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by pflenker 1y ago
Recipe for Foo. Foo has always been my favorite dish. I fondly remember all the times my grandma made this for me. My grandma, who was born on August 2, 1946, as the daughter of… (10 more pages of text) To cook Foo the way my grandma did, y
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by pflenker 1y ago
I find it mildly amusing that the article makes the following point regarding "Gegenstand": > Objects aren’t just inert stuff – they do something. ...while many words in Germany are just "stuff" (Zeug). A plane is a F
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by pflenker 1y ago
Ah, Sparkasse. I fondly remember the needless restriction for my password to be at most 5 characters long, all numbers.
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by pflenker 1y ago
This really scratches my itch. I love retro computing, the closer to the original hardware the better - but the one thing that gets in the way (and that can stay in the past!) are the horrible loading times. A new C64 is exactly what I need
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by pflenker 1y ago
A while back (decades in comparison to the leaps and bounds in the LLM sphere) I fed text game definitions into an llm and taught it to be the game engine. - the „fluff“ it created, the dialogues it enabled me to have with NPCs and the at
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by pflenker 1y ago
Father here with a family of 4. our dishwasher runs multiple times per day and we never hand wash before, and I can tell you that the dishes tend to be very dirty before they go in. They always come out sparkling clean. Here is what works
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by pflenker 1y ago
It’s entirely possible to come up with artistic choices which precisely aim to be impossible to capture. So at times it’s not due to falsehoods someone believes, but rather the opposite - artists deliberately breaking the limits of what’s c
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by pflenker 1y ago
The Inchtabokatables - Ultra
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by pflenker 1y ago
Somewhat related: some conscious artistic choices - such as writing down two tracks but delivering them as one (not sure if this is what happened here) can’t really be transferred into databases. I own a cd where one track name is a small i
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by pflenker 1y ago
That article suffers from a strong case of survivorship bias. Yes, old games die, they go away and are long forgotten - only very few „never die“. The same is true for new ones. Since the barrier to create games is way lower than in the pas
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by pflenker 1y ago
It's surprising how many "to do lists" don't really model "to do"s correctly. They confuse reminders (I do not want to forget something so I want to be reminded) with todos (I want to do something), they confu
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by pflenker 1y ago
Author of hecto here, thank you for mentioning it! I wrote the first version around 5 years ago and I’m happy that people still use it. (I updated it in the meantime)
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by pflenker 1y ago
To add to your last point - 10 years is a very long time frame. Any recurring cost grows to eye-watering levels if the time interval is huge enough. In 10 years, a lot can happen in the space and you are not locked in with obsidian - if the
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by pflenker 2y ago
Part of why people only use it for timers is because of its limited capability to understand. „Do I need an umbrella today?“ results in Alexa telling me what the weather will be like without mentioning chance of rain. Asking a trivia questi
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by pflenker 2y ago
The amount of deprecated sources doesn’t tell you anything about any bias without the number of allowed sources.
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by pflenker 2y ago
Re. your first point: When working with NPS, you would not actually assume that 1.000 people who voted with the highest possible value actually translate to 1.000 actual recommendations. I think not even the most vocal proponents of NPS wou
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by pflenker 2y ago
Not defending NPS here - I don't use it - but some of your assumptions are wrong. > They can't; there are people who answer 10 but will never recommend, and there are people who answer 0 but already have and will again. What ma
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by pflenker 2y ago
At scale, a relevant number of your customers talk. One example in TFA is that customers do not have conversations where they randomly recommend operating systems to each other. Well, I'm sorry, but in my bubble they certainly do. I ha
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by pflenker 2y ago
Yes and No. Yes: There is the idea of constructivism, where everyone constructs their own reality all the time. There is no shared, objective reality. And there are multiple ways to construct a reality, and some are, for example, based on e
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by pflenker 2y ago
Thanks for these insights. I was not aware of this.
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by pflenker 2y ago
I think it’s also worth mentioning that the author fundamentally misunderstands a MVP. A vertical slice video game presentation _is_ a kind of MVP, and there are tons of anecdotes e.g. from the E3 that tell us just how minimal these can be.
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by pflenker 2y ago
So, if they can't change their situation 100%, society should not even make an attempt to improve it to some lower degree? I honestly don't understand how you read the quote I provided and arrive at the conclusion that this is onl
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by pflenker 2y ago
Great project, I always felt that this was missing in Markdown. I wonder how we can "end" a timeline and start a new one in the same doc? So that I can write stuff like: # My important project. Description of the project goes here
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by pflenker 2y ago
I believe it’s worth reading the report and findings. The way I read it, the mental health support does not aim primarily at some magical „healing“ of their situation (i.e. turning them into non-Incels somehow). Quoting from the report summ
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by pflenker 2y ago
I looked into inkplate. I have no experience at all with microcontrollers. How difficult is it to build something like you did?
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by pflenker 2y ago
I can relate. Ages ago, before Safe Search and search result tailored to one‘s history and preferences, I was trying to figure out how to write that big union symbol (∪) in LaTeX and googled for Big Cup LaTeX. I got _very_ different and un
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by pflenker 2y ago
Sorry for not having made this clearer, I assumed it was obvious that I was sharing my own experiences, which is why I didn't prepend "..for me" or "..in my experience" anywhere. Reading through my post I do think
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by pflenker 2y ago
Agile and Scrum was great when it was introduced bottom-up and then accepted top-down. "We're all adults here, we don't need these rules" was a wide spread sentiment, yet work was horribly inefficient. I remember project
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by pflenker 2y ago
This is very nice! If you - make it a pwa/web clip - link to the discussions - make the images colored again I’d use it over the regular hacker news ui any day. I know your use case is printing it out, but it’s fantastic for usage
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by pflenker 2y ago
Indirectly related to smartphone usage - it’s incredibly hard for teenage kids to actually _find something to do_, at least here in Germany, where I live. Going to watch a movie is very, very expensive - without snacks, you pay around 10 E

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