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New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "Dolly Parton's Imagination Library"

LinaLauneBaer — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:08:12 +0000

I knew something was off when I was the only child who was not able to read their own name… just thought it was some kind of test to see how far each child was - not that is was more or less a requirement.

New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "Dolly Parton's Imagination Library"

LinaLauneBaer — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:33:57 +0000

My parents never did. Now I wish they did.

New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "Dolly Parton's Imagination Library"

LinaLauneBaer — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:33:32 +0000

No. I am not implying a chicken and egg problem. If you generally start to learn how to read with 6 what would do get from a book between the age 0-5 when you cannot read? In another thread someone explained that usually parents "read" the book to the child - child answered my question. My parents never read books to me so I did not know this was common.

New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "Dolly Parton's Imagination Library"

LinaLauneBaer — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:31:27 +0000

Oh wow. My parents never did this. I thought its something they only do in the movies…

New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "Dolly Parton's Imagination Library"

LinaLauneBaer — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:22:21 +0000

Honest question and maybe it's because I grew up without books… What values do books have if you cannot read? I started to learn how to read at 6. Are those picture only books?

New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "Presence of nicotine and antidepressants detected in Antarctic waters"

LinaLauneBaer — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 04:02:17 +0000

Diclo. is an unimaginable useful drug. It has some properties that make it almost irreplaceable for certain types of pain that are broadly experienced in the population.

Rheumatic pain is usually hard to treat and many patients end up with a whole mix of pain drugs and many many times diclo makes the whole mix work.

New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "Apple engineer in need of OSS maintainers"

LinaLauneBaer — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 22:49:43 +0000

You have every right to profit according to German law. You have to be compensated appropriately for your employer to be allowed to use what you hold the copyright for. Usually this is ensured by your monthly salary. However, if what you did and hold the copyright for becomes a surprise success you have to be compensated appropriately in addition to your salary. In practical terms, if your code makes a billion bucks and you only get a regular average salary you could sue the employer and would probably win.

New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "January 2018 US diplomatic cables warned of coronavirus leaking from Wuhan lab"

LinaLauneBaer — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 05:47:58 +0000

As far I know a BSL-4 lab is simply a BSL-3 lab that includes a BSL-2 lab that includes a BSL-1 lab plus some extras.

Lost Passport in Dubai – Cruise Leaves Soon. Help

LinaLauneBaer — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 06:37:22 +0000

Lost German passport in Dubai – Cruise leaves tomorrow. What should I do? I desperately need this vacation. Burnt out already.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21740827

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New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "Speedy Web Compiler – A Rust port of Babel and Closure Compiler"

LinaLauneBaer — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 16:48:23 +0000

I never had any problems with Babel's performance to be honest...

Also a quick check with google trends does seem to support that feeling.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=31&date=all&q=S...

Swift is probably used a lot less than Babel but it yields a lot more spikes...

New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It"

LinaLauneBaer — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 09:00:21 +0000

1.5-2 months ≠ 2 weeks...

New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It"

LinaLauneBaer — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 07:46:29 +0000

I always thought it takes months until Vitamin D supplements show their effect...

https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-it-take-for-a-vitamin-D-...

New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "V8n – Fluent validation library for JavaScript"

LinaLauneBaer — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:22:56 +0000

Sometimes you want to do a lot of other stuff in the same scope and simply bail out on any error without having to check every return value.

New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "Exactly Once Writes for Non Idempotent Requests"

LinaLauneBaer — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:17:09 +0000

Couldn’t this be solved easier by using a simple version field? If the remote version != client version then request is rejected with an http 409 response...

New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "Hyper 2, Electron based terminal"

LinaLauneBaer — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:50:09 +0000

Purely due to aesthetic reasons. I am not using the terminal for any complex stuff and this allows me to use the terminal which looks the best to my eyes. If my requirements change I may go back to iTerm but for now: something simple and nice looking is okay.

New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "Hyper 2, Electron based terminal"

LinaLauneBaer — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 07:01:37 +0000

I am using Hyper 2 since the beta and I really like it. It has replaced iTerm for me. Performance may still be an issue for some people. For example, printing to stdout seems slower on Hyper than on, let's say iTerm. To me it is noticeable but still feels nearly instant.

New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "iPhone 6 slows down by 28% after just 4 months use"

LinaLauneBaer — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 22:29:57 +0000

I always wonder if slowing down the phone is a good solution. By slowing down the CPU the CPU needs less energy. But at the same time the user has to wait much longer in order to finish what he was trying to do. Thus the screen is on for a longer period of time. Isn't the screen one of the main energy consumers in an iPhone?

Launching apps on my iPhone 6 (which needs a new battery) takes for ages (even when compared to my older but less used iPhone 5S). I can't imagine that the extended "screen lit"-time does not have a big impact as well.

Also: I am one of the few users who would be totally fine with the iPhone shutting down at 20% or so (if I have the full performance as I used to) because my iPhone is rarely going near 20%. At work I can charge. At home I can charge. When I am on the go I usually am not using the phone that much... However playing hearthstone when I am in bed, loading the phone, everything takes much longer as well which makes playing games less fun...

New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "Face ID flop: Chinese colleagues can both authenticate iPhone X"

LinaLauneBaer — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 14:47:14 +0000

Couldn't Apple fix this by only using data from 100% successful unlock attempts, meaning: If you unlock your phone without having to enter your passcode the data is used to train the model. If you had to enter the passcode - for any reason - the data is not used to train the model.

This would certainly make some edge cases (for example if you didn't use your phone for a while => changed facial features) less "magic" because you would always have to enter the passcode - but a simple "retrain" should then solve the problem... am I correct?

New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "Swift 5: start your engines"

LinaLauneBaer — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 17:36:36 +0000

It makes it easier for Apple and others to adopt swift on a large scale. It will probably mean new swift only frameworks will be developed by Apple after swift 5.

New comment by LinaLauneBaer in "America Needs Small Apartment Buildings"

LinaLauneBaer — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 05:55:57 +0000

In mid April I will move to a 200sq ft apartment. Very small. I am a bit anxious if my plans work out. Up until now I had about 3.5x that space for me alone. The apartment ist directly at the central station of the city which allows me to get to work super fast and the central station is not too far away from the inner city... walking distance. Let's see how this goes.