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I’ve wanted an app like this for ages. I’ve always suffered from analysis paralysis when trying to work out a good, short exercise routine. This looks like it will be the perfect s…

Bin bag, bin lorry. I grew up saying dustbin but most people just call them bins these days. I believe “dustbin” is from the Victorian era where what little rubbish people had was …

I’m not a doctor but perhaps try running with a smart watch that shows you your heart rate and put in an amount of effort that keeps your heart rate at about 60-70% of max. For now…

When will the movie industry learn from the success of services like Spotify or DRM free music services like Bandcamp? I want media I can own, or consume from a single subscription…

Read the post. It said that people trade in the wrong direction the majority of the time. So played the game with the strategy that I’d go 50x leverage long or short in the opposit…

I love how many neat and handy features are baked into the iOS accessibility settings. Apple should make more noise about these features. I recently discovered there’s a white nois…

Reminds me of a similar situation I experienced while working on a big project. I came down with the flu and woke up in a delirious, feverish state at 2am feeling like I was trappe…

This is cool. It reminds me of a research team I worked in a few years back that had built something like this for mobile devices. It used a camera overhead to provide info about d…

But do LLMs dream of electric sheep?

I actually find this acts as a useful heuristic to bound the complexity of a diagram appropriately. For example if I'm making a diagram with Mermaid and find the code is becoming u…

People do try to throw them away. A good chunk of my kids' lego collection is a mixed selection of blocks we found in a skip.

https://www.dataengineeringweekly.com/ I’ve found this one very useful as a Data Engineer. Worth subscribing if you’re working in the data space.

Comes down to personal preference at the end of the day. Would you rather know a lot about a bit or a bit about a lot. I’m definitely in the latter category.

My grandfather was famously anti-lawn-mowing[0]. His un-mowed lawn eventually sprouted some rare bee orchids among a vast array of other wildflowers. It always looked beautiful whe…

I greatly minimise the risks in several ways: - Planning routes that avoid particularly risky roads or junctions and take advantage of separated bike lanes where possible. This is …

I live in London. We have three kids, no car and an electric cargo bike which they can all fit in. It's brilliant and all we need for getting around London. I've also used it for p…

They have lost their mojo in that they've failed countless times to diversify their business revenue stream. They're in the same boat as Meta in that regard. Especially if you comp…

"Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out."

A smoker friend of mine used to carry around one of those little camera film canisters to put his cig butts in. Obviously being careful to extinguish them fully first beforehand so…

The iPhone autocorrect has got noticeably worse over the last 4 years or so. I’ve been an iPhone user since 2012 and I’m sure it used to be so much easier to type on despite having…

There was a good discussion about this a few months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32933603

Yes I’m aware. My point was it’s not that concealed once you’ve invested the time to read the docs and peek at the code of whatever framework you’re using. The time to do that is n…