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Re:Passport Photos on Thursday November 07, 2024 @05:47PM (#42081972)
Nice idea, maybe even tied to the scroll wheel.

I‘d love to see this in a book that has simple white pages with little cutouts showing only the passport picture of the next page. Then you turn that page around and see the full picture.

Thank you for your submissions! I think submissions like these promote valuable discussions on HN.
Re:E-Bikes Overtake Buggies for Some Amish (2021) on Sunday March 10, 2024 @03:53AM (#39657476)
As an european I feel like 8-10 miles (13-16 km) is a rather long bike commute which would take at least 45 minutes on an ordinary bike. I ride my bike a lot and would occasionally do such a commute but most people aren’t willing to do that at all, sadly.
Re:"Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:07AM (#37889072)
HN creates visibility for YC startups, e.g. by placing Launch HN posts or the so-and-so is hiring posts
Re:EU "Chat Control" and Mandatory Client Side Scanning on Thursday October 12, 2023 @01:23PM (#37860114)
Many children's rights NGOs also think that the proposal is a terrible idea. This article gives an overview (German) https://netzpolitik.org/2022/massenueberwachung-das-sagen-ki...
Re:BOOX Palma on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @07:55PM (#37667616)
I have mine set to a red filter and assigned it to a double tap on the back gesture, which is a blessing at night in complete darkness!
Question is whether this could harvest enough energy to store it in a small battery to continuously provide power. But really sounds frightening if you change the setup of a few appliances and then suddenly half of your autonomously powered devices don't get enough power anymore because the noise is not high enough anymore.
You might as well want to check out this tool: https://www.harmopark.app
Responsible disclosure is killing the zero day industry
Shouldn’t the post have (2021) in the title?
Re:The Sourdough Framework on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @07:45PM (#35969346)
Coincidentally today I baked the first bread that I was really happy with! I have followed this guide and the videos for a few weeks now and I feel like I’ve got a deeper understanding of what’s going on now. Other recipes can also work but it feels much better to know why you’re doing something instead of blindly following someone. Thanks Hendrik!
Can you switch to and from the keyboard just as fast or even faster than with a mouse?
Re:German monks create first powdered beer on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:21AM (#35286813)
Appropriate for Minister-President Soeder’s ridiculous Bavaria One space program.
Re:I Use Cheap Notebooks on Friday March 10, 2023 @03:42PM (#35100713)
And that women don't get "used up" because they have sex! Truly delightfully disgusting, that analogy. You'd probably need to own a Ferrari to come up with such nonsense.
So how did the police find out about the identities of the 10 people who have never been arrested? Because they posted to social media about them attending a demonstration? How was it connected to them being demonstrators? Where their identities collected during protests but they weren't arrested? Article leaves that open.
Do you have an accessible example for two different recordings of a composition that each shine in their own light?
Re:Homebrew 4.0.0 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:52AM (#34821252)
Thanks, a quick search on the home brew page brought no guidance on how to configure these settings. I can't remember if this is in the .bashrc or in some other obscure config file, would be great to mention this if you recommend changing settings to your user base.
Isn't the recalibration even a problem of all CO2 sensors, including the IKEA model?
Re:Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem? on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:11PM (#34535960)
And it’s not like that any sexually deprived young man just walks into a brothel like he walks into a pharmacy in Germany. That’s highly stigmatized and I suppose it is in the other countries as well.
I think in the winter it would be fine to move heat from the lake to houses but in the summer it's worse. We're already having problems with lakes being too hot in the summer which results in evaporation, algae build-up and less oxygen. This also promotes invasive species.

Of course, the question is at what scale we can build such systems and if that would raise water temperatures significantly.

I am not a biologist.

You forgot to include the article!
I'm very curious about the optical hand tracking as the main input. Yes, there's still a lot of progress in that area recently but the main problem remains: it gets really tiring to waive your hands around in front of you and there is no haptic feedback and very quick pressing of different buttons like on a controller.
Re:Ask HN: How to Get Better at Writing? on Monday December 26, 2022 @06:19AM (#34136724)
On a related note: Hunter S. Thompson simply retyped The Great Gatsby and some Hemingway texts to see how it feels to write such texts.
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @03:06AM (#34062990)
Thank you for posting a different view on this topic. The comment section here feels very one-sided and makes me believe that people aren’t here to critically discuss all views. Honestly I feel very intimidated to write any comments that challenge the opinions here because of the imbalance.
Re:VR robots are building railways in Japan on Sunday December 11, 2022 @04:50PM (#33947927)
I wonder how they implemented the force feedback for the weight perception. In this case it‘s not that difficult because they can use passive haptics/ a grounded haptic display. Nonetheless I‘d like to know how precisely the operator can feel weight.
This is really great because I could „install“ it on my pc at work which wouldn‘t let me install any actual downloadable software (not working there as a developer, just office stuff). It almost behaves like a real app, I only need to upload files to the app file system. Totally sufficient for running a small project and figuring things out in pandas or extracting things from a few CSVs. I tried replit.com before but the connection to the vm never really worked well enough, issuing commands took ages. Only other thing is writing PowerShell which I can run surprisingly but that’s far from the flexibility of Python.
Re:TV Tropes on Sunday November 13, 2022 @07:02PM (#33588695)
But using tropes is not a bad thing in general, or what would you say? I think I kinda know what is low quality without looking at TV tropes beforehand.
Re:Building an E-Ink weather display for our home on Sunday November 13, 2022 @06:52PM (#33588625)
Care to tell more about what you did with yours and where to start if you‘d want to install a Linux environment? Sounds like a great idea since these precious e-ink screens shouldn’t end up on a landfill yet!

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