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TurkishPoptart commented on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file   al3rez.com/todo-txt-journ... · Posted by u/al3rez
jrowen · 13 days ago
I'm also a fan of the minimalist approach, having settled on a combination of Notes app and temporary paper lists. When I'm feeling overwhelmed and really need to knock out some tasks, nothing beats pencil and paper for me.

I recently came across the Analog product from Ugmonk and I love it. It's basically just a dedicated little wood holder for you desk, and different types of cards. I use the blank lined cards.

https://ugmonk.com/collections/analog

TurkishPoptart · 13 days ago
$70 for a cute wooden card holder. Holy moly!
TurkishPoptart commented on Many lung cancers are now in nonsmokers   nytimes.com/2025/07/22/we... · Posted by u/alexcos
irrational · a month ago
The second leading cause of lung cancer is radon. My high schooler came home and said her science teacher said everyone should do a radon test. I scoffed, but humored her by getting a kit from Home Depot and sending it away to a lab. The results came back very high. So I purchased an electronic radon monitor and it showed almost the exact same results. Well, crap. I installed a radon mitigation system and now the numbers are almost nil.
TurkishPoptart · a month ago
What's a radon mitigation system like?
TurkishPoptart commented on 14 Million People Could Die in Next 5 Years Due to USAID Cuts, Study Finds   gizmodo.com/14-million-pe... · Posted by u/perihelions
TurkishPoptart · 2 months ago
Bill Gates could single-handedly fund USAID and still half $70B remaining. Can private philanthropy not step in here to cover the gap?
TurkishPoptart commented on Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/htrp
TurkishPoptart · 2 months ago
American employees are, for the most part, being replaced by H1-B visaholders via off-shore contracting companies. This needs to change.
TurkishPoptart commented on Microsoft to lay off as many as 9k employees in latest round   seattletimes.com/business... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
TurkishPoptart · 2 months ago
They will be replaced by H1-B visa holders operating AI.
TurkishPoptart commented on Yes I Will Read Ulysses Yes   theatlantic.com/magazine/... · Posted by u/petethomas
ramesh31 · 2 months ago
The title is in reference to Molly Bloom's stream of consciousness monologue in the final chapter. If you read one single work of english literature in your life, let it be this: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm#chap1...
TurkishPoptart · 2 months ago
Why this one?

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TurkishPoptart commented on Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing    · Posted by u/Townley
Findecanor · 3 months ago
There is Edgar Matias's "Half Keyboard" layout, where the right hand's keys of a regular keyboard are mirrored on the left hand when holding a modifier key with your thumb. The idea is that if you have learned touch-typing then muscle memory for the right hand should be available also on the left.

Matias wrote an article [1] about it and then made it into a commercial product [2], but the concept should be possible on any programmable keyboard. Perhaps it would be possible with a AutoHotkey (MS-Windows) or Karabiner (MacOS) script otherwise.

There is a large scene for more-or-less DIY "ergonomic" mechanical programmable keyboards with various different physical layouts, but common themes are 1) that they are split in a pair of two physical keyboards and 2) that they have multiple thumb-keys for modifiers / Return / Space. You could build and program just one half of such a pair. Many years ago I programmed an ErgoDox with the HalfKeyboard layout, just to try it out, and that ErgoDox I had built on a budget from mostly salvaged vintage components.

[1]: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/One-Handed-Touch-Typin...

[2]:https://matias.ca/halfkeyboard/

TurkishPoptart · 3 months ago
Looks cool, but not sure why it's $600...
TurkishPoptart commented on Linguists find proof of sweeping language pattern once deemed a 'hoax'   scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/bryanrasmussen
TurkishPoptart · 3 months ago
"...claiming the Inuit have “100 synonyms” for the frozen white stuff we lump under a single term."

That's just wrong. Ask anyone who does alpinism, snowboarding, or skiing. You'll hear at least 10+ different words for this substance.

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