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I have learned so much about SQL databases and playwright tests and python and all sorts of things that were completely opaque to me (but are quite useful for my day job) before I …

Yeah, I read it all the way through and enjoyed most of it. The rice part got a little preachy and the speculation about dog domestication was kind of annoying, but I learned a ton…

Back when I was reading Tamed by Alice Roberts, about the history of domestication, I remember being startled that modern ground nuts and rice were the product of irradiation.

I've sent faxes in America within the last 2 years; they're still a thing here too.

Unironically one of my favorite uses of chatgpt is to tell it to rewrite things as a Homeric epic in the style of Tennyson so it's more pleasant to read aloud and I have a better c…

Honestly, in these days of the google play store taking its cut from Amazon, using Libby is actually easier than using the kindle app to buy books. Every time I hit that "you can't…

I went to a public honors college / small state school, and arranged my schedule such that I only had 3 days of classes, so I could go home and take care of my sick mom and work a …

No; I've been to places that just outright refuse to accept physical cash at all, and I live in America.

I'm still immensely grateful to all the HN folks who helped me recover from my hug of death a year or so ago by teaching me the Cloudflare tricks. I'm with Ghost Pro now instead of…

We definitely need to make this more obvious, but you can import an OPML. I usually just drag it from my downloads folder into the app, but it also works if you use the 'upload fil…

Sounds a bit like the Shmoo, of Shmoocon fame. > Are you familiar with The Shmoo, Mr. Fisher? Comic strip I liked as a boy. The Shmoo was a loveable creature, really. Laid eggs, ga…

Is this still common? I think AP recently moved away from subtracting points for incorrect answers.

To save other Windows users a click, it's mac-only right now.

> When it comes to privacy and security, it’s deathly important to be as unambiguous as possible. Did ... did they miss the giant, in-your-face warning that happens when you intent…

This one is still in the manual-install phase, but you might like this plugin: https://github.com/tomaszkiewicz/obsidian-database-plugin

Honestly this is one of the handful of plugins I hate trying to live without. Tag wrangler is the other.

I can speak for Maggie, but the relevant Obsidian plugins are probably Dataview, Templater, and the Spaced Repetition plugin(s). You might find this community resource for navigati…

This is the piece I've been struggling to get at. I understand why filesystems exist and how they help with interacting with the physical structures that underlie computers, but I …

App sandboxing on iOS is supposed to be a security feature, I think? But it makes it impossible for apps like Obsidian to work with apps like Dropbox, which benefits Apple; they fo…

I got through all of school, including two professional degrees, organizing all of my notes chronologically. It worked really well for me — right up until I tried to write a novel,…

It's easier in the sense that if you're a brand new baby programmer, it takes fewer easily-findable-via-Google commands. Sorry if that wasn't clear! The article wasn't really writt…

I've got over 2k files in my Obsidian vault and haven't had a problem really. I think it depends on how you categorize things? I'm never going to confuse my tax documents with my s…

I think I managed to get Cloudflare set up, let's hope that works