Hacker News: temporarara

New comment by temporarara in "School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study"

temporarara — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 19:01:32 +0000

No, I mean "those screens" in this very specific context, not just some random "screens".

New comment by temporarara in "What Is Vim?"

temporarara — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 18:56:30 +0000

Vim stands for "Vi IMproved" so it literally is meant to be an improvement, and IMO it really is although plain old Vi is still better than most editors.

New comment by temporarara in "What Is Vim?"

temporarara — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 18:50:50 +0000

I have mapped Caps Lock to both Ctrl and Escape simultaneously. If you just tap it it's Escape and if you hold it down it's Ctrl, and it's easy to accomplish with xcape.

New comment by temporarara in "What Is Vim?"

temporarara — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 18:18:08 +0000

Are you being serious? Vim offers so much more advanced features. But if you don't have a use for those advanced features of Vim Nano is probably more than enough for your use case. I just find Vim more enjoyable to use even for simple tasks since the commands are already in my brain and I really prefer the modality.

New comment by temporarara in "School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study"

temporarara — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 17:57:51 +0000

Reading a book to young kids worked wonders back then and once they were old enough to run outside without supervision they exhausted themselves quite naturally at the end of the day. You can really do million productive things with kids if they aren't feeling sleepy instead of dooming them to bad sleep with those screens.

New comment by temporarara in "Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen"

temporarara — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 18:55:43 +0000

If you've got big fingers you need quite a lot of skills to type on your phone even when you are looking.

New comment by temporarara in "AI poetry is indistinguishable from human poetry and is rated more favorably"

temporarara — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:10:27 +0000

Washing dishes is more human and certainly more important than doing art.

New comment by temporarara in "Kagi Assistant"

temporarara — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 22:46:18 +0000

That's not my experience, but I guess that depends on the use case and how specific things you are searching. However, in general I much prefer good search results to saving a few seconds and getting delivered absolute rubbish like google does these days, that was the main point of my post. Like I said I still remember when just plain google search without any thought on how to word the search was phenomenal.

Google fully pivoted from prestigious tech-company to lame ad-company and that's a shame really. Business as usual.

New comment by temporarara in "Kagi Assistant"

temporarara — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 03:51:38 +0000

But do you seriously think you should get serious results in one second? I would understand the complaints about slowness if searches were taking like ten seconds, but a few seconds, I really must be getting old.

I still remember when google was giving relevant results in page 2. Now it's pretty much useless for me, and the fast search makes me think they are throwing away tons of potentially good stuff just to make it fast (and place more ads and rubbish scam/ai sites).

New comment by temporarara in "Japan’s Temple-Builder Kongō Gumi, Has Survived Nearly 1,500 Years"

temporarara — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 19:32:58 +0000

Have they tried to make the deal more appealing? Apprentices certainly don't have to be treated like garbage, not even in Japan. So what if the apprenticeship takes a little bit longer than in the old days where you needed to basically live in your workplace and survive all the toxic behaviour directed towards you, and maybe you don't even have to master every single one of those ancient skills to become a professional. Attitude and willingness to negotiate matter.

New comment by temporarara in "Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road"

temporarara — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 21:50:14 +0000

That's really the kind of fun that is completely missing in most of today's professional sports. Everything is just too good and planned ahead for my tastes to be worth actively watching. The surprising elements still around, like crashes and injuries, are just not that exciting at all.

New comment by temporarara in "Symbolica Computer Algebra System"

temporarara — Fri, 10 May 2024 02:23:53 +0000

While I agree with this attitude towards obscure acronyms, SICP is widely known among those who voluntary enter a site called Hacker News, and it's easily searchable too.

New comment by temporarara in "How I think about debt"

temporarara — Mon, 06 May 2024 22:22:05 +0000

You HAVE to pay back your debt if you want to pocket all your profits. If your down payment is 25k and you buy 250k house, you need to borrow 225k for your "leverage". Now you get lucky and years later, AFTER you have paid 25k + 225k + interest + fees which amounts to at least 300k, prices have gone up and you can sell that house for 400k. Nice you think! I will make 375k profit just by investing 25k! NO, that's not how "leverage" works at all. At that point you have paid at least 300k to get 400k which makes not that great considering it's been 20 years or so.

The logic you are using is flawed beyond all reasoning to be honest. People who are in a position to both pay back their mortgages AND invest heavily elsewhere are already rich.

New comment by temporarara in "Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition"

temporarara — Mon, 06 May 2024 19:45:49 +0000

Sounds like you haven't met those nice druggies just yet. I don't live in the USA and the law here is extremely lenient for druggies. Yet, pretty much every newspaper I read has some drug related crime in it. Robberies, mindless violence, extortion, murders, damage to properties, lovely stuff. I hate them with passion, and applaud Singaporeans for dealing with the scum appropriately.

Like I said, I would not care if druggies were decent people who just wanted to get high sometimes. However, unfortunately that is not how it works in the reality. They are the worst kind of people and I have zero sympathy for them after all the shit I've seen them do.

New comment by temporarara in "How I think about debt"

temporarara — Mon, 06 May 2024 19:35:07 +0000

While there is some "leverage" in mortgage, you actually need to pay the whole sum, and with interest too, so taking a $200k loan means you pay usually something like $250k for it in the end, and this means you have to make $50k profit to not lose. And houses age too. If the location is superb you can justify it as an investment, otherwise it's pure nonsense in every way. Thinking normal housing as an investment is one of those reasons why we can't have nice things.

New comment by temporarara in "Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition"

temporarara — Thu, 02 May 2024 22:05:46 +0000

This. I'm sure there are lots of things I don't like about Singapore, but the fact that doing and especially dealing drugs is kinda hard and may have death penalty level consequences is a non-issue for me. Cultures that promote drug usage are disgusting and once the drugs comes into your neighborhood there is no way to just ignore it if you care about your safety. I wouldn't care too much if it was just some guys using drugs for fun and that was the end of it, but drugs destroy whole communities and I hate it.

New comment by temporarara in "Show HN: Term Typer – Learn a language by typing"

temporarara — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 01:45:46 +0000

I tried German, but everything seemed to be lowercase even though the words.js on github seems to be fine regarding the special German capitalization.

Anyway, cool stuff. I once learned some latin by coding a simple program in C for terminal usage, basically just asking what is this word called, the wordlist file was specified as a command line argument. It was great and highly effective to memorize small chunks of words at a time. I still remember all those complex terms, so at least for me this type of learning works. This looks promising.

New comment by temporarara in "Netherlands is the second-largest exporter of agricultural products"

temporarara — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 22:23:37 +0000

Generally in agriculture (and other domains too) when you maximize output the quality suffers. And tomatoes are no exception. Growing your own or finding a small hobby grower and greatly appreciating their efforts are your best bets for having actual tasty stuff. Tomatoes are no longer true luxury food but tasty tomatoes are.

New comment by temporarara in "Google Scholar PDF Reader"

temporarara — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:06:56 +0000

In my experience those people don't even talk about ink, it's all about paper. They must think that you get just a few sheets of paper for a single tree or something like that, when in reality you get like 10 000 sheets of paper for one averagish tree. And those trees are not rare or anything like that, and the process of making paper is nowhere near as bad as electronics industry. Using paper is as ecological as it gets.

New comment by temporarara in "How to Start Google"

temporarara — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:28:31 +0000

It also doesn't hurt to inherit just a few millions and combine it with hard work and luck if the alternative is just hard work and luck.