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I was also thinking of the show.. it was a great one.. need to rewatch in a few months. Also I always remember the Hotdog classification app when some CEO says AI these days :)

It never is a problem until it is. Insurance companies in Germany are also not benevolent. If there is a case where they do not have to pay they won't. If they can use data to save money they will do it, even if it worsens your conditions.

Yea you have a workflow and usually stick to it if it's good enough. For me I have many projects in different tmux windows and I name them to keep an overview.

I am convinced that having all of this in vim would make it harder for me to find things :)

But you are right.. I use splits inside Vim and with Tmux and sometimes I get confused when switching.

If you e.g. use LSPs or similar tools it usually is better to separate different projects into different Vims. Most of these tools rely on some kind of project root and may get confused if you have different ones opened in the same Vim instance.

I personally also like the separation and navigating my Tmux is very fast. To me Vim is the perfect editor but I don't want to use it as windowing or operating system replacement. Obviously I use tabs and windows in Vim but always only regarding the project I am working in. E.g. I use tabs for diffs a lot and reviewing.

The areas of the world where reproduction rates are highest care the least about this sentiment. For many reasons..

Maybe we should just accept that some things auto regulate. It's the way of nature.

Teams is truly disgusting. It is the prime example of what happens to software if you just keep stuffing features into it instead of fixing at least some existing problems. I bet this codebase has tons of "legacy" code already.

I also wonder.. do they have a "UX" team? If so what are these people doing? The usability is abysmal.

We use Slack and Teams at my workplace and regarding chat Slack is lightyears ahead. Sadly the company wants to force more and more people off of Slack and into using Teams.

One of the problems being that the CDU/CSU have drifted to the left over the last 10+ years and their is a gap on the right/conservative side that now the AFD is filling.

> I’m also in favor of a citizen’s inheritance — a cash distribution of, say, €20,000 to every young adult that could be reserved for specific expenses like acquiring property or paying for education.

Yea sure. Wait.. where does the money come from? Yea let's take it from the rich.

> Broadening wealth need not mean taking it from the rich.

Hmm.. I don't know but I think the essay needs some rethinking..

I will probably insult some people with this but here it comes anyways..

I think we just have too many trash products (software and non-software) which no one really needs. This is why there are massive spam/ad campaigns everywhere to convince people that they need "new trash product xy".

One of the problems being that you cannot really build wealth today by doing your job as an employee in most cases. The result is that more and more people want a piece of the "founders pie" even though they don't have any valuable product to add.

And this not only applies to founders/start-ups.. when I look around I see 95% of all products as trash. Established big corps are guilty just the same. If you bought a washing machine 20 years ago there is a good chance it is still running. Today my washing machine has AI but dies after 3 years..

Sorry for the rant.. I hope some founder has as a resolution to make actually useful and durable products.

Nice.. played that on Atari ST as a kid. Then later in school there was a very old IBM PC in some corner and we were sometimes huddled around it to play Ballerburg.. good times.

These things just show over and over again how irrational the "market" behaves. Most of all it's a big hype train and you better be lucky on the time to hop on or off.

If you are the lucky CEO of a company during the phase of success, investors will associate you with success. It's just easier to identify than understanding what the company does in detail and why it is successful or will/won't be in the future.

Good for Sam.

The catch is that you pay Google and not the content creators..

I always wonder how it must feel like to go from 0-100 kph in 2.4 sec ...

I love people like you that just dismiss everything that doesn't apply to themselves..

It is clearly a spectrum and if you are the lower end of it, it doesn't help at all to have someone say: "just do it".

Great to see this topic on HN(aphantasia). I learned about that about 3-4 years ago from my colleagues. Before that I wasn't aware that people can see images. I certainly couldn't (still cannot).

I read a lot about this topic and it's fascinating. This does not only apply to images but also sounds and smells. I cannot "imagine" them too. So I presume that a great musician is able to imagine certain instruments clearly in his head. At least a friend told me that he could do this. And a master chef will probably be able to imagine the taste of different ingredients.

