Hacker News: ncarroll

New comment by ncarroll in "If we want a shift to walking, we need to prioritize dignity"

ncarroll — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 06:57:04 +0000

Germany offers an "Opportunity Card" which gives successful applicants a year to live here while looking for a job. This is a new program that just launched in June, 2024 and I have no personal experience with it but, for a country that needs qualified workers, I thought it was a good idea.

https://www.simplegermany.com/opportunity-card-germany/

Good luck!

New comment by ncarroll in "The Kimchi Masters of South Korea"

ncarroll — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:22:18 +0000

Also, be sure your salt doesn't have any additives. Some "table" salts have anti-clumping ingredients added. These will prevent the ferment. I ferment a lot and use sea salt (Meeressalz) without any troubles. Good luck!

Opportunity Card in Germany – The Chancenkarte Explained

ncarroll — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 12:46:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.simplegermany.com/opportunity-card-germany/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40976005

Points: 2

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The Complete Library of Charles Darwin

ncarroll — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 19:26:33 +0000

Article URL: http://darwin-online.org.uk/Complete_Library_of_Charles_Darwin.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39503910

Points: 2

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New comment by ncarroll in "An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad"

ncarroll — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:16:22 +0000

That is one amazing video and an utterly amazing musician. I had no idea such an instrument exists. Really, you kind of blew up my musical world. That definitely lands on my Things That Went Right Today list. Thanks!!

The Complete Library of Charles Darwin

ncarroll — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:22:59 +0000

Article URL: http://darwin-online.org.uk/Complete_Library_of_Charles_Darwin.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39345049

Points: 1

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New comment by ncarroll in "Why don't grocery stores stock pawpaw fruit?"

ncarroll — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 11:57:41 +0000

Except that we also see the occasional NFL season game in the stadium, why not an Indiana banana too? In these days of international logistics, it seems anything is possible. :-)

New comment by ncarroll in "Why don't grocery stores stock pawpaw fruit?"

ncarroll — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 13:32:22 +0000

I find them very occasionally at our farmers market here in Southern Germany.

Love after life: Richard Feynman's letter to his departed wife (2017)

ncarroll — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:45:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/10/17/richard-feynman-arline-letter/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37914958

Points: 196

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New comment by ncarroll in "Choosing a Name for Your Computer (1990)"

ncarroll — Wed, 24 May 2023 12:54:17 +0000

I name for expected performance. A remote server named Arnie should be strong, reliable and always come back. A music server named Elvis serves music with elements from multiple genre and not mind being told what to do by someone who knows a lot less about how it does what it does (that'd be me) than it does. A back-up server named Methuselah should not die for a very, very, very long time. So far, it's been a successful scheme.

Edited for missing words.

New comment by ncarroll in "The Maddest My Code Made Anyone"

ncarroll — Wed, 17 May 2023 11:18:36 +0000

I'm not sure that it is really similar. I would translate "Wer macht hat recht" to something more like "the creator knows best" or "the creator gets to choose". "History is written by the winners." has, I think a less creative context. Perhaps because history is what is written after wars, conquests and other applications of violence. The word "winners" requires and implies losers. Creation requires neither.

New comment by ncarroll in "Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news"

ncarroll — Fri, 12 May 2023 13:50:01 +0000

I'm not sure how one would desensationalize Donald Trump. For my needs, 1440 handled it just fine. Title 42 affects an international audience, Santos charges are newer news than the old news spouted so emphatically at the Town Hall and the third story, about inflation easing is also non-repetitive. The loudest and most outrageous voices manage to be heard even without amplification.

New comment by ncarroll in "Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news"

ncarroll — Fri, 12 May 2023 13:18:49 +0000

You can read today's briefing here: https://join1440.com/newsletter/title-42-ends-george-santos-...

New comment by ncarroll in "Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news"

ncarroll — Fri, 12 May 2023 13:17:21 +0000

It was not a top story but listed under Politics and National Affairs with this text:

"Former President Donald Trump appears on CNN town hall forum in what is considered the first major television event of the 2024 presidential campaign (More) | See all 2024 presidential candidates so far (More)"

(More) is a link to further information.

Top story for that day (today) was Title 42 Ends and second was Santos Charges Unsealed

New comment by ncarroll in "Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news"

ncarroll — Fri, 12 May 2023 13:07:21 +0000

If anyone is looking for non-sensationalist news edited by humans, I'd like to offer a shoutout to the newsletter put out by https://join1440.com/. I've been reading it now for a couple of months and, after comparing their choice of stories to cover and the ones covered in the national news (US and Germany), I'm feeling ready to leave the mainstream and let 1440 curate for me. So far they have not missed offering me an interesting and un-opinionated summary of what the mainstream outlets I've been watching consider the most important story of the day. It's a 5 minute read and is published every day except Sunday.

New comment by ncarroll in "Boyfriend-alert – A light based alert system"

ncarroll — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 13:42:47 +0000

My boyfriend once presented me with a 3-doors game for my birthday. I was to click one door for my present. I wandered around all day trying to decide which one to choose and when I did, the other two doors disappeared and my warm and snugly new bathrobe was revealed. I married that guy about as fast as I could and twenty-six years later he's still good for a digital surprise. :-)

New comment by ncarroll in "Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files"

ncarroll — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 14:17:07 +0000

Have you tried Markdownload? It's a browser extension that saves and downloads web content as markdown. I use it all the time on my desktop but it's a browser extension and supports Safari, so maybe it's helpful for you too.

https://github.com/deathau/markdownload

New comment by ncarroll in "Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?"

ncarroll — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:14:54 +0000

Oh my gosh, I've never heard of these and you're right, they do look like a wonderful way to "travel" if you can't otherwise. Thank you so much for sharing.

Edit: Punctuation

New comment by ncarroll in "Help Make the 19th Century Searchable"

ncarroll — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 14:14:13 +0000

Thank you so much for the chroniclingamerica link. That is seriously cool. I heard my personal "Dangerous Rabbit Hole" alert when I clicked on it, but what the heck, it's Saturday. I'm diving in and definitely won't be out before dinner.

New comment by ncarroll in "Low-cost measurement of facemask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets"

ncarroll — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 14:46:10 +0000

I personally think one aspect that doesn't get much attention is the matter of public education. At the arrival of the pandemic here in Germany the initial advice was to seriously implement hygiene rules: 1.) Wash hands thoroughly and often, 30 sec long, plenty of regular household brand hand soap, 2.) When coughing or sneezing, turn away from others and put your elbow in front of your face and 3.) Keep distance of minimum 1.5 meters and 4.) Limit contact with people outside your home environment wherever possible.

Assuming everyone followed this advice, at that particular moment we didn't need masks so much (most people were in lockdown anyway) and besides the fact that there were not enough medical masks to go around, there was more danger in using generic face coverings than not because the average Joe didn't know how to do so safely and the virus was not yet under any sort of control.

Around Mid-May, we had a different circumstance. The general public had taken the hygiene rules to heart and been in lockdown quite awhile and the sun came out - Spring sprang, the numbers went down (thanks to lots of cooperation from the general public) and that was when the public education effort went in to the next phase: To give official advice and instruction on how to properly handle face coverings in a way that they help instead of hinder.

Meanwhile everyone, even Grandparents, my mother, and some people's recalcitrant Uncles know how to use Skype and Zoom. We wash hands like surgeons, we can and do handle face coverings without making ourselves sick and I think, for a public education effort that started 5 months ago and was directed at 90 million people, that is simply huge. I try to remain wary of the impulse to judge what we did yesterday with what we know today.