Hacker News: didsomeonesay

New comment by didsomeonesay in "Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment"

didsomeonesay — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:52:28 +0000

Infinite Fun Space.

New comment by didsomeonesay in "Don't use your phone while you poop"

didsomeonesay — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:58:39 +0000

my family's main study there used to be the TV program which came in - hard to believe now - weekly printed magazines.

New comment by didsomeonesay in "The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene"

didsomeonesay — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:40:28 +0000

They're not the same. "recent" and "first" are doing a lot of work in the quoted sentence.

New comment by didsomeonesay in "Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial"

didsomeonesay — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:37:10 +0000

maybe take a look at "Bad Blood" by John Carreyrou

New comment by didsomeonesay in "Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?"

didsomeonesay — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:03:49 +0000

Name and shame: Klarna did this.

Not sure if they still do because i stay well clear of them.

New comment by didsomeonesay in "DiffX – Next-Generation Extensible Diff Format"

didsomeonesay — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 07:30:48 +0000

If the project owner posted this or is reading here: watch out with the project naming; DivX is a highly litigative brand these days.

New comment by didsomeonesay in "I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic"

didsomeonesay — Fri, 30 May 2025 08:23:39 +0000

Which new purpose do you allude to?

New comment by didsomeonesay in "The Barbican"

didsomeonesay — Mon, 12 May 2025 18:27:41 +0000

Oh that the was fascinating, too. From visiting more than a decade ago, I understand that most of the permanent population of Whittier lives there (except for some hotel employees) and that they have an underground passage connecting it with the school building opposite (so students in winter can get there without putting on a coat).

New comment by didsomeonesay in "Apple Passwords’ generated strong password format"

didsomeonesay — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:02:02 +0000

.. and now the password is stored unencrypted in your bash history.

New comment by didsomeonesay in "FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock location for Android)"

didsomeonesay — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 22:19:35 +0000

Go to settings -> private browsing and enable "allow screenshots in private browsing".

New comment by didsomeonesay in "At the Mountains of Madness"

didsomeonesay — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:44:08 +0000

FWIW, I enjoyed how the pictures were adding a little theme, were consistent and broke up the reading nicely without being too "noisy" (compared to e.g. technical articles full of meme pictures).

Why is wombat poop cube-shaped?

didsomeonesay — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 18:48:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/wombat-poop-cube-why-is-it-square-shaped

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37959930

Points: 26

# Comments: 1

New comment by didsomeonesay in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail 48 1/2 year anniversary in theaters December"

didsomeonesay — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:00:28 +0000

It might just not work for you because Monty Python don't do punchlines. They just dial the absurdity to 11.

There is some element of surprise, but rather at the beginning of a scene than at the end of it. Then it's a matter of "how far can you take this situation", e.g. a knight losing all limbs and still claiming "it's just a scratch" (Sorry for the spoiler but it's been 48,5 years...).

Part of it could also be missing cultural context. Taking the same scene as example, it's a comment on the British "stiff upper lip".

New comment by didsomeonesay in "Apocalypse Proof: 33 Thomas Street in New York City"

didsomeonesay — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:17:02 +0000

This building inspired the "Oldest House" in the game Control:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/art/the-real-buildings-that-in...

New comment by didsomeonesay in "Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal"

didsomeonesay — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:09:47 +0000

You're completely right; I don't know, but challenging that or even just finding out more about the legal situation in Italy was beyond my language skills.

New comment by didsomeonesay in "Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal"

didsomeonesay — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:18:10 +0000

Subscription providers will be as shameless as allowed by law. Or worse.

I try to cancel subscriptions immidiately after signing up when i only want the service for a limited time.

For an Italian newspaper's online subscription, after contacting them for cancellation via web form, my family was informed: you have to call a number and that cancellations will only be accepted 1 day before the end of the subscription.

Let me re-state that: you have to remember, one year after signing up, to call that number within a 24 hour window (maybe less, depending on their office hours), reach somebody, and hope for their honesty in confirming the cancellation, because your have no proof that you did so. Or you are locked in for another year.

Luckily, I had used PayPal as subscription payment method, wich has a separate web interface for cancellation. And also remembered the call after one year, for good measure.

But what a disrespect for consumers! Quite surprised this was apparently legal in Italy (we don't live there, it was an educational subscription).

New comment by didsomeonesay in "Rekt.network"

didsomeonesay — Wed, 17 May 2023 08:06:15 +0000

another bug report: in chat, after somebody changes their nickname and you try to use tab completion on their name, it will use the original nickname for completion

New comment by didsomeonesay in "75% of the Most Played Games on Steam Are Playable on the Steam Deck"

didsomeonesay — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:43:55 +0000

Sleep mode is working so well; i use it as a pause button for Elden Ring (offline mode) - a game where pausing was omitted by design.

(I believe they designed it that way due to the multiplayer features, which i don't care about.)

New comment by didsomeonesay in "Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances"

didsomeonesay — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 22:09:50 +0000

Well you're not alone with this view. This is were Valetudo and dustbuilder should be mentioned.

With these projects, you can replace the nasty privacy-invasive bits in the vendor's SW stack.

There's a buying guide to find a matching rootable robot for your needs: https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/buying-supported-robots...

I got a pair of Dreame W10s in the last Black Friday deals and they're a great help.

I wish my money wouldn't go towards the vendor crapware that takes extra efforts to get rid of. But i couldn't be happier with the result, having automated the vacuuming and mopping.

New comment by didsomeonesay in "Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?"

didsomeonesay — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:27:04 +0000

https://hackernewsbooks.com/