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q-baseon Ask HN: Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around

I loved the first two quotes. They went right into my notebook. Thanks for sharing.

Hahaha I had not seen that one either. Thanks a lot for sharing. That really made me laugh as well :)

Every once in a while I must succumb my natural aversion towards marketers and give a tip of the hat. This is definitely one of them. Absolutely brilliant and creative thinking!

q-baseon Ask HN: Finally ready to share my personal work, how to manage expectations?

Unfortunately this is probably the most likely scenario. And in turn also the hardest to handle.

q-baseon Show HN: Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time

Now that explains it. I was just looking at the stats from my WordPress site and found traffic from a indieblog.page - I thought it was some shady marketing page and ignored it. Here 10 minutes later I am on HN and see this.

Great idea and probs for shipping!

q-baseon Real World Recommendation System

I have the exact same experience. I want to spend time on the platform and I can find videos that I like and would have loved for the algorithm to find for me, but I really have to search very thoroughly for them myself.

q-baseon Real World Recommendation System

That's interesting and perhaps I should not be that surprised. If it did not work at all, then they would probably have changed it. Their KPI is probably ad revenue, but still if it worked for no one, then I would expect their revenue to decline as people spend their time elsewhere. But then again, where will you go and watch medium to long videos created by "normal" people? Vimeo? Perhaps youtube's interactions are despite their algorithm and not because.

q-baseon The endgames of bad faith communication

No I agree again on a personal level. But on a "global" level I can still be worried about the implications of bad faith communication.

Thanks a lot for the book recommendations. I read the intro you linked and it really piqued my interest.

q-baseon The endgames of bad faith communication

I hope your analysis is correct. On a personal level I have found it to work just as you describe, but on a more systemic higher level I am not yet convinced - I hope - but I am sadly not convinced.

q-baseon Real World Recommendation System

Does YouTube actually work for someone? I bit the bullet after not really giving any other input than what I watched and started marking "Not interested" or "Don't recommend channel" but I cannot see that it has had any effect at all it keeps recommending rubbish "sensationalist" videos.

I know that they probably optimize for ads etc. but if they actually showed me videos I would like to see, then I would spend more time on the platform.

q-baseon Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://jesperreiche.com/

Primarily use it for analog photography stuff. Always enjoyed reading good ol' photography blog posts, so that is primarily what I do. It exercises my writing, which is a good thing.

q-baseon Using email wrong

Another little note is that Fastmail also allows you to mark all emails for a specific alias as "read".

I personally have a newsletters@example.com, buys@example.com and signups@example.com all automatically marked as read.

q-baseon Bringing the Framework Laptop to more of the world

I have an X1 Carbon Gen 9 with Ubuntu as my daily driver. Everything just works. Sleep, fingerprint etc.

The one thing the ended up keeping me from the Framework laptops was the lack of Home, End, Insert, Delete buttons. Having had a number of Thinkpad machines I have gotten used to using them all the time.

I also quite enjoy that I can put my hands on the keyboard and almost not move them at all while using the little knob for mouse-activities when keyboard shortcuts run out.

q-baseon Ask HN: Recommend a biography?

My absolute favorite is the one on Wright Brothers, but that one is already mentioned by another member, so I will give the second best which is Walter Isaacson's biography of Leonardo Da Vinci. I have set myself the goal to regularly read the last chapter over again. He is so fascinating!

q-baseon Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?

Your willingness to try new ways is probably inverse proportional to your current wage.

q-baseon Case against OOP is understated, not overstated (2020)

Thank you very much for for detailed response. Now I understand where you are going with it. It seems very powerful and would illicit endless expandability. Because I have not thought about modelling it on such abstract level before I am left with some questions as to how complex a model this leaves. I do not know if I am too locked in OOP-land but I like that with this thinking, you can have a SSN table for instance that references this ID and limit access to it on that level instead of having to scramble parts of tables for instance. I can also see it being useful for endless additions of tables that can relate to that ID.

But I cannot fully comprehend in which scenarios this would be a clear winner and which it would add too much overhead. There is something to it though, so thanks for opening my eyes.

q-baseon Case against OOP is understated, not overstated (2020)

Would you mind explaining this part a little more - I do not get the difference between a Customer class and a customer as a unique entity represented by an ID?

"That said, best thing you can learn in your programming career is to get rid of "Customer" classes (or whatever the equivalent is for your particular problem). A customer is a unique entity represented by an ID, a private key if you will, which links data in various systems."

q-baseon John Milton Argues for Divorce (2021)

Haha this made me laugh :)

q-baseon Make the “semantic web” web 3.0 again – with the help of SQLite

That would be necessary. It should probably be baked into the creation of the file and perhaps even be included in the footer of the document itself.

q-baseon I started a paper website business

That is a really neat idea. Thanks a lot for sharing!

q-baseon Kintsugi – Art of Repair

Thanks a lot. Love watching things like that to relax.

q-baseon Kintsugi – Art of Repair

Very interesting website. Any other recommendations of sites about Japanese culture?

q-baseon Groups never admit failure

It seems to miss the mark in other regions, but here in Denmark that is considered a bullseye joke :)

q-baseon Steve Simon announces WTA’s decision to suspend tournaments in China

Kudos! As oblivious bystander and no real tennis-knowledge apart from how the game is played, how much pressure will this put on China? How much weight does WTA carry? It will no doubt cause some media coverage no matter the outcome.

q-baseon Ask HN: How do I learn how to tell a good story?

Thanks a lot for this. I am not OP, but have the same issues so really appreciate this.

q-baseon Ask HN: How do I learn how to tell a good story?

I have the exact same problem. Never been good at telling stories. I have two recommendations for books:

- Story Craft - Jack Hart

- Story: Substance, Structure, Style - Robert McKee

The first one focuses on non-fiction the other on fiction. I was partway through the second one when I got the first. My immediate want is to be able to write better non-fiction text for my blog-posts etc. So I wanted a more focused book on that subject. But I think I will finish the other as well at some point because there are shared principles across.

q-baseon M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Performance

Can you help me understand what that means? Is it not possible to run it at the "full" resolution? Will it be scaled to what equates to the 1800x1169 that you mention?

That would equate to less "real estate" than what I have on my T460s FHD screen? Of course the screen would be light years ahead to look at. But just sounds a little bit strange with regards to actual pixels/space on the screen?

q-baseon Fedora 35

Thanks a lot for your thorough explanation. I was not aware of the gestures thing. Perhaps I will give it a try when I get a new laptop. Then I can always go back to Ubuntu if I do not like it.

q-baseon Fedora 35

Thanks a lot for your description. Could you give me a little more information as to what you find better in GNOME 40? And perhaps what felt off with Ubuntu?

Pipewire may be a candidate for a something that would make me switch, only because I have some issues with Ubuntu and my bluetooth headset, where the microphone is not really working always. Also having to switch back and forth between high quality playback for music and "headset" settings is not really ideal. But I am unaware of Pipewire solving these.

q-baseon Fedora 35

What are the advantages of Fedora over Ubuntu - if any?

I have been using Ubuntu as my daily driver for a few years now, without complaints, but as I will be getting a new laptop in the near future I might consider other distros. Back when I installed Ubuntu 18.04 I shortly tried Fedora, but for as simple reason as I did not like the "look" I switched to Ubuntu and ran with it ever since.