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No one will ever know or care if you’re working remotely while in Japan on a tourist visa. Just AirBnB and get ordinary travel insurance. For a paltry 6 months this nomad visa seem…

Is there any evidence that this is really a problem? Zeppelins were in use for decades completely safely, as are modern airships.

As a very experienced TS developer myself - this is absolutely correct, the best reply in this thread, and I hope the OP reads it.

We had over 500 applicants for our recent intern position. HR screened out 5 for me, and I interviewed 2. It was a fantastic hire, but ultimately entirely random.

How old are you? Have you been exposed to serious illness or death before? This is my world at the moment (terminal melanoma and no more treatment options left after 2 years of imm…

Awesome, thanks!!

Thank you! The linked article, in addition to this, https://htmx.org/essays/htmx-sucks/ Has convinced me never to use or recommend htmx to anyone.

Now, can someone help explain to me how I can ask LibGen (or Google, or my ISP) to refund me the thousands of dollars I’ve lost in royalties on the 7 books of mine they have up the…

Can she not get any inter library loan?

Apple is already doing this: https://www.apple.com/uk/apple-intelligence/

You’re right, they are just 90% white rice with some flavouring. No more “healthy” than a white bread sandwich. If you’re looking for a healthier lunch option, try a 7 ingredient c…

ElevenLabs just uses tortoise with its own high quality recorded voice data. You could definitely do the same: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts

What is the “indie hacker community”?

My dad grew up in a world without plastic. Packaging of food and goods was orders or magnitude less than now. Most of it is completely unnecessary.

Everyone seems to have forgotten Beautiful Losers, one of the greatest novels ever written: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Losers Way ahead of its time, both then and no…

Safe breaking distance is 2 seconds of travel between two and the car in front of you. In my experience almost no one ever follows this guidance and therefore yes, the rear-ender i…

If a thief grabs a phone from someone’s hand while authenticated, can’t they then just make it theirs by immediately resetting the password pin and Face ID?

It available from Amazon UK and they will ship it to the US.

Fibonacci himself, who popularised their use, explicitly mentioned that they were from India. Somehow this was muddied in later secondary sources.

And, it should be on track to become the world’s largest economy by 2075 - which historically it and China always have been.

Not just that! For many hundreds of years there were over 250 ships a year trading between India and Rome, and tariffs on that trade alone accounted for 25% of the Roman Empire’s t…

They did have ink and papyrus.

And still, it’s one of the greatest works of popular history ever written.

I’m reading this right now, and it’s excellent. Some amazing stories in there, like that of Wu Zetian, the real life Mother of Dragons: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Zetian

Don’t “npm install” anything and just copy the compiled .min.js library/framework files into your “/libs” folder.