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New comment by Gorgor in "Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling"

Gorgor — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:29:48 +0000

Calculating the solar position is also pretty important when simulating power production of photovoltaics plants. So, the Python library pvlib has nice functions for working with this: https://pvlib-python.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/sola...

New comment by Gorgor in "Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model"

Gorgor — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 17:54:51 +0000

But no one is training these kinds of models on their personal device. You need compute clusters for that. And they will probably run Linux. I'd be surprised if Microsoft trains their large models in anything else than Linux clusters.

New comment by Gorgor in "Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager"

Gorgor — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 17:18:28 +0000

Have you looked at DigiKam? It offers directories, tagging (with custom tag hierarchies), deduplication and also face recognition. I think it can do quite a bit more, but I'm not a heavy user, at all. I just use it for keeping track of my modest library and it works great for that.

New comment by Gorgor in "Font loading on the web"

Gorgor — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:42:45 +0000

I had not known about 'font-display: optional' before. Now I wish more sites used it because there has been so many times where I started reading something on my phone with slow internet when it had not fully loaded yet. It’s really annoying to see the page jump around a while later after font loading finished and you realize that you just wasted data on nothing.

In my opinion, 95 % of websites should just use system fonts. They’re good enough for almost every need really.

New comment by Gorgor in "The war against today's dangerously dull playgrounds"

Gorgor — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 13:07:52 +0000

I took a look at your link and I don’t understand why you feel it’s “really risky”. To me (a German), it seems like any other playground with quite common elements. Sure, the climbing web (if that’s what it’s called) is high, but this is a structure where kids will not even get that high if they are not skilled.

All the images and videos just looked so American to me. A guy pulling kids in wagons with his motor vehicle, where I’m just asking myself: Why? And of course, almost all the adults and a fair amount of the kids are overweight …

I’m not trying to bash America, but this did confirm quite some stereotypes of mine.

New comment by Gorgor in "Tall Buildings of the Last Fifty Years"

Gorgor — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:01:59 +0000

They weren’t even the tallest for very long because the Sears Tower was completed in 1973.

5G – Energy Consumption, Carbon Footprint, Climate Change: Environmental Impact

Gorgor — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:32:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.emfsa.co.za/news/5g-energy-consumption-carbon-footprint-climate-change-environmental-impact/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21059924

Points: 2

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New comment by Gorgor in "Ask HN: How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers?"

Gorgor — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 10:50:36 +0000

I have a smartphone and use pass via the app Android Password Store [1]. You have to set up your GPG key of course and also an SSH key for the sync with the remote repository, but once that’s done, it works perfectly fine.

[1] https://github.com/zeapo/Android-Password-Store

New comment by Gorgor in "A 2019 Guide for Automatic Speech Recognition"

Gorgor — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 00:10:47 +0000

It has one for me.

New comment by Gorgor in "Linus’s rules on keeping Git history clean (2009)"

Gorgor — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 06:33:56 +0000

Even if not many developers use an email-based workflow for their own work, I think it’s pretty well-known that the Linux kernel does.

New comment by Gorgor in "Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app"

Gorgor — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 11:15:23 +0000

To be exact, Google did not “delete” the app. It cannot even do that. It removed the app from its own app store. The fundamental problem is that Google’s own app store is perceived by many users to be the only way to install Android apps.

Are there any ideas about how to convince users to use other app stores?

New comment by Gorgor in "Show HN: Mkcert – Valid HTTPS certificates for localhost"

Gorgor — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 21:02:59 +0000

If you do it this way, you have to copy your actual server’s private key to your local machine (or even machines if you’re using several), though. That possibly increases the chances of it getting compromised.

I’d prefer getting a separate certificate for local.domain.tld instead.

Please correct me if I have a misunderstanding.

New comment by Gorgor in "Dead sperm whale found in Indonesia had ingested '6kg of plastic'"

Gorgor — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 15:53:54 +0000

Beside what others are saying, this whale does not look like a big sperm whale. According to Wikipedia [1], a 20-meter animal weighs up to 60 tons. This one looks closer to 10 meters and probably weighs less than 15 tons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whale#External_appearanc...

New comment by Gorgor in "The Python Unicode Mess"

Gorgor — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 21:33:19 +0000

While u"" is accepted in current Python 3, for some reason they ignored the raw unicode string ur"" which still is a syntax error in Python 3. So, unicode_literals is definitely preferable.

Explore the immersive web with Firefox Reality

Gorgor — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 07:51:30 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/09/18/firefox-reality-now-available/?sample_rate=0.001&snippet_name=9416#utm_source=desktop-snippet&utm_medium=snippet&utm_campaign=FxRealitySept&utm_term=9416&utm_content=PRE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18064371

Points: 1

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New comment by Gorgor in "Pandoc"

Gorgor — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:09:26 +0000

That’s interesting. Did you \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}?

New comment by Gorgor in "Paul Graham on SICP (2000)"

Gorgor — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 21:44:41 +0000

In Python’s object system? How so?

New comment by Gorgor in "AI at Google: our principles"

Gorgor — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 13:04:19 +0000

What was their argument? Do you have a link?

New comment by Gorgor in "The “Run Less Software” philosophy"

Gorgor — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:38:17 +0000

What was the reason for switching from Postgres to MySQL?

New comment by Gorgor in "Thunderbird 52.7.0 released"

Gorgor — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 19:05:11 +0000

I’m using this setup too for quite a while now and overall, I’m pretty happy with it. But some HTML mail is barely readable. How do you deal with that?

I’ve written an emacs function which opens the mail in firefox, but I’m not really fond of that as every remote content is loaded by the browser. Is there a way to stop that?