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by moobsen 6mo ago
I just switched to a Fairphone 5 with e/OS, which is a de-googled Android (it uses microG), and am pleasantly surprised how well everything works. My banking apps work, contacts and calendar lived on nextcloud already, the learning app
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by moobsen 2y ago
This is hacker news. Hackers generally do not like authoritarianism. If that surprises you, I recommend reading the hacker howto. "Hackers are naturally anti-authoritarian. Anyone who can give you orders can stop you from solving whate
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by moobsen 2y ago
I think it is helpful to differentiate between mindfulness and concentration.* I would associate flow more with concentration. And if there is no mindfulness together with the concentration, time will just "fly by". At least for m
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by moobsen 5y ago
I share your wish, but I think that a big part of this is actually only understandable through experience. Just like you cannot really describe an unknown taste to someone, or describe colors to a blind person, etc.
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by moobsen 6y ago
I love htop. For me the design philosophy worked quite well. I learned so much about my system just by using it and trying to understand all of its output. And I am still learning after years of using it. I actually like to just sit and wat
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by moobsen 6y ago
So what you are saying is today's chatbots are useless? I agree in most cases, from my limited experience. But a chatbot which actually answers my questions would be great. I hope what we are seeing is the Through of Disillusionment[1]
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by moobsen 6y ago
As much as we like to pretend to only look at the arguments itself, I think part of the reason is because Travis is a pretty well known hacker. If I or you had published it, it probably would not have made it to the front page. Even if I di
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by moobsen 6y ago
I'd recommending digging through his website: http://bach.ai/ Depending on what interests you, maybe also look at the abstracts of his research papers? http://bach.ai/publications/
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by moobsen 6y ago
Are you referring to a movie? Which one? Or something like this? https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06148
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by moobsen 8y ago
I don't understand either how this got to the top of hn. I recently spent a weekend on the peninsula of Nordstrand and didn't even realize this was there... and it's nothing special in that area really. E.g. Sylt is connected
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24 cognitive biases (summary poster)(yourbias.is)
3 points by moobsen 9y ago|0 comments
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by moobsen 9y ago
My comment wasn't meant to compare it to anything else. Their nice words just don't convince me on a technical level and I'm surprised that so many people here appear to fully trust them. If their phones were perfectly secure
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by moobsen 9y ago
> nothing can beat the sense of security with privacy Apple carries with itself now. That is exactly it. Apple is not good at privacy, they are good at giving you the sense of it. A closed source OS, on proprietary hardware, where they d
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by moobsen 9y ago
Assuming one can trust git and GitHub (and CAs), is there a technical reason why you would consider distributing code via GitHub as unsafe?
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by moobsen 9y ago
Currently I am building a mobile GPS beacon which a drone can follow. The goal is to create a small follow-me box without the need for a smartphone.
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SENSEI predicts Brexit by analysing social media(sensei-conversation.eu)
2 points by moobsen 10y ago|0 comments
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by moobsen 10y ago
Yes, sorry if that was not clear. Just made me question every "4K" mentioned in the article.
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by moobsen 10y ago
"Gears of War 4 looks amazing in 4K" Why would you put a 1.920px × 1.080px screenshot next to that? 4K = 4096 × 2160 Pixel
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by moobsen 11y ago
AFAIK, the most important law of medicine is "First, do no harm." The rest is basically the details. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primum_non_nocere