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New comment by achn in "Science, technology and innovation isn’t addressing world’s most urgent problems"

achn — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 13:08:51 +0000

It’s also the worst investment ever - if the same money was invested in solar farms and research, we could have actual world changing energy sources right now.

New comment by achn in "Turns are better than radians"

achn — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:46:33 +0000

You can use whatever notation you want for your own work, but documenting with, at least, formal variable definitions would be a significant boon for math literacy.

New comment by achn in "58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere"

achn — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 19:22:31 +0000

Thanks. I’d love to see automatic pagination as well so it builds full window columnized “pages”.

New comment by achn in "58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere"

achn — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 17:56:41 +0000

Is there a html/css only way to automatically “columnize” text into multiple columns of reasonable width?

New comment by achn in "Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware (2021)"

achn — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 11:25:15 +0000

Make sure your folders are configured for “general” files and not “photos” or other metadata consuming options. I had a similar issue and this resolved it.

New comment by achn in "Low-cost, battery-like device absorbs CO2 emissions while it charges"

achn — Sun, 22 May 2022 11:46:44 +0000

Maybe even coconut palms! /s

New comment by achn in "Stop Using a Loading Spinner (2017)"

achn — Mon, 02 May 2022 12:08:01 +0000

Fully agree. A slow skeleton page is worse than a slow spinner. Neither are good. Give me simple HTML!

New comment by achn in "High-Security Mechanical Locks (2020)"

achn — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 16:07:18 +0000

I had an Abloy Protec2 euro lock on my front door and was happy with the mechanism at first, but it did not last. The lock failed in the locked position after 3 years triggering significant cost to remove the cylinder body from the mortise lock. The drill-out took 5 seconds at most…

New comment by achn in "Build a Spring Reverb (2017)"

achn — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 12:11:45 +0000

I built a similar guitar pedal using a spring tank that mounts under my pedalboard. It’s such a charming effect, with limitations that make it fun to tinker and push.

New comment by achn in "Show HN: Make your PDF look scanned in browser"

achn — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 19:41:22 +0000

Are there browser extensions that simply disable all future requests from being sent from the immediate tab?

New comment by achn in "End the Streaming Struggle with Plex"

achn — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 22:51:35 +0000

I think those are very different. .Net 6 (formerly core) is specifically branched to get away from being tied to windows only. In fact the initial versions lacked many of the windows API supports! It is open source and cross platform by design.

New comment by achn in "End the Streaming Struggle with Plex"

achn — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 19:11:40 +0000

C# and .net 6 are not windows-centric.

New comment by achn in "Does Visual Studio rot the mind? (2005)"

achn — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:50:05 +0000

I don’t see how anyone can have this opinion. If you are producing code for which VS was designed (.net for example) it is obviously and definitely one of the greatest IDEs ever produced. If you are having to fight with VS, then you may not be using it for one of its main use cases. I certainly don’t think it is perfect (git support being quite annoying at times) but to say that it isn’t an incredible achievement is ridiculous.

New comment by achn in "No one is certain what Roman bronze dodecahedrons were used for (2018)"

achn — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 22:16:01 +0000

I’m sure this is not an original theory, but when I saw the device i immediately thought that it may be a tool to sort / check the size of coins. Each size lines up to a known gold or silver piece. The largest hole allows all to be removed easily.

New comment by achn in "A library for audio feature extraction, regression, classification, segmentation"

achn — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 15:24:40 +0000

Or, you know, just wire in the doorbell button and be done?

New comment by achn in "You can no longer bypass microsoft-edge:// links using apps like EdgeDeflector"

achn — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:57:32 +0000

Windows has become truly user hostile, I went back to it several years ago, but have now moved away from it again (wherever possible).

New comment by achn in "I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old"

achn — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:06:16 +0000

I maintain a similar system, where a variety of companies submit files that get processed through multiple services - it is astounding how ridiculous people’s naming of files can be; spaces are the least concerning!

New comment by achn in "An Eye-Opening Single-Core Parallelism Test on M1 Mac"

achn — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:26:18 +0000

Definitely need the assembly to ensure that the compiler is producing like for like code.

New comment by achn in "Wikimedia Enterprise: paid commercial product for reusing Wikipedia content"

achn — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 21:35:55 +0000

Thanks kindly - I wish they distilled some of these goals into their fundraising copy.

New comment by achn in "Wikimedia Enterprise: paid commercial product for reusing Wikipedia content"

achn — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 21:35:01 +0000

Perhaps, but if there was ever an ad target that could be categorically labeled as “knowledge seekers” it should be Wikipedia donors.