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In winter: comfy slippers, maybe some warm socks if needed for warmth Rest of the year, if I'm on my own: either nothing or maybe slippers Rest of the year, with company: regular s…

The edit is where most of the insight is on that page, and the reader comments on it are the most entertaining part. Quite a lot of the authors list seem to be things that are usef…

Opt-in is generally more fair than opt-out, but in this instance it makes sense - they are not checking personal property, they are checking publicly facing webservers. They are no…

I built a web-app MVP which is basically a QR menu app, as a web-app with URLs for each menu in the format webappDomain/RestaurantName, for example my demo is at tearounder.app/The…

The headline on this post is misleading. The text seems accurate, though I think the author is unaware that T-Mobile exists in other countries beside the US, and the wikipedia link…

From the second wikipedia link: Solutions Create an account Blocks on T-Mobile IPv6 servers are set to "anon. only" (sometimes abbreviated as "AO" or "AB") meaning only registered …

Minecraft has a couple of different ways that crafting is done: 1) the original way where you have a grid that you can put items/crafting materials on. If you put particular materi…

Just had my first actual proper call, with a guy in Turkey who seemed very nice, call worked really well. In part of the conversation he asked about what I was working on, and I mi…

I could see this being really useful for people doing show hn, they could have this open and chat directly to people interested in their project

ooh - discovered something interesting - the homepage seems to only list channels that you've previously visited - interesting

Playing around with this, seems I created a new channel/room/page called "raar" ( https://coffeehouse.chat/raar ), I wasn't expecting it to just let me create something that seems …

I wouldn't say your UI is bad - it's certainly a reasonable MVP at this point. You could probably stick ads on it or a newsletter sign up on it for people interested in it. If I wa…

The show was called "Silicon Valley" but yes they did explore/mock that concept

Building a game with my dad when I was ~9-10 is a fond memory of mine, and how I got an interest in coding. I was really into my N64 but wanted to make my own game for it around th…

You alright Eeyore?

Day care centres near me already have their staff on shifts, or at least some people working part time and starting later than others, so that they can cover the extra couple of ho…

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." Edit: It might be a quote from fiction but there's some truth in there somew…

Agreed. "Region specific" might be a better term for what the commenter intended

Yeah I think it's pretty common, certainly feels familiar to me. Here's some tricks that I find help me get out of the pit: 1)you can lower activation energy of some tasks by telli…

Would this make learning React easier?

I wonder if the old one child policy had a knock on effect, changing the societal norms and views of having multiple children? A knock on effect that didn't go away after the law w…

My ambitious, long term goal I'm building towards is: creating an online community where hobbyists, newbies, part timers and full time pros alike collaborate on apps, websites and …

It's only flicking the v's if the fingertips are pointing upwards, fingers are apart, and the back of the hand is pointing at the person you're gesturing to. We also call it the "r…

Like many people, I barely send SMS these days. I thought I'd have a look at my texts from the last month, to add to this discussion. Here's what I see looking in my messages app -…

I'm actually working on making that! protostart.net its still early days though!