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lampe3··on Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking
How will this make money?
lampe3··on GitHub Copilot is generally available
Yes for me it was the same. Usually it got the boilerplate code kind of okay and then I had to tweak it manually anyway.

I would also not go that far.

Having good auto completion because of Typescript for me is the way way way bigger productivity gain.

lampe3··on GitHub Copilot is generally available
For me learning vim or at least all the vim code editing features was a bigger boost in productivity then using copilot.

I use the vim extension for vscode which is great.

In general learning the tools we already have I would say has for now a greater impact on productivity then Copilot.

lampe3··on GitHub Copilot is generally available
So I was using copilot for a long time.

10$/Mo. Is way to much for what you get.

I mostly write js/ts code.

The suggestion feature / auto-complete feature is wonky at best and leads to bugs or just bad code in the worst case.

Even when you write comments or have a function like `addOne` and you want to add `subtractOne` it will not get it right a lot of times.

Then you have the cases were it throw 50 or more lines code at you for something very simple.

Catching errors or error handling is basically non existing.

I tried it for writing tests. It bad. It does not help at all.

I uninstalled and after some hours of work I don't really miss it.

lampe3··on Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
My Feedback:

- Downloaded it - Saw the github login - Uninstalled it

lampe3··on Social media platform now bans users for what they say off-platform
Thanks for the Wikipedia link!

The design alone of that website looks like a fake news or "alternative" news website.

And in general ALL social media platforms are private companies they can ban whoever they want for what ever reason.

Social Media companies are not your friend. They don't fight for your freedom. They don't have a soul or anything in that direction.

Treat them as any other company which can screw you at any moment.

lampe3··on Web3 is centralized and inefficient
Tickets to a concert in the NFT world if you want so are a step back on what we had.

Back in my days, a Ticket was just a piece of paper. Without any name on it. The only information it had for what concert it was and what seat you had if there was the option. I could give it to anybody and he/she could go to the concert without any extra fee or a middleman.

lampe3··on Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources by 2035
These reactors that recycle waste are not a thing right now in Germany.

These are pretty old reactors from the 80s or earlier.

Calling it propaganda tells me just one thing: its a waste of time discussing this more.

lampe3··on Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources by 2035
No Germany back in the 90s was world leading in renewable energies.

World best solar panels but yeah for some reason they solid it to other countries or companies.

So no fossil was not the only way of going forward and it still isn't

lampe3··on Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources by 2035
We will see. I did not like the GroKo either but I'm also not the biggest fan of the FDP.

We will still need some big law changes to make this happen. I don't see it happening this fast as it should be to reach a goal of 100% in 2035.

lampe3··on Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources by 2035
I live in Hamburg, Germany.

the reactor near Hamburg was either broken or not running for some other reasons.

Also after 40 years of nuclear plants we still have not a good answer to the waste it produces.

lampe3··on Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources by 2035
I live in Germany and this to me sounds like a bad joke... In the last years:

- Harder laws to build renewable energy source

- windmills that create electricity are banned and protested against in villages.

- solar parks are not build because they look bad

- EEG-Umlage which should be a tax to create more renewable sources will be terminated this year

- RWE is destroying villages to mine coal

- north stream 2 needed a war to not be finished

Hope this explains why it sounds like a joke

lampe3··on Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
I know two people who have basically the same story.

One was a runner a Marathon was nothing for him and now almost a year later he can do a half Marathon.

The other one was a natural body builder. They know the weights they can push. He told me that 8 Months after Covid he was down 20% in weights.

lampe3··on Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
This is how Science work old studies and new studies can come to contrast conclusion. Why? Because of time, better understanding, more data and many more facts. So yeah we will probably see more long covid problems in the next 2 years.
lampe3··on The Dark Side of Smart Contracts
If I don't trust AXA I don't make any contract with them.

If nobody trust AXA they will go out of business.

I don't understand that logic.

Why do I need more trust?

