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New comment by ComSubVie in "Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth"

ComSubVie — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:46:00 +0000

The generated satellite tiles are interesting. The sea is very dry. And some mountains are looking very strange. At least for some places (e.g. Mount Doom) the AI should have been able to generate more "realistic" images.

Interesting project. I might "steal" that for teaching purposes.

New comment by ComSubVie in "Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"

ComSubVie — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:42:14 +0000

I do have an ancient Dr. Stika cutter plotter which works on an old WinXP with parallel port. I did try a few times to get it to work in a VM with an USB-Parallel adapter but haven't been successful so far.

"Fixed" it by replacing it with a new CriCut. But unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any open driver or software for CriCut - so I'm afraid I'll run into the same problem in a few years again :-/

New comment by ComSubVie in "Understanding the Odin Programming Language"

ComSubVie — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:59:36 +0000

What do you mean? It's exactly that in almost any programming language.

What is it you don't understand: "method" (a representation) or "decimal" (a number that consists of a whole and a fractional part)?

New comment by ComSubVie in "The withering dream of a cheap American electric car"

ComSubVie — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:51:38 +0000

And American prices are already insanely low. If I want to buy a RAM in Austria for $30k I get a used car with 150.000km. If I want a new one it's (much) over $100k.

New comment by ComSubVie in "Arduino IDE 2.0"

ComSubVie — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 08:48:52 +0000

I do have set up different workspaces for different development tasks where only the necessary plugins are activated. If I do embedded development I open my platformio.workspace, if I'm doing Java I have a workspace and if I'm doing JS/Frontend stuff I have a workspace as well as for LaTeX. It really works well and isn't really difficult (although I'm not really sure that workspaces should be used for this)

New comment by ComSubVie in "EU Parliament pushes to ban ads targeting health, religion, sexual orientation"

ComSubVie — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 17:36:01 +0000

Depends on the content. For some: yes, for sure.

For some others I should get money back because I couldn't find what was advertised before (for example recipe sites that contain mostly Blabla with interspersed ads and only a rudimentary recipe that isn't reproducible).

New comment by ComSubVie in "EU Parliament pushes to ban ads targeting health, religion, sexual orientation"

ComSubVie — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:47:14 +0000

Why not ban ALL ads?!?

New comment by ComSubVie in "Omicron Update: Nov 27"

ComSubVie — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 15:29:39 +0000

Nobody ever said the vaccination will stop transmission. It reduces the symptoms and hospitalisation rate (successfully).

New comment by ComSubVie in "Omicron Update: Nov 27"

ComSubVie — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 15:28:09 +0000

How long ago was the second shot? There's a reason why Europe accelerated the start of the Booster vaccinations (third shots). Unfortunately there's still a lot of people that didn't receive their first shot willingly although it's freely available.

New comment by ComSubVie in "Show HN: Hewell, a travel app powered by WikiData"

ComSubVie — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 12:12:45 +0000

Looks great, just tried it.

One feature that is missing: "reload map" or something. It's only showing things near my "real location"; but I'd also like to explore different locations (e.g. a city I'd like to visit next weekend).

For example "Komoot" is doing that really nice for hiking routes and similar activites: explore at my location, explore near a given location, use the map, ...

New comment by ComSubVie in "Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score"

ComSubVie — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:13:41 +0000

I'm still using my 12 (!) year old 17" MacBook Pro as daily work machine. Yes, it's not the fastest computer but for my usage it works. Granted, starting IntelliJ needs some time, but coding still works well (and compiling big codebases isn't done locally).

The one thing that really isn't usable anymore is Aperture/Lightroom. And missing docker because my CPU is too old (but docker it still works in VMs ...) is a pain.

New comment by ComSubVie in "EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones"

ComSubVie — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 13:59:28 +0000

Why not wireless charging?

I don't mind the connector (lightning works well), better would be mandatory quality of the cables (the iPhone cables are regularly breaking).

New comment by ComSubVie in "Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use"

ComSubVie — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 08:55:33 +0000

I'm still using my 2009 MBP (updated HDD and replaced battery once) without problems. Unfortunately it seem's that I will have to update some time in the future because of missing software support :(

New comment by ComSubVie in "The modern HTTPS world has no place for old web servers"

ComSubVie — Thu, 14 May 2020 17:13:23 +0000

I tried opera because I couldn't find firefox in the store. Opera worked about a month longer than the default browser, but doesn't work anymore.

New comment by ComSubVie in "The modern HTTPS world has no place for old web servers"

ComSubVie — Wed, 13 May 2020 16:59:09 +0000

My dad is using an old Android Tablet to surf the web. Unfortunately there hasn't been an update available for some years.

This year it stopped displaying some websites because of a newer HTTPS algorithm which isn't supported anymore by the tablet. And that for watching the weather forecast and similar things that really don't need to be forced to HTTPS.

New comment by ComSubVie in "Why Your Airport Needs a Museum"

ComSubVie — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:19:43 +0000

That's an excellent idea. You could also add a cinema to an airport; quite often you have transfer times longer than a movie ...

New comment by ComSubVie in "Memory Bandwidth Napkin Math"

ComSubVie — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:59:07 +0000

That's a really great post!

Good problem description, good introduction, explained code, meaningful and explained graphs, full source code available, conclusion and even possible further exercises. I wish (all) scientific papers were that well written.

New comment by ComSubVie in "Ask HN: What's the fastest tool for basic CRUD?"

ComSubVie — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 16:34:12 +0000

That's a great set of features! I'll try it on my next prototype.

Especially the OpenAPI export is great; I had always problems with automatically generating it (in go/node.js/.net core).

New comment by ComSubVie in "BPF: A New Type of Software"

ComSubVie — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:48:05 +0000

Haven't used it till now (except maybe via nft?).

What I'm not sure is: who is preventing BPF to be used as rootkits? Since they are run inside the kernel and cannot be inspected (?) can they be used to hide malicious activity?

New comment by ComSubVie in "The 16-inch MacBook Pro is a repudiation of the ‘Ive Doctrine’"

ComSubVie — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:52:22 +0000

> I like to call this Jobs’s Law, though it could just as easily be called the Ive Doctrine: Always strive for the next version of your product to be thinner and lighter than the current one.

Then hopefully somebody will start making "reasonable-sized" phones again. Something like iPhone4/5 size with full-size displays.