Hacker News: hopw_roewur_ne

New comment by hopw_roewur_ne in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

hopw_roewur_ne — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:33:41 +0000

User, as in non-root/non-admin. Pacman, paru, yay, shelly ask for root permissions.

New comment by hopw_roewur_ne in "Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected"

hopw_roewur_ne — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:57:21 +0000

Mosh on server and client keeps the SSH connection going during suspension or network drops, etc.

https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh

New comment by hopw_roewur_ne in "Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy"

hopw_roewur_ne — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:14:15 +0000

I don't think it's a huge success, considering they're unable to meet their own demands for electricity, instead driving up energy prices in neighboring countries as well.

New comment by hopw_roewur_ne in "The Reign of Alexander III of Macedon"

hopw_roewur_ne — Tue, 21 May 2024 15:53:13 +0000

I tried reading Devereux's blog posts on Sparta but bounced off of them. Watching this I remember why. He's punching so hard against a popular image of Sparta as invincible warriors that he sometimes starts painting his own opposite-world parody of Sparta.

For example: After 19:40, not finding it enough to say that Thermopylae was maybe a one-off and that there are multiple examples of Sparta surrendering instead of fighting to the last man, he has to exaggerate:

> Spartans surrender all the time.

Still an informative interview, though.

New comment by hopw_roewur_ne in "Fallout style RPG made in Excel"

hopw_roewur_ne — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 13:35:20 +0000

Fallout 1 used GURPS in development, but Interplay lost the rights and they made their own system.

Video by producer, designer, and lead programmer Tim Cain on the conversion process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgPwfHXiBjw

New comment by hopw_roewur_ne in "KOReader Document Viewer for E Ink devices"

hopw_roewur_ne — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:45:34 +0000

KOReader is nice. There's also Plato[0] for Kobo, which unlike the Kobo Libra 2 stock reader and KOReader didn't choke on an .epub with the entire Bible in one xhtml file.

[0]: https://github.com/baskerville/plato

New comment by hopw_roewur_ne in "I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers (2021)"

hopw_roewur_ne — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 22:13:25 +0000

There are some tricks like stock phrases that often take up half a line, but rhyme is not among them. Epic poetry wasn't written to rhyme.

New comment by hopw_roewur_ne in "Browsh: The modern text-based web browser"

hopw_roewur_ne — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 08:40:07 +0000

Yes, the page is rendered remotely in Firefox and turned into text transmitted over SSH.

New comment by hopw_roewur_ne in ""LibreOffice is better at reading old Word files than Word""

hopw_roewur_ne — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:57:20 +0000

Formatting for docx files isn't the same between modern desktop Word, and the online version either, I've had trouble with tables for example.

New comment by hopw_roewur_ne in "Raspberry Pi Server Mark III"

hopw_roewur_ne — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 16:18:33 +0000

This high end system draws ~35W idle: Intel Core i9-10900K @ 5,0 GHz, AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (16 GB), Asus ROG Maximus XII Hero Wi-Fi, 2× 16 GB G Skill Trident Z Royal 3 600 MHz 16-16-16-36, Samsung 970 Evo M.2 1 TB, Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB, Seasonic Prime Ultra Titanium, 1 000 W.

Picture in Swedish, from graphics card review comparing average power draw for the entire system for various GPUs, idle and while benchmarking in Metro Exodus, numbers rounded to nearest multiple of 5: https://cdn.sweclockers.com/artikel/diagram/22452?key=2c6f21...

If the direct picture link doesn't work, it's under "Effektmätning" here: https://www.sweclockers.com/test/30908-amd-radeon-rx-6900-xt...

New comment by hopw_roewur_ne in "Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc"

hopw_roewur_ne — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:32:18 +0000

I tried that, but found it annoying to occasionally get kicked out of insert mode while writing. I ended up rebinding Caps Lock to Escape instead, with Shift+CL to toggle caps; I quite like this rebinding even outside Vim. Two lines in autohotkey on Windows, or setxkbmap in X11.

New comment by hopw_roewur_ne in "The Grenfell Tower inquiry is uncovering a major corporate scandal"

hopw_roewur_ne — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 16:21:40 +0000

I didn't know the Spectator was running for office; I guess these companies didn't donate to the campaign.

New comment by hopw_roewur_ne in "Modern mathematics emerged from “The House of Wisdom” in the 13th century"

hopw_roewur_ne — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 21:43:54 +0000

I mean, sure. But there seems to be this weird underlying idea that the world owes Islam a debt of gratitude for conquering the region where these texts existed and had been successfully transcribed and preserved under Christian rule for hundreds of years already, as if they swooped in at just the right moment to save them from being swallowed by the desert.

New comment by hopw_roewur_ne in "A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming"

hopw_roewur_ne — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 23:29:58 +0000

Tmux allows you to set up several windows and programs in a session (or multiple tmux sessions at once, like virtual desktops), detach from tmux, disconnect SSH, and when you SSH back in a week later, just "tmux attach" to get back to where you were. Also works if your connection drops in the middle of something.

New comment by hopw_roewur_ne in "Attention Is My Most Valuable Asset for Productivity as a Software Developer"

hopw_roewur_ne — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 11:06:16 +0000

> Weight lifting is generally about isolating the muscles

Bodybuilding often involves a high degree of isolation exercises for fatigue management and for building specific muscles. But good luck deadlifting, squatting, pressing, snatching or clean&jerking etc without "integrating" muscles, or without good balance.

New comment by hopw_roewur_ne in "I don’t understand Graph Theory"

hopw_roewur_ne — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 09:07:08 +0000

It took a bit of work to understand what was going on here though: "From this proposition it will follow, when arithmetical addition has been defined, that 1 + 1 = 2." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica#/media/F...

New comment by hopw_roewur_ne in "New ethics courses in computer science"

hopw_roewur_ne — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:59:16 +0000

Soon after birth? Partly, but this is a much deeper issue that starts soon after conception. Actually scratch that, it started soon after sexual reproduction and therefore sexual selection was introduced about a billion years ago.