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New comment by hasoleju in "A camera that shoots 40k FPS decided the 100-meter sprint final"

hasoleju — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:53:32 +0000

Thanks for the link! This is so great so actually see how the line camera and this line screen work together to create an ad in the finish line photo.

New comment by hasoleju in "A camera that shoots 40k FPS decided the 100-meter sprint final"

hasoleju — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 06:54:53 +0000

First I was wondering why there are ad banners visible in the image. With a line scan camera the background which is standing still should actually only have horizontal stripes.

But since the company Omega produced this photo it actually makes sense to artificially add their logo next to the Olympic rings.

New comment by hasoleju in "The Decline of Etiquette and the Rise of 'Boundaries' (2022)"

hasoleju — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 11:50:44 +0000

Oversharing at the family dinner is something I didn't encounter yet. In contrast having a mobile phone always available oftentimes leads to no conversation at all.

My wife and me are very strict with not touching our phone at during meals with our kids. But the grandparents are the total opposite. They use their phones during meals all the time, killing most conversations with their absence.

I think that the coming generation will be even more mindful in their usage of a phone during real life conversations. At least I hope so.

New comment by hasoleju in "'Agua, Agua'"

hasoleju — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:28:08 +0000

The guy in the story basically survived 6 days without water and traveled up to 160 miles during that time. It's almost unbelievable. I thought that once you loose 4-6 kg of water due to sweat the body does not function any more due to the changed concentration of minerals in the cells.

New comment by hasoleju in "Discussion: Do you write? What about? Why?"

hasoleju — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 08:48:42 +0000

I enjoy writing. It's the work I like most. The best moment is finishing a piece. The most regular piece I write is a monthly retrospective. I write about topics that I encountered at work. Mostly in a personal style also reflecting on my thoughts about different topics. To keep me accountable I sent this retrospective to a few colleagues each month at the last day of the month.

New comment by hasoleju in "Do quests, not goals"

hasoleju — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 06:40:22 +0000

I like how the name quest emphasizes the process, not the initially desired outcome. When you go on a quest you gain experience and have encounters that might even change your initially desired outcome. Instead of trying to reach an outcome you enjoy an adventure and change the human you are.

A quest is a journey where the final destination is not clear in the beginning. But if you are successful, you will be a better version of yourself on the other side of the journey.

New comment by hasoleju in "How to Deal with Loneliness as a Founder?"

hasoleju — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 13:30:07 +0000

Your answer resonates with me a lot. Disclosure: I'm not a founder, I'm still employed.

A very important insight for achieving my peace of mind was to have multiple sources for a feeling of accomplishment. Peace of mind is the state where I'm feeling fine and not lonely or bad. My sources are: Family and friends, physical activity and work. If one of the sources temporarily is running dry, I still have two other ones to rely on.

My sources are very parallel to the activities you picked up in order to counter your loneliness.

New comment by hasoleju in "Can We Make Bicycles Sustainable Again?"

hasoleju — Sun, 12 May 2024 06:03:41 +0000

Considering the lifetime emissions of a product makes an interesting point. Seeing that an electric cargo bike only has more than 10x the emissions per kilometer than a steel bike was unexpected for me.

It's easy to forget how expensive the manufacturing of the electric engine and the battery is.

New comment by hasoleju in "Teacher's 'Clever' Hack for Catching Students Using ChatGPT on Essay"

hasoleju — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:19:31 +0000

Since she made her method public I wonder if this will still work now. But apart from that it is a simple solution for a tricky problem.

New comment by hasoleju in "DayLight Computer"

hasoleju — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:08:46 +0000

My schedule in the past years was not linked to daylight at all. But that changed recently. I have a new window where the first sunlight in the morning now enters the room.

