Hacker News: miunau

New comment by miunau in "Please Use AI"

miunau — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:50:59 +0000

I suggest reading James Muldoon's "Love Machines" for a thorough answer to your question.

New comment by miunau in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

miunau — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:24:37 +0000

Mythic Beasts rents rpi servers: https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi/ - there is a niche for it

New comment by miunau in "UK government advises deleting emails to save water"

miunau — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:20:14 +0000

Helsinki has many DCs connected to the district heating network, but it isn't realistic in places that don't have an existing network as creating one in the first place is a huge political/nimby issue. Amsterdam has been trying and failing for years.

New comment by miunau in "How I use Tailscale"

miunau — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 01:46:23 +0000

this is for teams where you don't want to create passwords or keep track of ssh keys for everyone by hand. it greatly simplified our server usage as we can simply ssh user@machine and it just works. you can create access controls for it as well.

New comment by miunau in "Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard"

miunau — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 05:04:11 +0000

For anyone who misses the Second Life-style camera controls in Blender, I made this during the weekend: https://github.com/miunau/blender-secondlife-camera-addon

It makes navigating 3D spaces so much easier with keyboard and mouse.

New comment by miunau in "Canyon.mid"

miunau — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:32:17 +0000

You're correct, with Realtek AC97 devices the resampling used to sound absolutely horrendous. Like they picked the worst possible algo. It's not as big of an issue these days though.

New comment by miunau in "Canyon.mid"

miunau — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:30:26 +0000

Compressors destroy dynamic range. The idea is to normalize, not limit.

New comment by miunau in "Material 3 Expressive"

miunau — Sat, 17 May 2025 04:07:26 +0000

This is solved by using dvh (or svh) instead of 100% for height in the CSS.

New comment by miunau in "How to live an intellectually rich life"

miunau — Fri, 02 May 2025 22:22:36 +0000

How did you find Ulysses, was it a good read for you?

New comment by miunau in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

miunau — Fri, 02 May 2025 17:17:59 +0000

There are no financial or career incentives to optimise existing, working things in these institutions. The structures which these large companies use are for people working on new things, so that's what we get. Making office faster doesn't create headlines, but a new product that does the same thing somehow will.

New comment by miunau in "Attacking My Landlord's Boiler"

miunau — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 09:27:30 +0000

We've used the Tado system with a central boiler and smart radiator knobs for a few years. It's worked fine and hooks up to Home Assistant and can do the things you describe. I'm sure there are some alternatives.

New comment by miunau in "Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads"

miunau — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 10:42:15 +0000

Yeah, there are loads of cables, converters etc. that I can't get even from Amazon. Aliex has been the only place.

New comment by miunau in "Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016)"

miunau — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 09:36:52 +0000

James Sharman has been getting quite advanced with his homebrew cpu. He's got audio and VGA working too and was demonstrating a spinning 3D cube recently. https://www.youtube.com/@weirdboyjim

New comment by miunau in "Apple needs a Snow Sequoia"

miunau — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:58:26 +0000

Why not start supporting Asahi financially, if you aren't already?

New comment by miunau in "The Game Designer Playing Through His Own Psyche"

miunau — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:05:21 +0000

It happens a lot in creative fields. I personally get depressive after putting an album out, and I know I'm not alone in that based on discussions with other musicians. Something about being in the mode of making something for so long, and then it's just... done. When you're deeply involved in something, it changes your personality.

New comment by miunau in "The indieweb doesn't need to “take off”"

miunau — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 04:51:17 +0000

I agree with the value of not wanting to participate.

But your reasoning for denying individualism is myopic. Do you only count the ones that have words printed in 16 point type using a standard layout as books? There are all kinds of layouts available in book form. There are graphic novels. There are photography books. There are pop-up books. Books with braille. Books that have augmented reality elements in them. There are poetry books where words are deconstructed on the page, maybe with pages cut up deliberately. There's notes and opinions scribbled on the pages. Or you might get lucky and find some old leaves pressed in between there. Every possible individualistic concoction you can do with a bunch of paper and some form of printing exists, and if it doesn't yet, it will eventually.

There are plenty of people that like the Lisa Frank looking websites. You don't need to be one of them, but you don't need to be a boring person, either.

New comment by miunau in "For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a Superpower"

miunau — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:33:45 +0000

This goes for European countries as well. Even well-educated people, from whatever country locals deem undesirable at that moment, in general do not get the chance to work in jobs that suit their education. Sometimes these people have benefited from taxpayer funded education in that host country, but the prevalent racist attitudes exclude them from even getting job interviews. E.g. Finland is losing lots of immigrants they have spent lots of money educating to this- not helped by the policies of the current government- people they need to stay in order to plug the plummeting birth rate are forced to leave the country because there is nothing there for them besides rejection after rejection, or jobs that do not match their education.

New comment by miunau in "What a crab sees before it gets eaten by a cuttlefish"

miunau — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 11:07:00 +0000

They are hitting the plexiglass in front of the camera and crabs, so I assume it's nothing interesting to look at science wise.

New comment by miunau in "The internet is killing old PC hardware [video]"

miunau — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 08:58:58 +0000

I was using a netbook with a comparable CPU as a work machine around that time. Using the web with it wasn't fun back then either, on Windows or Linux. I don't think there's any point in time when these underpowered processors would've been fine to use for browsing mainstream sites.

New comment by miunau in "Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market"

miunau — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 21:12:38 +0000

You're arguing statistics and simultaneously need the difference between "median" and "average" explained to you. Sorry if I don't regard you as an authority of any kind.