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Comment · 7 months ago
I'd argue that for informal uses like HN, this is very much okay! It's grammatically correct and gets the point across. And most importantly, these paragraphs read more like someone's personal voice than some pithy but edited-to-death couple of sentences.
Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
It's just about installing `gnome-keyring` if you're running VS Code on KDE, right?
Comment · 11 months ago
We do! It recognises the 'Do Not Track' sent, at least on FF for me. I get a very small popup telling me it's respecting this setting, and no request for accepting anything else:

> "Do not Track"-Modus erkannt! Es werden nur technisch notwendige Cookies verwended. [Datenschutzerkl"arung](...)

Lovely. If only the rest of the web looked like this.

Comment · 2 years ago
Hi, do you happen to have to have some resources for someone interested in using red light therapy? Or even just a simple buying tip to get started. As someone with quite high myopia and a little bit of astigmatism thrown in, I'm at higher risk of myopic macular degeneration, so red light therapy might be extra useful!
Comment · 3 years ago
Hills, sure, not too many of them. But there are sooo many bridges that require shifting. And the flat landscape can also give you terrible headwinds where again, shifting is very handy. So I don't think that /that/ is the reason for the lack of manual shifting.
Comment · 3 years ago
On some keyboard layouts, pressing the quote mark starts a modifyer and then depending on the layout the following character is combined with the quote mark. Most English layouts don't include ś in this, but some Eastern European (?) languages use that character more often and so include them in this modifyer shortcut.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is an older article. Today, the coalition decided on a measure with 'urgent advice' to not be allowed smartphones, tablets and smartwatches in the classroom [1]. Starting Jan 1st 2024, and so far only for secondary education, though they're deciding on primary education today.Schools are free in how they implement it, could be in the entire building or just classrooms. I don't expect any hard rules any time soon, with the coalition being so divided on the topic.

There's been interesting debates in parlement preceding this measure, with several interesting position papers on the topic from researchers, and even student associations [2]. The researchers emphasize that adolescents are much more susceptible to the bad effects of smartphones, due to inexperience with dopamine and its effects on dopamine production, being easier to condition, FOMO. The main adverse effect they name is what they call a 'crumbling brain', with a short attention span unable to focus on one thing for a longer time. An often-repeated soundbyte is that students using smartphones often score in average 1-1.5 points less on tests, on a scale of 1 to 10.

I dunno what to think about it. As noted by the student association, it seems like children won't get the chance to learn how to handle the traps smartphones pose. Then again, I was free to use mine in high school and I'm still addicted to the thing :/

[1] https://nos.nl/artikel/2481424-kabinet-geeft-dringend-advies...

[2] https://www.tweedekamer.nl/debat_en_vergadering/commissiever...

Comment · 3 years ago
That's like saying you shouldn't worry about reducing your personal wasting of food because it doesn't solve world hunger—like when choosing not to fly often there's a small impact that is very much noticeable on a larger scale if more people did it.

Even if the industries, the western world, developing countries forced to use coal plants for cheap energy (and you can choose many more actors that play a larger part in causing the climate crisis) contribute to the problem more than you as an individual, at least you're not actively making the world a worse place.

Comment · 3 years ago
Oh man, I know that feeling of dread as you're waiting for the next shout or clank. It took some time to try out various earplugs, which at first made me sleep even worse, but once I was used to wearing them while sleeping (after 2 weeks) the difference was night and day.
Comment · 4 years ago
The pins usually don't fit exactly (because they still need to be able to move up and down), meaning that you can turn the lock slightly even without the pins at the right positions.

If a pin is pushed up completely, and you turn the lock slightly, the pin can get stuck in the right position. This is done with a torsion wrench, keeping torsion on the lock while trying to get the pins in the right position with picks, hooks, or rakes.

Comment · 4 years ago
What's wrong with criticizing things one doesn't believe in?

Especially if, as the parent noted, that thing one doesn't belief in has—through the actions of people that do believe—negative impacts on one's life?

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
I think that is what they mean—the 'acquisition' in Open Source land is just the successful integration of one open platform into the other!
Comment · 4 years ago
I can't wait until it gets warmer, immersion cold brew is sooo good :)

It is rather sweet with arabica, is that less so with robusta? How would you compare the taste?

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