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Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by q-base »

ravshan wrote: post #142
q-base wrote: post #82

I have started exploring Seneca/stoicism again. Prompted partly by a recent submission here, partly by personal reasons. Instead of consuming other peoples interpretation of stoicism I decided to go as close to the source as feasible for me. I have read Letters from a stoic a number of times before and my copy is filled with highlights, but this time I think I will try to limit myself to one or two letters a day and…

This reminded me of this post ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Stoic/comments/1823mip/ ). I don't really know what stoicism means but that was hilarious.

Haha I apart from both of them relating to stoicism I am not sure there is much connection. But scrolling through some of the comments on reddit sure made me smile - so thanks for that :)

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by e40 »

devsda wrote: post #111
4mitkumar wrote: post #90

I found just now that my telecom operator - Airtel - randomly subscribed me for OTT services and charged me for it. But upon calling them and contesting, they just asked if I want to unsubscribe and then reverted the charges. No threats, pleading, or back-and-forth involved from either side. Mildly surreal. I wonder that's a new corporate strategy - charge randomly till someone goes through the pain of IVR and spends…

> Must generate quite an upside for them if it is indeed a strategy. This is the same Airtel that auto opened payments bank accounts without customer consent or knowledge while getting a sim card. They even got cash deposited into those accounts from the govt direct benefit schemes while keeping their customers in the dark. I'm sure its completely "accidental" and they'll have more of these glitches and mistakes in t…

What country is this? That’s nuts!

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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frm88 wrote: post #166

I found out that it is nearly impossible in Europe to buy a 10l enamelled bucket with a lid. I need one for my organic waste, since I found that both metal and plastic ones tend to keep the smell despite cleaning them weekly.

Is it easier for other sizes, or equally as difficult.

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by e40 »

datahack wrote: post #89

I’m learning about the “era of the nations” thinking from Hungary’s Balázs Orbán, via an episode of a podcast called the Winston Marshall show. YouTube just randomly suggested it to me. I just rebuild a speed queen dryer that broke with spare parts from Amazon, which revealed a remarkably simplistic engineering. Very surprised by how simplistic the mechanism was. It’s incredible how over engineered most laundry syste…

Still using my Speed Queen washer and dryer. Bought 30 years ago. You’ve given me confidence to try to fix it when it stops working. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by e40 »

Aditya_kachhawa wrote: post #54

Was reading about version control history and found out Git went from first commit to self-hosting in like a week. Linus was just mad about the BitKeeper licensing thing and hammered it out. Not some grand architecture - just "screw this, I'll do it myself." And somehow that became... everything. Wild.

I was monitoring the linux kernel mailing list when this happened. Wild times. It seemed then that something special was happening.

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by frm88 »

zote wrote: post #173
frm88 wrote: post #166

I found out that it is nearly impossible in Europe to buy a 10l enamelled bucket with a lid. I need one for my organic waste, since I found that both metal and plastic ones tend to keep the smell despite cleaning them weekly.

Is it easier for other sizes, or equally as difficult.

Equally as difficult, except for very small ones that go on a table - these are more of a decorative item than a bucket. Enamel in general has gotten somewhat rare. I found one (!) factory in Germany that does these. One.

Edit: I just checked:10l is max. There are no bigger ones and now I wonder why :)

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by e40 »

abetusk wrote: post #50

That the FOSS bazaar broke off into megachurches while still maintaining a healthy small scale and independent bazaar [0]. That FOSS sustainability is much more complicated than just "throw money at it". That there's "metal paste" [1]. That the zodiac killer's messages have been cracked for five years now (I didn't know they were cracked to begin with) and that it was a shift and substitution cypher [2]. The telltale…

YT served up the Zodiac video to me a few days ago, too. Interesting stuff!

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by spiderfarmer »

tikotus wrote: post #165

I'm doing PHP for the first time in years. I needed a function that returns the date of last week's Monday. Turns out PHP has a funky date querying language. I can just do: $today->modify('monday last week'). Makes me happy.

PHP is just awesome.

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by stonecharioteer »

That my colleagues like me despite me being a bad fit for the role here at my company. I feel good, I really like them here at Chatwoot but I'm not who they need right now. It's my last week here, and it's only been 3.5 months but they feel like family. It's sad that I had to quit but I'll miss these good people.
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