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New comment by dasKrokodil in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

dasKrokodil — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:18:24 +0000

It's mildly interesting, but ultimately it's just a little greenwashing project. They even painted it green to make that clear :)

New comment by dasKrokodil in "MacBook Neo"

dasKrokodil — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:04:03 +0000

Funny; for me, a backlit keyboard is one of the most unnecessary features I can think of. Even for those who can't touch type, the keyboard is just inches away from the bright screen which sort of illuminates them.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games"

dasKrokodil — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:44:27 +0000

Yeah, not to mention that you even needed to connect to their servers to play the fucking single player campaign. I hated that so much, and then it more or less became the standard for many AAA single player games to come...

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Bitcoin tumbles below $70k, wiping out gains since Trump 2024 win"

dasKrokodil — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:23:12 +0000

Interesting... so, what is the most straight-forward and least shady way of investing in it?

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Home Office Is Sabotaging You"

dasKrokodil — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:00:30 +0000

> This is so obviously written by an LLM I can’t get past the first paragraph. When will this end?

I'm not disagreeing, as you might very well be right, but... why exactly do you think this is written by LLM? I couldn't find any obvious giveaways myself.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Why Is Greenland Part of the Kingdom of Denmark? A Short History"

dasKrokodil — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:49:55 +0000

> the land belongs to the one with the bigger guns, and a willingness to use it

Not necessarily. USA certainly had bigger guns in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and yet they eventually had to retreat from both.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computers"

dasKrokodil — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:30:30 +0000

I previously asked about how hard it would be to create a forgery and got a nice answer here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29173562#29175946

TLDR: it would be very hard, perhaps next to impossible to create one, and then you'd still have the issue how to convince people it's real, given that the existing ones are pretty well documented and accounted for.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "No escape, no control: A 'Severance' keyboard is coming soon"

dasKrokodil — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:58:07 +0000

If anyone wants to have this style but in an actually usable keyboard, you can buy (at great expense) these keycaps and put them on whatever cherry-mx-compatible keyboard you like:

https://spkeyboards.com/products/sa-macrodata-refinement

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Tesla's sales plummet across Europe"

dasKrokodil — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:37:49 +0000

Here in Germany, the somewhat paradox situation is that the right-wing party AfD has been pro-diesel and anti-ev for a long time, while it's usually the more progressive and/or left-leaning people who have been buying EVs.

But now that Musk has done something which looked very much like a Nazi salute on stage and also meddled in German politics by endorsing the AfD, nobody on the left wants to be seen in a Tesla anymore, while the right-wingers still prefer German diesel cars.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

dasKrokodil — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:11:07 +0000

The new one is rumored to feature hall-effect sticks on the Joycons which would hopefully solve that issue.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

dasKrokodil — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:07:35 +0000

Yeah, and this might make first-person shooters and some strategy games play a lot nicer if (big if) it works well. Perhaps the next iteration of Mario Maker might also make use of it.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "ZType – Typing Game"

dasKrokodil — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:06:28 +0000

I would like it if there was a hard mode, where every wrong keypress would spawn another enemy.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "House designed on Passive House principles survives Cali wildfire"

dasKrokodil — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:04:53 +0000

Perhaps this should be kept in mind while rebuilding all those houses that were lost?

House designed on Passive House principles survives Cali wildfire

dasKrokodil — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:04:52 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1hy22ui/house_designed_on_passive_house_principles/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42655651

Points: 14

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New comment by dasKrokodil in "Addictive nut is driving record rates of cancer"

dasKrokodil — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:26:53 +0000

I wonder whether the active ingredient in the betel nuts is the same substance that also causes the cancer? Because if not, maybe the problem could be solved by extracting or sythesizing the active ingredient.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "A pretty visualisation of the European power grid (2022)"

dasKrokodil — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:35:56 +0000

Let's see... nuclear power is super expensive, relies on finite uranium resources and there is no safe solution to store the waste. Do we really want to rely on this?

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Lunatic Fringe is a game originally distributed as an AfterDark screensaver"

dasKrokodil — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:13:47 +0000

I love that they want to recreate it, as I spent quite some time with the original when I was younger.

However, right now it doesn't seem to run that well. I'm getting estimated framerates of around 5 fps on a M3 Macbook Pro, making it essentially unplayable.

I don't see any other comments about the performance - am I the only one?

New comment by dasKrokodil in "A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT"

dasKrokodil — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 11:28:02 +0000

At the time I'm writing this, there are over 260 comments to this article and yours is still the only one that mentions the enormous energy consumption.

I wonder whether this is because people don't know about it or because they simply don't care...

But I, for one, try to use AI as sparingly as possible for this reason.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "MonkeyType: A customizable typing practice playground"

dasKrokodil — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:08:53 +0000

I also like https://www.typelit.io/

Makes me feel like I'm writing a book.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Designing my own watch (2020)"

dasKrokodil — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 08:39:47 +0000

I can appreciate the looks and the engineering, but it would drive me crazy to figure out the current date on that watch. I think readability is super important for watches, and at least for the date, this one isn't really that readable at all.

It's less of a problem, but the low contrast between the hands and the face is also not that great for readability.