Hacker News: Theizestooke

New comment by Theizestooke in "Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin"

Theizestooke — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:19:53 +0000

They could start with a name change.

New comment by Theizestooke in "Bacteria (and Their Metabolites) and Depression"

Theizestooke — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:17:25 +0000

That's interesting. I always get a bout of depression when the weather changes drastically (increase in temp, drop in pressure). I noticed that when I'm able to poop again, afterwards it starts to get better. Maybe I need to take stuff to speed up digestion?

New comment by Theizestooke in "The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6"

Theizestooke — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:06:09 +0000

I don't know, I'm not really impressed by their mail-client or their calendar software. Lots of room for improvement, but then again there's already Thunderbird.

New comment by Theizestooke in "On the dimensionality of spacetime (1997) [pdf]"

Theizestooke — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 19:17:06 +0000

Bartini the aircraft designer? I'd like to read more about that, but most of the Bartini-related stuff is about airplanes.

New comment by Theizestooke in "Sounds of Cologne – The WDR Studio for Electronic Music"

Theizestooke — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 19:33:10 +0000

Yes, it was a way for western powers to show their support of free speech and liberal values. Now that the communist block is gone, there is less incentive to support the arts and claim cultural victory.

New comment by Theizestooke in "Fracking for Europe [video]"

Theizestooke — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:16:36 +0000

They're fine with subsidies when it suits them.

New comment by Theizestooke in "German Autobahn speed limit would bring €1bn in benefits"

Theizestooke — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 12:49:44 +0000

Back in the 90s, I went for 215 KM/h with a Audi 100, but found it too exhausting. Everything goes so fast, and you have to be super-aware at all times. I doubt I drove more than 5 minutes at that speed.

New comment by Theizestooke in "GIMP 3.0 has a release schedule"

Theizestooke — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:09:27 +0000

You forgot a favorite reply to criticism of open source projects, namely "If you don't like it, fix it yourself, here's the code." In the past I felt that daring to criticise Gimp was equivalent to criticising the idea of Open Source itself.

New comment by Theizestooke in "Kenichi Shinohara's pixel art Ukiyo-e (1987)"

Theizestooke — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 09:12:49 +0000

Yeah, in Germany you had Happy Computer as well as 64er with monthly (or was it weekly?) listings of games and utilities.

New comment by Theizestooke in "YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end "$600 less than cable" ads"

Theizestooke — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:15:05 +0000

What is questionable about TLDR News?

New comment by Theizestooke in "The Barbie-Oppenheimer Double Feature Is Happening, Data Shows"

Theizestooke — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:44:11 +0000

The amount of marketing money that gets pumped into promotion for these two is impressive, apparently the movie industry is hurting more than I knew.

New comment by Theizestooke in "A curated list of Emacs Lisp development resources"

Theizestooke — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 18:35:55 +0000

Every link just reloads the site. For me, at least.

New comment by Theizestooke in "Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu"

Theizestooke — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 19:29:25 +0000

The only reason I still use Ubuntu is that their font smoothing is superior to everyone else straight out of the box. I tried to recreate the steps on Fedora, but couldn't come close.

New comment by Theizestooke in "My Trip to Space Filled Me with Overwhelming Sadness"

Theizestooke — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 12:22:53 +0000

Social media has caused a lot of people to shift their world views, and re-examine their identities. Not necessarily in ways that benefit themselves or society.

New comment by Theizestooke in "WordPress’ market share is shrinking"

Theizestooke — Thu, 12 May 2022 09:55:21 +0000

There's also a plugin for Wordpress (SimplyStatic, I believe) that creates a static copy of your site. I use it in conjuction with bitbucket and netlify, and it works quite well.

New comment by Theizestooke in "Meat Loaf, 'Bat Out Of Hell' singer, has died at 74"

Theizestooke — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 10:26:57 +0000

I think he was an abuse victim, so that might be related.

New comment by Theizestooke in "E.O. Wilson has died"

Theizestooke — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 13:02:04 +0000

Both scenarios would cause upheaval, and I'm not sure what he means by a "rich state of equilibrium".

New comment by Theizestooke in "Interview with Frank Herbert and His Wife Beverly Herbert (1969)"

Theizestooke — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:09:41 +0000

Thanks for your work, didn't mean to sound negative. Wasn't aware it's such a rare book.

New comment by Theizestooke in "Interview with Frank Herbert and His Wife Beverly Herbert (1969)"

Theizestooke — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 10:17:18 +0000

I found a digital copy that's probably converted scanned pages, better than nothing.

New comment by Theizestooke in "Interview with Frank Herbert and His Wife Beverly Herbert (1969)"

Theizestooke — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 08:56:48 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately hard to find a copy I just found out.