<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: RheingoldRiver</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RheingoldRiver</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:15:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=RheingoldRiver" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RheingoldRiver in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In case the author sees this:<p>> none of the possible drives you might to do get there are especially scenic<p>that should say "might do to get there" not "might to do get there" (and also "none...is especially" not "none...are" but I would not go out of my way to point that one out)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:09:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753145</link><dc:creator>RheingoldRiver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753145</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RheingoldRiver in "Calendar"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>yeah, but I was a math major and theta looks like a normal letter to me whereas thorn takes me a sec to realize what I'm looking at<p>I like the katakana idea, I wonder if I can train myself to recognize the Su one enough to start using that when I'm handwriting days of the week places</p>
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<p>I think they mean writing Tu Th Sa Su instead of T T S S (personally I'm a fan of T / theta if I'm doing single-letter abbreviations but Sat/Sun is still not the best)</p>
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<p>Archive link: <a href="https://archive.is/LkHqZ" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/LkHqZ</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:44:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46358827</link><dc:creator>RheingoldRiver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46358827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46358827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RheingoldRiver in "How to Attend Meetings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>in case you didn't see it, there's a mirror here: <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M-d9rRsFnC8zUkeFrkVC_4S10SkrzexH_MM4kkNCYlM/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M-d9rRsFnC8zUkeFrkVC...</a></p>
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<p>Interesting haha, I've played enough NYT connections that I would never have gotten it on my own because when I thought of the correct word with sauce, I thought "_ crab" ? no, can't be that...</p>
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<p>(author here) I listen to audiobooks a lot and need something to occupy me visually without distracting from listening to the audio. Jigsaw puzzles are perfect for it :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:15:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748912</link><dc:creator>RheingoldRiver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748912</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RheingoldRiver in "Gluing and framing a 9000-piece jigsaw"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Author here; almost certainly this is true</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:25:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45746543</link><dc:creator>RheingoldRiver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45746543</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45746543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RheingoldRiver in "Gluing and framing a 9000-piece jigsaw"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am a small person without access to power tools and didn't have much help for the project, so anything that heavy was out of the question (and the puzzle is <i>huge</i>). Otherwise I would have quite possibly done this!</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.gamepuzzles.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.gamepuzzles.com</a> has some great ones</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:50:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45598241</link><dc:creator>RheingoldRiver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45598241</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45598241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RheingoldRiver in "“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You'd think that this would not appeal to anyone,<p>Why would this not appeal to anyone? Summer reading games are super popular and kids love getting small prizes</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:37:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44593251</link><dc:creator>RheingoldRiver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44593251</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44593251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RheingoldRiver in "Show HN: Do you know RGB?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just know them no. Able to sanity check that an RGB value is the color it's supposed to be yes sometimes. It's not the most useful skill because you almost always get a swatch now, but sometimes being able to have <i>some idea</i> of how it'll look (should it be dark or light, grey or intense color) saves me 10 seconds here and there.<p>I like playing guess-RGB games every now and then because it improves the skill, but at the same time I find them really stressful haha.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:39:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44400928</link><dc:creator>RheingoldRiver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44400928</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44400928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RheingoldRiver in "I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was a math major in undergrad, we care about typesetting so much because you really do <i>not</i> want to be stuck handwriting everything, but it's not easy to be faster typing than you are with handwriting when you're writing out rows and rows of equations. (Actually physics was generally a lot harder for me to keep up with while typing than math was.)