<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: beeforpork</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=beeforpork</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:51:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=beeforpork" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beeforpork in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The constitution made it impossible to make a less sexist law, because it says that women cannot be forced to military service.  It is an old document, and it is based on old role models.  Modernizing the constitution would require 2/3 majority, and the government was already struggling with making a law at all.<p>This is an explanation, not a justification.</p>
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<p>You don't say.</p>
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<p>And while we pump CO2 into the atmosphere, we also shrink the engines that could get it out again, like the rainforest in Brazil.  Perfect optimisation!<p>(I don't want to shame Brazil, it's a global chain of problems.  And other forests are decimated, too, like in Sweden and Estonia, for the demand of produce worldwide.)</p>
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<p>> while, of course, consumers get nothing<p>This would have been the case no mattern what.</p>
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<p>Same here.  And I have a friend who keeps his small IPhone because they stopped building smaller phones, too.  There is a demand, maybe not that big.<p>For me, I want to be able to operate the phone with one hand, and the large screen makes it difficult to reach all the spots on the screen even with large hands.  I do operate my Fairphone 5 with one hand, but it is super awkward and at some point, the phone will fall into a gully because I cannot hold it tight while navigating.<p>And I wouldn't mind 2mm more thickness if this means the cameras are flush with the back and the battery is larger.</p>
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<p>And step relative sexual activity is prohibited?<p>This is about forbidding the depiction of such activity, so I don't think logic will help.</p>
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<p>So, what, I need to search for 'sister's friend' instead of 'hermanastra'?  'hot' OK?<p><i>face palm</i></p>
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<p>> But roughly 15% are plausible: “wooden chair,” “morning coffee.” That’s still 30 billion sensible pairs.<p>(1) Who counted those?  Whence those numbers?<p>(2) The examples are normal two-word phrases with one word modifying the other, often categorised as an adjective.  The examples are counter-examples to the very claim made in that article.<p>(3) Using Clause to brainstorm s.t. is a weird thing to say...<p>(4) I would say the use of 'lexicalized' is wrong or at least uncommon.  It usually refers to specialised semantics of something that could be interpreted generically, too.  Like 'sleeping bag'.  Or indeed 'cold feet'.  Lexicalisation may involve deleting spaces, like 'hotdog'.   And I am pretty sure lexicalised phrasal words are usually intensionally listed in dictionaries.  And so 'ice' is not lexicalised 'frozen water', but it is not overtly a phrase but is a separate atomic word.<p>=> I don't get the point.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.ch-aviation.com/news/163720-st-helena-loses-commercial-flights-after-safety-downgrade">https://www.ch-aviation.com/news/163720-st-helena-loses-commercial-flights-after-safety-downgrade</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978048">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978048</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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<p>This site made it my habit to search for granny knots on people's shoes on public transportation.</p>
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<p>This makes me sad, because you are probably right.  It's not the day for brightening my worldview.</p>
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<p>Fair enough. :-)</p>
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<p>Did anyone else find it wrong that trends like fat-free, lots-of-fat, keto, proteins, sugar-free, low-carb are put in the same category as trends like GMO-free, organic, natural, clean?  Lack of differentiation in this regard unmasks the article as opinionated and over-generalizing in a way that I have to ignore it, I think.<p>Sure, some market dynamics may be similar, and all are probably luxury topics, but the underlying intent and motivation of customers is completely different.  The article's main point is to criticise blindly following bogus and unscientific health trends.  But this is not really justified for decisions to avoid dirt, food additives, and optimised and exploitive farming methods.</p>
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<p>Hmm, but the accusations are so vague that it's going to be even more speculation, don't you think?</p>
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<p>The context is in the article.  The context is access to information and communication.  This is about forbidding young people to listen and to talk.</p>
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<p>A: For small arrays.  I would add: particularly if you need a stable sort algorithm, which is either complex (Block Sort) or uses O(n) space (Merge Sort).</p>
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<p>Yes!  I'd call this preparation for life.<p>Education and believably honest offers of support are needed to navigate the world, which is ugly and evil in some parts.  Restrictions are really just counterproductive because curious young people are drawn to restricted stuff, and age restrictions build a sense of 'us (the young) against them (the adults)', so it's hard to convince that you actually offer honest support.  Restrictions also focus on the bad parts, while we should instead focus on the good parts, the advantages of a global network of anything, which is totally amazing.  Restrictions are counter productive.<p>Humans need to learn to live here, and it starts when we're young and curious.</p>
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<p>Concerning hash algorithms, for me, it was cuckoo hashing that blew me away.  The algorithm is so simple and yet has O(1) guaranteed lookup complexity, i.e., it is better on theoretical level than other open addressing.  It is also versatile by having a configurable trade-off (the number of buckets) between time constant and fill ratio.  Most impressive is its simplicity combined with that it was invented only so recently (2001).<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_hashing" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_hashing</a></p>
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<p>> ... Anyone who designs UI for the real world already knows people barely read text ...<p>Then they are wrong.  And are bad UI designers following folklore instead of sound ergonomy.<p>I absolutely hate icons, and parsing and remembering them causes great cognitive load on me.  Also, icons like to change with each revision of the apps, with styles etc., and are not uniform across apps.  This makes them completely useless to me.  Maybe I can cope with an '[X]' to close a window, but that's about it.  Even very common functions like 'Save' or 'Add' usually have completely arbitrary and confusing icons.  'Add' is not a long text.  It works.  I need text.  Without any icons.  I want to switch icons off so that the text can have maximum space to be reasonably large to be seen and read easily.<p>People are different is what UI designers should know instead.</p>
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<p>Any experience with Codeberg + F-Droid after migrating from Github?  I.e., is it possible to have F-Droid auto-detect releases on Codeberg like it does on Github?</p>
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