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New comment by traxler in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

traxler — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:18:26 +0000

I mean how hard can it be to have a walking pad in a shower...

New comment by traxler in "I don't use LLMs for programming"

traxler — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:34:04 +0000

I've seen a page offering the latest of AI news from HN and my reaction was basically yours.

I wish I could have a HN frontpage with everything but AI news. Both postive or negative.

New comment by traxler in "Daily Driving GrapheneOS"

traxler — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:50:31 +0000

Really? I guess my neck of the woods is more backwater than I thought. While paying by phone is by no means rare, paying by card is very common.

New comment by traxler in "Daily Driving GrapheneOS"

traxler — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:38:20 +0000

I very purposefully added both the "and maybe you legit do" and the fact that I'm a bad case study.

New comment by traxler in "Daily Driving GrapheneOS"

traxler — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:35:12 +0000

I have troubles discerning how this answer connects to my post.

Are you putting me in the third kind of people?

New comment by traxler in "Daily Driving GrapheneOS"

traxler — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:32:24 +0000

Sadly true, while not being a phone person, I have started using my home banking phone for tasks I used to do on my desktop. Still never leaves my office.

New comment by traxler in "Daily Driving GrapheneOS"

traxler — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:08:43 +0000

Huh, interesting. I only have those 2FA popups for card payments online or in apps, never for payments in stores.

New comment by traxler in "Daily Driving GrapheneOS"

traxler — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:51:17 +0000

For all the "My Banking Apps don't work", I'd raise one question:

Do you really need access to banking apps on the go? I get that it can be handy and maybe you legit do, but I'd wager most people don't really do. If you can pay by phone you can pay by card and the card has less potentially to weirdly break.

And if your bank demands a phone app to be used, you can always have a cheap stock android lying around at home. Can't get stolen or lost. Doesn't give big G any data on you, because that phone doesn't have anything but those apps.

But I also understand "just have a second phone" is not a tempting idea for many people. I am not much of a phone person, so I'm not a good case study, but it works fine for me.

New comment by traxler in "Daily Driving GrapheneOS"

traxler — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:43:05 +0000

Not wanting to discourage you from trying Graphene, but the icons are probably not a good reason. Can always install an alternative launcher and icon pack on stock android.

Running Graphene for a long time now, everything works perfectly fine, but I don't do mobile banking.

New comment by traxler in "Hands-On Introduction to Unikernels"

traxler — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:46:26 +0000

When I first heard about unikernels my hope/thought was that people would go back to using more bare-metal servers for unikernels.

New comment by traxler in "Hands-On Introduction to Unikernels"

traxler — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:41:06 +0000

I've found the idea of unikernels interesting for several years now, is there a tl;dr on why they don't seem to have taken off, like at all? Or is it all happening behind some doors I don't have access to?

New comment by traxler in "Pantone Color of the Year 2026: Pantone 11-4201 Cloud Dancer"

traxler — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:40:43 +0000

Dirty white.

New comment by traxler in "Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science"

traxler — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:35:56 +0000

> But it almost reads like a chess Grandmaster in the 90s telling up-and-coming players to not practice against Deep Blue because it will teach you bad habits.

No idea if chess grandmasters did do that in the 90s, but frankly it would have been good advice. Just as it is good advice today for up-and-coming players not to practice against stockfish, leela or whatever. Unless you are already very proficient in chess, practicing against those engines will teach you very little .