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teknicoon Dependency Cultures – Richard Feldman [video]

In 24 posts over 11 years about his talks, this is the first comment. The poor guy deserves a break. :-)

> 100% silent

Careful, the mechanical keys are of the clicky-clacky kind.

teknicoon Show HN: Gofred – Build responsive web apps in Go with WebAssembly

Go-app (unsearchable name, https://go-app.dev/ ) has been doing something similar for a while, I wonder how it compares.

teknicoon AI Horseless Carriages

Gary Burton? Oh, no one special. Just the guy who invented modern two-hands vibraphone playing, played and taught jazz for half a century, and nurtured jazz musicians like Pat Metheny, Makoto Ozone, and Julian Lage.

teknicoon Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials

Thank you, very detailed and useful.

teknicoon An end to all this prostate trouble?

I’ve been prescribed, and taking for a while now, daily Dutasteride plus Silodosin (Urorec). However, the latter has the unpleasant side effect of suppressing ejaculation.

Tadalafil (Cialis) does not seem to do the same, however other potential side effects involving sight and hearing are listed.

I’ll ask my doctor if such a swap would be advisable.

teknicoon I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)

The game should not be available for purchase from an iPad. I can’t believe I only now found out that iPads have no vibration hardware, after using them for several years. Too bad.

teknicoon Pluckable Strings

The piano is a hard one. Best current result: Pianoteq.

https://www.modartt.com/pianoteq_overview

teknicoon How to escape Honda's privacy hell

I have one too, nice little car.

Unfortunately Volkswagen stopped making them, and the new ID line embodies many negatives of new cars.

Any details about the open source replacement for controls?

teknicoon I'm giving up on open source

> I may just be jaded and cynical.

You’re just realistic, don’t sabotage yourself.

teknicoon Scripts should be written using the project main language

Well, it depends. If your project uses Zig, you obviously use the Zig build system.

If your project uses C or C++, you also use the Zig build system.

Advocacy - Maintain it With Zig:

https://kristoff.it/blog/maintain-it-with-zig/

HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35566791

Reference:

https://ziglang.org/learn/build-system/

teknicoon BlackCat ransomware group implodes after apparent payment by Change Healthcare

Agreed, those ideas should not rise to the top.

It’d help if more people asked themselves a question more often:

“Am I being a useful idiot right now?”

Or they could be usefully malicious, hard to say.

teknicoon Shave and a Haircut

It’s even more striking once you look into the history of money, and realize what’s going on.

End the Fed.

teknicoon How French was medieval England?

“Bistecca” in Italian.

teknicoon Cars suck, man

I've been driving an e-Up for the last two years and am happy with it. It's a small car, just 240 km in the summer and 180 km in the winter though.

The battery pack is not temperature-controlled so it gets hot in long trips, and recharging becomes excruciatingly slow. Then again, it was not designed for long trips.

The new Citroen e-C3 is a modern, cheap(ish) car with a similar concept: optional touchscreen and many physical controls.

teknicoon Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file

Its URL is presumably https://entgo.io/ .

teknicoon Rumble turns off access in Brazil because of government's censorship demands

> This is Brazil. […] Sometimes what works for America doesn’t work elsewhere.

Shortening “United States of America” to just “America” is not good. Brazil is part of America. USA is part of America. USA is not America.

teknicoon How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time

You don’t? Help yourself:

https://youtu.be/t2Hxd3Emg4E

The whole channel is quite hilarious and depressing at the same time.

teknicoon The origin of the law of torture: A cautionary tale

No such safeguard in Italy: people are regularly tried from three to up to five times.

It’s not rare for someone to be found guilty after having been found not guilty once, and sometimes even twice.

https://www.nicolaporro.it/uccise-il-padre-per-difendere-la-...

teknicoon Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2023

I too have the HD598, great open headphones: you can hear environment noises perfectly well, and they sound great. When I need some insulation, I use the Audio-Technical ATH-M40X. Also sounding great, quite faithful, like the HD598. The price is similar.

teknicoon Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet

It’s a long story.

Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty - Murray N. Rothbard

https://mises.org/library/left-and-right-prospects-liberty

teknicoon X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?

Xwitter.

teknicoon Tesla shares 48V architecture with other automakers

> 1000W sub woofer amp Your car subwoofer is surely not so stiff that it needs so much power. But after using it, your ears will definitely be.

teknicoon Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers

“Should I Answer?” uses a crowdsourced approach, and works quite well for me.

https://www.shouldianswer.net/

teknicoon Americans think the American dream is dying