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I've never really properly learned to touch type and I'd like to. I've spent time improving and then I just regress again. I'm definitely not good at numbers and symbols which is a…

Wow, this is absolutely fabulous. Thank you very much for making it. Extremely simple to use. Just really well done.

Skype call credit can certainly help you out when calling home from overseas!

I'm sorry to hear that - and I hope you're doing fine now. I really didn't have any "bad" experience like that (mania is awesome fun ;)), of course, the downside was depression fol…

No, they certainly shouldn't... for various reasons I did a vipassana 10 day silent retreat back in 2010, and, ended up triggering a bipolar episode[0]. No, there was no history of…

Is shoots and ladders the same as "snakes and ladders" ? https://www.amazon.com/HASBRO-GAMING-Chutes-Ladders-Board/dp... is what you're talking about?

Hi HN, We have a small site we're hosting on Linode. It's a single app box, and a single db box. Thanks to datadog I noticed some occasional (random) slow requests. Digging into it…

I do not recommend vipassana unless you've done a _lot_ of meditation before. 10 days of complete silence is a massive strain. I did it, based on little more than a recommendation …

I was in Christchurch New Zealand in September 2006 when we experienced a meteorite. http://meteorite-identification.com/mwnews/09122006.htm . Extremely loud, sounded like a truck …

Heh, I have seen professionals, one literally said "I don't know why you're coming to see me!" ;) What I'm curious about: Are you suggesting that it is childhood trauma that will t…

It was a long time ago now, 11 years or something. I think I was probably fairly happy, but, maybe at a little bit of a loose end. The main reason I went on it was because doing a …

Sorry for the late reply. I'd never had a bipolar experience before the retreat. It is my firm opinion that 10 days of a complete silent retreat was too much stress and triggered i…

Heh, a very similar thing happened to me actually, and while I agree about the fist-fight comment, I honestly didn't have any childhood trauma. Came from a loving, pretty privilege…

Ha! I thought it might have been vipassana. My own experience of this (a 10 day silent retreat, not having done meditation before) was a full blown manic-psychotic experience (neve…

First time I came across this one was when it was linked from theuselessweb [1]. My favourite is still https://hooooooooo.com/ (needs sound) [1] https://theuselessweb.com/

Great question, and I'm looking forward to hearing the answers. Off the top of my head if you _really_ wanted to do it, then, probably both you and your partner getting an electric…

So, why are people getting upset about this then? If you can simply just _not use snaps_?

We have a 15 month old. She is probably the easiest kid imaginable, sleeps really well, eats really well, great temperament. It's still ridiculously hard work. My partner still isn…

I've been trying to understand why I would use WebComponents over vue/react. Like, if you're going to use a layer on top of WebComponents, why not use something like Vue anyway. Th…

Yip, basically totally new to practicing meditation. Utterly naive ;) I actually think it should be a requirement that you undergo a 1 3 or 5 day course first, before they allow yo…

TLDR: I had a manic psychotic (bipolar) episode triggered on a vipassana course. This was with zero history of mental illness (before or after) Be quite careful with Vipassana, esp…