Hacker News: almostnormal

New comment by almostnormal in "Judge denies request to exempt Flock footage from Public Records Act"

almostnormal — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 08:19:00 +0000

From which country are you connecting?

New comment by almostnormal in "AI's Dial-Up Era"

almostnormal — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 06:38:11 +0000

Centralized only became mainstream when everything started to be offered "for free". When it was buy or pay recurrently more often the choice was to buy.

New comment by almostnormal in "Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 support is about to end"

almostnormal — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:24:56 +0000

Also the last one where important features were not reserved for enterprise volume licenses but available in the Pro version.

New comment by almostnormal in "Buttplug MCP"

almostnormal — Fri, 30 May 2025 08:10:25 +0000

The repository uses it to abbreviate "Model Context Protocol".

New comment by almostnormal in "Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room"

almostnormal — Thu, 15 May 2025 19:08:37 +0000

Times are given as "c.t.", cum tempore.

New comment by almostnormal in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"

almostnormal — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:15:44 +0000

> Meanwhile jet fuel for private jets is (and remains) not taxed at all, even in the EU.

Not correct. Fuel for private aviation is taxed, including jet fuel and avgas. However, there are very few "private" jets, most are operated by some company, and therefore not private. Jet-A1 for a truely privately operated C172 with a diesel engine is taxed.

New comment by almostnormal in "You might not need WebSockets"

almostnormal — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 05:08:45 +0000

"if your application requires a non-standard custom solution, then you should use the WebTransport API"

That's a pretty convincing use-case. Why use something standard if it can be non-standard custom instead!

New comment by almostnormal in "First Known Photographs of Living Specimens"

almostnormal — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:47:17 +0000

Calling it "oldest" instead of "first known" would have avoided most of the confusion.

New comment by almostnormal in "It doesn't cost much to improve someone's life"

almostnormal — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 09:45:06 +0000

Full scale is unlikely. Russia could not, but they might send 250k/year to die in Estonia. EU and Nato (with or without US) would defend. But I doubt they would go all the way through Russia to force them to stop.

Nuclear option is not likely to be used for some "minor" conflict like that, because it would go both ways quickly.

New comment by almostnormal in "It doesn't cost much to improve someone's life"

almostnormal — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 07:37:49 +0000

Even if the EU doesn't collapse there's a non-zero risk of war though, after Russia is done with Ukraine.

New comment by almostnormal in "How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? (2023)"

almostnormal — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 08:32:22 +0000

Light pens are old, too, and with touch screens we are going back to that, without the light of the pen needed.

New comment by almostnormal in "Why it's so hard to build a jet engine"

almostnormal — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 08:01:16 +0000

Drop tanks, well, drop batteries, to get rid of the excessive mass.

New comment by almostnormal in "Bill prohibiting police from lying to children passes Virginia Senate"

almostnormal — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:16:44 +0000

How about not actively providing false information, but being allowed to respond with wrong information?

New comment by almostnormal in "Learning fast and accurate absolute pitch judgment in adulthood"

almostnormal — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 23:09:03 +0000

Starting from the second note the brain switches to reative mode (at least a brain that got some relative recognition trained before) and no AP pitch will be memorized.

New comment by almostnormal in "Go Away Green"

almostnormal — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:18:57 +0000

Looks like primer used for aircraft, as if they forgot to paint their builings.

New comment by almostnormal in "Find the oldest line in your repo"

almostnormal — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:26:37 +0000

Renaming the company is also fun when its name is used for folders / package paths. The history isn't lost, just unusable.

New comment by almostnormal in "Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024"

almostnormal — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:08:46 +0000

In some parts of the world a will must be written by hand or needs an attesting notary.

New comment by almostnormal in "I do not want AI to "polish" me"

almostnormal — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:14:27 +0000

Notepad is attempting to fix spelling without asking.

New comment by almostnormal in "Operation Leg – a pilot unlike any other (2020)"

almostnormal — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:50:40 +0000

If you get bitten by flying bug, that's it. No escape.

I would love to live a carbon-neutral live, but giving up on flying - no way. An easy choice compared to those at war.

Bader willingly reentered the airforce, putting his life at risk, just to be able to fly.

On the German side, to get to fly at least prentend to be a Nazi. Without that, no flying.

Sacrifices have to be made to get airborn.

New comment by almostnormal in "Do cookie-free analytics need cookie banners?"

almostnormal — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 08:31:27 +0000

Ads are doing worse, not better. The purpose of an ad isn't to be clicked but to increase revenue. In the end of the year data will show clicks have gone up but other more important metrics haven't.

Who is guilty for tracking users? The site relying an income from ads with user-tracking, or the company buying the ads based on tracking instead of some less invasive method of distribution?