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New comment by dhritzkiv in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

dhritzkiv — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:28:26 +0000

The instances that I'd want a replay are more likely to be when I /don't/ strike – I want to review the ball's motion through the pins and off the deck on unsuccessful shots so I could understand how to adjust my next fresh rack delivery.

New comment by dhritzkiv in "Attention is a luxury good"

dhritzkiv — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 21:32:03 +0000

I recently noticed a tiny "Hide" control (to hide these) that pops up in the top right, which is long overdue.

New comment by dhritzkiv in "AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings"

dhritzkiv — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:56:14 +0000

How do you prevent meetings from meandering and going over time? How do you ensure the correct people are in the meeting when there's no agenda?

New comment by dhritzkiv in "Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed"

dhritzkiv — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:27:31 +0000

In many countries, WhatsApp's data usage is zero-rated, which makes WhatsApp more attractive than Signal, Telegram, etc.

New comment by dhritzkiv in "ICE Agents Realize They Arrested Wrong Teen, Say 'Take Him Anyway'"

dhritzkiv — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:35:36 +0000

"If denaturalizations do start happening" sounds much too late to start talking about it. Best to be prepared sooner than later with how quickly everything is regressing.

New comment by dhritzkiv in "Americans Are Tipping Less Than They Have in Years"

dhritzkiv — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:44:42 +0000

One thing to consider –especially at "non-standard" tipping establishments– is how much of the tip goes to the server/cashier.

CBC's Marketplace did some investigating [1], and found that in many cases, the owner or manager pocket part or all of the service tip, even in provinces where this is not legal.

[1 – video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF0zJIRe1J8

[1 - text article] https://www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/tipping-marketplace-1.73...

New comment by dhritzkiv in "Medieval"

dhritzkiv — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 04:12:14 +0000

It's certainly real.

What was it about the video that made you think it's generative? That it's surrealistic?

New comment by dhritzkiv in "You can opt out of airport face scans"

dhritzkiv — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 23:44:28 +0000

I believe there's also an exemption for Canadian citizens. [1] and [2] (Cmd-f "Canadian")

[1] https://www.cbp.gov/about/congressional-resources/testimony/... [2] https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/202...

New comment by dhritzkiv in "Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation"

dhritzkiv — Tue, 07 May 2024 20:46:16 +0000

One thing I'll mention is that cold brew doesn't need to be put in the fridge to "brew". It can be left out on the counter at room temperature. As a result, this takes the brew time from 24 hours to about 12 hours.

New comment by dhritzkiv in "A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates"

dhritzkiv — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 18:02:31 +0000

Kanopy is great, and very nearly as good as the mainstream streaming platforms in terms of selection and software quality.

Hoopla, however, is abysmal both in selection (though this depends on your local library) and in software/service quality. The search is broken, and it has some of the most confusing UX I've ever experienced. It's as if it actively wants to prevent you from watching anything.

New comment by dhritzkiv in "Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling"

dhritzkiv — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 20:28:17 +0000

Found a bug on the first search I ran, where the right side is preferred, despite having more sun (10.55%) vs. the left side (6.64%). Not sure how. All other searches gave more expected results.

Parameters: - Toronto to Montreal at 3:21PM EST.

New comment by dhritzkiv in "The origins of the Guinness stout yeast"

dhritzkiv — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 23:07:28 +0000

I don't know specifically about your symptoms, but one thing it could be is the carbonation.

All draught Guinness (including Guinness Draught cans) is not carbonated with just CO2, but with nitrogen and CO2 in a 70-30% (thereabouts) mix.

Additionally, when pouring a typically carbonated beer incorrectly (or not pouring it into a glass), a larger amount of CO2 remains in solution, leading to gastro bloat that can feel more uncomfortable than one would expect. You can experience bad pours even at bars, depending on who's behind the tap.

Lagers will have higher carbonation levels than most stouts, so that could be a factor.

New comment by dhritzkiv in "Show HN: Run Stable Diffusion Directly on iPhone"

dhritzkiv — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 21:20:03 +0000

I have to disagree w.r.t. UI and non-standard being preferable for a pro app.

Having used Drawing Things regularly for the last few weeks, I still get confused by certain interactions and UI elements, leading to mistakes, and 'lost productivity'. It would greatly benefit from a UX pass, as more standard UX improves expectations of what will happen upon performing an action.

Don't get me wrong: I appreciate that it was released –for free– and that its capabilities are what they are. I'm merely arguing that more cohesive UX and pro functionality are not mutually exclusive.

As an example of a 'pro' app, there's Pixelmator Pro, which is a very Mac-assed app. I was able to pick it and start using it immediately without tutorials as its typical UX is intuitive (to me, as a macOS user), even when it came to more complicated operations.

Some more examples that I can think of off the top of my head: Proxyman, TablePlus, Kaleidoscope, Tower. The only exception to my observation, based on tools in my daily arsenal: VSCode. Non-standard UX, yet still intuitive.

Everything else that's non-standard feels like I'm battling with the UI daily, even after years of use: Android Studio, Slack, and most of the complicated Electron apps.

New comment by dhritzkiv in "Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs"

dhritzkiv — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 02:06:41 +0000

This only covers what data apps store/collect. An app can have a clean 'Privacy' disclaimer ("The developer does not collect any data from this app") but still require access to Photos, Camera, Location, etc.

New comment by dhritzkiv in "Until the 14th century women dominated the field of beer brewing"

dhritzkiv — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:48:55 +0000

In addition, if hops (or other herbs) were used in the boil, the acids from the hops (what gives beer its bitter bite), even in small amounts, would provide anti-bacterial benefits to the beer.

New comment by dhritzkiv in "The weirdest bug I've seen yet"

dhritzkiv — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:30:26 +0000

:( I would've tried to determine the cause of the crash with that specific file in my off time, provided that I could isolate the code in the Grammarly extension in Chrome.

The main reason –other than curiousity– is to ensure that a future regression (in Chrome/Grammarly) wouldn't lead to it again.

New comment by dhritzkiv in "EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram"

dhritzkiv — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 15:58:47 +0000

Is it the EU that keeps pushing it? Or just some (now non-)member states? I'm personally only familiar with the UK being obsessed about it.

New comment by dhritzkiv in "Unavoidable future increase in West Antarctic ice-shelf melting over 21 century"

dhritzkiv — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 23:25:26 +0000

I don't believe the fear/apprehension is specifically about immigration of peoples, but the likelihood that we'll see intergroup conflicts (fuelled by fear mongering rhetoric that usually follows), as well as the fact that these peoples –who are least poised to handle the challenges of global warming– are being displaced in the first place.

New comment by dhritzkiv in "When does an old iPhone become unsafe to use?"

dhritzkiv — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 02:04:25 +0000

Like the other comment pointed out, I understood 'X' to mean a stand in for iMessage. It didn't occur to me that we were referring to FKA Twitter

New comment by dhritzkiv in "Netflix Ships Last DVD"

dhritzkiv — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 17:38:37 +0000

I live in a mid-sized Canadian city, and the collection of DVDs and Blurays available from the city library system is impressive. A fair bit of obscure/older films, as well as new releases, and you can always request that they add titles to their collection if they are missing something.

For me it's super convenient as I can request that they send a copy (found anywhere in their system) to my local library, and I can bike over to pick it up a few days later.