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lom··on ShotSpotter defamation lawsuit against Vice has been dismissed
What for crap?
lom··on Learning from Las Vegas: Sustainable vs. Susceptible
Yes, but with Las Vegas it probably mostly also comes out of state, and a different region altogether. Of course a New York doesn’t sustain itself with regional farming. But basic produce probably won’t come from a very far away plac,
lom··on An experiment to test if Bionic Reading helps you read faster
Bionic reading: 317 WPM Literata: 317 WPM You read 0% faster with Bionic Reading

I guess I’m a pretty consistent slow reader.

lom··on Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attacked Open Source Before
The article suggests so
lom··on Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attacked Open Source Before
> Microsoft deleted the open source Hot Reload feature, 'cause they decided to shit it only in commercial edition of Visual Studio 2022. After scandal and closed discussion, MS decided to return it.

To shit it? Hilarious typo

lom··on I wanted burritos. Facebook Search sent me to a dead restaurant 45m away
45m, for most of the world, means meters. When I first read the title I thought that was awesome! Just around the block. But reality disappoints.
lom··on 9-Euro-Ticket
for 3 months*
lom··on Earth Overshoot Day
One of the numbers that is probably factored in is how much less efficient the food production would be if we adopted the food policy of one single country for the entire world.

While we currently use about ~50% of habitable land for food production, if we all adopted the diet in Bangladesh we would only need about 14%. If we all had the diet as in New Zealand we would need 190%. The dutch fall at 100% in the data that they published: https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-land-by-global-diets

Not exactly the 3.6 worlds listed in the link above, but diet is only one small part...

lom··on Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero
What’s a flipper zero?
lom··on We asked 100 humans to draw the DALL·E prompts
That’s what made me think the first image was drawn by a human. I thought it was a cheeky and funny way of interpreting a prompt that the AI wouldn’t have done…
lom··on I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was called
German here, I walked to school from the 2nd day.

And once I was 10 and went to another school I even took a commuter train all by myself every single day.

That was very normal and everyone in my class did it to some extent.

lom··on Why I left Google: work-life balance
How does working more hours help his work-life balance? Maybe the title should more be “not working a soul-sucking job”
lom··on Web3.0 Must Be Destroyed
There was this other article here where the author made an interactive NFT. When you looked at it in the market it actually nice. But once you bought it, the web server knew that you were in your wallet and it was just the poop emoji…
lom··on Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test
> uses for a brick

unrelated, but how many can you come up with? I’m struggling after only 4 or so uses..

lom··on The Niche Programmer
Does HN think nix is niche? And would the pay also be higher, as described in the article?
lom··on I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government
That is the pessimistic way of looking at things..

The US isn’t quite yet there where they won’t let you go to court, so you could still try that

lom··on Exposed by a Strava KOM: The Many Lives of a Fake Pro Cyclist
I started reading this, but then realized it was almost 20000 words long.. how much is there to say?

He faked his career, then got called out after some time, this topic really isn’t worth all the effort that was put into it

lom··on Cargo sous terrain – Underground cargo train in Switzerland
This is dumb. Another one of those trains but less-efficient and more costly. Digging tunnels is expensive, even more so across an entire country. Taking out ventilation or escape routes will cut the price, yes - but not enough. And what if something happens inside the tunnel, batteries aren’t famed for their incombustibility…
lom··on Millions of South Koreans could soon get younger (on paper)
https://archive.ph/4eSB7
lom··on My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
I personally found CRANE PIOUS to get me to a good start if I had no idea
lom··on Apple says they're removing my game because it's more than 2 years old
App not available for me
lom··on A Census of Minecraft Servers
What a pleasant surprise, I know the author from somewhere else. Small world!

Very enjoyable read and even more interesting results. 4 Minecraft servers per 10000 people in Germany is kind of insane to think about.

What was the number 2? The author made it sound like it was the US, but that has 4x less

lom··on Tax the Land
I think we would have an a lot larger issue if the 2.8 million immigrants who work in construction[1] suddenly fell away. Even if it would potentially (but probably not) relieve demand a tiny bit.

[1] https://eyeonhousing.org/2021/03/immigrants-in-construction-...

lom··on Insect Hotel
If you don’t want to build one of these on your own you can also buy them in many places, at least in germany.
lom··on Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV
Great game! That was really fun!

I would love to have the ability to copy-paste the results of how wrong or right I was after a set amount of games (like wordle)

lom··on What hacking AOL taught a generation of programmers
I feel like the same is happening with bots in todays chat platforms. I know some kids who first got into programming because they wanted to program a discord bot.
lom··on Former Xinjiang prisoner arrives in U.S. as key witness to abuses
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-america...
lom··on Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)
I can’t speak about puerto rico, but in another latin american country i’ve spent a lot of time in it’s very common for every small store to have a loudspeaker and blast (imo shitty) music from 10 to 5. That isn’t even bad compared to the many discos right next to each other than play music as loud as possible to not be dwarfed by their neighbor.

Whenever I’m in a Western city I’m grateful for how much more quiet it is (relatively anyways), even with greater density and size.

lom··on Daily steps and all-cause mortality
I’m very doubtful of these numbers.

Everyone is different, there’s no doubt that walking is beneficial for your health and you should try to walk a bit every day.

But I wouldn’t try to hit a daily goal, or certain amount of minutes. Just walk for how long you feel like

lom··on Unbundling Airbnb
There’s sabbatical homes[1] which does that. Say someone lives abroad for a year, and doesn’t want to go through all the hassle of moving out all of the furniture or parking their car in a safe place for an entire year just to rent it for that time. And the same for the person who’ll be renting, they might be in a similar position, just reversed.

[1] https://www.sabbaticalhomes.com/

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