I however cannot. At times this realization feels quite sad. I try to however see the benefits to this.. there are some. E.g. I have a great sleep. I always told my wife that I close my eyes and the world is gone. I then can just fall a sleep given that I am tired enough. She never understood that.

Were this held me back in my life is drawing and chess playing. I am good chess player on club level but I never managed to play blindfolded more than a few moves. I now know why. I also always needed references before me when drawing. I imagine a good mind's eye could be of great help here.

I will certainly try the techniques mentioned in the article/video. But I think if you can learn it depends on whether you have the ability at all. I might have dreamed with pictures very rarely but I am not sure about it. We will see if the technique does something for me.

I import all my photos onto my HDD with shotwell. They are just saved in folders by date.

If I see a picture I don't like I delete it immediately. The main problem is that we keep to many pictures. From time to time I go through some months of pictures and delete as much as I can, add some stars to good pictures and postprocess some.

Also from time to time we order prints of all of the "filtered" pictures and then we put them into a physical photo album. We certainly looked at these photos as a family but we never look at the digital ones.

The big problem with all kinds of digital collections is that you don't find anything at some point.

I think you got the meaning of what I was saying. No point in pedantry about words. To be clear: here not needing means that it won't be beneficial in a meaningful way.

Children will be totally distracted by things like that. Instead of concentrating on the actual task/goal they will focus on funny/silly words and this is not helping in teaching them something.

That looks very interesting. Thanks for creating and sharing. This wasn't available back when I used Löve. Maybe I should give it another shot. I will certainly try your tool!

That's a really interesting question. I created some small games with Löve and really loved it. However I always found the whole packaging/distribution/deployment a bit of a problematic topic.

If you don't just want to distribute a .love file (e.g. you do not want your user to get the Löve runtime themselves) this was basically unsupported and you had to come up with your own solutions..

I still think if the Löve community could improve this part it would help the most.

There is no effect without side effect in meds. If you don't need a med you should not take it because if it is not beneficial for you, only potential harm remains.

So as usual advising everyone to take a med is just plain stupid or even worse.

And doubting officials doesn't make you a lunatic. There are plenty examples where the official standing was just plain bullshit to put it mildly.

I once owned a Pentax K-5. I sold it at some point just because I didn't want to carry around so much weight and switched to a smaller mirrorless camera. However with a heavy heart. The usability and build quality were stellar. Especially considering the price. Pentax creates some really beautiful cameras.

What are you talking about? Even most common supermarkets have a small variety of IPAs and other craft beers. And even without them there are small breweries everywhere in southern Germany which have great "classical" beers..

And this will most likely create the next horrible side effect we hadn't thought about. Maybe it will make it even worse than it was. But at the time it was a "no-brainer"..

I guess you can be a kook and make a stupid move but with enough luck you will be regarded as a genius and your move will be seen as a bold one.

Oh wow I didn't know that.. thanks I will have a look at this!

I am thinking about self-hosting my private repositories for some time now. I also want a simple web interface for convenience. I don't need a "Github clone" like Gogs, Gitea..

What simpler alternatives are there? I found https://github.com/jonashaag/klaus . Is there something else?

Well I actually do quite some digging myself. I like certain niches that are not really mainstream (e.g. roguelikes). However I never found a game where I thought this should be a bestseller and it wasn't (compared to the audience).

Now I sure still might have missed some.. however I am convinced that games that are truly exceptional will be successful. Because they are (still) rare. Good is not good enough. I stand by the fact that this is not a marketing issue. Of course you need some exposure.. if you never release a gem and never show it to anyone of course it won't find an audience.

Of course there might always be exceptions but I doubt that games like Stardew Valley or Papers, Please! could fall through the cracks.. but who knows.

I think there is a general saturation problem. I won't have the time to play 20, 30 or even 50 games a year. I don't need more games but better ones (in general.. there are of course great games).