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New comment by glaberficken in "Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year"

glaberficken — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:35:36 +0000

How much do you spend?

New comment by glaberficken in "Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?"

glaberficken — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 18:10:46 +0000

Was going to post something of the same type as you =)

Also made a wooden tool to check bicycle wheel dish that is used when lacing my own wheels by hand.

I don't have photos of mine right now, but it is inspired on this template:

https://www.wheelpro.co.uk/support/dishing-tool.php

New comment by glaberficken in "Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones""

glaberficken — Fri, 21 May 2021 09:51:09 +0000

You can play a bunch of games from this era on PC using this amazing archive/emulator bundle:

https://bluemaxima.org/kahvibreak/

New comment by glaberficken in "The anus is an evolutionary marvel"

glaberficken — Fri, 21 May 2021 09:41:21 +0000

Juvenile observation of the day: It's funny that this sits in the HN front page just above an article titled "Holes in the WiFi" :p

New comment by glaberficken in "Writing books is not really a good idea"

glaberficken — Mon, 10 May 2021 22:59:24 +0000

Follow me on a naive exercise here: Zoom out from books only let's look at some media that are competing for people's attention in 2021.

(not exhaustive:)

- Video-games (including mobile)

- Social Media (fb, tiktok instagram etc)

- Video streaming services (youtube, netflix, etc)

- Music (single purchase and streaming)

- TV (yup still going)

- News (TV, and online mostly)

- books (print and ebooks)

Let's state that most of these industries have seen the amount of content published increase exponentially in the last 15 years.

Assuming that premise to be true is it really that much of a surprise that the average income of each content author is decreasing?

The only way that would be surprising is if the number of available attention hours was increasing at an even faster rate (which i guess would not be impossible if you could measure the masses of digital consumers who entered the "attention market" in that same time period).

My guess is that the scales tip a lot to the supply side though. We simply have too much stuff being produced now and not enough people to consume it.

Then there is the fact that in the open publishing models we have now the market does get flooded with a lot of below par quality stuff.

The way we deal with it now is typically by some sort of popularity based algorithm that aggregates attention on a few winners and produce a huge long tail of "looser" content.

I don't know if i have the right "picture" here but it is certainly my gut feeling that there is too much stuff out there for it to retain the same value.

New comment by glaberficken in "Some Tesla Model 3 rear windows shatter spontaneously"

glaberficken — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 19:29:27 +0000

Is that snow in the background? Probably a temperature thing? (lack of enough testing in low temperatures?) Can be that the glass is fine but that the frame surrounding the glass is contracting too much or twisting in the "wrong" direction when cooled. Causing the glass to shatter.

New comment by glaberficken in "Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D-over-Vulkan"

glaberficken — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:42:13 +0000

Don't worry I'm still on Windows 7 and it is also a crashy mess for me.

New comment by glaberficken in "Tobias Lutke still writes code for Shopify"

glaberficken — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 16:09:12 +0000

I'm such a sucker, I actually googled it before I got the joke lol

New comment by glaberficken in "Tobias Lutke still writes code for Shopify"

glaberficken — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 10:33:18 +0000

Don't worry I read "Spotify" too :P It was only your comment that made me realize it was Shopify.

Maybe this should become a case study in startup naming? (probably already is! too lazy to look it up right now)

New comment by glaberficken in "Why Apple II Is the World's Best Selling Personal Computer (1978)"

glaberficken — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:19:51 +0000

Portugal saw a bit of Amiga penetration (at least anecdotally judging from my social group). But yes no where near the Spectrum.

New comment by glaberficken in "IKEA to buy back used furniture in recycling push"

glaberficken — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:09:57 +0000

I think most of the comments so far are focusing on the lack of durability of some items in the catalog, but are failing to see that overall there is in fact a lot of 2nd hand buying and selling going on with items generally in good condition.

Over the last 15years I have bought (and sold on) a lot of 2nd hand IKEA furniture. (In fact looking at my house now, I can only see 2 or 3 items that were bought new and the rest are 2nd hand and in excellent condition. There is a very very active market.

My daughter's toddler size bed was bought 2nd hand and moved on to the next parent still in remarkably good condition after she wouldn't fit in the bed anymore.

I think this is more of a classic "kill the 2nd hand marked" move.

New comment by glaberficken in "2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read"

glaberficken — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 07:34:10 +0000

"pipe" means blowjob in french. Maybe the filter dictionary is multilingual?

New comment by glaberficken in "Pointers from Portugal on Addiction and the Drug War"

glaberficken — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 11:31:28 +0000

Yes, most things are free in practice. Just so happens that something critical for day to day general health and well-being (dental health) is not.

It's not by accident that Portugal has oral health on par with the poorest Eastern European countries.

New comment by glaberficken in "Pointers from Portugal on Addiction and the Drug War"

glaberficken — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 10:09:50 +0000

>"...healthcare is universally free in Portugal..."

In principle only.

In practice: how much have you spent on dentist bills in the past year?

New comment by glaberficken in "Six Figures in 6 days"

glaberficken — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:29:25 +0000

I guess the gist of it is more that with digital assets you don't really need to wait at the right place. You keep laying "traps" in several places as you "wait". Then just keep on the lookout and when one of the "traps" is triggered go and attack it again taking in mind the current context.

New comment by glaberficken in "Python for Kids: A Comprehensive Python Development Tutorial for Kids"

glaberficken — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 09:41:34 +0000

When I click [Go] button in link [1] it hangs for 3 seconds and then deletes all the blocks and replaces them with just a block with the string "test" inside.

New comment by glaberficken in "People expect technology to suck because it sucks"

glaberficken — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 16:54:47 +0000

But the guy is a UI/UX consultant!

New comment by glaberficken in "People expect technology to suck because it sucks"

glaberficken — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:15:54 +0000

Woah, have you tried the night mode on op blog? I have never seen anything like that before.

New comment by glaberficken in "California to Require All New Vehicles Be Zero-Emission by 2035"

glaberficken — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:12:23 +0000

So, this is for new vehicles only. What will stop people just hanging on to their existing ICE cars for longer years?

New comment by glaberficken in "The US Air Force has built and flown a prototype of its future fighter jet"

glaberficken — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:50:04 +0000

>“We’re going after the most complicated systems that have ever been built, and checked all the boxes with this digital technology. In fact, [we’ve] not just checked the boxes, [we’ve] demonstrated something that’s truly magical.”

Words above are from Will Roper - Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

Even the Air Force is copying "Apple" speak these days....