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New comment by morsch in "The lamps in my house"

morsch — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:53:32 +0000

I have a similar lamp that also makes you press and hold. Annoying. Yours even has that knob (mine is all touch) -- it should just have a physical detent at the end that cuts power, you know, like lots of dimmable lamps used to have.

New comment by morsch in "Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors"

morsch — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:45:40 +0000

Maybe none of the tested devices is available but another one with similar hardware is.

New comment by morsch in "StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta"

morsch — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:26:18 +0000

I was curious what they're currently sponsoring; here's another neat OSM project: https://osm2world.org/demo/?lat=52.5239396&lon=13.4104859&ra...

The current demo doesn't seem to cover many places worldwide, but what is there is really neat! To me this already looks better than modern city sim games, because they never seem to get the scale right, among other things.

Not sure what's stopping them from covering more places, since the idea presumably is to generate these tiles from existing OSM data. And in fact one of the easiest things to do with StreetComplete is add the height and type of a building.

New comment by morsch in "Apple iPhone 4 “Antennagate” Q&A (2010) [video]"

morsch — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:16:41 +0000

Can anybody explain what the actual question was about? On the face of it, it's about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc#Cancellation I guess. And Java?

New comment by morsch in "NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead"

morsch — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:06:51 +0000

Try learning German or French

New comment by morsch in "Grand MS-DOS Gaming General MIDI Showdown"

morsch — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:09:29 +0000

They link to a cornucopia of samples they made available on archive.org at the bottom of the article (not in-line, where I was looking for them). Doom, which is fairly widely known, starts at #57: https://archive.org/details/DOS-Gaming-General-MIDI-Comparis...

New comment by morsch in "Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes"

morsch — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:17:54 +0000

That analogy works for encryption but doesn't really work for signature verification

New comment by morsch in "Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes"

morsch — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:40:46 +0000

Think about it, the key analogy is just terrible. In the origin domain, losing a key is always bad, and making a key available to all is a non sequitur.

It's not like non-technical people understand asymmetric cryptography. Or even technical people, for that matter.

Maybe we should refer to the public key as an address, and the private key is just a password again. You can send stuff, securely, to an address. And you can verify the sender when you have their address (ie check the signature).

New comment by morsch in "Giving up on smart rings"

morsch — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:38:23 +0000

The numbers you are probably referring to are for the market share in any given year.

https://www.jckonline.com/magazine-article/the-knot-2019-jew...

Since people tend to stay married for years, and tungsten wasn't as popular previously, the actual number of adult men wearing tungsten wedding bands is probably a lot lower, maybe around 10%.

Still a lot. Approximately nobody wears them in Germany; seems like an opportunity.

New comment by morsch in "Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior"

morsch — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:25:30 +0000

> The wealthiest Europeans I know drive the cheapest vehicles

That may well be true of the people you know, but in general the relationship is exactly what one would expect: the higher people's income, the more expensive their car purchases.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/economic-bulletin/articles/2...

Full paper: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/economic-bulletin/articles/2...

New comment by morsch in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

morsch — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:08:29 +0000

Europe, yes, EU, no. Alde had 5% for EU, I quoted a source for 6% for the EU.

New comment by morsch in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

morsch — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:27:23 +0000

Doesn't appear to be true, it's < 10% for the biggest cities (based on cursory research). Rome was 5% pre COVID; less now.

https://assets-global.website-files.com/6329bc97af73223b5759...

New comment by morsch in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

morsch — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:52:01 +0000

More like 6%, roughly in line with its population share (5.4%). Not sure if that includes air travel, international air travel often isn't included in national statistics. https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/report_2025

New comment by morsch in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

morsch — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:31:18 +0000

Tourism is 10% of the economy, most of it is domestic or internal to Europe; most of it doesn't involve air travel or city hopping.

New comment by morsch in "Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal"

morsch — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:01:49 +0000

I sometimes wish my scale was precise to below 1g when measuring yeast for long-rising (bread) dough. A recipe may ask for 1g, and adding 2g will make a huge difference.

New comment by morsch in "Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity"

morsch — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:22:59 +0000

Spot on. You're doing heatpump based cooling without floor heating? I didn't realise that was an option.

New comment by morsch in "Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada"

morsch — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:28:34 +0000

I just spent fifteen minutes to corroborate the numbers for Germany, and they appear to be a vague guess by Statista.

There don't appear to be any reliable stats or studies, which I find surprising; the few studies I could find had people use way less tp, eg https://www.radiohamburg.de/aktuelles/hamburg/Wie-scht-Hambu...

So I'm inclined to believe the 134 is hogwash; no idea if the numbers for the US are more reliable.

New comment by morsch in "New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson"

morsch — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:52:33 +0000

AI and creativity/art is actually explored through Data in Star Trek. He was a painter, played the violin, gave poetry readings...

New comment by morsch in "The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates"

morsch — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:18:11 +0000

Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans

morsch — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:03:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02541-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49385180

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