cracks me up when people say Apple is evil go with Samsung. Samsung heir literally went to jail for bribing the Korean president, and that was just tip of the iceberg.
peppertree··on Snap lays off 20% of employees
Amazon already has ads.
peppertree··on Snap lays off 20% of employees
Snap and Meta are getting their lunch eaten by TikTok. Google Apple Amazon are fine.
peppertree··on Moving “The Swift Programming Language” Book to Open Source
Great. Now do the same for API docs.
peppertree··on TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy
If you can't through to the youngsters with op-eds, I don't know what will.
peppertree··on Show HN: Open Source Canva Clone
Reposting my comment here for better visibility. To put it gently, this is a fork of other people's work without proper attribution. This should not be allowed on show HN.

https://github.com/bharathreddyza/react-design-editor https://github.com/bazooka720/scenify-editor

peppertree··on Show HN: Open Source Canva Clone
Looks like this project was derivative work from this repo: https://github.com/bharathreddyza/react-design-editor

Which was then forked to scenify editor: https://github.com/bazooka720/scenify-editor

I would be very careful if anyone is thinking about contributing. It doesn't look like the original copyright was properly attributed or respected.

peppertree··on Show HN: Open Source Canva Clone
That's a lot of anger for some fairly reasonable advice.
peppertree··on Why does Meta Quest – Horizon Worlds look so terible?
Horizon worlds is boring. That's the bigger problem.
peppertree··on MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason
The fracture pattern depends on the direction of impact. It's easily verifiable under a microscope. From the thread it sounds like Apple did indeed verify them with a microscope. However people are not always rational, especially when money is involved.
peppertree··on MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason
Impact at the edge of screen created microscopic crack. Thermal change caused the crack to spread. It happens all the time with vehicle windshields.
peppertree··on Nuclear energy is clean
Nuclear energy is safe but humans are not.
peppertree··on Ask HN: Has the quality of Google search declined for anyone else, or just me?
It's the new "this is the year of linux desktop".
peppertree··on Ask HN: Why are the FAANG tech support forums often useless?
There are legal implications to what you can post on company forum. For example Apple doesn't allow employees post external links.
peppertree··on Teams is killing my Mac every day
Nice. Fight cancer with cancer.
peppertree··on James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first full-color image
I can see lots of galaxies that are rather dim. Are the stars with diffraction spikes really close or just extra bright?
peppertree··on Problems at Roblox
Speaking as a parent, I try not to snoop on my children's conversions. If they find out you are snooping they will get very creative at hiding it. The most important thing is to know who they are interacting with and get to know their parents.
peppertree··on Problems at Roblox
When you have a known hangout place for children, anonymous chat, and a corporation with the financial means to suppress bad press. It's just a recipe for abuse.
peppertree··on Job interview questions engineers should ask, but don't
That's a pretty narrow definition of what's productive. Information is capital. Being able to link up a customer with an on-demand driver adds a lot of value into the system.
peppertree··on BrachioGraph – the cheapest, simplest possible pen-plotter
I would recommend a Cricut machine. Far less maintenance and everyone in the family can use.
peppertree··on Coinbase employees petition to remove execs
Some sort of block chain, where you can also sell your votes to other employees, pegged to USD.
peppertree··on Ask HN: Should I move to California or Germany as a SWE with 2 small kids?
I would also consider what's lined up in California. If at least one of you have an offer lined up at FAANG then go for it. Otherwise working remote in Germany is a better bet.
peppertree··on Welcome Tesla friends, we're Atlassian and we work from anywhere. Apply now
Milhouse vibes.
peppertree··on American tech giants are making life tough for startups (2018)
Personal experience working at a startup with massive growth, moat, took Softbank money in 2014 before it was infamous, stuck in series D. You can model all you want but it's still lottery.
peppertree··on American tech giants are making life tough for startups (2018)
Big tech gives employees RSUs. There's little risk for employees and huge upside. Startups offer options, which employees have to buy with their own cash, and deal with tax implications. Average engineer can only get burned so many times before realizing startups are crap deals.
peppertree··on Git Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Windows and Mac
My experience has been exact opposite. SourceTree has been regressing since going Atlassian and Fork has been rock solid for years, especially for large repos.
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