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werzum commented on German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph   abstimmung.eu/git/2024... · Posted by u/mxschll
rwoerz · 6 months ago
Some of the voting results on https://abstimmung.eu/git/2024 are misleading. Votings are about a decision recommendation (Beschlussempfehlung) which sometimes negates the original request (Antrag), e.g., https://abstimmung.eu/votes/55
werzum · 6 months ago
Perfect, thanks for pointing that out - I was just starting to think it inverted votes, since all major parties except AFD were in favor, which contradicted what the text implied to me at first glance.
werzum commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell    · Posted by u/cvbox
ssz · 9 months ago
I'm making a little by sharing all my nonfiction book summaries/notes on https://littlerbooks.com.
werzum · 9 months ago
Thank you for sharing, that is a neat side project and was actually just looking for something like this. Can you share how your summarisation process works and if you use any specific tools or approaches to generate them?
werzum commented on Glass Antenna Turns windows into 5G Base Stations   spectrum.ieee.org/5g-ante... · Posted by u/thunderbong
sfink · a year ago
Apologies for the cynicism, but that immediately makes me think of a node owner dropping a tinfoil hat over their node, waiting for an ACK from the technician, then taking it off again and splitting the "repair" money with the technician. Lather rinse repeat. It could even be automated.

You'd just need one crooked technician who can recruit some number of node owners. (If the tech did it via remote-controlled power interruption and only did it on scattered nodes in areas with lots of redundancy, they wouldn't even need to recruit node owners and split the cash. But they'd also be leaving evidence that could easily get them in trouble once someone started getting wise to it.)

werzum · a year ago
how about reversing it and paying users for a mixture of uptime and quality of service?
werzum commented on Microsoft confirms that Windows 11 Recall AI is not optional   tomshardware.com/software... · Posted by u/belter
delegate · a year ago
Genuine question: I've been hearing good things about PopOS. How realistic is it as a windows replacement ?
werzum · a year ago
I am using it for two years as daily driver on two (Lenovo) laptops, and I'm loving it so far! Most things worked out of the box and the UI is a nice balance of being adaptable if you want it, but also having sensible defaults. I keep having to bother with Windows for the sake of using a "real" Excel installation for some of my work, but Im really in love with the simplicity of just using Popos, whereas there are a thousand little spyware-annoyances whenever I boot up Windows again.
werzum commented on The "10k-hour rule" was debunked again   vox.com/science-and-healt... · Posted by u/mgh2
1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2 years ago
"And it can blind us to the joy that can be found in mediocrity."

Is this a joke,

werzum · 2 years ago
I think this can actually be a very good idea - this is a thing often discussed in rock climbing, where for most people, no matter how hard and long you train, there will simply always be someone (most likely a 13yr old child) that is just incomprehensibly better than you. So I am glad that I find profound joy in my climbing and trying the hardest I can, while still knowing that globally I will probably always be mediocre at best.
werzum commented on Things you're allowed to do (2020)   milan.cvitkovic.net/writi... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
an_aparallel · 2 years ago
+

Learn how to decorate/style/design your interior spaces. Making the space you spend most time in unreal, is a great use of time. Or i guess as the article states - pay someone to do it? :)

werzum · 2 years ago
do you have any good resources on that? Since I am interested in those topics I read a book on interieur design a few years ago, but it really wasnt that good, and I am still looking for more practical guides.
werzum commented on Learn time series with a story illustrated by Stable Diffusion   tigyog.app/d/L-8D8R2yeXLY... · Posted by u/jamesfisher
garren · 3 years ago
A product that takes a similar approach is: “A Curious Moon” @ BigMachine [0]

It’s not an intro to time series or data analysis, but it’s a great intro to Postgres, db administration, and etl that follows a fun and compelling storyline. The presentation is different, but the “edutainment” style is similar.

[0] https://bigmachine.io/products/a-curious-moon/

werzum · 3 years ago
I love this type of education - do you know where I can find more content like that? I really have trouble finding stuff like this just by Googling; rather, I seem to stumble over it from time to time.
werzum commented on Show HN: Hewell, a travel app powered by WikiData   hewellapp.com/... · Posted by u/sonicrocketman
werzum · 4 years ago
Hey, I like the premise of the app, but I face one major problem when using it (on an IPad 2019): once I have selected a place from the map view (so that I can review it, get the route etc.), it is not possible to go back to the map view. Am I missing something, or is this a bug?
werzum commented on Unsong, a fantasy novel where the universe is programmable with Hebrew (2015)   unsongbook.com/... · Posted by u/Banana699
rutierut · 4 years ago
I just finished this and as a big fan of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality I enjoyed this a lot as well.

Anyone with an analytical/rational mindset will probably love both, even if you're normally not into fiction.

Don't expect to be able to discuss it with anyone that hasn't read it - or something like it - though.

werzum · 4 years ago
Hey, I am a big fan of HPMOR too, and can absolutely feel your pain of not being able to discuss the book with anyone. Do you have more books that went in a similar direction?

I started reading the Eternal Golden Braid after, which was really good but dense, and for some light fantasy The Name of the Wind was an overall impressive book.

u/werzum

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