Hacker News: MilanTodorovic

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

MilanTodorovic — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:28:45 +0000

I don't think that's a good analogy. You can't "hospitalize" someone into Loops for rehabilitation. Don't fight the symptoms, fight the cause.

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware"

MilanTodorovic — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:28:28 +0000

Faroese actually

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing"

MilanTodorovic — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 07:36:10 +0000

Pairing mostly sucks with low quality adapters which have all sorts of timing issues. Some decent ones are perfectly fine.

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

MilanTodorovic — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:41:23 +0000

Are there any spiritual successors?

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

MilanTodorovic — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:36:32 +0000

It seems that Medium article is ripping off this one https://www.alexandercowan.com/yellow-walkman-data-art-of-cu...

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable)"

MilanTodorovic — Wed, 07 May 2025 20:08:00 +0000

I got around this with Pillow and Python by reducing the image quality to like 20% which in my case didn't have any compromises, but reduced the image size quite substantially. Then I repackaged the images back into cbz and used KCC to make a proper file. As a disclaimer, I have done it only with the Kaiji Ultimate Survivor series to be able to fit the entire manga on my Kindle PW3 with 4GB of storage (I already used up like 1.5GB). Kaiji has less complex drawings, which most certainly plays a role.

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?"

MilanTodorovic — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:30:36 +0000

Learn how to use (Neo)vim.

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "Surrealism, cafes and lots of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming"

MilanTodorovic — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 12:48:47 +0000

He provides a portal to the west as a Japanese person would imagined it to be, akin to an otaku romanticizing japanise culture.

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed?"

MilanTodorovic — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:59:59 +0000

My guess would be that it nurtures the imposter sydrome once the "top performer" starts struggeling with something they shouldn't if they truely were a top performer.

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "Pagination widows, or, why I'm embarrassed about my eBook (2023)"

MilanTodorovic — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 07:20:46 +0000

Have you tired KOreader[0]? It supports multiple ebook formats, including epub and cbz. You'll need to jailbreak[1] your Kindle though.

[0] http://koreader.rocks/ [1] https://github.com/notmarek/LanguageBreak

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "Research on the visual rabbit illusion takes a leap forward"

MilanTodorovic — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:58:36 +0000

After covering the first part of the sceen, I still fail to see the 3rd flash

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "Inventing Cyrillic"

MilanTodorovic — Tue, 28 May 2024 11:04:21 +0000

It most certainly will have a big impact. It will take a few more decades, but at some point everybody will simply switch. Both formes are equal in the eyes of the consitution, but Cyrillic is prefered by official insitutions, except if you deal with a lot of foreign affairs. Then it is more practical to simply use Latin all the way.

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "Inventing Cyrillic"

MilanTodorovic — Tue, 28 May 2024 06:39:02 +0000

In Serbia, Latin is "popular" because it is the default in all computers and phones. Most don't bother switching or don't know how. In the old days, when sending an SMS had a price, using cyrillic letters was expensive as hell. You could barely write one third of an SMS for the same price. And that adds up pretty quickly! On a side note, as someone who has to use multiple keyborad layouts each day, it is annoying.

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "The Drums of War Are Growing Louder in South America"

MilanTodorovic — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:32:40 +0000

I watched some analysis a while ago that stared that the war broke out to prevent Ukraine from tapping into some natural gas reserves that were uncovered at that time. Those reserves are located near Crimea. Sounds more plausible than pure ego.

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "Why Japan has blue traffic lights instead of green"

MilanTodorovic — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 15:28:59 +0000

Carrots were originally white/yellow. The Dutch made an orange variant at some point.

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "My personal C coding style as of late 2023"

MilanTodorovic — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 06:18:35 +0000

Couldn't we do it like (!need_free == !some_other_bool)?

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do"

MilanTodorovic — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 06:42:50 +0000

It does happen, but in a different form. Now we have programms that prompt us during installation to install another software (antivirus or browser [looking at you Ccleaner]) for no good reason and most users (including my friends and family) simply click next without reading anything. Same thing on Android but with sticker/gif apps. I can't keep track of the times I had to help a relative or friend with stupid fullscreen pop-ups or adds on their phone and with unwanted software on Windows.

New comment by MilanTodorovic in "Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers: study"

MilanTodorovic — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 06:32:44 +0000

The problem with that is, at least in my experience, that you read such things once from a reputable source and never check it again.