A very good quality bed (mattress, toper, pillows, duvet).
Ask HN: Most life changing things that you bought?
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#143- Sleeponlatex mattress and Ecosa pillow - Magnesium L Threonate, Vitamin D, B12, Zinc and Krill Oil - Headspace - Electric toothbrush - Deep Work by Cal Newport - Minimalist home work area: MPB, airpod pro, magic keyboard touchpad and monitor - Leetcode premium, educative.io and free guides on engineerseekingfire landed me 2 FAANG offers
Wow! Great feeling to know that my interview prep guides were somebody's answer to this question about life changing things!
Good luck with your FAANG job!
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#144Yes to the air purifier. People living without them are insane. Also, buying and running an air purifier destroyed my marriage! My wife said she didn't like the sound of it. So I bough a new, super quite one. Then she said she didn't like the "frequency" not the volume of the machine. One day I came home and she had unplugged it and we got into an argument. I told her to please just "shut up" and that was when she at…
What should I look for in an air purifier? Could you recommend me a buyer's guide of some sorts? I'm not married.
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#145Lasik eye surgery. It cost about $4k per eye USD due to how bad my eyes were. I went to a super reputable place and now have perfect vision. I can barely remember what it was like before. Even better, I paid for them using money I made from my first indie game release. Was a huge emotional win for me.
I second this. The cliche you hear when looking into LASIK (“my only regret is I didn’t do it sooner”) is 100% correct. I can’t believe I didn’t do it 10 years earlier. I am 2 years post-op and I still find myself breathlessly looking at a vista shocked at the clarity. I think the price has come way down since you paid, and no longer varies based on amount of correction. It should be around $4k flat for both eyes.
Isn't there a risk of botched procedures though?
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm really interested in getting a pair. If you don't mind, I have a few questions: 1 - If you put regular non-Apple earbuds in your ears and talk, does your voice sound different and off-putting? 2 - Do the Airpods Pro do this, and how are they for phone calls in general? I'd really like to have them for phone calls and Zoom meetings, but regular earbuds make it hard for me to talk without being super conscious of h…
Initially, I was self conscious when I walked around with them and talked to people, but now I have no problems wearing AirPods Pro all day and talking to people with them on (Via Transparency Mode) They work great for phone calls, music listening, noise cancellation is great, too. Maybe not as good as Sony, but as an overall product, I love them and would buy them again in a heartbeat.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I'm sure they're a great product, but could you directly answer the following 2 questions?
1) Are you familiar with the effect where having your ears sealed off makes your voice sound weird to yourself?
2) Do the Airpods Pro have this effect?
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I hear you. I knew it is a dishwasher, as I could clearly read it. But I didn't care 5 years to figure how to use it. It is also that they cannot clean after every type of cooking..
> every type of cooking.. That's a euphemism for bad cooking, isn't it? Kidding. We have a dish washer, but actually use it as storage space for things that need to be kept cool. You're supposed to rinse things before putting them into the dish washer. We just figured, if you have to do that, you're already half-way to the drying rack. And it's always cooler than any cupboard space that we have. Even in the summer.
Actually I meant "Indian cooking".. man that stuff needs Boston Scientific class robots to clean.. Source: I am indian.
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#149A document scanner. I had many years of old paper tax returns, and I wanted them in PDF format. Paid $400 for an Fujitsu ScanSnap iX1500 and absolutely love it. Put a stack of documents in the top, hit "scan", and a PDF appears on my computer. Zero hassle. Anything that I get in paper form gets immediately scanned, backed up, and shredded.
I actually plan on getting a paper scanner too (aside from the slow, crappy multifunction printer thingamajig i got), however, the pricetag has scared me away until now - do you have any other recommendations for maybe cheaper options? That being said, scanning stuff is only part of my plan - i also plan on putting things into Mayan EDMS or paperless, OCR'd up and searchable... https://www.mayan-edms.com / https://gi…
I just brought a standard scanner from a big box store.
It is manual per page, but that isn't too bad unless you need to scan 400 pages at once and it can put paper together for a multipage pdf if so desired. I also scanned some of my old handwritten diaries but because those where in notebooks it was a pain to scan the pages and required me to hold both the notebook and the scanner and they still came out wobbly.
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#150Fitbit
Toto Washlet
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