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New comment by taegee in "Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?"

taegee — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:00:24 +0000

Betteridge's law of headlines -.-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

New comment by taegee in "FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance"

taegee — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:58:15 +0000

We've already been there. -.-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Mathematik

I recommend translating the German version as it is much more detailed.

> "But far more important is the educational value that stems from the spiritual kinship between mathematics and the Third Reich. The fundamental disposition of both is the heroic. […] Both demand service: mathematics demands service to truth, integrity, and precision. […] Both are anti-materialistic. […] Both desire order and discipline; both combat chaos and arbitrariness."

Same for physics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik

New comment by taegee in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

taegee — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 08:27:59 +0000

And must have tasted like highly concentrated rat piss. XD

Even taking more than a knife point renders a complete can undrinkable. Not to speak of 30 fucking grams.

I also had to immediately think of this case.

New comment by taegee in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

taegee — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:15:47 +0000

No TLDR. -.-

New comment by taegee in "Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro"

taegee — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:25:35 +0000

selinux?

New comment by taegee in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

taegee — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:13:10 +0000

P. S. Some people do not seem to get it: It is the medium itself that is unsuitable for children in general and completely independent of the content.

New comment by taegee in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

taegee — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:08:42 +0000

The sentence that TV is generally bad for kids at that age is generally true independent of the content. It's the medium itself.

New comment by taegee in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

taegee — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:32:27 +0000

Nice idea but at that age any screen content is fundamentally bad for your children.

New comment by taegee in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

taegee — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:50:55 +0000

That sounds like a dystopia.

New comment by taegee in "YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries"

taegee — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:31:53 +0000

Set your mother tongue to some esoteric language Google has not enough training data on. Then it defaults to the original language.

New comment by taegee in "A One-Minute ADHD Test"

taegee — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:17:53 +0000

That doesn't sound right. The hyperactivity can express itself in many ways, as you say – not necessarily physically. Is your practitioner maybe really old? They changed the definition in 1987.

According to DSM‑5‑TR and ICD-11, ADHD is subdivided into three presentations: predominantly inattentive, predominantly hyperactive-impulsive, and combined.

New comment by taegee in "Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower"

taegee — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:17:32 +0000

Can we build an electric scooter with it?

New comment by taegee in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"

taegee — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:13:05 +0000

Who needs a smart fridge anyway? It cools, and annoys as hell when you leave it open.

New comment by taegee in "GrapheneOS is ready to break free from Pixels"

taegee — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:03:08 +0000

Same here. For me the biggest bummer with GrapheneOS is that the promised new back up system is still not even on the horizon and was promised a gazillion years ago.

New comment by taegee in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

taegee — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:06:02 +0000

If you have a bunch of coders, just scrape the data. Then turn your back on this greedy maw.

We recently moved to Mattermost for the same reason. Not looking back.

New comment by taegee in "Do not download the app, use the website"

taegee — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 06:41:56 +0000

I hate having 300 apps on my phone (and I can't have them all on my home screen), but unfortunately, they're often much nicer to use than the corresponding websites. They're much faster / snappier as they don't need to load everything.

Even if each click only takes a second to load or wait, it's annoying for many clicks. Then there are all kinds of usability issues, like the page reloading in the middle of a form or process when scrolling up was misinterpreted as a refresh.

However, I'm not talking about apps that just load a webpage.

New comment by taegee in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

taegee — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:47:54 +0000

> as a former LaTeX enthusiast, it's pretty close. It's readable, minimalist.

Really nice! But you still need at least basic justification if you want to relate it to LaTeX. ;)

New comment by taegee in "Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]"

taegee — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:44:03 +0000

I can't stop thinking about these agents as Agent Smith, The Architect, etc.

New comment by taegee in "Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform"

taegee — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:41:03 +0000

The login seems broken. I always get "Invalid credentials or account does not exist", even after password reset.