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Very cool. In a similar vein (but much less techinically sophistcated), I recently realized that making "cloze" cards (esp. ones w/ a large number of deletions and/or incremental-r…

HN has a ton of emotional content. But it really depends on the topic/thread. For example, I clicked into a thread recently where I found that at least 80% of users commenting have…

I do this all the time, but mostly outside. A nice bonus of doing this outside (besides the fresh air, etc) is you can often recall precisely where you were and what was on your vi…

It's become increasingly common to refer to this vaccine as the AstraZeneca vaccine or simply the AZ vaccine even though before concerns were raised I only saw it refered to as the…

“We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations,…

The reports I linked to argue that (i) demand has been significantly reduced. The paper I replied to argues that (ii) a reduction of demand is significantly correlated with a reduc…

China banned all ivory trade at the end of 2017 and by all accounts (see WWF and NG sources cited in the tweet) it's been working quite well. https://www.twitter.com/RichardHanania…

Dexpot still works fine even though it hasn't been updated for years. And I love being able to have 9 virtual desktops arranged in a 3x3 grid and a semi-permanent transparent "mini…

Interesting link about TouchCursor. Personally I prefer to use left alt key instead of space key, as I can hold down the left alt with minimal effort (right alt takes over the duty…

This came out a while ago and I remember thinking it'd make the single file approach to TiddlyWiki effectively frictionless if you are Chrome user ... https://web.dev/file-system-a…

When writing my dissertation, I found that changing the font to Comic Sans or Papyrus is an effective way of forcing myself to be self-critical and preventing myself from, for lack…

I can never bring myself to throwing away food where the labor of other people has been involved (cooking or growing) . I can justify myself by various consequentialist arguments, …

> I find it interesting that we never list other country origins when discussing their issues I don't remember ever reading a headline, clicking into it, and discovering that it's …

> was because it showed initial promise - first in China and then outside of China This is incorrect. The idea of using HCQ didn't come from China but from a French doctor, nor did…

Not sure if this is unintended behavior, but after clicking from this thread to the site and doing a few searches (all while remaining on the same page), I wanted to history back t…

Is the idea behind the 33 yes-no questions thing a combinatorial point, though? World population is 7.5 billion, the smallest natural number n such that 2^n exceeds that number is …

One of the my favorite apps, Scapple (from the same company that produces Scrivener), stores their data using just this approach (plaintext + character ranges), but in XML. It does…