When talking to someone, you step up to them and grab their arm. Then you force them to walk around with you, while you have their arm. Total attention. Example: https://makeagif.com/i/3Bfhx7
Grab my arm without asking and the next person you'll be talking to is your dentist.
Ask HN: Top life hack which, quite surprisingly, no one else does?
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#42I use a bidet. Not a weird toilet attachment, but an actual tool refined over centuries for the express purpose of washing the human undercarriage after each bowel movement. My enthusiasm on this topic borders on Cosmo Kramer territory.
I travelled to a country that has them everywhere and they were all either broken or completely ineffectual (Argentina). I am yet to be convinced.
Re: Ask HN: Top life hack which, quite surprisingly, no one else does?
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
But that means you're eating from 7pm to 11pm on those nights? Doesn't seem to be an ideal time to be eating, considering your body doesn't need the energy at that time. Why not do the same but switch the window to earlier in the day?
How fast is your digestion?
But quickness of my digestion aside, it's more a question of what is your body going to do with the energy it's digested from your food at that time of night? Store it obviously
Re: Ask HN: Top life hack which, quite surprisingly, no one else does?
#44Hiding reddit style posts when they appear in HN
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#45Re: Ask HN: Top life hack which, quite surprisingly, no one else does?
#46Hiding reddit style posts when they appear in HN
I truly do not understand why there is such an influx of these types of "Ask HN" posts within the past year or so. I've been on HN for a long time and this only started happening recently.
Re: Ask HN: Top life hack which, quite surprisingly, no one else does?
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I travelled to a country that has them everywhere and they were all either broken or completely ineffectual (Argentina). I am yet to be convinced.
If you travel to a country where the trains are all broken or ineffectual does that suggest that train transport is not all its chalked up to be?
Re: Ask HN: Top life hack which, quite surprisingly, no one else does?
#481 - Always, and I mean always, leave your keys on the same place everytime you arrive at your house. That also applies to remote controls and any other object that you recurrently needs to use. Life's to short to be wasted trying to find tiny things. 2 - have a soldering iron at hand on your toolbox. I lost count how many little fixes I was able to accomplish using one, and I'm definitely no electrical engineer. Our…
Re: Ask HN: Top life hack which, quite surprisingly, no one else does?
#49When talking to someone, you step up to them and grab their arm. Then you force them to walk around with you, while you have their arm. Total attention. Example: https://makeagif.com/i/3Bfhx7
Re: Ask HN: Top life hack which, quite surprisingly, no one else does?
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
How fast is your digestion?
It can run the 100m in 12 seconds. But quickness of my digestion aside, it's more a question of what is your body going to do with the energy it's digested from your food at that time of night? Store it obviously