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srfwxon I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

you're right, it's not the international signals, but internal distribution only

I am unfortunately a bit late to this conversation but I've been building a music exploration website in my spare time, which has similar artist recommendations too. https://explore.band Still work in progress but curious to know what you think if you get a chance to try it

srfwxon The Google Willow Thing

Reminds me of this song: https://youtu.be/9X_o_BAUJ-c

srfwxon Wigle.net: All the networks, found by everyone

Skynet was an ISP in Belgium (now Proximus).

srfwxon Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall

Awesome hidden YouTube gem indeed! Thank you!

srfwxon The day I canceled my Spotify subscription

Spicetify solves this homepage issue for all major OS. But sadly not on mobile.

srfwxon Why didn't you buy a Tesla?

How do you feel about Volvo now being a Chinese company?

srfwxon Ask HN: How did you stop drinking?

You can find some really nice alcohol -free IPAs nowadays. It helps with the craving

srfwxon DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist

this one maybe? http://dallery.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-DALL%C...

srfwxon Ask HN: How do you discover music?

It works perfectly for me with Spotify. You can connect your account from there: https://www.last.fm/about/trackmymusic

srfwxon Ask HN: 6-hour workdays more important than 4-day workweeks IMO

Have you ever considered that your teammates may be working 1-2 hours each day too ?

srfwxon Multiple assignment and tuple unpacking improve Python code readability (2018)

  value = value[0] if value else None

srfwxon Notepad++ v8.2 Released

VS Code does the same

srfwxon Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness?

> I've been through health issues and every single doctor/therapist is pointing out to stress and sedentarism.

I'm in the exact same position right now. Can you elaborate on the symptoms your seeing?

srfwxon Google Tensor SoC debuts on the new Pixel 6 this fall

pixel 5 has the perfect form factor imho

srfwxon Workplace Wellbeing Is a Scam?

So more like "Family is a workplace" now that the other way around

srfwxon Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

I wanted to switch. The (albeit limited amount of) extensions on Firefox for Android made it even more appealing. However it´s so unbearable slow that I quickly moved back to Chrome.

srfwxon Digital Tools I Wish Existed

I'd be interested in that! At the moment I kind of do the work twice. First highlight in Pocket (usually on mobile), then a second time in Chrome Desktop for long-term storage in Dynalist (using the excellent Dynalist Highlighter extension)