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Claims increased happiness, self-discovery, and mental well-being.

“Not yet, but we might”

amazingly complex pieces of machinary

Add &udm=14 to querystring

amazingly elaborate process for getting to Settings menus in android before setting up a phone.

Related Ask HN: Could AI be a dot com sized bubble?

Very handy for keys and things. Want this for bitwarden

Add a now page

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not enough security jobs available, too many people trying to sell courses on it.

ants doing tiny surgery to wounded ants

HN thread has good points on existing biodegrabable and reusable plastic bags

They already make biodegradable plastic from corn. But it has two problems: it is more expensive and has a rough finish which isn’t as desirable as a smooth shiny surface.

Test film for video encoding

someone made solitaire, otherwise lots of people (fairly) complaining about Apple’s nonsense

Some good discussion in there generally from people on both sides.

Don’t use them for blind generation. Have them ask you questions; edit and refine the responses you get.

iA writer looks quite good.

Crazy if true. Sunspot number above 90 resulted in a lifespan decrease of 8.1 & 8.5 years for males and females, respectively.

still not sure how to simulate touch input. I just want bulk export from google recorder app! Looks great though. Screen mirroring and keyboard input.

If you lose access to your two-factor authentication device, e.g. you lose your phone, you can still log in to your account. When prompted for your authentication code, enter your recovery code shown during the two-factor authentication setup.

There is no section for “what if I have lost my recovery code”.

Incredible stats. “I think that 2021 is pretty normal in terms of flying once every 9.4 days for an average person… Since then, I have averaged 2.7 nights per place”

From her case against travel

• Novelty for novelty’s sake is addictive and makes one insufferable.
• You lose the notion of a vacation, and need to seek this in more deranged ways.
• One develops a bias towards moving, instead of a bias towards action. Moving is the most passive thing that feels active.
• One is left with a very limited amount of ability to do high-functioning tasks, like making consequential decisions.
• There are diminishing returns to awe.

• Most foreign things are romanticised to be better, they are not actually better. A prime example of this is with food, where the best ingredients are no longer consumed where they are produced

this one reminded me of a tweet about the best restaurants of a cuisine always being in another country

Some related disenchantment from HN