chistev

This isn't happening to me.

Spain

That site is hard on my eyes

The SQLite documentation says that

"SQLite works great as the database engine for most low to medium traffic websites (which is to say, most websites). The amount of web traffic that SQLite can handle depends on how heavily the website uses its database. Generally speaking, any site that gets fewer than 100K hits/day should work fine with SQLite. The 100K hits/day figure is a conservative estimate, not a hard upper bound. SQLite has been demonstrated to work with 10 times that amount of traffic.

The SQLite website (https://www.sqlite.org/) uses SQLite itself, of course, and as of this writing (2015) it handles about 400K to 500K HTTP requests per day, about 15-20% of which are dynamic pages touching the database. Dynamic content uses about 200 SQL statements per webpage. This setup runs on a single VM that shares a physical server with 23 others and yet still keeps the load average below 0.1 most of the time."

Expensive within countries, too.

“The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and informed, not that the party is over but that it is most assuredly going on—only henceforth in my absence. (It's the second of those thoughts: the edition of the newspaper that will come out on the day after I have gone, that is the more distressing.) Much more horrible, though, would be the announcement that the party was continuing forever, and that I was forbidden to leave. Whether it was a hellishly bad party or a party that was perfectly heavenly in every respect, the moment that it became eternal and compulsory would be the precise moment that it began to pall.”

- Christopher Hitchen

I've been thinking about using "new"to see all submitted posts of the previous 24 hours and clicking the ones with titles I find interesting.

Nice to see someone who is already doing something similar.

Yea, I'm an info-vore myself too.

What is your interpretation of - "One must imagine Sisyphus happy"?

3 of the 4 semi-finalists are European countries.

I used to be in that boat of not knowing what to read. Even using r/books didn't always give me good books.

Until, I realized Hacker News users sometimes recommend books in their comments, and the books are related to the topic being discussed. Also, sometimes there are submissions asking people to list their favorite books ever, favorite books read in a particular year, etc. It was a game changer.

Yea, I do 50 pages too when I read. But I don't read every day, even though that was my goal at the start of the year.

I have lots of things to do, and sometimes reading takes hours of my day that I need to give to other productive activities.

But I dedicate specific days go reading.

I've read 16 books thus far this year.

Are they? European football is the highest level.

totally foreseeable

Why? It's one of the biggest companies.

Edit: I see what you might have meant from this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896372

My YouTube watch history is turned off, so I do not get recommendations. I only open the app when I have a video in mind to watch or someone shares me a link or I click on one.

I'll follow this thread to find potentially interesting people whose channel I need to check out.

My blog is for posting personal stories and opinions from the perspective of an African young man looking to escape his situation - or the matrix, as he calls it.

The journey of an African looking to escape the matrix

https://www.rxjourney.net/

Open to emails (I've received quite a few in the past).

Edit: I've favorited this post, I'll come back to visit all the mentioned websites later. I love reading stuff.

I read 189 books last year, mostly due an accidental discovery.

How is this possible?

I tried reading while listening to an audio book and I had to stop after a few books because sometimes I want to re-read a sentence or paragraph or go back to a previous part of the book, and it just messes up my momentum.

I now no longer use audiobook and I just read the book.

I've read 16 books thus far this year.

It's like lifting weight. Start with 10 pages a day every day. And then it will become too easy. Then move to 15 pages a day. Etc.

Read books you enjoy.

Isn't that how it has been?

He was bedridden because of Polio.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872443

I once read that if you tried to read every Wikipedia article for 12 hours a day, it would take you about 42 years to finish—assuming no new content gets added along the way.

- https://www.rxjourney.net/the-great-ocean-of-truth

Were you successful there before the AI adoption and connect requirement?

Has the lead-crime hypothesis been debunked?

127 points on July 31, 2021 173 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28016921

Maybe it doesn't have to be a literal small penis? Maybe it could be describing the person in such a way that it's clear they are the one being described, but then including something about the character that they wouldn't want to risk people thinking is true.

Side question, What's the origin of left and right as political terms.

"Life is what happens while you're too busy making other plans."

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

I made a submission recently about the book -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48685215

Also, a little over a month ago (if that counts as recently) I finished my re-read of The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins. I made a submission about it too -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326741

I read a lot of books and you can find some of them on my blog. Link in bio.

Check out this old thread from 2020 -

Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?

309 points March 23, 2020 325 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22667025

Not as if it was friendly before Musk bought it.

But yea, the monetization of engagement has really incentivized rage bait content.

Any data on percentage of users that use old reddit?