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willlma

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    Comment #48789176

    30 minutes is on the longer side, but I think part of the point of walkable grocery runs is that you don't buy a week's worth of food like you do in a car. When I lived in Paris, I…

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    Comment #48532791

    Yes, people who live in the countryside need cars. But just because that's the case doesn't mean that the auto industry has nothing to do with the development of transit and cyclin…

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    Comment #47144049

    Surprised to see no mention of the Anyday: https://cookanyday.com/ I'm partially living in this alternative timeline as an accomplished microwave chef thanks to this thing. I mostl…

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    Comment #46179326

    It's interesting. I've been tinkering with an article summarizing/highlighting browser extension, and realized that I don't want the end-user to have read AI-generated content beca…

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    Comment #45646894

    You only have to change every car, truck, tractor, water heater, clothes dryer, lawn mower, leaf blower, stove top, etc to be electric instead of using natural gas (ie electrfy eve…

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    Comment #45499696

    And throw it all away before you fly home? That's like saying "Why wash dishes when you can just throw them away and buy new ones"? As an aside, you should absolutely wash your clo…

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    Comment #45455445

    Hey, thanks for building this. I'm trying to use it for this usecase. I'm trying to pause the script during the manual steps. How would you go about this? Example: 1. Change workin…

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    Comment #45054302

    This is not recycling. Recycling implies that you can produce the same product again many times; it's a sustainable practice. This is repurposing or upcycling. It's cool they're ge…

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    Comment #44908444

    How do you check your todo list on mobile?

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    Comment #44662701

    I'm not a Python dev, but had to write a script the other day and got all cought up with the virtual env stuff. Why can't `uv` just infer the dependencies from the `import ...` lin…

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    Comment #44595544

    I had the same thought with a recent NewScientist article. Signed up, read it, and tried to cancel to avoid the recurring fee. There's no click to cancel; I had to submit a form + …

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    Comment #44108684

    As someone who has built a timer-based procrastination browser extension, I'd like to add that it would be a nice touch if you could stop playback between videos (or maybe between …

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    Comment #44108521

    This isn't entirely on-topic but I've been trying to understand why AI video editing isn't more common, and thought you might know. I've had an idea for a while to make tennis matc…

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    Comment #43550770

    Yep, it's cold outside. So there's a CO2, energy, comfort (choose two) tradeoff.

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    Comment #43430203

    Confusingly, he reused the first part of the title from an article posted here [0] last year. This is newer. 0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40345090

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    Comment #42871715

    I'm so glad that buried deep in the HN commments in an individual who cares about the environment. In the other conversations I've seen about this no one mentions or thinks about f…

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    Comment #42871550

    Since people are reminiscing on the loss of their favorite music services from the past, I'd like to add We Are Hunted [1] to the list. > proprietary search technology which contin…

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    Comment #42437679

    I guess increasing atmospheric CO² by maximizing your fossil fuel usage is one way to equalize the interior and exterior CO² of your house...

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    Comment #40915830

    I switched my Mac terminal to Warp.dev simply for the default mac text input. I can ⌥ and ⌘ left and right to select words or until the end of the line ⌘A to select all. It comes w…

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    Comment #40904684

    Is the assumption that you do these things once a day? Any way to edit the frequency? I'd like to do things every other day, once a week, once a month, etc.

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    Comment #40237202

    This reminds me of [pry]( https://pry.github.io/ ) for Ruby that allows you to cd into other scopes

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    Comment #39805868

    Check out https://azimutt.app/

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    Comment #39805859

    > Lots of database management tools include some kind of schema diagram view, either automatically generated or manually editable so you can get the layout just right. But it's usu…

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    Comment #39395312

    Now that push notifications and long-term localstorage are disabled, a PWA can't compete. Not being able to send notifications to your user is a huge drawback for many types of app…