Hacker News: Egoist

The International Obfuscated C Code Contest

Egoist — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:34:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ioccc.org/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37591868

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Egoist in "Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)"

Egoist — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:42:02 +0000

Some devices can also be more efficient when using 230V. Eg: PSUs

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/469913/compu...

New comment by Egoist in "Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm"

Egoist — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 19:01:36 +0000

Aaaand the issues turned into a shitpost

New comment by Egoist in "New F-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates"

Egoist — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 23:59:38 +0000

My Client didn't receive the update even after refreshing the repository.

I was able to get the new version by searching for F-Droid and going to the "versions" section and click update on the latest version

New comment by Egoist in "C Port of Ken Thompson's Space Travel"

Egoist — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 17:26:48 +0000

Not sure if it's based on this, but Ken also talked about a similar, but multiplayer game, to play with random people at Bell Labs which sounded fun.

https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o?t=1171

I wonder if the source code for that exists too.

New comment by Egoist in "Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release"

Egoist — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 08:03:07 +0000

I absolutely love Berkeley Mono and the author’s efforts into perfecting the font. It has been my favorite font since it was first released. Some fonts don’t go beyond the initial release for fixing minor issues, so I appreciate these updates. While I understand that Ligatures are controversial, it’s still good to add the option for people who likes it.

In another note, I really enjoy the simplicity in the website design.

New comment by Egoist in "The iPhone Keyboard – Make It or Break It (2022)"

Egoist — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 10:20:58 +0000

The two most accurate keyboards i used were the old Fleksy before it was bought and the BlackBerry Virtual Keyboard on Android. The Blackberry had the most interesting autocomplete / suggestion feature by putting the words on top of each letter. Typing “Example” can be as simple as typing “e” “x” then swiping up on the “a” if it had the word example on it. This allows more room for suggestions. Wish there were apps like that on IOS

New comment by Egoist in "Ventura Issues"

Egoist — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 03:25:05 +0000

There is also the problem with display settings. HiDPI option on higher resolutions is no longer available after upgrade.

New comment by Egoist in "I worked at LastPass as an engineer"

Egoist — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 15:43:34 +0000

In my opinion, 1password is definitely more secure. 1password generates a key when registering which you cannot restore. So not only an attacker need to know your password, they also have to know the generated sequence. This is helpful for people who tend to use easy to break passwords.

1pasaword is not perfect, but it’s far better than lastpass

New comment by Egoist in "Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe"

Egoist — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 18:34:17 +0000

Context: https://orenom.fi

New comment by Egoist in "Ask HN: Best book to learn C in 2022?"

Egoist — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 09:03:27 +0000

https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/modern-c/

New comment by Egoist in "Linux developer Vtuber on her experience writing a driver in rust"

Egoist — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:54:18 +0000

Keyboard Layout Evaluation

Egoist — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 05:14:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/bclnr/kb-layout-evaluation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32907919

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Egoist in "Oh Shit, Git"

Egoist — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 16:09:38 +0000

Swear free version at: https://dangitgit.com

New comment by Egoist in "Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus)"

Egoist — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:35:36 +0000

To add to that, it annoys me that it's still not possible (I know an extension exists) to change the default terminal on the right click menu "Open in Terminal"

New comment by Egoist in "Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup"

Egoist — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 19:09:12 +0000

“The changes will mirror the same requirements Microsoft originally added to Windows 11 Home last year, meaning you won’t be able to avoid Microsoft Accounts by creating a local user account during setup.”

If I remember correctly, when you install Win11 Home, it forces you to login with a Microsoft account. But the easy workaround is to unplug the ethernet cable, windows will realize it can’t connect and the local account option should appear.

Nevertheless, It’s stupid that MS wants this behavior by default

New comment by Egoist in "Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?"

Egoist — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 17:13:35 +0000

One less popular extension to add to others list: ublacklist

Helps you exclude any site from your search engine easily.

New comment by Egoist in "Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows"

Egoist — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:23:16 +0000

Interestingly, the first two registry steps are actually the same as the previous windows. Having it behind a hash seems way too user hostile though.

New comment by Egoist in "Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 'simplification'"

Egoist — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:15:13 +0000

The only thing i really hated is how they pushed their new right click menu.

they still don’t want to pick between their UI. Using the new unfinished UI content to navigate to the old one is just stupid.

New comment by Egoist in "Go 1.17 is deprecating the traditional use of 'go get'"

Egoist — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 17:11:46 +0000

To be fair, python way of handling versions is the worst and that even goes to the package maintainers. Especially what happened to python 2 -> python3. I don’t like the logic of no version specified = python 2. I have made the mistake of thinking i have the right python binary only to realize it gives syntax error for being python 2