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New comment by abyssin in "Let's make quality the norm again"

abyssin — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:04:15 +0000

That's the idea behind doing the thing at the brand level, not the product level.

New comment by abyssin in "Let's make quality the norm again"

abyssin — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:14:55 +0000

A simple indicator for quality should be the return rate by brand. You need two things: a law that offers a long enough warranty, and a public registry of returns where customers can check that their return is listed.

New comment by abyssin in "Splash-free urinals (2025)"

abyssin — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:49:07 +0000

My pet peeve about urinals has to do with the way the separating walls are usually installed. It's systematically too low, as if their goal was to prevent splashing between each station instead of their role of visual privacy.

New comment by abyssin in "It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell"

abyssin — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:31:18 +0000

I used to live in a small rural city, in a shared house where the door was never locked. On market day, there would be this woman coming in to do her weekly laundry. I was never given the key to that house.

New comment by abyssin in "Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests"

abyssin — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:18:40 +0000

Your conclusion doesn't make sense. The logical conclusion of your first sentence is that we'll keep accelerating towards the wall.

New comment by abyssin in "Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders"

abyssin — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:26:58 +0000

The knowledge that was available to the public.

New comment by abyssin in "The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life"

abyssin — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:11:54 +0000

It’s not only feedback, having arbitrary checkpoints like exams is an important motivator, and it also creates a whole culture around it that makes the learning experience into a social one.

New comment by abyssin in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

abyssin — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:27:08 +0000

If meditation and workout look like a protection against ruminating, they might be functioning as avoidance. If a nap helps, maybe fix your sleep first (good sleep is super important for mental health). Daydreaming is healthy.

New comment by abyssin in "Big Banana Car"

abyssin — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:54:24 +0000

https://www.trustroots.org/ for the more alternative folks

New comment by abyssin in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

abyssin — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:09:51 +0000

I would happily make a career switch if I had the feeling my work in a school would be useful and doable. Where I live, I tried it and it was neither of the two. After having experienced efficient companies, schools feel mind-boggingly stupid. And the policy of never failing students and reluctantly enforcing rules generates an serious waste of human energy.

New comment by abyssin in "Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access"

abyssin — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 05:33:10 +0000

It’s a good reminder of the fact that capitalist companies aren’t democratic places, despite how much time and energy is spent there by workers.

New comment by abyssin in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

abyssin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:05:38 +0000

It doesn’t seem that recent to me, at least been like that for six months.

New comment by abyssin in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

abyssin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:57:58 +0000

2022 Dacia Sandero is a great car. Analog buttons, good build quality, well designed. And it’s cheap.

New comment by abyssin in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

abyssin — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:23:28 +0000

Seeing the number of poor people in the world, I don't understand what makes you believe you couldn't be one of them. Their kids also need to eat, learn and grow.

New comment by abyssin in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

abyssin — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:09:35 +0000

My personal experience says yes. I doubled my usage of personal servers because it's so easy to self-host when I have an LLM holding my hand.

New comment by abyssin in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

abyssin — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:08:11 +0000

I watched a friend generate a 10 pages report based on multiple documents, including scientific papers, and it was almost flawless. It would have taken me days.

A milder version of it was Copilot setting up an environment for a Jupyter notebook. What would have been annoying back and forth between googling and docs went like a breeze.

New comment by abyssin in "Pandoc Templates"

abyssin — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:03:32 +0000

typst templates would be a great addition to these.

New comment by abyssin in "Pandoc Templates"

abyssin — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:01:31 +0000

You may be overestimating technical abilities of 99% of the people. I tried to convert some to pandoc and failed miserably. Personally I love it, markdown is becoming more and more central to my workflows.

New comment by abyssin in "Claude Opus 4.8"

abyssin — Fri, 29 May 2026 10:04:54 +0000

Why PNG? Isn’t an image format more expensive to process?

New comment by abyssin in "Can we have the day off?"

abyssin — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:14:30 +0000

They mainly created extra value for shareholders