Why should I care about the inner workings? At the end I want the money on my bank account

Everybody should have there own data center? Even my 80 year old grandma? In what strange world do you live in?

It sounds to me like your living in a trustless world were everybody has access to a datacenter and fast internet...

Your trust issues are the problem here and smart contracts are not solving them

lampe3··on The Dark Side of Smart Contracts
they probably saw they don't need a slow and pricey blockchain for that.

They could just get flight data from API's which already exists. For example in the EU all flight and all flight passenger data are stored in a DB.

Just call that API check against it and pay out the cash.

No need for a smart contract

Cheaper, faster and as secure as any smart contract.

lampe3··on The Dark Side of Smart Contracts
you got it XD

Blockchain/Smart Contracts are a solution were we first have to find a problem they are really solving or solving better.

lampe3··on Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe Rogan
But you should also expect the consequences if you spreading fake news and lies.

Free speech means that the gov can not put you in jail because of that but private people can punish you for spreading fake news. This is there freedom.

Yes you can cry then that this is cancel culture but every time someone cries about cancel culture usually its because the person said something stupid which people did not like and now want's to take away there freedom of speech.

lampe3··on EU Parliament pushes to ban ads targeting health, religion, sexual orientation
Okay, so why are globuli still a thing?

You can advertise your church but not call to harm other people, this is not religious freedom.

lampe3··on EU Parliament pushes to ban ads targeting health, religion, sexual orientation
Sure, let's target you with non-working medicine when you are sick and desperate to try everything or, even worse, stop the treating you get that works but takes longer than the one from the ad. Yes, this happens right now.

Sure, let's target you with our extreme Church that thinks being gay is an illness, and you too should help to get rid of them. Yes, this happens too right now.

It's about this kind of ad's not your Raid Legends or I don't know become a rich person with 2 hours of work ad's.

lampe3··on Do success stories cause false beliefs about success?
You can always tell the winners?

So scammers like MLM/Gurus/Influencers and the rest are seen als winners.

Still they are what they are scammers.

That single person responsibility thing is nice in theory but breaks really fast in the real world.

Yes it works for people who already had a great start and they can decide.

But that for me is a pretty middle class western world view and has led to were we are now.

If that is good or bad I don't know but could it be better? Sure.

First we need to understand that sometimes things are not in our hands. Sometimes the system is rigged against us (not always). If we then start to make the play field fair for everybody then your theory would work but I don't see this happening in the next 10 years.

lampe3··on Do success stories cause false beliefs about success?
I mean these sound nice in a book or in a blog post but in real life.

Attitude to fight everybody and be better then everybody can lead to being alone because nobody wants to be your friend or only as long as you have money or other stuff.

Yes some people have victim mentality but again just because someone has a winning attitude does not mean he/she will win.

The odds are bigger of course if you do something but again how much? from 0.001 to 0.002? or 0.05? Just doing stuff is most often not a better advise then doing nothing.

Its more important to do the thing that brings you near to your goal. Which these days is taking hack after life hack. Which usually only benefits the people selling you stuff.

What about the person who has to work 2 jobs? yes they still can learn that 1 hour when they have a break.

But in most of the definitions they would be a looser which they are not.

Sometimes it is the systems fault. Sometimes it is random luck or misfortune.

What has a bigger impact on you being healthy and wealthy then doing hard work?

Your parents being healthy and wealthy.

If you look at studies this is the biggest impact not working hard.

lampe3··on Do success stories cause false beliefs about success?
Sure if they are done right they can help. But I know 1 company were it worked and everybody was working towards the OKRs and the product got better.

The rest people just started to game the system so they would look better on paper for the management people but the product was still a mess and awful.

lampe3··on Game-makers creating new Game Boy games (2021)
You can make them game boy only but also compile to another target like windows or macos.

It will just look strange full screen on a 27 inch display for example.

You can also target phones were you upscale the img by 4 times or so and it becomes pretty playable.

