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riperoni··on Using AsciiDoc to write my two books
So, LaTeX was not considered?

It is nicely editable in text editors, versionable with git, has CLI tools, has templates that can be used as-is or customized to the gills.

To top it off, it has 30 years of development and packages at its dispsosal that can solve almost every need that arises.

riperoni··on Stern-Gerlach experiment used to probe the clash of quantum theory and gravity
This experiment is not really "lesser known" as the article claims. It is known by everyone in physics, because it is so fundamental. And fascinatingly simple in the concept of the setup to prove a quantum effect.

To the public, perhaps it is "lesser known" but so is all that isn't CERNs LHC or Einsteins theory of relativity.

riperoni··on Git Branches: Intuition and Reality
While the explanation is right in some sense, it misses a few points.

Branches are pointers to a commit and that pointer is refreshed when a new commit is created. One could say they are a wandering tag (without explaining a tag for now).

The actual chain of commits that represent what we see as branch comes from the commits themselves. Those commits point back to their parent commit.

And then one can see why no branch has any special meaning: It is a chain of related commits with a named entrypoint. Once you delete a branch (i.e. the named wandering pointer to a commit), you cannot identify a branch as such anymore. It is just a chain of related commits without a named label now. And nothing besides the name distinguished the branch from other commit chains before.

The master/dev/release branches are then a convention to keep an updated commit pointer on the chain of commits containing changes of interest.

riperoni··on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
Nice work!

Would be great to see not only the episode title but also the podcast name when you click on a topic.

The site is kinda fast though, I enjoy that!

riperoni··on Show HN: Mana Pool – Market for Magic Cards
As someone that is not invested in MTG, I think this looks cool and very straightforward to use and navigate.

One nice thing I noticed: I wondered what "LP" and and the likes mean on the card offer and an explanation popped up when i clicked on it. Very much appreciated.

It would be helfpful though if a click on a link, filter or similar immediately indicates loading. Almost always I wondered if a click registered because nothing happened for a few seconds.

And I navigated the following route: Startpage -> Innistrad: Crimson Vow -> Any card -> Lisings -> click on some sellers icon

From the route and URL I can infer that I'm on the sellers page, but there is no indication for that on the Website. No navbar like when browsing. This would be very helpful to see on the site directly.

riperoni··on How many medical studies are faked or flawed?
Severe side effects or death cases were excluded from the Pfizer phase 3 study by conveniently shifting blame on patients, inventing diagnoses or claiming they had a Covid infection.

Even if all that were not intentional, it would certainly raise the question why this should be the only case of fabricating data for studies. Since the RNA-vaccines are obviously not as positively effective as claimed, what else is there that might be not talked about? And lastly why is the topic still that controversial when the safety and effectivity claims have not stood up to the real world test?

riperoni··on For the first time in years, I’m excited by my computer purchase
I thoroughly enjoy frameworks approach to costumizability and focusing on a consumer-maintainable product.

However, framework as a company handled a design flaw on their end in the first gen laptops and more specifically the ones with an 11th gen Intel processor really badly. which is why i won't recommend to buy or buy another one myself. See also Louis Rossmann's video about this.

It has a bad circuit design on the mainboard that can prevent the laptop from starting if the CMOS battery is empty - no matter your main battery charge. The immediate solution is to plug the laptop into the wall adapter and start it. This can happen if you don't use your laptop for about a week or two. Then you just cant start it without external power.

So this turns your laptop with the ability to move and use it on the go into basically a glorified desktop. It cripples its core functionality.

Frameworks offers no fix. They took a while to even recognize that the issue stems from their side. The community forum was already quite pissed. Then framework insists on sending new CMOS batteries which will change very little once that battery drains. They don't accept returns, they dont offer mainboard replacements. They posted how to solder the mainboard to bridge the main battery to jump start the laptop if the CMOS battery drains, but without warranty for that and they don't offer to do it for you.

So in my opinion, this was a clear way of not caring for customers needs in the end and not even standing up for mistakes they made.

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