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New comment by MrZander in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"

MrZander — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:47:49 +0000

Agreed. I almost exclusively use the "middle click" autoscroll feature to scroll on websites. It is completely broken on this site because of the scroll-snap.

New comment by MrZander in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

MrZander — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:53:05 +0000

> with no human in the loop

With no basic validation either apparently. Insane.

New comment by MrZander in "Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking"

MrZander — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:07:50 +0000

When I say "low effort", I don't mean "not perfect". I was quite lax actually as I understood how annoying some users were when I asked my own questions.

I'm taking about entirely unreadable posts (not English, or just nonsensical) or posts that were very clearly a copy paste homework question with no code.

I helped hundreds of people of all skill levels for free, simply because I found it enjoyable. I quit when it stopped being enjoyable. It stopped being enjoyable when the quality of question declined to 99% garbage.

New comment by MrZander in "Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking"

MrZander — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:34:52 +0000

While there were many zealots that gave SO this reputation, I don't know if that's the reason it died.

As someone who frequently answered questions in the 'New' queue, the sheer amount of rule breaking, low effort, and obvious duplicates was astounding. I eventually quit answering questions because 99% of them were not worth interacting with. Just vote close and move on.

Ultimately, I think SO is dead because it got too popular and moderation became untenable.

New comment by MrZander in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

MrZander — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:56:11 +0000

What? Why?

New comment by MrZander in "Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software"

MrZander — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:22:14 +0000

> Whatever you’re shipping to a phone isn’t for professionals anyway.

That's a bold statement.

I hate developing for iPhone, but I don't have a choice because 85% of the users of our B2B app are on iOS.

New comment by MrZander in "Is my blue your blue?"

MrZander — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:37:09 +0000

Interesting. Looking at each in isolation, my boundary is pretty far into Green territory. But when I look at the gradient, I would place it far closer to the center.

Also, I found that sometimes it looked like there were two colors. The top was green and bottom was blue. Maybe my monitor?

New comment by MrZander in "Google Flow Music"

MrZander — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:50:21 +0000

Really bad at prompt adherence. Was trying to get it to compose a solo old time banjo piece. Couldn't get it to stop adding in backing instrumentals at all and it sounded too much like bluegrass style.

"solo banjo instrumental, strictly no other instruments" ... ten seconds later: drums, a fiddle, and a guitar join in.

New comment by MrZander in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

MrZander — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:28:05 +0000

Also, water towers. As long as the power isn't out long enough to deplete the tower.

New comment by MrZander in "How to turn 'sfo-jfk' into a suitable photo"

MrZander — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:35:42 +0000

The title on HN is incorrect/misleading, they are not generating AI images. They are hand curating a database of images by location and using an LLM to pick the pictures.

New comment by MrZander in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

MrZander — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:55:19 +0000

69 million dollars in refunds!? That's 12% of the gross, seems crazy high. Is this pulling from actual Steam numbers?

New comment by MrZander in "Ravaan.art"

MrZander — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:55:10 +0000

This is really cool. Reminds me of the paintings in harry potter.

New comment by MrZander in "MinIO is now in maintenance-mode"

MrZander — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:33:51 +0000

I wish I knew about this last week. I spent way too long trying out MinIO alternatives before getting SeaweedFS to work, but it is overkill for my purposes.

Looks like a great alternative.

New comment by MrZander in "S&box is now an open source game engine"

MrZander — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:20:00 +0000

You don't have to sacrifice anything, no one is making you install anti-cheat software.

> Sacrificing freedom for fun? For video games of all things? That's pretty disgusting and I want people to be better than that.

What is the point of freedom if you have a joyless existence?

New comment by MrZander in "Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support"

MrZander — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:16:48 +0000

Awesome news, can't wait until they implement calendar support and I can get rid of Outlook once and for all.

New comment by MrZander in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

MrZander — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:38:55 +0000

The difference is where the product is labeled. Is it labeled nationally like Arizona Iced Tea? Is it labeled at a regional bottling facility? Or is it labeled at the store itself? And what about when tax rates change, you gonna go pull all the labels off everything in the whole store and update them?

Most of this could be resolved by not putting the prices on the products themselves, but that isn't as good of an experience for the shopper.

New comment by MrZander in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

MrZander — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:01:48 +0000

Sales tax varies by state/county/city. It is generally not cost-effective to have each individual store label all their products with local sales taxes applied.

New comment by MrZander in "Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway"

MrZander — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:10:05 +0000

You might be interested in this project https://valetudo.cloud/

They have a list of supported vacuums

New comment by MrZander in "Starcloud"

MrZander — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:29:57 +0000

> $5m (single launch of compute module, solar & radiators)

This seems absurdly low to me.

New comment by MrZander in "Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?"

MrZander — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 23:54:33 +0000

There are 16 devices on my WiFi right now and I would've though I was above average. I have a bunch of weird stuff like 3 Raspberry Pis that most households would not have, but I don't have most of the stuff you listed.

I guess I am less "connected" than the average American. Can't say I feel like I am missing out, though.