HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

mastermage

364 karma · joined July 14, 2025

submissionscomments
mastermage··on U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’
Hi from Germany here I have had to for the largest part of my School life grt up at 6:15 so i could be in school at 8:00 then i often had school until 15-17 and had to do homewerk after aswell. Only in my 11th to 13th grade did it relax a bit because I changed schools and also got better due to redoing some of the basics. And mind you in germany Extra Curriculars are not realy necessary.
mastermage··on Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?
I took a trip from Germany to Italy over the alps with my EV with only 60 kWh of Battery. In reality the largest amount of delay I got due to other uncontrollable factors like a massive 2 hours traffic jam. in contrast to that I had like 1 20 minutes charging break and one 5 minutes to buy my esim that i forgot for switzerland. The 20 minute break i was gonna take anyways to take a piss and eat some food.
mastermage··on Substack writers, you need a website
because they have to due to EU Laws every business operating in the EU has to allow this.
mastermage··on Substack writers, you need a website
what improvements? The algorithm that radicalises people and keeps them seperated in bubbles? The Mass Data Harvesting?
mastermage··on Android may soon restrict on-device ADB
There is a reason that I am considering switching to IOS because google keeps pulling this shit. Atleast with Apple I know what I get.

Which is not the most flexible system, with apple only implementing the mandatory minimum of interoptability and features required by EU rules. But other than that delivering a rather solid product with excellent vertical integration. And at least i know that unlike Google their main business is not in advertising. (but in pricing their incremental upgrades ridiculously)

mastermage··on Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
It is question i just foegot the Questionmark because i am dumb.
mastermage··on EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps
How is the US doing with their Tariffs?
mastermage··on Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot
I enjoy JetBrains IDEs alot. Altough I mainly use Dataspell and Datagrip and not Intellij but they make my life easier. Specifically when connecting to new DBs
mastermage··on Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
Or in the words of Clickbait articles: MATHMATICIANS SHIVER OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF AI WILL MATHMATICIANS NO LONGER BE NEEDED.

to which betteridge's law of headlines says: NO.

mastermage··on Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Interesting didnt know. Expected but not great. Though depending on the application workable I would say.
mastermage··on Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Only actualy censored thing i found so far was Tianmen Square. And depending on what you use it for thats realy not a big issue.
mastermage··on Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations?
Hopefully
mastermage··on So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)
I have never reached that level of Mathematic fluency very honestly. I came by with my very mediocre level of Math, and I still somehow managed to pass General Relativity.

I still couldn't Mathematically proof anything if a gun were held against my head. I however do apreciate the precise language of math, which I greatly enjoy for describing problems and solutions with incredible precision and little room for interpretation.

mastermage··on So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)
much less dopamine, video games are realy good at stimulating that. Studying physics not so much.

Don't get me wrong Physics can be satisfying in its own ways but the amount of dopamine rushes you get from cracking a hard problem are few and far between. Often enough you just get frustrated and once you find the solution you think to yourself oh is that easy how didn't i get that before and feel absolutely stupid.

mastermage··on So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)
I personally recomend Halliday as an everything important in Undergrad thats not Theoretical Physics book. Use that in conjunction with your favorite Flavor of Math for Scientists and Engineers book. And you get a pretty wide understanding of Physics.
mastermage··on PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)
Yeah i belong to them i have an ancient account that was connected to a shitty mail hoster that deleted mail accounts after not use and i paid back then with a paysafe card. So i had no way to rpove ownership and got shafted. Abit of my fault I guess but i was like 14 when I bought it.
mastermage··on Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
An idea that sprang to mind and please point me out at which points its unrealistic and why because I am talking completely out of my ass here. If we want to reduce mono culture but we still need to somehow figure out how to provide humanity. Could large scale vertical farms, in Green Houses reduce the footprint of monocultures? By being more productive year round? Or is that just technolgist delusions of mine?
mastermage··on It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
I have seen enough people complaining about someone putting up an AC even the Midea Portasplit.
mastermage··on It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
whoops sorry I think i mixed the numbers up with the EU average, which is close to 70% point in case is that its much much more than in other countries.
mastermage··on It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
German here: you are not allowed to install anything thats visible from the outside without the owners aproval (70% of people Rent in Germany) or even the aproval of the Apartment Owner Association (Imagine HOA but for Apartments and every bit as dumb)
mastermage··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
you can speak for me in this case because this is predatory as fuck. And instead of protecting the vulnerable they profiteer of of it.
mastermage··on Steam Machine launches today
See the problem is they bought fries, that haven't been produced yet, with money that doesn't exist. For end users that do not want fries.
mastermage··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
WHAT and I have to stress IN THE ACTUAL FUCK
mastermage··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
the fact that apps like Polymarket seem to be legal is absolutely crazy to me.
mastermage··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
Isn't Sizewell c already delayed?
mastermage··on Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst
As I said in a previous comment typst especialy with extending via scripting stops being plain text readable. A Markdown file (whatever flavor it may be) is still fundamentaly one vi,nano, Editor, Notepad++ away from being read with all its context included. It is a tradeoff that for READMES I would not want to make.
mastermage··on Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst
Fascinating Ideas I love hearing opinions on this, it enriches me.

I do belive that atleast simple files like for example READMEs will stay and perhaps are better to stay as Markdown. One advantage that has is that while scripting is cool, It make the document not plain text readable which is a tradeoff one can argue.

mastermage··on Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst
For Latex I agree thats definitely. Markdown I am unsure as Markdown is not meant for creating documents but to just have a little Richt Text Markup in READMEs and other Text files. Typst needs a compile step and altough that one is fast as hell it is still different from Markdown that renders directly from the file without an intermediary.
mastermage··on A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown
this exactly this. They are trying to keep their money sources alive even if it costs the entire world. Which is Supervillain amount of selfish.
mastermage··on Your ePub Is fine
and now they make probably insane marketshare on the AppStore alone.
← PreviousPage 3 of 11Next →