Hacker News: edeion

New comment by edeion in "Infinite Craft"

edeion — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 09:22:54 +0000

Tangent: there are some incompatible words that don't add up. So far, I found:

- Dragon + Angel

- Train + Star

- Fish + Yin Yang

- Orc + Ninja

New comment by edeion in "Cooler screens"

edeion — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:17:01 +0000

Were these screens e-ink, wouldn't they allow for doors that are better insulated? This could yield lower power consumption, couldn't it?

On the other hand, door insulation might be insignificant if the fridge is opened often enough. Which is likely what any retailer hopes for.

New comment by edeion in "Update to Kagi Search Pricing"

edeion — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 13:01:43 +0000

It seems to be the case, though: "Every account with an active subscription at the moment of the pricing change on March 15 will get the “Early adopter” status. This will make the special “Early Adopter Professional” plan available to them instead of the regular Professional plan, with the main difference being 1,000 free included searches monthly, instead of 700." Ref. https://blog.kagi.com/update-kagi-search-pricing#existing

New comment by edeion in "LED lighting badly suppresses human melatonin production at night"

edeion — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:33:50 +0000

For what it's worth, as far as I understand, you actually need to activate the Zoom Controller to get the menu mentioned above.

New comment by edeion in "Ask HN: Did anyone else lose their marbles?"

edeion — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 15:25:54 +0000

With respect to supplements... I can relate to what you describe and I tend to think it's not just based on chemistry. That being said, on different occasions, I felt a dramatic boost when taking magnesium + zinc + B cocktail. I guess it means I was deficient in those. Who know is you aren't...

New comment by edeion in "iOS 16 Available September 12th"

edeion — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 19:58:52 +0000

Interesting the tyranny of "you read my message and didn't reply right away" is strong enough for iOS 14 to allow to mark a message as unread. Doesn't this make the whole point of read receipts moot, actually?

I secretly hope this read-receipts feature (anti-feature?) is coming to an end. I believe read-receipts should be a per-message option or be discarded from apps. I know read-receipts can be disabled as a user choice, but most people expect them nowadays (me too, to be honest). It's that very expectation that I'm questioning and for which I suggest we should at least have a specific notion of ethics or politeness.

New comment by edeion in "Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)"

edeion — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 10:01:27 +0000

Thank you. In case others would wonder too: https://www.rae.es/espanol-al-dia/porque-porque-por-que-por-...

New comment by edeion in "Julian Assange’s Extradition to US Approved by UK Home Secretary"

edeion — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 18:55:32 +0000

How is none of these threads about Assange extradition on the front page? I realize they can hit the top by the time I post my comment, but so far they are all buried pretty far down on best, new and newest. Have people gotten bored with this? Did the news hit in the dead time slot for the Silicon Valley?

New comment by edeion in "Those HTML attributes you never use"

edeion — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 16:43:35 +0000

I seem to remember this was used by emacs' mode embedding the w3m browser. It was great to read long structured documentation sites by just pressing space-bar to "scroll" through pages.

New comment by edeion in "Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer"

edeion — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 12:52:58 +0000

Excel for macOS is filled with awful bugs and limitations. I'm sorry I don't have a list at the top of my mind. The same goes for Word and PowerPoint.

New comment by edeion in "Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?"

edeion — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 19:28:47 +0000

In case you wouldn't know: Firefox for iOS can now act as a password manager. So, even though Lockwise has disappeared, the function is still there through Firefox alone.

New comment by edeion in "Google rewrites many page titles"

edeion — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 10:31:39 +0000

Reminds me of Plain Old Recipe, a website that strips out fluff from big recipe websites. You provide a link to a recipe, it makes it to the point. I thought the site had closed but it's apparently still live!

https://plainoldrecipe.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23648864 (Thank you HN :))

New comment by edeion in "Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand"

edeion — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 19:22:42 +0000

In case you missed the last paragraph of the blog post, it says: "I have made several attempts to talk with developers who worked on CPS-1/CPS-2 systems. All of them have failed so far." Feel free to contact him for the legacy of your great work and the greater good of humanity :)

New comment by edeion in "Tqdm (Python)"

edeion — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 13:10:38 +0000

Indeed. This comes to mind right away. Question is: are we missing something? Of course, tqdm brings this functionality right into python REPL, which is new and looks great.

pv and tqdm would look even better if they'd be called implicitly (with an opt-out) since I always end up regretting not using pv when my command is taking too long. Too late.

New comment by edeion in "SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]"

edeion — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 20:43:37 +0000

What book are you talking about? Is it "Microsoft Windows User Experience" published by Microsoft Professional Editions?

Aside: Thank you for your video! It looks great and that's yet another OS I'd like to try and play with -- along with Plan 9, which Serenity made me think of a bit, and TempleOS because of the soul-saving effect of devoting to a hard piece of beautiful software craftmanship.

New comment by edeion in "Runbox is under attack by extortionists"

edeion — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:29:04 +0000

Sorry, that's a dupe somehow:

See Fastmail, Runbox, and Posteo under DDoS extortion attack https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28968046

dang posted the current link as a comment on the above thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28970477

Runbox is under attack by extortionists

edeion — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:14:54 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.runbox.com/2021/10/runbox-is-under-attack-by-extortionists/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28989539

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

The Taliban Have Seized U.S. Military Biometrics Devices

edeion — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 13:57:26 +0000

Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2021/08/17/afghanistan-taliban-military-biometrics/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28257055

Points: 59

# Comments: 65

New comment by edeion in "Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021"

edeion — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 20:47:58 +0000

If I recall correctly, high end hard drives used a protocol called SCSI in the 90s that was mostly embedded in hardware.

New comment by edeion in "Syncthing: Syncing All the Things"

edeion — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 23:59:49 +0000

You may be interested in Libimobiledevice that lets you sync an iPhone to Linux. That may work also with a mac?

I just found out about this tool from this (recent) thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27758045