Hacker News: erichurkman

New comment by erichurkman in "Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future"

erichurkman — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 19:29:47 +0000

Is that 30,000 limit per extension, or global?

New comment by erichurkman in "QwikTape: Do calculations, annotate like you would on a paper"

erichurkman — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 17:15:11 +0000

A bit like Numi.app for Mac. Neat.

New comment by erichurkman in "Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS"

erichurkman — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 18:19:12 +0000

Do you mean uBlock Origin is no longer being maintained?

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases shows many recent releases?

New comment by erichurkman in "We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online"

erichurkman — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 01:46:24 +0000

> As someone who got involved in an open-source version of the Ultima Online server, this is a fun read

Ultima Online emulators were what took small interest for me and blew it up into a career. But for me, it was pre-RunUO: SphereServer (aka GrayServer, I think) and UOX3. C++, with its own scripting engine built in. It wasn't exactly closed or open source. It also got me into Linux: while some emulation servers were run on home PCs, others were run on hosted machines. Debugging often meant the server administrators would give you root access to debug their running server. New Ultima Online releases meant being late for school to try and debug the client code changes to be able to quickly update the server, otherwise no one could log in.

It was incredibly buggy and never, to my knowledge, reached feature parity with the full game. The workarounds individual servers made through the rudimentary scripting language was impressive (many of these hacks were then copied into the core emulation scripts).

For trips down memory lane, these sites are still live -- and being updated? Wow.

https://www.sphereserver.com/

https://www.uox3.org/

New comment by erichurkman in "S3 isn't getting cheaper"

erichurkman — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 21:07:39 +0000

Floods in Thailand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Thailand_floods#Damages_t...

New comment by erichurkman in "Someone is impersonating us in a recruiting scam"

erichurkman — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 22:42:25 +0000

The key is in the 'congratulations' email:

> Please note that, on acceptance of this employment offer, the following equipment will be deliver to you to set up your home office, the funds for the purchase of the equipment will be made available to you prior to purchase and delivery.

They will send you a $15k check, you'll buy the equipment, and Venmo them back the remainder. Meanwhile, the check bounces.

New comment by erichurkman in "Show HN: Colorvote.io – ranking all sRGB web colors by popularity"

erichurkman — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 17:12:41 +0000

I found myself voting against colors more than I was voting for colors. Anything wins against the harshness of chartreuse, except a somehow _worse_ chartreuse.

New comment by erichurkman in "Apple previews Lockdown Mode"

erichurkman — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 22:23:31 +0000

Aside from the JIT change, those all sound like pluses to me!

New comment by erichurkman in "Bolt Financial's loans come due"

erichurkman — Thu, 26 May 2022 21:46:46 +0000

Most startups offer a 90 day window to exercise after you leave. Some companies have extended that to longer (caveat being they convert to NSO grants after 90 days).

New comment by erichurkman in "Street View turns 15"

erichurkman — Wed, 25 May 2022 02:02:31 +0000

And still no way to un-block street view from my address. It's the only house on the block that is blurred, which makes it _less_ private. (The previous owner had it blocked.)

New comment by erichurkman in "The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now"

erichurkman — Tue, 10 May 2022 22:16:57 +0000

My most recent one was Google Maps routing me off of interstates onto narrow rural roads to save a few minutes. At dusk. In the midwest.

Clearly no one working on that algorithm has experience driving rural roads at dusk and dodging deer!

New comment by erichurkman in "Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22"

erichurkman — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 22:43:12 +0000

McBorker, Chaos Monkey's cousin.

New comment by erichurkman in "Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel"

erichurkman — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 22:52:31 +0000

Google used to allow you to block individual domains right from the search UI. It was discontinued in 2011.

There are numerous extensions to block domains, like uBlacklist: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi... (not affiliated)

New comment by erichurkman in "Crazy Eddie: The popular electronics chain that scammed America"

erichurkman — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 19:32:36 +0000

So was Crazy Earnie's Emporium [0] from Brave Little Toaster!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glJgOtyM8k

New comment by erichurkman in "AirPods don't “just work”"

erichurkman — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:27:56 +0000

> I don't use my Boss with my phone or on the go which is, generally, where the AirPods experience 90% of their quirks.

My experience is the opposite. When I'm not on the go, the likelihood that my AirPods pick up the right device is slim -- like trying to connect to an iPad on a complete different floor vs. the phone I'm trying to make a call on.

When I'm on the go, the only device they can find is my phone, and all works great.

New comment by erichurkman in "Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64"

erichurkman — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 19:28:32 +0000

Don't forget to add in the folks who technically recovered from COVID but are suffering lingering conditions like scarred lung tissue, kidney damage, atrial fibrillation, myocarditis, [...]. Those will add more sad stories over the coming years as those conditions will make recovering from other ailments harder.

New comment by erichurkman in "Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019)"

erichurkman — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 17:00:26 +0000

Even better if your language supports it: use named escape sequences so you don't have to look it up. "\N{RIGHTWARDS ARROW}" vs "\u2192"

New comment by erichurkman in "New Colorways for Firefox 94"

erichurkman — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 19:33:33 +0000

> Will they remove the feature entirely or just plan to change up the colorways available?

At least with this feature Mozilla told us how long it'll be before they remove it.

New comment by erichurkman in "Windows Package Manager 1.1"

erichurkman — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:59:16 +0000

FWIW this is how Homebrew, the most widely used package manager on macOS, does it. As an example, check out the 'formula' for installing Zoom: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/...

I used to maintain a few packages and it was pretty dang easy to publish, test, vet, and distribute this way. Everything else is in Git, why not this, too?

New comment by erichurkman in "Legend"

erichurkman — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 21:38:48 +0000

https://agenda.com fit the bill for me. Offline use (though can only sync today through iCloud and Dropbox, I think, which sucks - but you can sync folders manually), pulls calendar from your system integration, simple payment. You can link your daily agenda items/notes to calendar invites.

Though it does not connect to email, at least today, which was OK for my use cases.