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Re:I Pitched a Roller Coaster to Disneyland at Age 10 in 1978
on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @09:53AM (#47137894)
I really wonder where some people get this marvelous drive to create - as it apparently has resided in the author even before Disney replied.
Re:An NFC Movie Library for My Kids
on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @04:55PM (#41515261)
I love vinyl so I built m daughter a wooden vinyl player with wooden discs that carry an embedded nfc so now she can put some vinyl on herself :))
Re:We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of ....
on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @04:50PM (#41515233)
Same happened to my personal website for which I purchased the domain when I was 14 (long time ago) and at some point decided that a .com domain is ridiculous for a personal website. Chinese porn site it was thereafter …
Re:TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
on Saturday July 20, 2024 @02:43AM (#41014591)
I see this in Berlin a lot and even though it disturbed me first I came to think that it suits the value (amount of use) phones have for most people
Re:The hidden beauty of Berlin's indoor pools
on Sunday November 19, 2023 @04:53AM (#38331025)
That is such a cheap argument.
I think the general “problem” is a bit exaggerated in the media - as a frequent visitor of the Berlin Freibäder I have not experienced any problems myself. However, the violence in my small home town city came mostly from German males with German ancestors.
Toxic masculinity (and social injustice) seem to be a major driving the problematic behavior - not immigration. The majority of violence also here in Berlin comes from males. Also, my impression is that is if there is violent behavior coming from males (also in other situations) their background foremost is a rather low social status and not dependent on their passport or their ancestors’ origin. A well educated rich woman is less likely to show violent behavior than the poor uneducated man.
I don’t know the difference of this between the German and the “Arab” (which is the group most people here blame rn) male of equal social status but id be very surprise to see a big difference if any significant at all..
Re:Show HN: Booklet – modern discussion forum for professional groups
on Thursday September 21, 2023 @02:18AM (#37593868)
Chat has a lower level barrier to participate than a forum post (or even old schooler: a mailing list).
Chat is More direct and faster paced, which has its positive and negative effects (engagement vs quality - I’d assume most people put more thought into a forum post or email than a simple chat message)
So far I have only seen Reddit/HN style „forums“ to combine these aspects together successfully (although I don’t know if that also happens in slack and the likes)..
Another option might be to filter out important discussions and elevate it on a certain (“BB or mailing list worthy”) level - that seems to be a challenge, that the threading function does not sufficiently solve (also, as users don’t always adher to the technical aspect of replying to a thread).
It will be interesting how LLM/AI might solve some of these issues of organizing the knowledge that is generated in these different formats. That’s a task that so far seems to be too tedious to be done by humans, after all. A wiki generated by AI to certain discussions and topics? Summaries in the chat software to certain keywords/discussions and suggestions on further reading?
Re:My Emacs eye candy
on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @03:42PM (#35632428)
I would argue that some typographic changes (eg right amount of white space, line height etc) might lessen the distraction that you get with visual clotting. It appears here, though, that not everyone perceived it that way..
The foremost reason for use of typography in this case should be readability and accessibility and not pretty (which by itself is not a bad thing either)
Re:My Emacs eye candy
on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @03:30AM (#35625373)
Especially regarding org mode I am always surprised about how most users use so little typography. Using the same settings for writing and coding seems counterintuitive yet most org modes I see in screenshots look pretty code-editorisch to me, and the styling options you mentioned are pretty much the only ones I know (missing Olivietti mode [1]) Most other note taking apps surpass here…
[1] https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti
Re:Why I’m making my family German (2017)
on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:15AM (#34627637)
The debates about citizenship and the inherent feelings that they provoke are an outstanding example of how artificial and unintuituve the concepts of nations and borders are.
Re:Write Simply
on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:14AM (#34606691)
"Excuse me for writing this long letter, I did not have time for a shorter one."
Re:Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @05:54PM (#31511148)
Lovers in a dangerous spacetime
You are controlling a spaceship with up to four people, bit with all these weapons, shield and steering you have to swap between these or at least coordinate. Really enjoyed this with 3 other friends but might be even more fun with just 1 or 2 extra players as there should be more running around the spaceship
Re:My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll
on Sunday March 06, 2022 @06:52PM (#30582482)
I even have this problem when just sitting in front of my laptop to look something up - I end up on completely different websites procrastinating a lot . Another behavioral hack was told to me by someone els: write down on a piece of paper what you want to look up/do on the computer before you sit down in front of it and check if you have done it as much as possible.
Re:Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia
on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:12AM (#30464811)
What would the respektive emacs mode be ?
Re:Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program
on Friday October 15, 2021 @04:25PM (#28882742)
Is it possible to access SD card folders on the ohne by now? That used to be the major drawback some years ago for me..