Hacker News: fredzel

New comment by fredzel in "Space Debris: Is It a Crisis?"

fredzel — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 11:10:26 +0000

Kessler syndrome is one of the things that give me that dread feelings, one of the things vast majority of people can do nothing about, yet it can derail any dreams of extra terrestial endavours before we even reach that point.

New comment by fredzel in "Show HN: Physical Pomodoro Timer with ESP32 and e-paper screen"

fredzel — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 12:13:31 +0000

Very interesting, I've been thinking on how to make physical pomodoro timer (or just display for one), but with circular screen and preferably no exact time remaining visible. as for me it is both distracting and anxiety-inducing. I've been using Visual Timer app [0] on my android phone and it has mostly been great, but putting phone away would obviously be better.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.cwiesner.an...

New comment by fredzel in "An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox"

fredzel — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 11:31:09 +0000

Most people probably envision selling data akin to shady person trading usb stick in dark alley or hackers selling huge batches of stolen data, so that statement will be true almost by default

New comment by fredzel in "VS Code Pets"

fredzel — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:10:14 +0000

For anime connoisseurs there is Desktop Mate, suprisingly easy to mod and use your own (or found in the Internet) character models

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3301060/Desktop_Mate/

New comment by fredzel in "I deleted my social media accounts"

fredzel — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 23:04:49 +0000

> Once the accounts were finally gone, I realized just how much of a grip these platforms had on me. The number of times I reflexively typed "t" or "f" into my browser bar (which autocompletes to twitter.com or facebook.com) was honestly terrifying. Waiting for assets to build? Hit Twitter. Software update running? Quick Facebook check

How many different accounts do you have to delete though? For many of those people "t" and "f" would be substituted by "y"toube, "r"eddit, etc. It doesn't have to be a social media site, might be news you're intrested in, tech sites, deals aggregator.

I get what you mean, but for someone with habit of looking for distraction whenever they have nothing to do it won't be a cure, bandaid at best.

New comment by fredzel in "Show HN: Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading"

fredzel — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 20:25:18 +0000

Or a certain streamer AI

New comment by fredzel in "Billiards is a good game (1975)"

fredzel — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 13:24:21 +0000

There was still ongoing dispute between pool and snooker players whether playing side spin on white ball affects angle of the object ball hit by the white (ignoring deflection, just the spin transfer).

In real life it depends on the tables bed, banks, cloth (different material, speed, whether it's clean or dirty, it's 'mileage', air temperature and humidity...), balls, cue and of course human factor.

New comment by fredzel in "Billiards is a good game (1975)"

fredzel — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 13:18:30 +0000

It's also one of the hardest games (sports) mentally, you can sit for a few minutes or few breakes and all you can do is wait for opponent to make a mistake - or play a safe. All you can do is try to stay focused and positive, not sulking over mistake you just made that might've lost you the whole match, to not mess up a chance when it comes.

New comment by fredzel in "TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop"

fredzel — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 04:50:02 +0000

Snipping tool build in OCR works for multiple languages (English, Russian, Chinese, Japanese etc.) without the need to install any language OCR packs though

New comment by fredzel in "Ask HN: What are some must read books?"

fredzel — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 19:14:01 +0000

Maybe try Malazan Book of the Fallen, in terms of worldbuilding and plot/lore depth it is far ahead of any other (modern) fantasy books. Sheer scale of the world and its history might be a bit overwhelming at first, as it is not an easiest read, but often if you don't understand something it means that it will be referenced later in the book (or later in the series).

New comment by fredzel in "YouTube Dislikes Viewer"

fredzel — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 15:49:41 +0000

They did not remove API yet. I believe they intend to remove it sometime in December, after they complete rollout of removing dislike counter globally

New comment by fredzel in "YouTube Dislikes Viewer"

fredzel — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 15:46:42 +0000

> In the long run it sounds like something better that could pressure YouTube to improve their own meagre and useless comment system.

Surely Google is gonna feel pressured because of extension that will have few thousands active users at most.

New comment by fredzel in "Microsoft announces Windows 11"

fredzel — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 10:14:57 +0000

It's about muting mic, not speakers

New comment by fredzel in "Lepton – Firefox UI Fix"

fredzel — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:27:45 +0000

If you have more tabs opened than the window fits, there is no separator between them, other than fade away.

New comment by fredzel in "Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake – study"

fredzel — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 14:09:18 +0000

Also,in another area, 'People also ask/search for' section of Google. Worst offender when it comes to spoilers (movies/shows/books...). You just want to search something about one character and there it is, recommended search "who killed x", "why did x die" etc.

Twitter trends can also be spoilerish in that way, although it's usually more ambigous.

New comment by fredzel in "Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft"

fredzel — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:41:41 +0000

Curse Voice was discontinued few years ago, after Amazon bought Curse and later turned it into Twitch app

New comment by fredzel in "The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo"

fredzel — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 16:04:47 +0000

In Poland such system (Blik) was created by cooperation of multiple banks. You can pay online, in stores, withdraw cash from ATM or just send money P2P using other person phone number. It works like 2FA (you have to enter code generated in app on pinpad and confirm on phone) so it's a bit more of a hussle than qr codes, but... it just works.

New comment by fredzel in "ISO 8601: a better date format"

fredzel — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 08:39:08 +0000

I'd guess most people, at least in Europe, learn British English, so US format of MM/DD is not really intuitive.

New comment by fredzel in "AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching"

fredzel — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 10:07:14 +0000

> or there’s some kind of component shortage There is a shortage of materials (ABF and glass substrates, PCB materials, GDDR6), that affects not only AMD/Nvidia but also car manufacturers (Toyota, Honda, VW, Ford etc.). It's caused by high demand and lower supply (due to covid)

New comment by fredzel in "Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login"

fredzel — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:05:39 +0000

Pretty annoying when they run you trailers of a sequel before you even finished the first one because 'you might be interested' - sometimes even the thumbnail is a spoiler.