Huluk

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Huluk 1 Dec 2025 13:24 UTC
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in reply to: Lun’s comment on: Why indoor lighting is hard to get right and how to fix it
I did try it. It is extremely hard to find fixtures for these bulbs. You can find studio / stage lights for extreme prices, or you can find outdoor lights for facade illumination for cheap (-ish). The latter are not all that nice to set up indoors, and the one I had used a cheap current converter which caused the light to flicker.

I was very happy with the actual light quality and with the space efficiency of the lamp, but lack of consumer market really screws you over here. The same used to be true for bright LEDs, which were only available as plant lights or industrial lights, and also flicker and have bad CRI, but I see way more improvements with LED lighting for consumer use than I see with metal halide.

Huluk 24 Feb 2023 17:17 UTC
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on: Consent Isn’t Always Enough
Relationships between grant-maker and grantee or professor and student are violations of professional norms. We rightfully blame the grant-maker and professor for them and we don’t blame the grantee and student.

“Consent Isn’t Always Enough” is a misleading phrasing to make this point: It mixes the personal and professional level. We may want a norm on the professional level that certain relationships are not accepted. The norm that there should be consent in the relationship happens on the personal level – we don’t expect a manager to investigate consent in the relationships of their staff, nor is lack of consent mostly an internal disciplinary matter.

Huluk 14 Jan 2023 7:08 UTC
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in reply to: avancil’s comment on: On Cooking With Gas
There’s induction converters – basically metal plates with a handle – which you can use on an induction stove to heat your incompatible cookware. So no need for an electric burner, better get more induction for the added flexibility and lower complexity of the stove.

Huluk 14 Jan 2023 7:02 UTC
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in reply to: Gerald Monroe’s comment on: On Cooking With Gas
Agreed with all of this, except the last sentence. Induction is superior, so let people learn of that and switch to it on their own time.

Also note that many cheap induction burners aren’t particularly great. They tend more towards making annoying noises, for one. You only get the full induction experience with the high quality equipment which puts you back a few k.

Huluk 1 Nov 2022 6:02 UTC
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in reply to: Huluk’s comment on: Why Aren’t There More Schelling Holidays?
And national holidays don’t even involve the same trade-offs as company holidays (i.e. for infrastructure usage), so even if we accept that there should be more company holidays, maybe there is an optimal number of national holidays.

Huluk 1 Nov 2022 5:59 UTC
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on: Why Aren’t There More Schelling Holidays?
But in practice, most people take a lot more vacation days than there are national holidays—which suggests that the current number of holidays is too small.
Wait, what? You’re arguing that – from the business perspective – vacation days would be inferior to holidays. But now you’re using that claim as an argument for itself.

Huluk 7 Oct 2022 19:09 UTC
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in reply to: ChristianKl’s comment on: So, geez there’s a lot of AI content these days
Even after reading this comment it took me a while to find this option, so for anyone who similarly didn’t know about that option:

On the start page, below “Latest”, you can add a new filter. Then, click on that filter and adjust the numbers or entirely hide a category.

Huluk 14 Jun 2022 20:23 UTC
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in reply to: Otto Zastrow’s comment on: Welcome to Dustin Space
1. and 3) have been continuously happening, so I assume you want a revival of 1) the coworkings?
We don’t have the location Dustin Space any more, so we’d need a place to host this. Do you have ideas for it?

Arne and me want to set up a new bigger EA/rationalist flatshare again (desired location ~Wipkingen), which would be able to host events. So far, we haven’t gotten enough resonance to take further steps. So I guess this is also a request to contact me on that topic if interested :)

Huluk 6 Apr 2021 8:23 UTC
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on: Is there a mu-like term that means something like “why is this any of my business?”
Are “whatever” and “I don’t care” are still too sneering for your taste? It’s intrinsically expressing a value judgment on the question if you claim it’s not relevant (for you) to know the right answer to. So I’d expect any response for it to quickly take on a sneering connotation…

Huluk 21 Mar 2021 9:01 UTC
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on: Conspicuous saving
The likely result of public wealth information in third world countries is that you will get robbed or that relatives come to get a “loan” they never pay back. Any status signalling would be minuscule by comparison. So independently of whether this proposal would be a good idea in rich countries, your example doesn’t help to motivate it.

Huluk 6 Mar 2021 12:59 UTC
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on: Different kinds of language proficiency
It’s interesting to me that you feel a stronger emotional connection to a language you speak less well – and other commenters seem to have a similar sentiment. I think I only have that for very emotionally charged statements (i.e. “I love you”) and not for normal conversation. I usually prefer to talk in the language which I have recently used least, and also the language where there’s most native speakers present. When I’m confused about the language spoken, I default to English – but I still get a weird feeling if I’m speaking English to a group which consists exclusively of other German native speakers.