<p>And when your life is revolving around classes or your thesis, the #1 most important thing to you in the world is how easily you can transfer your ideas to paper/digital format. It makes a lot of sense that people care a lot about the quality of their typesetting engine and exchange macro tips with each other (I got a lot of helpful advice from friends, and my default latex header was about 50% my own stuff and 50% copied from friends in my same major)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:21:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44351379</link><dc:creator>RheingoldRiver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44351379</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44351379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RheingoldRiver in "Wiki Radio: The thrilling sound of random Wikipedia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why does it play an artificial voice saying "Number 9" over and over in between clips in Revolution 9 mode? it's super annoying especially given the clips are shorter<p>But this is really cool! I've gotten some animal sounds, weather sounds, music, a small kid talking about a soccer match in Spanish, "evil laugh", political speeches in several languages, and a telephone ringing. only pressed skip a couple times for some really unpleasant noises</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 23:22:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44333047</link><dc:creator>RheingoldRiver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44333047</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44333047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell HN: Mozilla is preparing to remove bookmark keywords]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On Bugzilla there's an active ticket [0] tracking progress to remove bookmark keywords from Firefox, in order to consolidate them into Search. I think this is going to be disastrous for my workflow and I'm very worried about it, but I don't see much discussion of this anywhere, even though I do see a lot of discussion about bookmarklets. Since bookmarklets and keywords are so tightly related (bookmarklets are the code, and they keyword is how you run it from your URL bar), I want to spread the word that this feature might be going away.<p>I wrote a(nother) blog post about how cool bookmark keywords are and how I use them [1] and I'd love to hear other people's use cases for keywords<p>[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1650874<p>[1] https://river.me/blog/bookmark-keywords-again/</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44065640">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44065640</a></p>
<p>Points: 16</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 19:13:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44065640</link><dc:creator>RheingoldRiver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44065640</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44065640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RheingoldRiver in "Piranesi's Perspective Trick (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can still share a link directly to the file. For example:<p>* Page with images - <a href="https://support.wiki.gg/wiki/CSS" rel="nofollow">https://support.wiki.gg/wiki/CSS</a>
* An image in media viewer - <a href="https://support.wiki.gg/wiki/CSS#/media/File:Css-wiki-body-background-image.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://support.wiki.gg/wiki/CSS#/media/File:Css-wiki-body-b...</a>
* The image file page - <a href="https://support.wiki.gg/wiki/File:Css-wiki-body-background-image.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://support.wiki.gg/wiki/File:Css-wiki-body-background-i...</a>
* The direct image in question - <a href="https://support.wiki.gg/images/4/41/Css-wiki-body-background-image.jpg?16b3f9" rel="nofollow">https://support.wiki.gg/images/4/41/Css-wiki-body-background...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:19:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538013</link><dc:creator>RheingoldRiver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538013</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RheingoldRiver in "BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I work for wiki.gg, if anyone edits a Fandom wiki that's considering forking and wants to know more, send me an email (in bio)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 02:32:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43530198</link><dc:creator>RheingoldRiver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43530198</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43530198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RheingoldRiver in "Piranesi's Perspective Trick (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you have an account, you can disable it in preferences. Appearance -> Files -> "Enable Media Viewer" Toggle that off and it'll never happen again</p>
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<p>if you have any connection to the admins of that wiki, it would be great to get MultimediaViewer extension enabled - <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultimediaViewer" rel="nofollow">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultimediaViewer</a><p>they're on 1.35 right now which is a bit out of date (lifecycle - <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle" rel="nofollow">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle</a>) but an older branch of MMV should work fine on 1.35</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:55:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497463</link><dc:creator>RheingoldRiver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497463</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RheingoldRiver in "Why Is It Lovely"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think the author explained it well. What % means, is, "out of 100" so like X% is X out of 100. % is a unit, just like meter or candela. You can do dimensional analysis with %. To remove a % you do like, X % * 1 / (100%) and then the two % (remember % is a unit) cancel out so you get X % = X / 100.<p>This dimensional analysis makes more sense with multiple terms, for example X % * Y = X % * 1 / 100% * Y = X * 1 / 100 * Y = X * Y / 100. (And note "of" means "times")<p>It's the same thing as saying, 5 * 2cm = 10cm = 5cm * 2 (hopefully the statement 5 * 2cm = 5cm * 2 qualifies as "obvious")<p>If this entire explanation is as automatic to you as breathing (which yes it is if you did a significant amount of technical courses as a student, although admittedly dimensional analysis tends to come up in chemistry not math) then the statement "X% of Y = Y% of X" is vacuously true and I would feel comfortable saying this is more or less "By definition of %" with no further explanation, if I were talking to someone who I know has an equivalent background to me.<p>Doing the conversion can often be helpful. For example say I'm thinking to myself, "what is 4% of 50" and I'm like ugh idk but half of 4 is 2 so the answer is 2</p>
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