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ELI5: there's a lower bound on the physical heat required to erase one bit of information It's cool because it creates a relation between pure math (information) and physics (entropy). Maxwe…
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I found Mimestream to be very pleasant (before I switched from Gmail). Everything felt much snappier than the native MacOS mail client. Highly recommended!
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Very cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tru4L2uvkoA
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You might be interested in Himalaya, a modern email CLI. [1] https://github.com/soywod/himalaya
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Author here :) I definitely don't think ergonomics and features from other languages are useless! I just feel a bit overwhelmed and distracted by variety sometimes, especially when working on tea…
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I use Cloudflare Pages for small stuff and fly.io for more complicated stuff. Both are incredibly well-made services :)
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So many to choose from! I'll stick to some small practical examples. If you've got a queue of any form, you can throw Little's Law at it. "the long-term average number L of custom…
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I'm working on building https://scrapscript.org :)
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Not yet! Hopefully next month.
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Love that rounded font! And the site looks great. I just changed an H2 tag to an H3, and it looks like your H3 is way too small. One thing I've seen for H3 and below is to use `font-style: italic…
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I see a lot of cool sites in your HN profile! Which one are you talking about?
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I'm firmly in the "partially" camp :) My mom is my best friend, I don't talk to my stepdad, and I never met my biodad. At first, I offered zero/one/both as the options, b…
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I'm so sorry to hear that. Please select the option that best describes your overall lives together.