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hobo_mark··on Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform
Can I not do all of these things with docker-compose already?
hobo_mark··on If English was written like Chinese (1999)
Any usable alternatives to Translate?
hobo_mark··on The Intellectual Obesity Crisis (2022)
Yes, but...

Depends how you use it too. I have trained mine to only show me standup comedy skits. There is no live standup shows in my neck of the woods, but once or twice a month I do get entertainment value out of it that I would not get from other media.

hobo_mark··on The Intellectual Obesity Crisis (2022)
But you are not actually learning anything while doomscrolling.
hobo_mark··on Lessons learned from 6 months of operating a tiny news archive
Are you some sort of writer/reporter or is this all for entertainment?
hobo_mark··on Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?
NotebookLM is currently US only, limited to 20 documents (sorry, 'sources') per notebook, and only works with Google Drive.
hobo_mark··on Show HN: Pico: An open-source Ngrok alternative built for production traffic
Or Pigo? it's written in go after all :D
hobo_mark··on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest
If western demand goes away, you think African demand can compensate for that? Domestic would be more realistic, and even there China has nowhere near enough domestic consumption to keep the system running, let alone sustain historical growth rates.
hobo_mark··on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest
> spaying foreign citizens

now that would be a bridge too far...

hobo_mark··on Autism makes travel a challenge. Here’s how I learned to cope
Wait you think flying a plane is a more relaxed experience than going on a trip?
hobo_mark··on AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License
If you ever turn the radio on or hear the spotify weekly top playlist, it's not like contemporary cookie cutter pop music is any better. At least with this anyone can quickly experiment quirky new ideas!
hobo_mark··on Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died
He didn't discover the Higgs, but he formulated it (along with other people) in 1964. Its discovery was not until 2012.
hobo_mark··on Introducing GNOME 46, "Kathmandu"
We just deployed RHEL9 and had to quickly revert gnome because users (and me!) had no effing idea how to use it.

For instance, no button to minimize and maximize a window, no taskbar to switch between windows, what the actual...

hobo_mark··on AMD announces the Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA family
An FPGA is a blank slate, more so than a CPU is, the programming interface is whatever the user wants to implement (including ring buffers and DMA or whatever).
hobo_mark··on The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6
I found no way of calling KWin functions other than piping javascript into dbus and parsing the reply via journalctl, which... lol?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/706477/is-there-a-w...

hobo_mark··on The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6
Yes.
hobo_mark··on The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6
I accidentally got this, and now it defaults to Wayland which completely broke my workflow. That is because, in Wayland, there is no API to list what windows are on your desktop! [1]

Managed to get back to X11, for some reason the logoff button does not work anymore but at least my monitoring scripts do.

[1] https://github.com/Kalmat/PyWinCtl/blob/master/README.md#lin...

hobo_mark··on FOSDEM 2024: PineTime Talk
Does it do sleep tracking? How long does the battery last? I still daily drive a Pebble 2HR with over a week of battery life but am looking for a replacement compatible with Gadgetbridge, and there really aren't any that can track sleep in a way Gadgetbridge can understand...
hobo_mark··on Working in the Vision Pro [video]
Not that I would know first-hand, but several other videos of the AVP in action look the same.
hobo_mark··on Launch HN: Univerbal (YC W23) – Language learning with a conversational AI tutor
Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to univerbal.app because this website requires a secure connection.

Same with Chrome...

hobo_mark··on All arabica coffee is genetically similar: how can beans taste so different?
Of course.
hobo_mark··on All arabica coffee is genetically similar: how can beans taste so different?
Of course. But now do a blind taste with someone off the streets, and ask which one is the "oaky Rioja".
hobo_mark··on All arabica coffee is genetically similar: how can beans taste so different?
> taste about as different as raspberry, cherry, blackcurrant (cassis) and blackberry juices

I can trivially tell these apart, and I did not have to "study" any of that.

From other comments it sounds like doing the same for wine takes years of practice, which is obviously only accessible to the leisure class.

hobo_mark··on All arabica coffee is genetically similar: how can beans taste so different?
> I'm no connoisseur at all...

Then proceeds to speak in completely alien language, thank you for proving my point :)

I am saying learning such language takes years of practice, and such a hobby is only available to (relatively) few.

hobo_mark··on All arabica coffee is genetically similar: how can beans taste so different?
> Unless you have a problem with your tasting sense.

I mean, there's two comments proposing that already, but why would that be the case only for high-ceremony drinks (coffee, wine...).

hobo_mark··on All arabica coffee is genetically similar: how can beans taste so different?
Of course not, but I often have colleagues qualify some coffee as "excellent" and some other as "terrible" and I cannot ever tell the two apart.
hobo_mark··on All arabica coffee is genetically similar: how can beans taste so different?
All coffee and all wine tastes the same to me, can people really tell the difference or is it mostly an upper class pantomime?
hobo_mark··on Show HN: Lightweight Productivity Tool
I think I suddenly understand those "fake email job" memes.
hobo_mark··on Show HN: Auto Wiki – Turn your codebase into a Wiki
Not the op but I don't think it's a request, it's semantics. You are calling wiki something that is really not a wiki, because wikis are editable.
hobo_mark··on Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login
Reread, this is with moderation on. And I only followed a bunch of other electronics nerds.
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