NoboruWataya

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by NoboruWataya 9d ago
A couple of times now I have walked a stretch of the Camino de Santiago (each time it was just a small bit near the end; sadly don't have the time off to do a full route which can take a month or longer). I find the simplicity of it su
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by NoboruWataya 10d ago
She had a science/engineering background, more than marketing. Engineers can be frauds too.
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by NoboruWataya 10d ago
I had only heard about these things on HN, and thought they were primarily popular as a toy for people to hack on. I didn't realise they are so popular amongst "normies". I have no current need for one as I am happy with my c
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by NoboruWataya 15d ago
Contacts + calendar app for me, so you can keep on top of birthdays and other special occasions, know when people are away/back, etc. A personal CRM sounds like a very interesting idea but I would feel weird building profiles on people
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by NoboruWataya 15d ago
If you can't use their systems for a donation with a sales tax rate of 0%, then per the policy that means you can route users to alternative payment methods for those transactions. So by your reasoning, if donations to OSC are not su
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by NoboruWataya 16d ago
The policy is far from clear cut, and even having read your comments I am still not sure what you think it's trying to say. The policy suggests that an app may lead users to another payment method where the payment is a "tax exemp
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by NoboruWataya 16d ago
Wow, I was going to say I assume the pic in the top right is of the official Spotify client, which seems confusing, but it seems this actually just looks really like the official client. Which is good but possibly makes it more likely Spoti
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by NoboruWataya 17d ago
Exactly my experience, even worse because for me it's 2x256GB drives. Eventually I bit the bullet and upgraded one of them to 1TB, but not the one my root partition is mounted on (too lazy for that), so now I find myself moving various
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by NoboruWataya 17d ago
> Just like I can’t remember the code to my apartment building, yet I type it in multiple times every day. To me it's even less problematic than this. Not being able to remember important codes except via muscle memory is quite unse
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by NoboruWataya 17d ago
Indeed, I find it hard to conceive of problems that are: - too difficult for me to solve but easy enough for a cheap model to solve (if it's going to be running autonomously in the background, I ain't paying ChatGPT/Claude
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by NoboruWataya 17d ago
My view is that it doesn't really matter, and focusing on it is likely an attempt to distract from the substance of the encyclical, which could be seen as critical of AI insofar as it calls for stronger regulation and more conscientiou
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by NoboruWataya 17d ago
I think it's a matter of incentives. American billionaires are mostly highly financially exposed to AI, so are not really incentivised to say anything interesting about it except "it's great, you should buy it".
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by NoboruWataya 17d ago
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding you, but Magnifica Humanitas was published earlier this year.
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by NoboruWataya 18d ago
Well, the guardrails, by which I assume you mean legal and social accountability, were the norm for most of human history, which is why I don't consider the behaviour of anonymous and unaccountable humans on the internet to be "
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by NoboruWataya 19d ago
The "About" page seems fairly clear: > A/I was born over 20 years ago to provide internet support (through website hosting, e-mail accounts, mailing lists, chat, blogs, and much more) to activists and collectives coming fr
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by NoboruWataya 20d ago
Surprised TOML didn't get mentioned in the alternatives section, it's probably my favourite configuration format. I'm working on a project now that uses YAML for configuration (it makes more sense in this context than TOML) a
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by NoboruWataya 21d ago
> It’s like some caricature - like an attempt to draw an animal that has never been seen from a description In my experience this is how HNers see a lot of roles or professions that are not software developer. Finance = Patrick Bateman,
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by NoboruWataya 21d ago
I use this regularly when I go on long walks out of the city (including the couple of times I've done stretches of the Camino de Santiago). The offline map support and being able to load and display GPX tracks are really helpful there.
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by NoboruWataya 22d ago
Yeah. Like most people, my only experience of statistics is studying as part of maths in secondary school. I was really strong in maths generally and most of it came relatively easily to me, but I struggled with statistics. Examples like th
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by NoboruWataya 22d ago
What is the main use case for X these days? Is it still as popular as it used to be? Clearly the exodus that happened when Musk took it over didn't kill it but I do seem to see fewer links to it than I used to. Whenever I do see it lin
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by NoboruWataya 22d ago
> In the first half of the month, roughly 60% of the daily HN lineup was AI-related or AI-generated, tapering off to ~50% as we approached the end of the month. This is up from 40% in February. This aligns with my much less scientific re
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by NoboruWataya 23d ago
I think this may be a translation issue, as I would always have understood "modern art" to refer to the movement that began in the 1860s, and (English) Wikipedia appears to back this up. Like others have said, "contemporary a
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by NoboruWataya 23d ago
If you are a foreigner I imagine your accent can give you away pretty quickly. Europeans would be far less likely to tip (or tip generously).
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by NoboruWataya 23d ago
If the price increase is actually linked to higher wages for the staff, there should be no increase in taxable revenue for the restaurant, because the wages are deductible expenses. But there is still the matter of sales tax (paid by the
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by NoboruWataya 24d ago
As I understand it, these attempts to use digital nomad money to revive impoverished areas tend to become controversial when the impoverished locals realise what it means to compete with (from their perspective) extremely wealthy blow-ins.
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by NoboruWataya 27d ago
I gave up trying to read plays shortly after school. There's no point to me, they are supposed to be performed. I still think it's worth studying some of the more famous ones in school, but any study should absolutely involve actu
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by NoboruWataya 27d ago
> So as a kid it just totally didn't mean anything to me, it was just a strange torture A lot of school is like this though. English is basically my only language, I have taught myself some very basic Spanish over the years but it i
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by NoboruWataya 27d ago
> Although I’ve been saying “Claude”, I actually did most of the work in OpenCode with some of my favorite open weights models. Kimi K3 & K2.6, and DeepSeek v4 Pro & Flash. ... This seems needlessly confusing/misleading? Aut
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by NoboruWataya 29d ago
It's a bleak situation. I don't have a Fairphone (after much agonising, I went instead with a used Pixel when I finally decided to retire my previous phone). I love Fairphone's mission and hope they succeed but indeed it is v
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by NoboruWataya 29d ago
> The idea that you were affecting and interacting with the world. The idea that you had a full gamut of options of how to achieve a mission. These were promises that weren't well kept, but they kept the imagination alive. Yes, look

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