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So true! I still think of these things as being chores and don’t look forward to doing them. Worse still, I sometimes procrastinate and let them build up into being much bigger job…

I haven’t read the book but I like this idea and intend to check out the book. I’m not on social media but I find Hacker News – and even Wikipedia – to be addictive enough. When I …

I’ve asked people sitting nearby to stop checking their phone as the glare can be very distracting. I might be immersed in the film but keep getting pulled out of the story by the …

As a devout Catholic, I used my confirmation money to buy a bible and read from it every morning. Some parts of The Old Testament were disturbing but this story really shocked my y…

For any Hacker News users not aware of this security policy, it’s documented at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38502985

Terrible article. As a European who grew up in a country that has banned¹ thousands of books, periodicals and other media for most of its existence, I was expecting this article to…

Yesterday, there was a meta-discussion on the use of the word “boffin” on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48661535 Not being a reader of British red-top tabloids, I assumed th…

As soon as I saw this word, I guessed that El Reg was the source.

Similar experience here. I grew up in rural Ireland in the 80s where you said hello to everyone but had a culture shock when I moved to Dublin for college. I quickly realised that …

Upvoted your comment but my inner pedant can’t help but point out that’s more an example of whitewashing rather than greenwashing (which itself is a derivative of whitewashing).

I used to only rarely look at Youtube (repairs, cooking, the odd live concert) but since I started looking at it more often (for guitar and piano tutorials), I’ve found its UI to b…

> … smartphone reading produced overactivity in the prefrontal cortex, suppressed sigh generation, and led to general lower comprehension scores; the authors argued that the sigh i…

I noticed that in myself. I’d read a chapter and be convinced that I’d absorbed the information. It wasn’t until I learned networking from a second-hand college text-book that I re…

Agreed. Even if it’s not possible to know who created the images in the first place, anyone who “shares” them should be culpable.

It would be good to hear examples of this effect, alright. I’d like to hear how something sounds with 1) no reverb, 2) with reverb applied and 3) with the reverb gated. The Wikiped…

For those with Apple TV+ subscriptions, I’d recommend Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson , a six-episode series which explores different technologies used in music production. Episod…

I first came across Abelard and Héloïse from an episode of The Sopranos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimental_Education_(The_Sop... The episode title itself is also a literary…

Great advice but that may not always work in Ireland. The expected answer is “grand” or something similarly neutral and succinct. The asker may not even stop to listen to your answ…

I had to click on your profile to see if there was any clue as to whether the ‘G’ stands for “Gillian” or not. :)

> Heroin only impacts one individual I have to disagree with this. Having talked to heroin addicts in the past, I was told that the heroin addiction destroyed their relationship wi…

I can see how system-wide blocking would be useful. I’m personally very conservative and wary about apps that I install on my iPhone (I don’t use any ad-supported apps) so the brow…

This sounds like good advice so upvoted. I’m a big fan of Raymond Hill¹’s products so I am curious about how much benefit Adguard provides if uBlock Origin is already blocking onli…

Off Topic: when I came across the journalist/writer, Anne Cadwallader, I used to wonder about the origin of her surname. After reading this comment, I finally decide to look it up …