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Closed bio-environment for science. Biosphere-2
#scitisfaction
There’s a library at the top of a short tower, maybe two stories. We were told the crew didn’t use it because food and oxygen deprivation kept them too weak to climb the stairs.
Marketing XXI century
#artinstinctive
0ad is always the first listed package of linux distro repos (in alphabetical order). That might have helped with discoverability
The modern version of that trick is adding “near me” to the name of your business, there was a viral pic of a restaurant called “Thai food near me”.
Newsletter about indie startups from self taught coders
#itnuts
One example: Making $10k/m from a French learning app (found on HN)
The guy from the example has a blog with “lessons learned” from trying different growing strategies: Benjamin Houy
HTTP Status codes
#itnuts HN
- HTTP 404 “Not Found”
- HTTP 418 “I’m a teapot”
- HTTP 503 “Service Unavailable”
switching tech job for barista-ing
#itnuts
Food business has a very tight margin, so is difficult to maintain as a side project to learn on.
People with experience in business are more successful than tech startuppers in this.
There is more discussion there. I liked the analogy of switching tech job for manual labour to: camping vs being homeless.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic…
#scitisfaction
A novel exercise is described for resistance training of the lower esophageal sphincter. Resistance is provided by gravity as food is swallowed and pushed up an incline into the stomach. The incline is established by kneeling with the head bowed lower than the stomach. After several months of daily repetitions, symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux ceased and the exercise was discontinued without relapse.
Proper timelines for caramelizing onions
Explain movie titles with emojies to ChatGPT
Memory consumption of 1M concurrent tasks)
#itnuts HN
https://pkolaczk.github.io/memory-consumption-of-async/
TL;DR Rust tokio is the most efficient, while Go scaled linearly and Python just crashed.