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New comment by e_proxus in "The absurdity of renting a car will no longer be tolerated"

e_proxus — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 10:23:42 +0000

The key is preparation. It’s the same for me at hotel check-ins. I’m always prepared, I have all my info available in my mobile or on paper, I’ve already thought about the trip several times before and on the way.

Some people seem utterly unprepared. They either don’t have their info at all, or have to login to their web mail, or find some printed paper at the bottom of their enormous suitcase. And then they tend to have tons of questions. I check out the facilities beforehand online so I know what to expect and how to use them.

New comment by e_proxus in "(mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9"

e_proxus — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 07:21:19 +0000

The problem is, it doesn’t look anything like the system UI either. Just because it is using a native toolkit doesn’t mean it automatically looks good or integrates well.

New comment by e_proxus in "Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)"

e_proxus — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 16:35:48 +0000

Not really. There is an “unmaintained” paid plug-in (unmaintained in the sense of not being updated since a year and advertising compatibility with Sublime 2 and 3 only).

New comment by e_proxus in "My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me with chemical burns"

e_proxus — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 11:22:29 +0000

In Europe it usually is, until proven otherwise. At least in the first year (and for some classes of problems, longer).

New comment by e_proxus in "My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me with chemical burns"

e_proxus — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 11:20:31 +0000

It’s not the only risk. What if OP had fallen asleep while listening to music? Then there would have been a real risk of the house burning down.

New comment by e_proxus in "President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment"

e_proxus — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 18:53:22 +0000

It’s also quite ironic because they seem to claim that because their page is full of tracking cookies (what other reason to cite GDPR?).

New comment by e_proxus in "Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer"

e_proxus — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 10:57:12 +0000

The Chameleon is another recent stealth-game that has PS1 inspired aesthetics: https://www.merlinogames.com/the-chameleon

New comment by e_proxus in "Packaging for instant coffee made out of seaweed"

e_proxus — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 08:09:40 +0000

You can get them in stainless steel too, e.g. https://www.paperandtea.com/products/p-t-infuser

New comment by e_proxus in "Faster Gitlab CI/CD pipelines"

e_proxus — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:15:59 +0000

Here’s an example of how to enable caching in GitHub Actions:

https://gist.github.com/eproxus/d74315864fd6897bb47741e8de5b...

The example is a bit Erlang specific but the cache action it contains is quite generic.

New comment by e_proxus in "Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)"

e_proxus — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 14:01:46 +0000

- 'parent' goes to the comment that is replied to

- 'prev' / 'next' goes to the adjacent sibling comments

- 'root' goes to the top level comment in the thread (not the post)

They are very useful on mobile if you're deep in a thread, and want to go to the next top-level thread. To do that, press 'root' and then 'next' (or collapse it with [-]).

New comment by e_proxus in "Don't send your Google phone in for warranty repair/replacement"

e_proxus — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 12:22:10 +0000

It’s a bit unclear, but I read it as that they thought not many people outside the US is aware of the bias inside the US.

New comment by e_proxus in "Estonian winter 1, delivery robots 0"

e_proxus — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 14:56:35 +0000

I wonder what legal ramifications would be if you run them over while they’re on a pedestrian crossing. They probably wouldn’t count as human at least? Destruction of property?

New comment by e_proxus in "Texas woman wins round in lawsuit challenging swat teams destruction of her home"

e_proxus — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 10:29:32 +0000

> They will when they're threatened by a gang of police officers.

At least that's better than normal people having to put up with that and pay for it. Now on to solve the next problem with police...

New comment by e_proxus in "Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again"

e_proxus — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 10:11:00 +0000

Raycast has this neat feature called Navigation → Search Menu Items which is essentially the Help → Search feature of macOS.

However, you can bind it to any shortcut, so binding it to Cmd+P would give you a command palette in any app (and then you can exclude e.g. Sublime Text/Merge who already have their own palettes).

New comment by e_proxus in "Linus on Line Breaks (2020)"

e_proxus — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 19:10:59 +0000

I’m in the same boat. I’d rather have more views than longer lines. Currently have a file tree, three editor columns and one terminal column.

Keeping to a shorter line width makes me write shorter functions with less nesting. In my opinion that leads to higher quality code which is more readable (your mileage may vary, I write Erlang which is very terse and expressive which fits that style very well).

New comment by e_proxus in "The Toit language is now open source"

e_proxus — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 14:03:40 +0000

Nerves (or Erlang’s VM BEAM) is nowhere near small enough to run on ESP32. I think a comparison is not very useful.

If you have an ESP32 you need something like Toit, if you have a Raspberry Pi you might as well run embedded Linux (with Nerves on top).

New comment by e_proxus in "Firefox 94 has No Visible Border on unfocused tabs"

e_proxus — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:22:30 +0000

Here's my version for Windows. It keeps the window buttons and removes the empty space on top.

https://gist.github.com/eproxus/f95c2d2bd0f9b8f5d2b6f464e27c...

New comment by e_proxus in "TheNFTbay.org – The Billion Dollar Torrent (All NFT's from Ethereum and Solana)"

e_proxus — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:32:48 +0000

Actually, that would almost approach some "real" value for NFTs...

Let's say you have digital artwork in a lossless format. You then take the world by storm with the compressed version. Everyone loves it. You sell an NFT with a hash/URI/encoding of the original uncompressed version encrypted so only the owner on the blockchain can decrypt it.

Needlessly to say, this would only work for digital art that is compressible. The owner could perhaps prove that they really own the original by showing a differently compressed version of it.

New comment by e_proxus in "macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good"

e_proxus — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 13:52:05 +0000

That's also the beauty of Fast.com, that it uses the Netflix content servers as benchmark and not some ISP edge hosted Speedtest server with special priority.

That gives a more realistic expectation of how Netflix, and in this case Apple downloads, will actually perform. And it can't be artificially boosted by the ISP.

That being said, I assume both Netflix and Apple have very special CDNs with ISP co-located content servers in many cases so it is still not a realistic measurement of generic Internet performance (but Speedtest is even worse, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

New comment by e_proxus in "Managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard"

e_proxus — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 10:53:16 +0000

I do the same nowadays. I spend extra time learning the defaults (muscle memory etc.) in my OS and programs, which is about the same effort as customizing them (if not less).

The difference is that when setting up a new environment it costs nothing. If I had tons of tweaks and custom scripts that would be a setup cost every time.