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I got glasses that were focused at approximately the distance my monitor is from my face (~1 arm length). I'm near sighted and the monitor starts getting blurry at just the right d…

Standard Notes: https://standardnotes.org/ Mostly text, Web/iPhone/Android, private, freemium+self hosted

Articles [0][1] cite a study [2] that people driving cars and bicycles admit to breaking the law at the same rate. I've just now found the study itself, so will be reading it's add…

Looks like this was meant to be in reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17971740

I built syncthingfuse to do partial syncs. Currently unmaintained, though. https://github.com/burkemw3/syncthingfuse

I am a US transportation cyclist. I mostly dislike vehicle (including bicycle) horns. If it's a close enough call with another vehicle, my voice has been enough of a 'horn' to aler…

- Login with (username/email, password, U2F) - mobile app check deposit I like many of rgersten's features too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17752320

You can wear glasses that filter blue light. The article mentions wearing them outside, but they work inside as well. I wear them, and they provide other benefits for me as well ( …

How does web connect actually work? I've never found any description of the method

In addition, optimize for dealing with those situations: secret rotation plans

Many retailers have their own cards: https://wallethub.com/credit-cards/store/

In addition to reform, there are non-profits assisting people within the current system. The Bronx Freedom Fund [0] and their Dollar Bail Brigade [1] are particularly interesting t…

MythTV has commercial skip: https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Commercial_detection

The fed rate commonly publicized isn't a bond rate. It's like the rate on a personal checking account. It can vary at the fed's desire. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_…

Please don't disengage mentally from driving. If you think you need to do that, take a break instead.

I didn't expect there was much electronics manufacturing in the US at all, let alone it has been driving manufacturing "growth". I honestly expected a solid chunk of design happene…

YT link without a time point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saCdvAp5cow

https://github.com/egh/ledger-autosync has been real handy for me with transactions. My "entry" work is modifying some categories that it gets wrong. I don't fully understand your …

Quicken has the Web Connect bank connection option. I have a theory that this is similar to a selenium script where you can download a QFX file, but don't need 2FA to do it. Unfort…

_The Power of Habit_ helped me understand it isn't just catching yourself, but catching yourself in the right place. The book calls discusses keystone habits. ([0] has some digital…

I have read about the sensor suite on Teslas on the road being different from the suite on the Waymo cars, for example. So, the sensor data from Tesla may be more or less valuable,…

Variants of this have been happening for a while. Here's 2008 article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/intense-training-for-military-s...

One doctor from the November Las Vegas shooting wrote a review of the incident for his ER that got attention on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15688900