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New comment by GloriousKoji in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

GloriousKoji — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:27:03 +0000

I might be the odd one out but I hate the awesome bar. What I do like about Firefox is I can make the awesome bar just a boring address bar and have a separate search bar.

New comment by GloriousKoji in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

GloriousKoji — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:41:50 +0000

It's a relic of SAT verbal analogies section which was removed in 2005. The syntax "A:B::C:D" represents the statement "A is to B as C is to D".

So on the test you'd get questions such as

  python:snake ::  ___ : ___

  a) lua:satellite
  b) swift:bird
  c) java:coffee
  d) pearl:gem

and you might select A because python is an interpreted scripting language and a type of snake in the same way lua is a scripting language and a type of natural satellite but you'd be wrong because the correct answer is B because the topic was actually about comparing animals.

New comment by GloriousKoji in "My favorite keyboards"

GloriousKoji — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:13:02 +0000

Wish granted.

https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/MINI_M

New comment by GloriousKoji in "Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it"

GloriousKoji — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:40:05 +0000

I built a Hadley 114 over the course of 3 weekends and I highly enjoyed it. Amazon has a convenient 2 piece mirror kit you can buy. The rest of the parts (springs, screws, rods) can be acquired anywhere and the stand can be as complex or as simple as you want.

New comment by GloriousKoji in "European sunscreens are safer than American (2024)"

GloriousKoji — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:40:56 +0000

But they didn't do any actual testing? It's just some score based on ingredients and advertised SPF?

New comment by GloriousKoji in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

GloriousKoji — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:41:08 +0000

The mental gymnastics I've seen kids enable is Olympic level. Need to upgrade to a bigger house, need to upgrade the car to a SUV, need keep traveling 2-3 times a year, need to sign up for some crazy sports league and coach which means domestic flights and hotels every other week.

New comment by GloriousKoji in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

GloriousKoji — Sat, 16 May 2026 00:38:58 +0000

So what's preventing companies from giving games for free and requiring a subscription or one time membership fee for online play? They'd only be required to refund the full price of the game: $0.

New comment by GloriousKoji in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

GloriousKoji — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:18:36 +0000

It's 2026, roughly 4.5 years after the release of the remastered version Diablo II: Resurrected.

New comment by GloriousKoji in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

GloriousKoji — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:43:18 +0000

You'd think with all that electronics it would be smart enough to use real brakes every now and then. The plug in hybrid Prius runs the gas engine every 100 miles or so.

New comment by GloriousKoji in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

GloriousKoji — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:29:31 +0000

Happy Holidays!

New comment by GloriousKoji in "There has to be a better way to make titanium"

GloriousKoji — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:14:01 +0000

As someone with a self proclaimed fetish I have to ask if you have ever tried working with the material? I find even the most basic manipulation to be wild compared to other common metals.

I was sanding and polishing a long handled titanium spoon to make it more smooth (slowly) by hand and the friction from that quickly made it too hot to hold. It's thermal conductivity is 1/10th of aluminum and roughly 1/2 of stainless steel.

Another fun thing is to anodize it to different colors. Compared to aluminum it can be achieved without the use of caustic chemicals.

New comment by GloriousKoji in "'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately"

GloriousKoji — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:22:24 +0000

One downside is it would motivate companies to get intellectual property registered under a trademark with indefinite protection rather than copyright. Even with our current lifetime + 70 year protection we have companies like Disney getting characters registered as a trademark.

New comment by GloriousKoji in "Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill"

GloriousKoji — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:32:35 +0000

I didn't want to believe you so I went to the source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1...

wtf.

New comment by GloriousKoji in "The R47: A new physical RPN calculator"

GloriousKoji — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:25:04 +0000

Calculators are large enough that it should be possible to fit AAA or AA sized batteries, even possibly a 18650. They're lower power enough that a CR3202 lasts a long enough time but it always ends up dying at the most inconvenient time and they're really the only device I have that needs CR3202.

New comment by GloriousKoji in "The R47: A new physical RPN calculator"

GloriousKoji — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:46:01 +0000

Am I the only one who dislikes the CR2032 that all the RPN calculators need?

New comment by GloriousKoji in "Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US"

GloriousKoji — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:54:16 +0000

Places in California has this problem too. Installing solar panels today could result in a larger electricity bill than not having them.

Getting solar panels forces you onto a plan in which they charge more per kwh pulled from the grid. The surplus electricity is only credited at the generation cost which is only 1/4 the total cost per kwh. (Delivery costs is 3x the price of electricity).

So if you want to go solar to save money you need both batteries and solar panels which is not an insignificant amount of money.

New comment by GloriousKoji in "Apple Renames 'Apple TV+' to 'Apple TV'"

GloriousKoji — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:35:04 +0000

Not to be confused with Apple HomePod.

New comment by GloriousKoji in "Pasta Cooking Time"

GloriousKoji — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:26:55 +0000

I prefer to cook pasta like rice and starting it in cold water brought to a boil and then a simmer: https://altonbrown.com/recipes/cold-water-pasta-method/

New comment by GloriousKoji in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

GloriousKoji — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:09:00 +0000

As someone also served by PG&E I don't think cheaper electricity will help. At peak hours electricity is $0.13/kwh but the delivery charge is $0.50/kwh.

New comment by GloriousKoji in "iPhone Air"

GloriousKoji — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:17:56 +0000

Depending where you are in the world some banking apps only work with phones that have physical sim cards.