Huluk 28 Jan 2021 8:14 UTC
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on: Thoughts on the $GME situation
I think you are treating this too much like a normal trade situation; my impression is that the whole thing is mostly driven by people wanting to stick it to hedge funds. They “spent” some money on the good fun and have written off the amount.

Huluk 23 Jan 2021 8:39 UTC
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on: Lifelong investments
I moved around quite a bit and every move was worth it from my perspective: Moves for university brought a lot of friendships I still maintain, moves for work brought 10x increases in savings, both kinds brought valuable experience. I now have a strong network from multiple communities which is … distributed all over Europe.

Over the last 3 years I’ve been trying to optimise toward the more local investments you talk about, to find a place where there already is community and where I can imagine staying long-term (success) and where I can contribute to the community and make investments in it (establish a group house + hub. Success for 1 year out of 2 year existence). Build a life with someone (failure).

I’m lucky that I am now for already 2 years in a place where I want to make new investments and where I can build on the investments I already made in other places. So I’m quite excited for what the next years bring :) I didn’t particularly like the place I grew up in and I feel that I’d be missing out if I had tried to make local investments there.

So I guess this is partly corroborating what you say, but with a very different perspective?

Huluk 21 Jan 2021 17:03 UTC
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on: Would most people benefit from being less coercive to themselves?
I’m holding my judgment for now on whether this whole non-coercion business, but I’d like you to know that I appreciate you writing about it and I’m looking forward to the continuation so that I can evaluate whether it sounds like a worthwhile experiment :)

Huluk 4 Nov 2020 5:44 UTC
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on: Why indoor lighting is hard to get right and how to fix it
Has anyone here looked into metal halide lamps? They seem to be cheap, similarly efficient as LEDs, and since they are available in basically arbitrary brightness they solve the problem that it’s really hard to find space for all these fixtures for LEDs. I’m moving in a few months and I’m currently planning to outfit my new place with at least 1–2 of them in addition to LED, so any advice is welcome.

Huluk 30 Sep 2019 22:01 UTC
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on: What’s your favorite notetaking system?
I use a fountain pen with a thin A6 paper notebook, one private and one for work. I start a new page for every new context, and put off-topic notes (random thoughts, names of people) into the right margin of the current page. Things I want to look up later get annotated on the left margin. My work notebook also has an error log on the last pages.
Realistically, most on-topic notes are write-only, but the process of writing them helps me to remember the content, and on occasion I actually refer back to them.
I like this system because I neither need to carry a laptop or keyboard, nor need to type on a phone. My notes also don’t clutter that much – on a laptop, they tend to stay on the desktop “so that I can easily go through it later”, which of course never happens.
A disadvantage of my current system is that the notes are not searchable, and do not have a backup. I considered updating to a reMarkable, but so far found the price tag too high for my purposes.

Huluk 23 Aug 2018 6:32 UTC
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on: Chris Pikula Belongs in the Magic Hall of Fame
I agree with the point that we should reward people who change things to the better *in general*. However, I find it weird to transfer this sentiment to a game: There’s nothing inherently bad about making espionage, sleight of hands and rules lawyering part of the competition. Different people will enjoy it, other people will end up on top, that’s all. I get that you prefer the current situation, but from an outside perspective, this seems like a neutral change to me.

Huluk 4 Apr 2018 9:18 UTC
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on: Rationalist Lent is over
I committed to give up all obvious sugar except birthday cakes, which ended up being more like “give up obvious sugar except offered” – there were 3 non-birthday occasions where I caved in. I’m still happy with the result: Before this lent, I often found myself in the situation that I saw some sweets, knew that I actually don’t like them that much, but ate them anyway. At least during the days since end of lent (2 days earlier for me because I went to Italy and the traditional and only breakfast available seems to be cookies and jam), I was able to resist precisely these situations, and I hope it won’t take too much effort to keep it that way.
I learned from this experience that commitments are very effective for me personally (as opposed to “generally a good thing”) and I want to do this more regularly than just once a year.

Huluk 27 Feb 2018 11:18 UTC
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in reply to: Ben Pace’s comment on: Inconvenience Is Qualitatively Bad
I found your point about your commute most interesting, in part because it is very different for me. I need movement in order to get active for the day, and if the commute provides this movement, it removes a possible failure mode – on days I do home office, I have to actively force myself to go outside for a run, and if I fail to do so and start working right away, I’ll predictably less productive.
EDIT: The commute is also one of the parts of the day which provides time for reflection on my everyday activities, and I find movement intellectually stimulating.

Huluk 14 Feb 2018 10:39 UTC
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in reply to: Hazard’s comment on: Rationalist Lent
I like the term “obvious sugar”, and hereby commit to the same.
EDIT: On second thought, I’d like to allow for one slice of birthday cake per birthday, for social reasons.