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New comment by lrhegeba in "Nobody knows how to build with AI yet"

lrhegeba — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 09:27:38 +0000

consider it like this: you are not paying the amount of worked hours but for the expertise to judge, coach and guide the AI and its output according to your wishes. so if the result is good and within time and budget, why would you care?

New comment by lrhegeba in "Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B"

lrhegeba — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 11:21:34 +0000

My house also doesnt generate cash flow/interest by itself, must have an intrinsic value of zero. Surprisingly it can be used as collateral for a loan as long as other people assign a (however disputable) value to it. So, of course you could be right when all (not just you) other people decide that BTC has a value of zero. Meanwhile i use my BTCs as collateral. Value is more of a social judgment, not a law of nature. Hence the misconception?

New comment by lrhegeba in "The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf]"

lrhegeba — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 02:28:19 +0000

It isnt when you look at Q total. Total energy input for all needed support systems versus energy produced. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor for more details

New comment by lrhegeba in "What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)"

lrhegeba — Mon, 19 May 2025 07:50:12 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintessentially_Group would be another one. American Express has a concierge service for their wealthier clients as do most big banks with services for their wealthy clients

New comment by lrhegeba in "Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses to the same meals"

lrhegeba — Tue, 13 May 2025 05:12:55 +0000

thanks for "misurable". i'll steal this wonderful combination of miserable and measurable, i see lots of use in devops for it... ;-)

New comment by lrhegeba in "Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk"

lrhegeba — Thu, 08 May 2025 10:16:06 +0000

I came to the same conclusion. My usual research routine nowadays starts at "what product is used by (semi-)professionals".

New comment by lrhegeba in "Air Quality Monitors Compared: AirGradient One vs. Airthings"

lrhegeba — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 12:30:09 +0000

Am very satisified with https://en.air-q.com/funktionen/air-q-science-option that offers a lot of sensors (https://en.air-q.com/messwerte). Good UI, API-accessible and integration in HA works just fine. Rather pricey though, depending how many sensors you choose.

New comment by lrhegeba in "Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024"

lrhegeba — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 08:58:28 +0000

for this requirement i choose to use encrypted sparse files (can be created with the disk manager app) which i store on the icloud. is only of use if you happen to have a laptop with you as mounting them is not supported in iOS

New comment by lrhegeba in "Poland’s PM says previous government illegally used Pegasus spyware"

lrhegeba — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 23:01:58 +0000

NSO is just a strawman for the government of Israel. Surveillance technology is a very successful soft power tool, as the dictators crave its capabilities to stay in power. Pegasus is world class technology, so Israel could score a lot of brownie points by allowing these sales. Too bad they got too greedy and sloppy and allowed the phones of some US officials in Africa to be infected. Coincidentally there was a leak of 50000 phone numbers and NSO goes boom. Israeli "security diplomacy" rebuilt NSO and is still going strong, surprised i am not :-(

New comment by lrhegeba in "Lapce"

lrhegeba — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 20:36:17 +0000

i guess which and the number of extensions will have a significant effect on lag

New comment by lrhegeba in "Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking"

lrhegeba — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:25:27 +0000

I wouldnt be so sure, one can think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batterygate as an example of a little bit of "bricking"

New comment by lrhegeba in "Agricultural input shocks affect crop yields more in the high-yielding areas"

lrhegeba — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 09:20:01 +0000

some background regarding the sri lanka fertilizer f**up: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/7/15/23218969/sri-la...

New comment by lrhegeba in "Parental controls? What parental controls?"

lrhegeba — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 10:21:48 +0000

if your measure of successful parenting is the 100% compliance with your rules: how can your child learn if every mistake is met with harsh disciplinary measures? how can it learn when every try/misstep isnt met with guidance but a penalty? judging from your text your educational style resembles more of a bootcamp. no judgement here, but please rethink this.

New comment by lrhegeba in "National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff writers"

lrhegeba — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 07:38:09 +0000

loved using blendle, for about 2 years i regularly spent about 50 EUR/m on articles. then the honeymoon phase of blendle and the publishers was over and it became clear the model just wont work. for publishers an article (usually sold for between 99 cents and 2 euro) is more than a product to be sold, as the price doesnt cover all costs. they usually have only a handful of "flagship articles" with some kind of exclusive content. they need these to capture the audience into subscriptions. this regular audience can then also be sold ads and merchandise/other stuff.

for me as user it was essential that i had access to more than 80% of the best articles of all publications for sale. as most publishers came to see that publishing their flagship articles cannibalized them selling subscriptions and eliminated their secondary revenue streams they resorted to periodically publishing only some bait articles to lure audiences to their core offers. thus the incentives of all 3 (me as user, publishers, blendle) did not align and its usefullness as a product suffered. some publishers tried to raise the price of their flagship articles to cover more of their costs, but who pays 4 EUR for a single article? so, the business model just doesnt work. enjoyed it while it lasted though

New comment by lrhegeba in "What I’ve learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear (2013)"

lrhegeba — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 11:21:43 +0000

i suppose for the same reason you cannot prohibit breathing, it is a biological fact to be considered when drafting regulations. rules without being able to enforce them would show the governing body as weak and clueless, undermining its authority. a rather big no-no for most "powers". rest assured when more people wear AR-type glasses they sure as hell will inject "rules" in the software to control/limit what you see. to protect of course

New comment by lrhegeba in "Tailscale doesn't want your password"

lrhegeba — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 06:12:09 +0000

please stop spreading unfounded and vicious rumours - or show us some proof.

New comment by lrhegeba in "When “free forever” means “free for the next 4 months”"

lrhegeba — Sat, 06 May 2023 11:36:42 +0000

while i agree with your conclusions regarding the probability if a "forever"-plan will be honoured, people are rightfully pissed. and it doesnt matter if people bought on a whim or after extensive research, the company advertised it as "forever" and when they now dont honour the deal they should be called out as fraudster/liars. cause thats what it is and i dont care if others do it too.

New comment by lrhegeba in "Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?"

lrhegeba — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 23:38:52 +0000

in german "Spelunke" is used for a seedy, shady bar

New comment by lrhegeba in "Shimano’s three-pulley rear derailleur could revolutionise drivetrain design"

lrhegeba — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 18:11:25 +0000

in the short run this system might make sense for some use cases, the future it is not. chainless systems will take over for e-bikes, e.g. https://www.schaeffler-industrial-drives.com/en/news_media/p... First used here: https://www.golem.de/news/free-drive-schaeffler-baut-kettenl... (german only, sorry). 250W is low, so there needs to happen some development for more use case.

New comment by lrhegeba in "TSMC is making the best of a bad geopolitical situation"

lrhegeba — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 09:33:47 +0000

china can get all mentioned resources (fertilizer, pig iron, food, steel) from their neighbors (esp. russia). no way to cut china off. the days of low-quality are long gone. semiconductors and some other hightech are the only pressure points still available, and the US tries to use these.