Since I have that window I'm very aware of the time the sun rises every day and how that time shifts a few minutes every day. At least in the location where I life. (South of Germany)

New comment by hasoleju in "The Rise and Fall of the LAN Party"

hasoleju — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:33:11 +0000

These pictures are a flashback to my youth. Back in the time the limiting factor of how many friends could join the LAN Party where the switches. I remember the time a friend of mine bought a 12 port switch. That opened up a whole new level of gaming. With 12 friends now being cramed in a room.

An of course. Every LAN Party went on for the whole night.

New comment by hasoleju in "Bayer is getting rid of bosses and asking staff to ‘self-organize’"

hasoleju — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:03:07 +0000

The problem with too many layers of management is mainly that they stop doing what they should do. Making decisions.

The lowest management layer cannot make any decisions alone, otherwise the next layer would have no reason to exist. The next layer might even have to hand over the decision to one layer above. Up there no one really understands the decision that needs to be made because they are too far away from the actual impact. The result is that the decision is not made at all. Instead they procrastinate by asking for more details about the decision and the options.

If you have only one layer you get a decision very fast.

New comment by hasoleju in "Show HN: A storybook designed to teach kids about how computers work"

hasoleju — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 19:09:45 +0000

This is the first time I saw book in the form of a webpage. I really like it. Problem is that my children are don't speak English yet. I wonder if those storybooks also exist in other languages.

New comment by hasoleju in "A curious phenomenon called 'Etak'"

hasoleju — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:18:21 +0000

Now I know why the cursor from the old asteroids game looks like the position indicator in my car navigation. Great fun fact!

The Atari Team which created the game was located next to the company that built the first navigation device.

New comment by hasoleju in "Cycloidal marine propellers: Efficient thrust in any direction"

hasoleju — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:27:56 +0000

During the last centuries there was a technological shift in cargo ship drives roughly every 100 years. From sailing to steam boat over combustion engines to these drives?

New comment by hasoleju in "Fixing all the bugs won't solve all the problems – Deming's path of frustration"

hasoleju — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:28:11 +0000

There is always a tradeoff between different types of use cases. Some users solve problem A with the sofware. An other group solves problem B. Using the same software in both cases leads to edge cases that are bugs for one group but cannot be fixed without introducing bugs for the second group.

The clear specification really is the solution to resolve this issue. That you don't declare behavior as buggy that is according to specification.

New comment by hasoleju in "Ask HN: How do I become an asset to my developers?"

hasoleju — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 05:25:41 +0000

In general you are on the right track. One more thing you could do is align the priorities of stakeholders and keep them aligned for as long as possible. The thing that causes most problems in my team are the changes of priority on short notice. This causes a lot of unfinished work.

The reasons for these priority changes are to some degree our fault. We did not clarify our roadmap with all stakeholders involved. This lead to more powerful stakeholders adding features with more priority to our roadmap after we already started with the development of other features.

New comment by hasoleju in "Show HN: AI for researching personal health issues"

hasoleju — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 07:09:59 +0000

Looks great and worked ok for my condition. It was able to list all common causes for my symptoms. Interestingly it did not mention the rare, severe root causes in the first place. I think that is a feature not a bug.

Side Note: The languages on the landing page are mixed up if you have German as a standard in the browser settings. Some buttons are already translated, some are still in English.

New comment by hasoleju in "Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'"

hasoleju — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:35:36 +0000

This really sounds too good to be true. I understand why the locals are sceptic at first. If they achieve their goal of creating a national park with 200.000 square hectares they have covered 3% of the Romanian forests. That is impressive.

New comment by hasoleju in "Varda Capsule Reentry – Five Minutes from LEO to Earth [video]"

hasoleju — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:42:54 +0000

Only a handful of minutes from a position in space where you can see the whole earth to a small spot in the desert of Utah. Where you see the feet of a human walking towards you.

Amazing what is achievable with the tech of today. Space is not that far away after all. Still very odd to see the two scenes described above in a short video on YouTube.

Having the human walk towards the camera has a tremendous effect. It's something everyone can relate to and it puts a great context to all the scenes that are shown in the video before that.