Hacker News: Snoddas

New comment by Snoddas in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

Snoddas — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:35:50 +0000

I realize I've missed a lot.

Someone should write an Emacs guide for people who haven't meaningfully touched their .emacs since the early 2000s

New comment by Snoddas in "Siri AI"

Snoddas — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:55:56 +0000

I think you are wrong.

They never asked for one becase they never imagined being able to afford one.

The amount of administration organizing a normal household takes I suspect most would be glad to leave to someon/something they trust and that can be held accountable.

Today that someone needs to be a person (imo). But who knows, a startup may be plotting accountable digital assistans as we speak.

New comment by Snoddas in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

Snoddas — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:07:40 +0000

Your experience isn’t representative. Mine isn’t either.

New comment by Snoddas in "Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition"

Snoddas — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:53:33 +0000

This brings back memories. I used CoyoteLinux to surreptitiously share my ADSL connection with my SO. This was against my provider's ToS at the time.

New comment by Snoddas in "The Palindromic Hat-Trick"

Snoddas — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Having one digit numbers count as a palindromes takes away most of the amazement.

New comment by Snoddas in "The history of cataract surgery"

Snoddas — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:27:37 +0000

They tried to up-sell me when I was in the chair during surgery. (sweden)

New comment by Snoddas in "The history of cataract surgery"

Snoddas — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:26:09 +0000

My mom got angry and asked why no one had told her how wrinkly she'd gotten.

New comment by Snoddas in "Destination: Jupiter"

Snoddas — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:35:01 +0000

You may also enjoy Farewell Horizontal K. W. Jeter, takes place on a giant floating cylinder

New comment by Snoddas in "European Cloud, Global Reach"

Snoddas — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:07:12 +0000

The trust is gone. Even if the dems win the next election, we now know that the US isn't stable enough to handle one rouge president.

With the massive cost of shifting infrastructure, those scared away by the current US administration is mostly gone for good.

New comment by Snoddas in "Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate"

Snoddas — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:06:26 +0000

This calendar is what we work after

A useful addition would be to show weekdays/weekends with a localization option for holidays (Here in Sweden we have 5 days off this Q2)

New comment by Snoddas in "Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)"

Snoddas — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 09:27:22 +0000

You must be of size medium to small then because legroom is definitly an issue for me, especially for longer flights and I'm just 180cm. (just below average hight)

Or alternativly you can afford better seats than me.

New comment by Snoddas in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

Snoddas — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 09:23:04 +0000

It will have atleast be > than zero, and doing it every year instead of giving it away to some overpriced CEO will it will accumulate.

Ask HN: How to improve your presentation skills

Snoddas — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:33:53 +0000

I'm an IT technician, system administrator, and sometimes developer. I regularly have to inform my colleagues or direct managers about various technical topics, such as problem descriptions or proposed solutions. These discussions usually involve relatively small groups, but I'm still not comfortable doing it.

Does anyone have any resources or tips to help alleviate this problem?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42307220

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by Snoddas in "Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021)"

Snoddas — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:02:17 +0000

Probably sarcastic as the temperature of Nairobi is quite moderate. A quick web serach states that the average summer temperature is

Average High: ~28°C (82°F) Average Low: ~14°C (57°F)

New comment by Snoddas in "Show HN: Retronews – TUI for HN and Lobsters emulating classical Usenet readers"

Snoddas — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 06:33:15 +0000

I see it's read only

Is it possible to launch a browser for writing replys/comments?

New comment by Snoddas in "Parsing Awk Is Tricky"

Snoddas — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 13:36:43 +0000

Both will get you where you want to go, but I don't think the usecase for perl and awk are the same.

I reach for awk when my bash-scripts get a bit messy, perl is/was for when I want to build a small application (or nowdays python).

But both perl and python require cpan/pip to get the most out of and with awk, I just nead awk.

New comment by Snoddas in "The Cheapest NAS"

Snoddas — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:07:48 +0000

The common solution is having an UPS and a NAS that supports graceful shutdown when the UPS detects powerloss

New comment by Snoddas in "In Praise of 5-Over-1 Buildings (2019)"

Snoddas — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 07:57:26 +0000

Here is another example

https://www.sarakulturhus.se/en/303172/The-Wood-Hotel-by-Eli...

"In the 20-story wooden house, there are 205 modern hotel....."

New comment by Snoddas in "First-in-human implantation of bionic device to halt Crohn's disease (2023)"

Snoddas — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 11:20:08 +0000

quantify enough

New comment by Snoddas in "First-in-human implantation of bionic device to halt Crohn's disease (2023)"

Snoddas — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 11:19:19 +0000

No it won't. Proof myself