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New comment by ffritz in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

ffritz — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:42:20 +0000

What if it’s used with a different harness, e.g. Opencode?

New comment by ffritz in "Deutschlandticket for regional bus and rail services to be offered for €49/month"

ffritz — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 12:06:51 +0000

This is correct and to show what that means: Frankfurt to Berlin with a fast ICE: 4 hours, no changes. With regional trains only: 10-14 hours, 3-6 changes.

With a car this trip is 5 hours. No one in their right mind would ever do such a trip with regionals only, it is extremely painful. In addition, the chance that one of the connections will be missed is extremely high.

New comment by ffritz in "Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS"

ffritz — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:55:30 +0000

Let’s see if they still do want your $100 by requiring it for their Push Notifications API.

New comment by ffritz in "Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan"

ffritz — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:49:25 +0000

100% agree. I also do a swim 2-3 days a week and then sauna. It multiplies the mentioned effects greatly. I don’t think I could feel any better than I do after swim + sauna.

New comment by ffritz in "Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan"

ffritz — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 13:56:01 +0000

Yes that’s about right, no phone or anything, I just close my eyes. Sometimes I fall asleep.

It is very possible, that this is simply what it takes to sent my mind into a mental break.

I have tried Headspace and all that stuff and I see the benefits, it is just much easier to send your mind into relax mode after above mentioned schedule.

New comment by ffritz in "Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan"

ffritz — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 21:57:30 +0000

There also is a steam room adjacent to the sauna and from time to time I use it as well, but I feel like the heat does not penetrate as “deep”. What’s nicer is how the steam soothes the airways in comparison to a Finnish sauna.

New comment by ffritz in "Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan"

ffritz — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 19:12:36 +0000

It’s a regular gym that also has a sauna. Around 40€ per month will get you a gym with sauna in most cities in Germany I would say.

New comment by ffritz in "Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan"

ffritz — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 19:03:31 +0000

I have been going to the sauna of the nearby gym everyday for about 2 years now, rarely skipping it.

It is honestly hard to express how much I love the effects of it and how much I attribute to it. I can not live without it anymore.

If I wake up after a bad nights sleep and feel extremely groggy, sauna fixes it.

If I am overworked to the point where my head is pulsating, sauna fixes it, and I get another 2 hours of extremely focussed work done afterwards.

Bad mood, a cold, sore muscles, even certain types of headache, a sauna can fix.

I should mention that a sauna for me includes a cold shower immediately after leaving it, as cold as the shower will go. This is the key, the shock will make all the difference. Then you lay down, at least 10 minutes.

I do 2 rounds most days, it’s about 80C, I manage between 12-15 minutes in the first sitting, then 8-10 in the second.

I can not recommend it enough, it has changed my life.

New comment by ffritz in "The Twitter whistleblower story is worse than you think"

ffritz — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:00:23 +0000

You are in essence looking for GDPR. It calls for huge fines in case of violations and thus should ideally enforce strong security standards.

New comment by ffritz in "How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself (2014)"

ffritz — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:04:48 +0000

That sounds very normal, at least it’s the same for me.

Sometimes I spent a considerable amount of time brainstorming an idea or concept over and over during alone times, and then at some point it won’t return to my thoughts again, but something new replaces it. Sort of like I am “done” with that thought and my brain wants to move on.

I don’t know why that happens, but I guess I get stimulation simply from that iterative thought process. Thus your garbage collector comparison seems accurate to me.

Secretly though, I do hope to get that business idea at some point via that process. Not sure if that’s ever going to happen, but that’s okay too.

New comment by ffritz in "Chrome 100"

ffritz — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 20:30:09 +0000

Anyone noticed, how Google Meet screen sharing on macOS is broken on a daily basis? I then always check for an update and then after a restart of chrome, it works again. Next day, it has some weird issue again.

But boy is it annoying. I wonder if it is an Apple Silicon only issue.

New comment by ffritz in "Adobe XD, where did it go wrong?"

ffritz — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 13:44:56 +0000

There is an uninstaller for the cloud client available. It does what it says actually.

New comment by ffritz in "Adobe XD, where did it go wrong?"

ffritz — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 13:42:20 +0000

Yip, does ring a bell. I believe it was the CS2 version. I also remember downloading it some 6-7 years ago on Windows.

New comment by ffritz in "Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again"

ffritz — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 16:44:50 +0000

This was super interesting to read, thank you very much.

Regarding the ffmpeg parameters and formats in general: Do you use newer formats too, like AV1 and the like?

New comment by ffritz in "Covid-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin D3 Status"

ffritz — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 19:08:52 +0000

What is your dosage?

New comment by ffritz in "Dutch watchdog finds Apple App Store payment rules anti-competitive"

ffritz — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 15:16:20 +0000

I want to point out that if you want to release an app, be it for fun or otherwise, it’s going to cost you 100$ per year to have Apple list it in the app store.

One hundred dollars per year for the privilege of them judging your app and maybe even get it rejected.

They made tinkering around so ridiculously unattractive, because every app needs a business model (unless you are okay with eating the 100$ every year).

There need to be other stores or distribution methods. Desperately.

New comment by ffritz in "PayPal raises fees for most domestic transaction types to 3.49% + $0.49"

ffritz — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 06:50:16 +0000

Apples and oranges.

New comment by ffritz in "Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'"

ffritz — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 21:42:51 +0000

> I have no idea why they haven't done a 180 yet, this is a bigger failure than the butterfly keyboard.

Look at the stock. It barely moved (up).

New comment by ffritz in "Turn your Android phone into SMS API gateway"

ffritz — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:12:02 +0000

In what universe is 9 ct for a couple bytes over the wire cheap?

New comment by ffritz in "Turn your Android phone into SMS API gateway"

ffritz — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 06:49:08 +0000

Actually for Germany, the costs for sending an SMS with Twilio is 9 ct. If I’m not mistaken, that is 10x more than what it costs in the US.