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A website that lets you match watches with different straps to get a feel for how it'll look.

Mixing and matching watches with different straps is something that I really enjoy doing. It's not often easy to tell ahead of time whether the combination will work.

Nice, I'm going to look into playwright, looks promising.

I've seen a couple of automated test frameworks. I'm not looking to test thou, I'm looking at way I can quickly automate my daily work. There's a healthy overlap between what test frameworks offer and what I want, so that's probably my best starting point.

Been using my ErgodoxEZ for the last 6 years. Fantastic keyboard, great ergonomics, rock solid build quality. Pricy but very worth imo.

If I were buying today, I'd buy a Moonlander, the newer version of the Ergodox.

I agree that watering only when the soil is completely dry is best. It's really hard to tell when that is with large plants thou. I have a massive monstera and a mid sized ficus. I can't pick these up to check their weight. Why are there no smart plant meters? Something I push into the soil and sends me a notification when the soil has completely dried out?

I've used those analog two prong moisture meters, but I'm looking for something that can just sit in the pot permanently..

``` There is a type of flourishing available to a cat that is only rarely available to us. A human is never simply what she is, but is always striving to become something she is, as yet, not. This is the result of a self-image – a conception of herself and what her life should be – which, when unrealised, can occasion frustration and despair. ```

This part of the article jumped out at me. I spent about 5 years of my life on a start-up that eventually failed. I now have a pretty comfy tech job, and definitely earn enough money to be comfortable.

But there is always this restlessness that I feel. I learnt a lot of things in my 5 years, and feel I could do a better job if I were to start another company. I almost feel like those 5 years would be wasted if I don't take what I learnt and put it into my next company.

Hi, I've mostly learnt guitar by going through JustinGuitar's excellent videos.

I put this together because I felt I needed a way to jump back to sections that I want to rehearse or reference.

Hope it can be of use to you too, and also happy to hear brutal feedback.

Love the Steelcase Leap as well, the chair has all the right adjustments for me and feels very sturdy and well built. If shop around you can usually find these available second hand.

I have two and spent 350 each on them.

I learn songs for the guitar primarily by watching youtube videos. I built this tool to organize these videos and to let me skip around to the the exact bits that I'm learning and practicing.

I'm sure there are other uses for this. Would love to hear feedback!

I'm working on a personal project that allows you to add notes to youtube videos, and be able to skip quickly to specific sections.

I started this because I'm learning guitar mostly from YouTube, and I find myself constantly seeking videos to specific sections.

I'll probably launch the site on ShowHN soon. Feel free to DM me if you can think of other uses for this, or if you're interested to know when this launches.

This reminds me of Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. It's a great book and highly recommended for anyone that enjoys fantasy.

I wonder if in the future education will move towards individualized teaching based on systems like this, where a child is free to explore his interests.

Battling Entropy 8 years ago

Oh my god that pepsi document.

It's real? Was someone actually paid to produce that document?

As I scrolled downwards I just kept getting more and more convinced that it's some kind of ridiculous surrealistic joke thing.

Man tell me about it. The reason I asked this question was because I'm feeling like I'm spending way too much time on YouTube. I'm even completely aware that some of the things I watch are really just trash.

I started learning Guitar specifically because I was spending all my time in front a screen.

It's helped a bit, but a I also spend a ton of time watching guitar YouTube tutorials to learn things.

How are you learning Piano? Are you self taught? I'm learning Guitar from Justin Guitar and the quality of the instruction blows me away.

1. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Mostly the bits about how our society is mostly built on collective fictions.

2. Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse

I remember being very moved reading this, but I can't quite remember why.

Looks like it's time to re-read it.

I went to your website, and I can't figure out what your product is or does. I had to click in to individuals before I figured out what it does.

Why not put "BeeLine Reader makes reading on-screen easier, faster, and more enjoyable. We use a simple cognitive trick — an eye-guiding color gradient — to pull your eyes from one line to the next." on your front page?

Maybe you guys have already done some kind of testing and found out that the current layout is optimal?

Anecdote: I used to work from home and pretty much sat down the whole day. I would still go for a run once or twice a week, but I would quickly experience a sharp pain in my lower back that made it really hard to run. Some Googling led me to believe that my tight hip flexors might be causing my back pain, and that sitting down all day could lead to tight hip flexors. I've since started working for a couple of hours per day at a ghetto standing desk and my back pains are pretty much gone.

Another thing that I really highly recommend is Joe DeFranco's stetching programme, Limber 11 (https://youtu.be/FSSDLDhbacc). You can do the whole thing in about 10 minutes, and it leaves your whole body feeling nice and relaxed.

Aha, interesting, I'd never heard of Veblen goods before this. I'd also never thought about it in this manner before, making it a better product would make it actually worth the money, and hence less desirable.

The world is such a weird place.

This reminds me of http://nand2tetris.org/ (and the accompanying Coursera course). It's a fantastic course to learn about computing from first principles.

The course starts off with just a few logic gates and how you can combine these to make more complicated circuits. These are in turn combined to reach higher levels of abstraction, until you finally have a 16bit computer, with 16K of ram. It's a really cool course that helped me flesh out my understanding of what's going in my computer.

I cannot foresee how this will play out in the long term for the end consumer. In the short term, consumers get a whole lot of convenience and lower prices. What happens after a large chunk of other stores have gone out of business? How would any new player even approach entering the market? It almost seems impossible unless Amazon systematically screws up and leaves a gap for someone to exploit.