helmholtz

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by helmholtz 4y ago
That's just called Mechanical Engineering. All machines involve compromises. An internal combustion engine needs oodles of these kinds of compromises. It's idiotic thermal efficiency itself is a big expense if you think about it.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
To me, the ideal solution is something that Apple had for ages, and now them and Microsoft both have. Magsafe. Use a nice, robust, safe laptop charger for most of your workdays, when things are routine and you have control over the environ
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by helmholtz 4y ago
It's "cringey" not "cringe". You need an adjective. And I'm amazed at how many people on HN are oblivious to obvious sarcasm.
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Your comment is cathartic to me for reasons I cannot explain. I hope, for my sake, that everything you mentioned really is something you're doing often. I love the idea of constant forward progress in downsizing not just your own pos
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by helmholtz 4y ago
I'm wondering what's your success rate at _not_ having your criticism of bad ideas be taken anyway as a criticism of the person. In my experience, people are fragile, and have a tough time separating the rational from the emotiona
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by helmholtz 4y ago
There are some of us who will never learn 'how to get around' one's city. We lack a head for sense of direction, for memorising landmarks etc. We can try all our life, and we'll only cope, but never be comfy. Of course,
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by helmholtz 4y ago
My comment was vague because my feelings on the topic itself are vague. I'm not married to the position and was only trying to spark a line of thought. That said, nowadays would be social media mass adoption. Circa 2000 for the sake of
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by helmholtz 4y ago
I'm curious about your take on the cheapening or dilution of words in language nowadays. One isnt hurt but traumatized, one isn't "once bitten twice shy" but suffering from PTSD. It's assault if one gets in a fight
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by helmholtz 4y ago
Like all the "just use Org-Mode" comments. God, if I see one more Org Mode recomendation I might just burst!
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by helmholtz 5y ago
If someone tells me there is nowhere they can walk in the rural countryside, I'd laugh my way right off my chair.
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by helmholtz 5y ago
I seem to have this debate every three days on HN. I'm shocked that a tech-savvy, self-motivated group of "hackers" don't find this a complete and utter no-go. How is your hair not on fire trying to get out of the hellho
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by helmholtz 5y ago
I don't particularly care for PGs tweets to be honest. Don't think he has that much substantial stuff to say. I'm desperately looking for a lot of things at work that are unavailable no matter the price. No Si, no party. I&#x
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by helmholtz 5y ago
Let's begin with the notion that a biking world is a decline in personal standard. A car makes you fat and poor. A bike makes you fit and rich. You'll be healthier in bed with your wife. If not, women will check you out as you wal
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by helmholtz 5y ago
Cue the million naysayers who will tell you that that's impossible, that they'd love to bike but it's just too dangerous as things stand, you see? Or they'd love to live in a compact city but cannot move for the forthcom
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by helmholtz 5y ago
A masterful suggestion. Truly inspired. Why don't you also promote the privatisation of air next? I shouldn't be breathing so much. No wait! Better idea. Totally privatize all land. How dare I walk from place to place with no rega
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by helmholtz 5y ago
It doesn't matter if they don't have all of them. They make their choice. I have whatsapp, but have managed to convince a core group of friends to use Signal. We make do.
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by helmholtz 5y ago
Spare a thought for those who spend any amount of time on Twitter. I'm sure there are those who can do it without losing their sanity. Perhaps that happens when you block things out so aggressively that you barely learn much of anythin
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by helmholtz 5y ago
Man, you're sooooo well spoken! I'm loving your responses up and down this thread.
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by helmholtz 5y ago
/u/poem_for_your_sprog I should have hurried youth, in truth, And moved more quickly on - I should have made the most of youth, Before the time was gone. I should have followed fancy, free, Before it thought to fa
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by helmholtz 5y ago
Brilliant. I've been obsessed with death since a close family member had a heart attack (and lived). In your twenties, with any luck, you will not get acquainted as intimately with loss as you will later in life. But when you do, every
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by helmholtz 5y ago
In fact, the Rich Roll podcast episode with James Clear is the one I'd recommend for all. Roll is a great listener and interviewer, and together they did a much better job than the book alone in focusing on the forging-an-identity part
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by helmholtz 5y ago
Lovely article and perhaps the first one that people new to Wilson's work, like me, should read. Having read it, I can't say that I came away thinking Wilson was racist, at all. If anything, it inspires me to try to be less emotio
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by helmholtz 5y ago
"You can afford anything but you can't afford everything"
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by helmholtz 5y ago
I've meant to ask this for a while, so I'll try here. Doesn't anyone else feel overwhelmed with VS Code? I've used it off and on for years and I still don't understand the hopelessly confusing settings menu, the sev
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by helmholtz 5y ago
> "...your website will not get traction..." And? Not to be glib, but you need exactly zero readers on your website to have a whale of a time making it. In terms of building a website, the tech is exactly what matters because
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by helmholtz 5y ago
wlsunset was a lot simpler for me to get to work compared to gammastep, which I thought had too steep a learning curve. I only need it for the yellow light, thought.
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by helmholtz 5y ago
I have found my people! The solid black wallpaper reinforces in me the idea that computers and phones are tools, not accessories and it has been revolutionary. I now try to use more and more things in their default state. Vim instead of Neo
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by helmholtz 5y ago
Brilliant, thank you for that effort, especially the direct link to the PDF. A third of the bird population gone in the 50 years since 1970. As he says in Blood Diamond, "Will god ever forgive us for what we've done to each other?
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by helmholtz 5y ago
100% get that attitude. I'm in the phase of slowly trying to learn Linux, and it's fun. But it also quickly becomes clear that there is no reward at the end. The endless different config file formats, man pages, shell mantras etc.
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by helmholtz 5y ago
Arch with Wayland and Sway. I'm fucking around with it on my ancient Surface Pro 3, and it's been a wonderful experience so far. I haven't even got XWayland. Helps that I'm only using it to use Firefox and write some cod

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