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by agent008t 3y ago
Does your wife have to wait for you to fall asleep before she does something she wants to do but you have little interest in? You could just watch these lectures together - instead of, say, watching the news.
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by agent008t 3y ago
I want to be able to control youtube on my TV with my phone. If I were to, say, plug in a laptop to an HDMI port on my TV and run Brave on it. Is there any way to easily control playback on it with my phone? I.e. send videos to it, pause, s
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Ask HN: How much do you save?
2 points by agent008t 3y ago|1 comments
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by agent008t 3y ago
Moto G31(w), running Android 11. Tried loads of GCam versions, the one that worked best was LMC8.4R8. Camera and Night Sight work amazingly well, and all 3 cameras are supported. For videos however I had to use mcpro24fps. I don't reca
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by agent008t 3y ago
Just want to mention that the moto camera is made FAR worse by the software. E.g. video on my moto would always be blurry due to bad de-noising settings used by stock software. mcpro24fps allowed me to take dramatically better videos. The d
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by agent008t 3y ago
At the same time, there has not been a housing crash. Surely if you have to lock in the current rates for 30 years, property prices must come down significantly (to the point of a crash), all else being equal? So therefore, does that mean t
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by agent008t 3y ago
It's not about an objective level of means, but more about one's relative standing and its security. Take a modern young couple in a place like NYC. Having to work incredibly hard in an uncertain job - both of them - never too far
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by agent008t 3y ago
Also, get an animal (a cat or a dog) and be friendly with them. A cat coming over of their own volition and purring in your lap is a powerful reminder that you don't need to accomplish anything to be a valid human being. Cats are great
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by agent008t 3y ago
How do you get this evaluated? Is it an expensive/time-consuming process? Do you have to spend several nights sleeping in some strange lab?
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by agent008t 3y ago
This reminds me of the parable of the Rabbi and the goat. Creating a problem, and then looking forward to its resolution!
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by agent008t 3y ago
Will that make your job / tasks a lot easier or more fun? Why are you looking forward to this or are excited about this in particular?
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by agent008t 3y ago
It will make some things a bit more convenient, but why is it particularly exciting?
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by agent008t 3y ago
What do you plan to do after that? Not having to do something is great, but do you have a particular positive agenda that makes you excited to think about?
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by agent008t 3y ago
Why? Some new hardware may get announced, but surely these have been getting progressively less exciting every year for decades. Hardware has been 'good enough' to not be that exciting any more for more than a decade.
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Ask HN: What are you excited about / looking forward to?
18 points by agent008t 3y ago|31 comments
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by agent008t 4y ago
Metal detecting
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by agent008t 4y ago
Policenauts; Snatcher; Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake; Metal Gear Solid; Escape from Monkey Island; Deus Ex; System Shock 1 and 2 There are loads of them. In fact, it is very rare that a genuinely good game would feel 'aged' going back
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by agent008t 4y ago
The idea is that romantic relationships are a side-effect, pursuing them head-on is often the wrong approach. It is better to set up your life in a way that makes them more likely, and to forget about them being any sort of goal. So yes, ge
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by agent008t 4y ago
Surely pursuing philosophy would be a better advice than pursuing religion? Religions do tend to include some philosophy but with a lot of mysticism and other stuff thrown in, and the philosophy itself is often not very well thought through
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by agent008t 4y ago
Who says you are supposed to enjoy the journey? As a trivial example, 'the journey' of studying for an important exam is hard work, and you would enjoy playing video games instead a lot more. But by focusing on the destination and
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by agent008t 4y ago
Have you not described just another goal to pursue, but in this case one that is very long-term and leaves you so busy you have no time to contemplate anything else? Also, is it that it really eliminated all doubt, or is it that you had no
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Ask HN: If you enjoy parties, why?
2 points by agent008t 4y ago|6 comments
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by agent008t 4y ago
I think it has to be full-time parenting.
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by agent008t 4y ago
Ok, but so to start with one necessary good - how is housing to be allocated? Who gets to live in the house that is overall most desired, and who gets to live in the one that is overall least desired in a given community?
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by agent008t 4y ago
...and it has been significantly higher than 2017, 2018, 2019. Scroll down to cumulative excess mortality charts that make this clearer. Note that this is all-cause mortality, not just COVID. I found this unexpected given the big difference
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EU has had similar excess mortality in 2022 as 2021 and 2020(euromomo.eu)
3 points by agent008t 4y ago|2 comments
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by agent008t 4y ago
But are we really post-scarcity on nearly every measure? Take nice housing in a nice town in a nice location (good climate, pleasant nature, far from the industrial complexes churning out the post-scarcity goods, good culture which takes ti
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by agent008t 4y ago
And yet, there is no significant migration from the US to the European social democratic countries. Why not? Latvian population shrunk by a quarter since 1990. I am genuinely curious, as this often comes up in these discussion. Often, an ar
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by agent008t 4y ago
Replace churches with a secular alternative, with trained psychologists instead of priests, 1-on-1 brief sessions instead of confession, and mindfulness meditation instead of prayer. Ensure everyone in the community participates by giving l
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by agent008t 4y ago
Switch to mobile played a larger role I think. People used to browse on PCs with mouse pointers and keyboards, now they do on phones with touchscreens.

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