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by mlang23 7y ago
Thanks I couldn't have said it any better.
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by mlang23 7y ago
Apps like "Bring!" are already far too spammy with their notification. The moment I see the first real ad pushed as a notification, I will disable notifications completely, for all apps.
543.
by mlang23 7y ago
This site is barely accessible with a screen reader. Lots of unlabeled graphical elements, and no obvious way to change the country from T&T.
544.
by mlang23 7y ago
I am suspecting that those translation companies actually just use Google Translate or something similar. I recently saw a commercial product for the blind, developed in an english speaking country, where the german translation of the app
545.
by mlang23 7y ago
If up/downvoting would work in Lynx, I wouldn't actually need a CLI tool to read HN. Well, I guess you can't have anerything. I wouldn't need offline mode, but a CLI tool to read HN would be very much welcome.
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by mlang23 7y ago
The only reason why I have a Google account is that Google bought YouTube. Establishing a Google calendar to get rid of Facebook doesn't seem like a win for me... Besides, how does that work? Much of the Facebook Calendar feature works
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by mlang23 7y ago
Oh yeah, I can trust my assesment that real life contacts (lets call it a network) would have been more useful in the long run. I "wasted" about 10 years of my life spending time in front of a computer, as a sort of escape from t
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Ask HN: What is the simplest but still useful NN example you know?
3 points by mlang23 7y ago|3 comments
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by mlang23 7y ago
Facebook, like many other things in our society, is a Clan-thing. "My clan vs your clan" is a game that humans play very very well. Their initial reaction is just "oh, you are not one of us". If you talk about the deta
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by mlang23 7y ago
I have my alarm set to a high quality radio station at the time their morning news show starts. This is a 5 minute news show that condenses the essential things of the day. If I feel like I need to know more about a specific event, I typic
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by mlang23 7y ago
When I was younger, I spent quite a lot of "active screen time" with IRC. Back then, it felt like I am connected to other people. In retrospect, it would have been far better for me if I used that time to socialize with real p
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by mlang23 7y ago
Wow, I typically only get that question from people way older then 70 years... That feels weird, to read this on HN. No, sorry, I don't need a TV just to get a few news bites daily. There are other ways to stay up to date.
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by mlang23 7y ago
Maybe I didnt express myself well enough. I didn't raise the issue of spending too much time in front of television to promote 24/7 productivity, not at all. I know quite well how important it is to just chill out and wind down.
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by mlang23 7y ago
> time spent in a way that made you feel good isn't wasted I am not sure this sentence is universally true. I'd like to remind you about the experiment with mice that got a button to trigger their own happiness center... They
555.
by mlang23 7y ago
Well, first of all, most TV programs I know are catering to an audience that is clearly not fitting my expectations of quality information or even entertainment. The mother from "requiem for a dream" comes to mind when I think ab
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by mlang23 7y ago
I wasn't feeling like TV directly prevented me from doing anything else, but it still felt like a big relief when I finally sold my TV. It didn't feel like it was stealing any of my time, still, my daily activities at home changed
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by mlang23 7y ago
I totally quit television about a year ago, and it had a very noticeable positive impact on me. I also mostly quit Facebook with the end of last year. I say mostly, because I still use its event calendar, and occasionally check my stream.
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Language Characterizes Humans (2016)(mpg.de)
1 points by mlang23 7y ago|0 comments
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by mlang23 7y ago
IN a part of Austria, they apparently banned holy water now.
560.
by mlang23 7y ago
Tourism, in all directions, is too important a factor that closing up borders is really on the table right now. Austria for instance, where I come from, will definitely NOT close the borders to Italy in the upcoming days. And in my person
561.
by mlang23 7y ago
Don't count on the EU doing anything other then slow talk. They are definitely not going to close any borders. At least I would be very surprised if they did.
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by mlang23 7y ago
Well, the UK is apparently not very interested in unifying things, nor in being part of the EU...
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by mlang23 7y ago
Sure they can justify that behaviour. It is their house after all, and they set the rules. Period.
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by mlang23 7y ago
Agreed
565.
by mlang23 7y ago
Agreed. updatedb from the locate package is typically the first thing that I uninstall on a new Linux installation. The nightly cronjob definitely consumes a lot more resources over time then it will ever save me waiting time.
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by mlang23 7y ago
Why do you feel the parent needs to justify their preferences of vinyl over CDs?
567.
by mlang23 7y ago
When I tried spotify a few years ago, it was exactly this aspect that totally failed my expectations. I wanted a service like Spotify as a replacement for genre radio. I wanted something that somehow figures out my tastes, and generates a
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by mlang23 7y ago
If you don't hear the difference, I am afraid I don't quite know how to answer your question. From a hobbyist-producing viewpoint, I tried both: digital and analog producing. While digital is very convenient, it tends to sound ho
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by mlang23 7y ago
This wouldn't be an issue if parents wouldn't use YouTube as a kid-pacifier. What about you spend time with your kid, talk with it, play with it, say, until it has a two-digit age? You dont have the time for this you say? Well, m
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by mlang23 7y ago
I refuse to talk to non-blind people about blind people. That is such a patronizing move. They can write me an email if they are interested to talk about different products. mlang@blind.guru

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