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rbrbr··on Ask HN: Non-Alcoholics Who Quit Drinking, Why Did You Decide, and What Happened?
I got regularly sick (cold) after drinking a bit more especially in colder seasons, so I stopped drinking. My health is much better now. I drink alcohol free beer now, almost every day. Yesterday I had a tiny glass of wine (less than 100ml). That was an extreme exception which I do only once in a few months.
rbrbr··on As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen
Every time I read about grown up men and women believing in a fairytale it makes me realize how far humanity is away from being a grown up self reflected intelligent species. And I have my doubts it will change anytime soon.
rbrbr··on DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized
Hackers got hacked, does get better than that.
rbrbr··on Why has nuclear power been a flop?
Because those reactors are always build with ignoring the decommission and its costs.
rbrbr··on Your Product Sucks: Apple Music on macOS Review
It is fascinating, just like Microsoft. Both companies have basically infinite resources but they build software that has the quality of cheap low budget third party company products.
rbrbr··on The puzzle of Europe
I am missing Germany in this diagram, Europe’s strongest economy.
rbrbr··on Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)
And so is Google Chrome. Basically everything Android. Just don’t use that platform if you care about your privacy. And stop pretending just because millions use it or because it is supposedly more customizable. Google is Google.
rbrbr··on Creative Driving Game Website
The main issue with this games controls apart from the usual touch screen key sloppiness is that left and right changes with the cars orientation. This is an absolute no go and makes it a chore to control. Games 35 years ago already figured this out.
rbrbr··on We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s
“Enter your email address to continue reading”
rbrbr··on His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752
Such unregulated ridiculous systems remain only in second and third world countries. The US being in the former category.
rbrbr··on Fully convolutional naturalistic video reconstruction from brain activity
Title announces video. Page does contain a pdf with tiny pixelated images of it. Are we back in 1990 or what is this rubbish?
rbrbr··on Vitamin D uncorrelated with Covid severity in those of European descent
Fact: Vitamin D deficiency leads to a weakened immune system which is partially attributing to a higher level of infectious diseases during low sun winter seasons in affected countries.

Fact: a strong immune system reduces the chance of contracting COVID-19.

End of story.

rbrbr··on My Experience at Apple
He seemed to have removed the page. Here is the backup: https://web.archive.org/web/20210102002234/https://ex-apple-...
rbrbr··on Things I Didn't Learn in 2020
He seemed to have removed the page. Here is the backup: https://web.archive.org/web/20210102002234/https://ex-apple-...
rbrbr··on Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents
Can’t view the article without paying
rbrbr··on Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
Pretty much what I am expecting from Windows based software considering the mess windows always was and is to this day.
rbrbr··on Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record?
Isn’t a much easier way to look around our planet and search for satellites of past civilizations? Or even on the moon where everything lasts much longer. Long after we and everything of us is gone from this planet moon vehicles and other devices which were left there will likely still be there unless a meteorite hit them.
rbrbr··on A Secret Recording Reveals Oil Executives’ Private Views on Climate Change
Where can this recording being downloaded?
rbrbr··on Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
If I am sitting in the dark the contest of a white screen to the light in the room caused much more eye strain than that of a dark mode screen. Not sure how the article missed that for me most relevant fact. This is why Apple has a daytime dependent dark/light mode auto switch.
rbrbr··on Paris syndrome
Who can blame them. Apart from the very center of Paris (that makes up maybe 10% of the city) with the old town and museums and cafes Paris is a very ugly city.
rbrbr··on Ask HN: What do you think the successor to Flash will be?
There won’t be a successor.
rbrbr··on A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World
Don’t read the article, it lacks any factual evidence. It’s like a book without an end, where the murder hasn’t been found yet (if there was any).
rbrbr··on Bring Back the SE
And don’t forget that a new iPhone with the size of an SE but design of the X would have a display size of around the iPhone 6/7/8 and make those phones entirely obsolete yet being smaller.
rbrbr··on American Phrase Book
Where is all this suppressed behavior coming from and what does it tell you about the country? Language is the key to the psyche of a person.
rbrbr··on Firefox Nightly on macOS: decrease in power usage by a factor of about 3x
That shows how shitty all previous versions where.
rbrbr··on Denmark Offers to Buy U.S.
I didn't find it satirical at all.
rbrbr··on Japan's Hayabusa2 probe makes second touchdown on distant asteroid
Where are the pictures / videos?
rbrbr··on Tesla will soon downgrade software on the entry-level Model 3
That’s all so ridiculous. I mean people buying those cars know what they are buying in to. I would never support such practices.

I do understand if an engine is throttled to increase its life time. Apple does it with the cpus in their computers. But just omitting a feature for the sake of selling it additionally is a ridiculous business practice nobody should support.

rbrbr··on Sony to slash smartphone workforce
I know it’s not gonna happen, but it would be great if Sony would develope their own phone OS from scratch again. In a parallel universe Sony is the third big OS developer next to Apple and Microsoft. Of all the smart phone manufacturers i found it always strange how Sony decided to go third party, and imagined them to be the most likely company to develope their own mobile OS.
rbrbr··on Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
I would like to see the same details about google / android and microsoft / windows from the author of this comprehensive list. And his conclusion what to use as an OS considering all.
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