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Be careful when playing the bird songs. A few days ago I clicked on the cardinal song that was in my identification list and the male cardinal nesting in my hedge went NUTS and I’v…

I'm in complete agreement with you. I use i3 (still using Xorg) and find the ability to have multiple desktops that I can move atomically between monitors to be far better than hav…

Already been done, I was one of the recipients of the 1984 tomato seeds and we planted, grew, and ate them... https://parkseed.com/seeds-in-space/a/13/#:~:text=In%201984%... .

Funny, if not helpful, error message: pw = getpwuid(getuid()); if (!pw) usage("You don't exist. Go away!"); I find it interesting that originally each command was a separate execut…

Oops. Autocorrupt got me. Houseflies.

I think I had one lay eggs in my house. A few weeks ago, on a day when I hardly opened a door for more than a few seconds I suddenly found at least 100 horseflies in my house. I wa…

I think you've overlooked the realistic useful lifetime of the product, and how long the novelty factor would last -- if you price it according to that duration I think that you'd …

Because the query is an interruption. Frustratingly, about 30% of the time (or more!) the person who sent me the hi doesn’t send their actual question even if I respond almost inst…

I'm not the one that you responded to, but I had no idea that HN had rate-limiting -- shows how little I comment or post!

That doesn’t bother me quite as much as when partial results are displayed and then change a few ms before you can tap the one you want such that you touch the wrong one.

There are two things that almost every website does that just drive me nuts, and I don’t understand the reasoning that would lead to these designs. 1) Login link for existing users…

Ugh, the resistance to such a simple and useful thing drives me nuts. I’ve also used the soap dispenser as an indicator, but I can’t get my wife to do the same or pay attention to …

About 4 or 5 years ago I was working at one place as a consultant where I’d previously been an employee. Being a consultant I provided my own hardware. I needed really beefy hardwa…

So “we had to call an ambulance because the car was installing updates” is a real potential scenario?

More than just speed sensitive volume now. Replacing the stereo in my van requires a conversion box (Maestro) that deals with the various car settings that are done through the ste…

Put it on your own terms. Every time I've purchased a car for the last 15ish years, I decided on the model, specs, and price I want to pay. I then searched inventory at every deale…

I get a bit frustrated whenever a Google search for some how-to item leads to a YouTube video leaving me thinking "this should have just been text with some pictures", but I've com…

Diversity brings value by bringing different perspectives to the problems we solve and the solutions we seek. We all have blind spots, and having a broader perspective can help us …

I have an honest question for you and others who are directly impacted by this, and would love to hear your perspective. I work on a software team that has the usual level of diver…

Being from that part of CA, we had classes and field trips about Ishi almost every year through primary school. Such a sad story.

The word netiquette was used a lot in the very early 90s. I suspect few of today’s users have even heard the word. It’s an unfortunate digression.

No video, making me even more suspicious of the claim.

Why do you say that it's good vs email? In my mind they're for different purposes. Slack for urgent matters, email for asynchronous communication that isn't quite as urgent. Email …

I love the keepass ecosystem, but would never recommend it to family who isn't very computer literate, and the iOS offerings are poor, with kypass being the only full functioning o…

The problem is that they don't even give you the option to add the names yourself. You can use it, very crippled, without giving them your entire contact list, but it's almost unus…