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Apparently cricket fights are also a thing. I find this part intresting (from the cricket fight wikipedia article: > Studies done indicate that the sense of "flying" encourages a c…

I used anki for learning japanese, and what I noticed while is that, at least for me the act of reviewing flashcards became a burden itself. It was not fun nor pleasant. I’d go bac…

While we are on the subject of Japanese and since everyone criticises the author, any resource recommendations or otherwise good practices to share with a fellow Japanese learner?

I’ve started learning haskell a few weeks ago and I’ve been recently trying to understand what a monad is. I can’t seem to find and explanation that makes sense. Every other commen…

Hi! I noticed that the button open in spotify opens a premade spotify playlist, but the songs seem to be wrong. I also noticed that the covers on the website match the ones of the …

A 50% increase in dimensions doesn't directly transform in a 50% increase in volume. >The newer ones have more details, look slicker, but have a lot less "meat" I presume that the …

Llm generated comment? Am I going crazy?

As many origami folds do, I believe

Is this a decision took in light of the new prime minister’s party winning 2/3 lower house majority and her statements about protecting Taiwan against China?

A solution would be to stop shipping macs with the terminal app\s. Computers are now used by a wide variety of people, some without technical knowledge, maybe a default switch on m…

I don't think the social media landscape is inherently bad, but the ways in which it evolved. And I think the shift in social media towards consuming content instead of connecting …

You might want to add [2022] in the title

> The FAQ notes that submission rank is impacted by "software which downweights overheated discussions." A good rule of thumb for this effect is when the number of comments on a su…

I had the same problem last year, re-indexing all the files fixed it for me[1]. That being said, macOS was definitely more snappy back on Catalina, which was the first version I ha…

I went to Kyoto last year during what can be considered peak season. My accommodation was quiet central. I have to say I didn't have a problem with overturism. Sure if you visit wh…

On my Intel mac searching with cmd+space for a file takes under a second. Maybe there is a problem on your end?

From your article it seems like you benchmark compile times. I am not an expert on the subject, but I don't see the point in comparing ARM compilation times with Intel. There are p…

Neither, that's up to your individual preference. Although I think that controversial threads have more noise, but sometimes provide a more enjoyable read.

I once read here on HN that a good metric for filtering controversial comment sections is number of upvotes/comments. If it's bellow one, the thread is probably controversial.

I feel like, for me, it’s that I am more familiar with writing in C and switching to C++ seems rather difficult. So, sure I am reimplementing features that already exist in anoter …

I've been using macOS since 2020, but for the last year I have seriously considered switching to Linux. macOS Catalina felt really fast, easy to use, and lacked the useless feature…