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tester89··on Smart Homes Are Terrible
Not surprised. I’ve seen a lot of the smart home platforms sold to consumers use shitty proprietary apps. I would never buy them, and I feel bad for those who do. It doesn’t mean a nice, Home Assistant setup is bad.

But they’re right about the setup costs

tester89··on VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code
Doesn’t seem to properly support workspaces :’(
tester89··on The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem
Apple provides SNR values for ANC on the APP3 https://regulatoryinfo.apple.com/hearingprotection/details/6...
tester89··on GrapheneOS accessed Android security patches but not allowed to publish sources
How does this work legally? If Android AOSP is open-source, once one OEM updates, surely the owner gets the legal right to request sources. IIRC the maximum delay is 30 days.
tester89··on Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"
At least for my discord, I still can't access channels marked NSFW, instead of showing me the verification screen it just says "failed to load messages".
tester89··on Why did not numpy copy the J rank concept?
The question you're asking seems interesting, but I don't understand J code so I don't know what you're talking about. Expanding the explanation would be helpful!
tester89··on Swiss admit to secretly posting AI-penned posts to Reddit in the name of science
Weird title, makes it seem like this was some sort of governmental action.
tester89··on How the U.K. broke its own economy
Very derivative of https://ukfoundations.co/ , which is mentioned.
tester89··on EU irate about geo-locked Apple IDs
It’s meant to be the latter, only between member states.
tester89··on US health system ranks last compared with peer nations – report
Can the median income Indian citizen get such service? Chances are no. This report is about the average case. Extremely rich Americans, just like extremely rich Indians can probably get faster service.
tester89··on Apple Watch Series 10
Yeah, they could've made the size decrease less impressive and boasted of a 24 hour battery life if they really wanted to.
tester89··on Fears children born during lockdown are years behind as they start at school
Is the population diagnosed with autism about to explode in a decade?
tester89··on The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself
No, copyright violation.

Libraries are able to loan under the first sale doctrine, that is to say that the copyright holder exhausts their right to control the distribution of a copy after the first sale. However, they retain a monopoly on the production of copies.

tester89··on Smoking cannabis is now legal in Germany
Couldn’t you just smoke less?
tester89··on An ALS drug fails, again
It’s not as bad, true. But you have to consider the amount of money wasted in the phase 3 trial, resources which could’ve been put to better uses.
tester89··on Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose
The only PWA that I think gets any use on i(Pad)OS is that for the Financial Times.
tester89··on The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(1948)
tester89··on I tried and failed to automate my life
I disagree with the premise that this even counts as automation. Automatic nagging doesn’t make the actual tasks any more automatic. Simply buying a Roomba would accomplish more than what they did.
tester89··on FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm
I'm not at uni anymore, but I let new students use the flashcard decks I made, any thoughts on the strategy I'm planning to recommend? Our university has the first two trimesters dedicated entirely to education with the last dedicated to exams.

> During term time if you set the retention to like 70 % so you don’t spend too much time on it daily and then increase it to ≥ 90 % when the holidays start.

tester89··on 'Suicide pod' is completely legal and approved for use in Switzerland
The view that we owe our existence to other people is abhorrent. Besides, we don’t legislate against ghosting, which would have similar effects.
tester89··on Open source liability is coming
I would think they would be *if* said program was included with the system, which makes sense. The manufacturer cannot be responsible for user-supplied programs, but they surely must know what they include with their system upon install.
tester89··on "One journey, one ticket", key learnings from Swiss public transport (2022)
Part 2: https://www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2022/2/21/a-seamless-cu...

Part 3: https://www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2022/3/17/t9qwyb2xlez9z...

(To the mods: I changed the second part of the title to make it clearer what we’re talking about, I don’t think the swisscal conference received widespread attention)

tester89··on The metabolism myth – and why exercise won't make you thinner
I have seen this claim, but what I don't understand is, then how does the body actually fuel the exercise.

Surely someone who sits at home for a all day would burn fewer calories than someone who exercises?

I can understand, that if someone does exercise for 1 day and then quits, that day the body may compensate for the extra energy requirement by reducing its own metabolic activity, but I assume that couldn't last if someone exercised regularly.

tester89··on Ask HN: Good Books on Universal Basic Income?
I know you asked about UBI, but you’re asking a socialism-adjacent question so I’m going to recommend a socialist book. This book talks about how to establish a computerised planned economy. I recommend reading chapters 5, 6 and 8 of http://users.wfu.edu/cottrell/socialism_book/ (free download).

I like the book for because unlike a lot of more modern socialists, they make comparison all the time between their system and the USSR to explain why the latter failed and the former won’t.

tester89··on Implementing Interactive Languages
Looking at the list of requirements: 0. Only 1-2 years of dev effort to implement. 1. Predictable, explainable performance. 2. A small, embedabble runtime. 3. Support for repl / incremental programming (ie adding one function shouldn't require stopping the process and re-compiling the entire project). 4. Support for debugging and profiling.

Lisp satisfies 1, 3 and 4 I’m pretty sure, and maybe 2 depending on your definition of small. Idk about 1 though.

tester89··on Multimodal Neurons in Pretrained Text-Only Transformers
Would you be willing to link some of those papers? For my curiosity, thanks.
tester89··on WHO aspartame brouhaha
That’s not the point, there’s no claim it cancels out. The point is about the risk tolerance. We all take risks in our life, and the risks posed by aspartame are lower than that of alcohol.
tester89··on WHO aspartame brouhaha
It’s implied.

> I drink diet sodas. I have received many emails/calls/texts from friends and family telling me about the "news" of them being a possible carcinogen. To every such person I say: Alcohol is a KNOWN carcinogen. Drinking alcohol causes cancer. So don't lecture me about drinking diet coke until you have given up on beer

The poster compares the risk of aspartame being a « possible carcinogen » to Alcohol, which is a « KNOWN carcinogen », specifically comparing the different classifications.

tester89··on WHO aspartame brouhaha
The point is relative risk, in particular the poster's friends are warning them about Aspartame, while drinking alcohol, which has significantly larger confirmed health risks. If they believe drinking alcohol is safe in the quantities that they do (and given that most health authorities now point out there is no safe level of alcohol to drink), then it's irrational to worry about Aspartame.
tester89··on After days of destruction, Macron blames a familiar bogeyman: video games
They chose to keep algeria during their democratic periods as well.
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