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I'd say good music is objective. Whether it's hard to play, uses complex polyrhythms etc. which most listeners aren't even aware of - and those people tend to think good music is s…

Never worked for me, I think if you're physically fit, being physically tired has no correlation on sleep. Since 12y/o I've struggled to sleep before 1-2am, and since 14y/o I've ex…

The free version doesn't allow GPU accelerated playback or editing or rendering which is a must for any serious user / business. They get people in the door with a really powerful …

Half my family now owns the small desktop sized sub-£200 Kyocera laser printers. It was honestly revolutionary the first few times I was able to connect to their WiFi, hit add prin…

No validation, anddd this point from the article stood out to me: --- The programming style is very imperative. Furthermore, the description sounds like the procedure is working di…

Typewalk Mono 1915 according to the FontSquirrel font identifier Looks pretty similar to me, and being a monospaced font makes sense as it's being used by a dev.

According to that page, BAE systems et al were using kevlar soaked in a solution of polyethylene glycol and silica nanoparticles. All readily available online, if you can afford so…

Yeah, personally I can't see what Meta actually deliver with 86,000 employees. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have barely changed in years, they even all still have most of the s…

This is the first non-paywalled version though thankfully, out of 3 submissions of this article that have reached the front page. I had to Google the story the first time I saw it …

Two duplicates of this on the front page of HN, annnddd both are behind paywalls :(

Not to support Windows, but what are you doing that requires restarts multiple times per day? I leave my personal Windows 10 desktop running for about a month at a time so I don't …

When trying to research the company (should've clicked on the HN link really) I first found https://atom-semiconductor.com/ - I wonder if they're going to struggle with the name / …

My university course uses Maxima for optimization modules and essentially none of the examples from the textbook work as they should. Official documentation is sparse and often unh…

They teach Motorsport marshals in the UK to always keep the car that has come off-track between yourself and live traffic, and never turn your back to the track. Whatever caused th…

I will probably get downvoted for this (unless, as I expect, the vast majority are in the same boat), but my answer is: nothing. I don't mean this to discredit people who actually …

In all the language comparisons I've found over the years, Python consistently comes out slightly slower, for example: https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks Bearing in mind these ar…

For an e-sports professional, maybe . For the rest of us, no. LinusTechTips did a good comparison with an actual pro player iirc.

Unfortunately I'm with the other guy. We have a Nest Mini in every room, and a Hub Max (only paid for 2, another 2 were free with Spotify and the Hub Max was an Instagram giveaway …

Doesn't this break wiretapping laws (depending on the user's geographic location) and possibly GDPR/NDAs(if left on while at work)? Ethically most people probably wouldn't be happy…

You also can't see any replies for the tweets that are still up (one of the three in the screenshot was deleted) so there's no context. I guess Twitter has some data retention poli…

I agree that moderate amounts of exercise are not helpful in losing weight at all. I fluctuate all year between 73kg and 80kg (with a brief stint at 84kg the other year while I was…

Yeah, this quote from the article made me groan out loud: > I've had a role to play in removing a megaton of carbon from the atmosphere every week You're not removing it, you helpe…

> writers who have a good idea for a story Or programmers who are bad at art, so, programmers in general ;)