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Rotundo
·9 days ago·discuss
Depends on age of the listener, on average, 30 to 50 year olds hear a maximum frequency of 14 to 16 kHz.
Rotundo
·12 days ago·discuss
The blog post sums up why users of Windows might want this.

However, this is not what Microsoft wants or needs. Microsoft is doing just fine by providing businesses what they need: a platform that can be tightly controlled and is easy to administer for large user counts.
Rotundo
·12 days ago·discuss
It's hot. Temperature is at or near an all-time high.

But also, the sun feels a lot stronger! You can feel your skin starting to burn in a couple of minutes. That's new.

Is the air cleaner than it used to be? Is the sun at a maximum in its cycle? I don't know but the difference is startling.

If this is only the beginning of an upwards trend in the coming years, there's going to be big issues...
Rotundo
·12 days ago·discuss
> how do you stop yourself from hoarding tasks and decide what to work on next?

By realizing most tasks aren't important, if you let them mature for a bit. Things only seem important in the moment.

Three days later the world (or project, or whatever) has moved on and nobody will miss the skipped task.
Rotundo
·13 days ago·discuss
Amazing. Thank you for giving me a new mental tool.
Rotundo
·14 days ago·discuss
I got back to writing longer texts by mentally separating writing and editing. When writing, just write. Even when you think the paragraph could be better, keep on writing.

Only start editing when a substantial piece is ready. Clean up some wording, rewrite a paragraph or two.

Even then, don't overdo it. There is always something to improve, you'll never be done that way. Good enough is good enough, hit publish and go on write the next thing.
Rotundo
·last month·discuss
I'm not sure I agree with the article, or at least not its title. It argues mostly about things the Pope didn't say.

I'm sure he could have said a lot more, but he wasn't wrong.
Rotundo
·2 months ago·discuss
> I would like an audio device which can play mp3, podcasts, internet radio.

Get a second-hand Apple iPod Touch, remove all apps you don't need.

For just mp3 and podcasts: get an iPod Classic (or Video) and install Rockbox.

Rockbox is amazing.
Rotundo
·2 months ago·discuss
Looks like a useful project. Wish there was a picture to see how it looks though.
Rotundo
·2 months ago·discuss
Creating more software does not solve anything if that software is mostly a functional duplicate of other software. Or, in other words, all companies re-invent the wheel many times over. It doesn't matter if you 10x the development of software that brings nothing new besides being written in a shiny new framework.

We should, IMHO, start getting rid of most software. Go back to basics: what do you need, make that better, make it complete. Finish a piece of software for once.
Rotundo
·2 months ago·discuss
No, absolutely not.

Unless it's to do official government business like taxes, I won't use any website requiring official digital ID.

If that means I can't use most of the internet, so be it.
Rotundo
·2 months ago·discuss
Yeah, 1993 here. Same.

Not only one thing after another, but often the same things all over again after a decade or so.
Rotundo
·3 months ago·discuss
For command line you won't go wrong with abcde ("A Better CD Encoder") or cdparanoia if you don't need all the bells and whistles. For GUI take a look at asunder.
Rotundo
·4 months ago·discuss
Removing the bitterness makes it an orange. We already have those.

I like grapefruit as it is. Let's not do this.
Rotundo
·4 months ago·discuss
Software will be even more a commodity than it already is. A hundred apps that do the same thing, what's the point? Rebuilding everything in a new framework every three years, why? The money is gone, or will be very soon.

We've been automating people out of a job for decades. And now we've outfoxed ourselves.
Rotundo
·4 months ago·discuss
I have everything set up as direct debit. I see, maybe, two invoices a year, if that.

To be honest, I don't "do" my finances. I look at my bank statements (on my phone) once every couple of months or so. It never goes wrong.
Rotundo
·4 months ago·discuss
Consider storage requirements. Strings (ASCII? UTF-8?) are not as efficient as integers or UUIDs. You're not storing UUIDs as strings, are you? They are binary, only converted to the string expansion for display and/or export.
Rotundo
·5 months ago·discuss
Sometimes something is a standard, not because it is the best, but because it is the thing that everybody expects and can trust to be there.

If you'd like to use another editor you can easily install it.
Rotundo
·5 months ago·discuss
Great, I'll make sure to avoid them.
Rotundo
·6 months ago·discuss
I've blocked some sites in /etc/hosts in the past. That gives just enough friction that opening the site isn't an automatic reflex anymore.

It would be trivial to automate this: block HN in the hostfile and only unblock for an hour or two on Saturday evening, for example.