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sleepygardener

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sleepygardener··on Coinbase from YC to DPO
This could be said about any commodity. Like because of gold hoarding banks/individuals driving up the demand rest of the society has to pay high price of gold for jewelry.
sleepygardener··on Software effort estimation is mostly fake research
I'm using MacOs/OsX since Lion, and I can say that it was very stable (even on my Hackintosh) and I observed stability issues increasing with all the following versions (on real Apple HW) and I'm on the same ship as GP never upgrading to newer versions until at least 6 months pass.
sleepygardener··on The Paradox of Abundance
I read that as scarcity of options - your only option is eat junk food and get obese. With abundance of options you can decide to eat healthy or junk.
sleepygardener··on Launch HN: Synth (YC S20) – Realistic, synthetic test data for your app
Sorry to say this, but the name "synth" is terribly misleading and generic. Word "synth" is used widely for electronic musical instrument "synthesizer".
sleepygardener··on World's first fully self-driving car will be ready this year, Elon Musk claims
I can not wait for these thing to become mainstream. I want to have me and my family being transported to wherever needed without having to drive
sleepygardener··on Show HN: React SpreadSheet – Google Sheets-like performance
same here
sleepygardener··on SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late December 2019
I'm not native english speaker and I'm wondering if this is the correct use of the word "hardly". I expect that to mean "not" or "almost not". "hardly hit" would mean "hit very little". Or am I confused?
sleepygardener··on Maybe visual programming is the answer, maybe not
One more general-purpose thing I miss very much is filesystem. Really what is a good option for a usb disk filesystem which you would like to use on Mac, Win and Linux? Seems to me that without using Paragon/Tuxera/etc. you're screwed.
sleepygardener··on 'Insect apocalypse' more complicated than thought
Seems like central EU is a very vague term. I meant Slovakia, you probably meant Germany. I don't really low-ball the price, I checked one of the supermarkets current weekly offer, 1kg Chicken breasts (standard quality, respected manufacturer) this week 4,29 E. [0]. You might argue that this is a special offer, but we have similar offer all the time in one of the different supermarkets around. Your point with beans etc. is valid though. Just the fresh vegetables are very expensive here and feels almost like a luxury item.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/sGOCC5V

sleepygardener··on 'Insect apocalypse' more complicated than thought
YMMV of course, doesn't mean that what I say is not true, neither I'm saying it's the same for all countries. In my supermarket (central EU) a kg of pepper is 3-4 Eur/kg, chicken breasts without bone are cca 4,50 Eur/kg, whole chicken is 2 - 3 Eur/kg. Not mentioning pepper is supposedly 94% water. I'm definitely going to be fed more times buying 1 kg chicken instead of vegetables.
sleepygardener··on 'Insect apocalypse' more complicated than thought
If this is all true, I wonder why a kg of pepper/cucumber (or any other vegetable for that matter) costs very close to a kg of chicken/pork etc. Shouldn't the additional complexity/resource intensiveness of meat production be reflected in the consumer price?