Also you don't have to stick to hardware limitations but you can.

For some its fun.

But you can also learn a lot about hardware programming because these old consoles like the game boy are pretty simple and 8-bit. So its also great for learning.

lampe3··on Game-makers creating new Game Boy games (2021)
The question is why not?

On my free time I'm working on a monster rpg (something like pokemon).

I also opted for a pixel look and a bitmap font.

It has its charm to work on this old style games.

The graphics are simple and easy to understand and read for the player.

Also something like pokemon gen 3 still looks good.

Or SNES games like Terranigma, Secret of Evermore and so on.

And even younger people like to play them.

lampe3··on BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
So they become state tv?

Then why have them at all?

Why not call it <INSER_CURRENT_RULING_PARTY_NAME> TV?

lampe3··on Do success stories cause false beliefs about success?
You sound like a American entitled boomer.

Just work hard and it will be fine.

Which if you look was never true.

> Get a guitar and start practicing. Every guitar god I've heard of have one thing in common - they played a lot, for many many years, before breaking through.

Sure but they also got talent and were the exception and your view is biased. The ods of becoming a guitar god are very low and of course they are lower if you don't play the guitar but thats not the point. If I would just practice like one of these guitar gods the chance of becoming one is still really really really low.

> Doesn't matter what my personal definition is. I bet you have your own personal definition of a loser. You'll increase your odds of becoming one by doing what they do.

Sure if you compare doing nothing to doing something yeah you don't have to be a genies to understand that doing something is usually better. But just doing something will not bring you closer to success. its like 0.00% chance vs 0.00000001% chance. yeah the later one is bigger but that's it.

More important then going to school is learning More important then not doing drugs is understanding how to eat healthy Not doing crimes is such an odd thing to mention here.

I know your definition of a loser... a kid who does drugs and stops going to school. not that hard to figure that out. But maybe there are reasons why that kid takes drugs. Probably because to start with that from the start and later on we don't have the same play field. Not getting a job because you live on the wrong street is a thing not only in the US just to name one example.

lampe3··on Do success stories cause false beliefs about success?
> 1. they are rarely stupid not all of them but the tendency: a) Influencer b) pornstars c) tv stars > 2. they often sleep a lot less > 3. they more often than not are hyperthymiacs (related to #2). I asked that all of my bosses they do sleep as much as I or any other healthy person. > 4. they produce unlimited amounts of self-generated morale (related to #3). Internal and External motivation is a thing but sure a depressed person will probably be not successful. It does not mean that Internal motivated person will be successful or that it even helps. I would like to see some evidence for that. > 5. they are stress tolerant (related to #4) Again some evidence that this is a general treat would be nice. > 6. they are healthier in general Not really the heart attack risk in C Level or management or related positions is very high. We just don't talk about dead people anymore. Steve Jobs is the outlier here.

> I don't know very many successful people with numerous chronic health conditions that impair their cognition to the point of debility, who are asleep 16 hours a day, constantly depressed and demotivated and break down at the first sight of adversity.

Because they are either dead or don't want to be know or we just don't want to talk about them because they don't fit our perfect world view.

Also the person you are describing needs help a lot of it and I don't see how this proves that the opposite would lead to success.

lampe3··on Do success stories cause false beliefs about success?
Don't start with all these productivity systems...

I tried them all.

Keeping a second brain for me was just waste of time and being busy with writing stuff down. A quick google search was most often faster.

Journaling after a full journal did not give me anything in return. Just a journal full of crap.

Planing my whole week in a calendar when to do what... Good luck with a child doing that. Specially if you don't have the money for a nanny of sorts. A 5 months old baby gives a shit about your plans.

The only thing that really helped for me when I wanted to write a blog post every week was to do with a friend together and beetling money on who loses will pay a good meal.

lampe3··on Do success stories cause false beliefs about success?
Can you explain a little bit more?

What odds?

What part of that successful people do?

What do you mean by loser?

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