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We recently traveled to Italy, and after purposefully packing light ("just a carryon"), of our 8 gate-checked carry-on bags, we received 2 on day 7 and the rest on day 8. It was re…

The real message is that, even if you don't get rich and can't buy that clothing item that is 10x your nest worth, your work can provide for your needs and your family - rent, groc…

Sounds like what they call "bla ra" in Thailand (Northeastern Thailand has a lot of Laotian influence). Thick/chunky, unlike the more refined "fish sauce" - "nam bla". Lived in a h…

Once I ordered extra pickles and I got them - in a vertical stack of about 6 pickles.

Constant change in position, dynamic motion, strong & brief muscular exertion of whole hand and arm, even including the shoulder vs constant static position w/ small repetitive mot…

Don't allow your head/chin to drift forward. Welcome to "tech neck" - upper crossed syndrome, from looking slightly down. You're inviting some surprising symptoms, not just neck an…

Straight wrists is good, but hovering like a pianist is not good for extended computer use.

I smoothed the sharp corners of the notch by the keyboard, and smoothed a corner where it got dinged from a drop, but nothing this extensive. Respect. I definitely empathize with "…

Closing the strait for 1 week is 1.9% of annual traffic if equally distributed, so it is very similar.

Refactoring w/o removing all dead code.

I finally subscribed to Dr. Dobbs for the Michael Abrash graphics articles, about a month before he ended them.

I doubt anyone thought the sticker made it actually legal. More along the lines of "65 miles an hour? I was only out for 30 minutes..."

When gate-checking carryon bags, staff told passengers to take batteries out of the carryons. It seems like something that is high risk during flight shouldn't be left to passenger…

More current discussion: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574707 One of these years is going to be the year of the Linux des…

I think there's some truth to this - you may still have the tendencies to be introverted, neurotic, disagreeable, etc., but you can choose how much you let those tendencies drive y…

You may be thinking DVI, which is a subset of HDMI, and lacks audio, and can have a passive DVI->HDMI connection.

We had tried video in the car for our teens, but found that audio books worked a lot better - shared experience, nobody has a bad angle/line of sight, can still see the scenery and…

Wow, politics seems the opposite to me. It has the morbid fascination of a train wreck. You can't stop it, you know it's going badly, yet you can't look away. Family and building t…

Looks like others have reported similar issues. Entering a navigation route may help? https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/map-location-and-rou...

To be fair, "write an interpreter for a subset of scheme" is a core use case for lisp-family languages. If it had been,"write a real-time driver for a memory-limited piece of hardw…

The recent Wizardry remaster encouraged me to go back and play other nostalgic games - finished Ultima I and II, but the nostalgia wasn't strong enough to keep going through the bu…

Also from that article: "while China was responsible for more than 60% of global increase in overall oil demand between 2013 and 2023, it represented less than 20% of last year’s r…

Yes, looks like ground control points for photogrammetry. https://www.pix4d.com/blog/diving-into-underwater-photogramm...