<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: cobbaut</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cobbaut</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:42:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=cobbaut" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cobbaut in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My doctor said "you have to earn your sleep". I had the same problem until:<p>- two pieces of fruit per day<p>- two portions of vegetables per day<p>- half an hour of outside sunshine per day<p>- twice per week exercise until you sweat<p>- no sleep during the day<p>- get out of bed every morning around the same time<p>- no processed food!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:00:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920959</link><dc:creator>cobbaut</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920959</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cobbaut in "What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have recovered files several times after fsck on a failed partition. I may have a 75 percent success rate with this... did not keep statistics obviously.<p>Though it could be less, cause I also remember recovering files with foremost on a dd copy of a disk.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:20:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445771</link><dc:creator>cobbaut</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cobbaut in "What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's at the root level, no user came near that back then so it was kinda hidden.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:14:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445681</link><dc:creator>cobbaut</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445681</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cobbaut in "What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> In a couple of decades running Linux installations of all flavours, I have never seen anything in lost+found!<p>I saw it often. Running fsck on a crashed/failed partition usually does put some files in there. Maybe I kept using old hardware too long...</p>
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<p>NT 4.0 did not crash that often if you rebooted it weekly (not uncommon at the time). And it had a simpler menu.<p>But I agree about W2000 being peak Windows.</p>
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<p>> I'm not in that city.<p>Same, it claims Brussels, but I'm in Antwerp.
It also got my screen resolution wrong.</p>
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<p>What I remember mostly from working in that era, was that managers let engineers make the technical decisions.</p>
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<p>Thinking of problems before falling asleep does sometimes help me in finding solutions in a dream. Though I may still be half awake when doing this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 08:57:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984689</link><dc:creator>cobbaut</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cobbaut in "Warp is now open-source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Oh, not OS/2 Warp.<p>That would be awesome!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:56:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945351</link><dc:creator>cobbaut</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945351</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cobbaut in "Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>The assembly seats in Brussels, so the decision comes from Brussels (geographically).<p>Except that half the time the assembly seats in Strasbourg.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_of_the_European_Parliament_in_Strasbourg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_of_the_European_Parliamen...</a></p>
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<p>My first thought was "so they go commandline now?". Because X for me is still "the graphical interface".</p>
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<p>> You may be thinking of Hong Kong<p>No, I was thinking about this:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Between_Great_Britain_and_China_Respecting_Tibet" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Between_Great_Brita...</a><p>The way I understood this treaty was that the global powers in 1906 (Russia and Great Britain) accepted Tibet as part of China without the need for a war.<p>In the context of your comment, you say the US and Russia attack sovereign countries and you mention Tibet and Taiwan in the same sentence. Sorry but Taiwan has not been invaded by China, and Tibet was at the time internationally agreed as being part of China (not that I agree with that). Not the same ballpark sorry.</p>
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<p>> China with Tibet and Taiwan<p>What do you mean?
China has bought Tibet from the British. And what have they done with Taiwan?</p>
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<p><a href="https://cobbaut.be" rel="nofollow">https://cobbaut.be</a> personal homepage since 1997</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:31:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630216</link><dc:creator>cobbaut</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cobbaut in "Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>European from Antwerp here. I only use two of those, and see more and more of my friends migrate away from some, albeit slowly.</p>
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<p>MS Outlook was a heaven for viruses.<p>Lotus (even before Notes) had cloud-like features for mail and worked on Windows and OS/2.</p>
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<p>> Then Thunderbird arrived on the scene<p>Apologies, but in my memory Thunderbird is just the new name for Netscape Mail. And Netscape mail, I believe, is older than Outlook.<p>I still have folders in my current Thunderbird that I created in Netscape (for example the 1996 folder that contains all mail from 1996).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:39:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45989992</link><dc:creator>cobbaut</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45989992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45989992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cobbaut in "OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Back in 1995 it was, to my knowledge, the only OS capable of sharing CD-ROM's on the network. Even MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 machines could access it.<p>It was also capable of sharing Mainframe printers using a real null-printer-driver, which was not possible on Windows NT3.51 or NT4.0. Windows always messed with the Mainframe codes that it could not understand.<p>It was also easy to set up OS/2 as a gateway between different network hardware and protocols (Token Ring to Ethernet, or NetBios to IPX/SPX, ...)<p>It had REXX!</p>
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<p>> I’ve lived in Europe my whole life. I’ve never been robbed or felt unsafe.<p>Really, where?<p>I have been robbed in Belgium and in France, have had a knife on my throat on a Sunday morning, and have had burglars twice (once in Antwerp, once in Leuven). About five of my bikes were stolen, and I've been conned by construction workers several times.</p>
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<p>My experience here in Antwerp is that a lot of places also play French, Italian, German, Swedish (Abba), Greek, Mexican, Brazilian, and many others, and of course Flemish music mixed with British and American. Never only (or mainly) American for as long as I live (I'm 55).</p>
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