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Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Friday October 30, 2026 @06:09AM (#50301875)
It's a beautiful message. It once more takes the sitcom component out of Star Trek and then as we think Picard might actually be dying -- and that is why this episode now is dragging on so long -- it suddenly wraps itself up. And we are left with one message: The ressikan flute being played by Picard. And that is all that the people concentrated their life, their culture, their civilization into. That final message. The music, and the means to that music as a piece that's an original.

It comes down to one single message. It is like my instructor once told me, on how to do classes: You can put maybe one to two messages into the minds of people in an hour of a class. So you can dance around, do the fanciest of shit, jump around, pull down a rocket, and all that you can probably get across is just one message, for them to remember.

So it comes down to a small message, and that is all that there is to it. The resolution where the whole village comes together shows just that: This was just a message.

It's cutting everything down to the bare truth. And the truth is a beautiful thing, the most terrible thing there is.

I think it might be a coincidence, that the ressikan flute kinda sounds to me like the Pierian Spring[1] even 'though it's far from it, isn't it?

And what's odd to me, now, too, is that I want to watch that TNG episode[2] again, not just to remember, not to get the 'rememberries', but what can I learn from it still? -- it's like a beautiful solution, you keep on looking at it. A masterpiece.

Thank you for indulging in the piece.

[1] Pierian Spring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierian_Spring [2] TNG episode: The Inner Light: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_%28Star_Trek:_...

Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain on Thursday July 23, 2026 @05:36PM (#49028385)
Huh. Sounds just like me :D Depth helps there. Since I started working mostly on desks with a depth of 80 cm in front of me (or 31 inches that is) it's gotten usually pretty easy to squeeze in a notebook or a paper (also hanging the monitors on the wall, so that no foot is on the desk any more, gives another extra 10 cm).
Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain on Thursday July 23, 2026 @05:26PM (#49028270)
I am in the same camp. A year ago I switched over to taking notes on a Kindle Scribe, and as a voracious note taker it has been going very well. There are a few small negatives: - twice a page of text just vanished completely, in roughly 500 pages written in the past year, due to some shenanigans with the selection tool - Over 40/50 pages notebooks don't seem to export reliably. So for my work notes I start a new notebook every month (I average approximately 1.5 pages per workday) - I no longer scribble as many unspoken impressions down as I did with paper (where I had known before, that small writings in the margins on some paper of mine where as save from looking in to, as the insides of my Jeans' pocket watch pocket)

Positive: - I can send PDFs of my notes out within a minute to any email - a lot less to carry around, I just make sure to keep it with me, nearly all the time - organizing notes retrospectively is a big leap forward from paper - I can just select lines of text I wrote and move them around, even shrink them a little (to fit an extra line of text or two on the same page)

So far I haven't gotten used to actually extracting the notes with the Kindle application on my PC, it's always going over Amazon's servers whenever I click "share" to export my notes...

How do you go about having AI conversations with your notes?

> So you aren't breaking any laws of physics, you are just able to make much better tactical decisions.

With respect I'd like to disagree on this subtly. A lot of games have the client send their cursor position at relatively frequent updates/packages (i.e. sub-second). So the server knows pretty precisely in which direction and to which object a player is looking.

This in turn can be readily used upon when using wall-hacks, as most players, who use wall-hacks tend to almost faithfully follow objects behind walls with their cursor, which good moderators can usually spot within a few seconds, when reviewing such footage (source: I was involved in recognizing Wall-Hacks in Minecraft, where players would replace textures, to easily find and mine diamonds underground).

Re:Methodology is bullshit: principles for product velocity on Thursday November 14, 2024 @12:09PM (#42138339)
Thank you.
Re:Methodology is bullshit: principles for product velocity on Friday November 08, 2024 @05:15AM (#42085729)
This really hinges on 'velocity':

> .. simple implementation won for velocity ..

How do you specifically define velocity in this context?

(I am asking because I tend to favor speedy velocity in quick iterations; which is another story, than say velocity for change...)

Kind regards

Re:Visualizing Weather Forecasts Through Landscape Imagery on Monday September 23, 2024 @05:59AM (#41624297)
Neat!

I am throwing in my Plotly.js-based weather display, based on OpenWeatherMap and hand-drawn graphics: https://github.com/quimoniz/ophelia?tab=readme-ov-file#-ophe...

(by default it also displays the Hacker News newsfeed)

Psychological trait: Openness. It's associated with Liberalism and the political left.

Also see [Big Five personality traits](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits).

Re:VCs aren’t your friends on Thursday May 16, 2024 @04:50AM (#40376381)
If I recall Jobs' biography correctly, that came waaay later. First he had to get thrown out of his own company, with the Apple 3 debacle.
Re:Other People's Problems on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @12:28PM (#40146363)
> It’s an ugly, toxic cycle that bottoms out at everyone constantly having their knowledge and competence questioned over things they know and can do, by people who don’t and can’t.

That rings so true in my head. Being too open and transparent got me quite a lot of misery already. More than once, I got the work of months discarded, because some other (shiny or new) approach was deemed to provide a better solution -- only to the effect that it was later discovered that it was the worse approach.

Apparently it is very easy to miss in the pursuit for the best solution, in unfortunate favor of one's preconceived notions.

Re:Beware of Base64 Encoded Strings on Monday April 15, 2024 @07:58AM (#40039335)
Another prime example on the typical arrogance of this trade, of computer scientists:

My brain immediately goes like: You nitwit, base64 comes back from E-Mails, where you would work with Mail-Server's conception that your mails were all written, legible characters. Of course you should expect newlines, potentially whitespaces and tabs in it.

But that would be stupid of me. There's so much old knowledge and know-how we carry along for many decades - around 50 years in case of mail and SMTP. Unix and Linux are a specially egregious example, with so many conventions.... just ran into a long standing bug a few days ago, with some GECOS implementation (that's 62 years old stuff). We do a lot of good in throwing out the now unnecessary old stuff and separating the wheat from the chaff. Again and again.

In so far: Thanks for the pointer on that Base64 appears strange (also please do not let us talk about groff).

Re:Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:21PM (#39933327)
Surprisingly lots of good advice, especially when one got a few years of professional experience.

> Do It Scared

True. I've deep dived enough topics and technology to confidently say that pretty much everyone is just cooking with water as they say. .... The special specialist doing super professional job with X? - well they are probably just using this or that standard tool. Resolving problems with some very sound approaches (which they probably taught themselves through experimenting, through practice).

Especially with software: Just have a go at it. The worst that could probably happen is that you need to reinstall your Operating System (and please don't ask me, how I developed some kernel-patch-performance-evaluation)

Re:Do I need to get out the soldering-iron again? (2018) on Friday December 22, 2023 @10:17AM (#38734926)
> When my phone plays certain tracks it makes and explosion of noise when switching songs. [...] Apparently this service has some sort of bug.

Using Chrome on Android and also on my computer, the annoying pop does thankfully not appear between music tracks with my Simple Music Player, called JUkebox with Php and Html5, short JUPH: https://github.com/quimoniz/juph

I tried to make it dead simple, using the HTML5 Audio element.

Now it's been lying around for 4 years... does anyone else know of a similarly non-sophisticated audio player?

> Getting paid to waste time not doing your job

Pretty much the definition of 90 % of all the meetings. Just putting on bluetooth earpieces and doing the laundry doesn't deduct the value of me hearing another round of very efficient 'cost savings' that they thought about somewhere up the chain or other administrative ideas.