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New comment by hrnnnnnn in "English: A vs. An"

hrnnnnnn — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:55:27 +0000

Swedish does a similar thing where it takes the plural of an English word as the singular Swedish loanword.

Kex = biscuit, from "cakes"

Keps = hat, from "caps"

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "English: A vs. An"

hrnnnnnn — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:48:29 +0000

Both schwa for me, native speaker who grew up in Scotland.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "State of the Map 2026"

hrnnnnnn — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:53:21 +0000

If you want a fun and easy way to contribute to OSM I recommend StreetComplete. You get a bunch of game-like quest icons for things like "what is the surface of this path?", and "does this road have a cycle path?", then you walk around and fill them in.

Very satisfying and feels like you're doing something actually useful. Also nudges you to visit parts of your neighborhood you might never have been to before.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "To become a better writer, read as much as you can"

hrnnnnnn — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:39:59 +0000

That makes sense to me. If I was about to write a doom metal record I'd probably avoid listening to doom metal for a while.

The difference here, as you point out, is that Bobby already had a lifetime of listening to music and appreciating other singers.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "To become a better writer, read as much as you can"

hrnnnnnn — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:30:07 +0000

Imagine instead the post was about people who want to make music but don't listen to it.

I literally cannot imagine being a musician who doesn't listen to music.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "typ.ing"

hrnnnnnn — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:08:56 +0000

They make well-engineered keyboards, have excellent customer service and made a very usable web front-end to QMK for configuration.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "typ.ing"

hrnnnnnn — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:06:32 +0000

One thing that might help is setting the backlight colours to mark out different groups of keys.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room"

hrnnnnnn — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:46:12 +0000

If you make it 0.887cm you get a nice round one-earth-mass :D

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room"

hrnnnnnn — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:07:31 +0000

According to this calculator [1] it would take 11.274 times the mass of the earth to create a black hole with a radius of 10cm.

[1] https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/schwarzschild-radius

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

hrnnnnnn — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:42:22 +0000

It's ok, the kids learning this stuff these days are on YouTube and Discord.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Help I accidentally a wigglegram"

hrnnnnnn — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:37:25 +0000

It's an old meme

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Magenta RealTime 2: Open and Local Live Music Models"

hrnnnnnn — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:52:28 +0000

Seems to be MacOS only.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries"

hrnnnnnn — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:52:22 +0000

Consider phrasal verbs like "shut up", "get lost" or "kick off". Knowing what the parts mean doesn't let you understand the whole.

In your native tongue you take these for granted, but in a second language you have to learn that the sum is more (or different) than the parts.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

hrnnnnnn — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:28:12 +0000

I think this is exactly it. I started getting RSI, spent a little time researching, bought a zsa moonlander and it cured me.

I haven't turned it into a hobby, it's just a tool that solves a problem.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers"

hrnnnnnn — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:43:06 +0000

I've been using Firefox on android for over a decade, including for YouTube, and maybe once a year I encounter a problem where I need to use Chrome for a specific website.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Maggots, an efficient source of protein"

hrnnnnnn — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:37:50 +0000

We could, instead, simply eat beans.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

hrnnnnnn — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:22:53 +0000

I recommend altSnap to get this functionality on Windows.

https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltSnap

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "How to Synthesize a House Loop"

hrnnnnnn — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:57:58 +0000

Renoise just added support for a programmatic sequence generator called pattrns.

https://github.com/renoise/pattrns

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella"

hrnnnnnn — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 17:26:41 +0000

Norway isn't part of the EU.

New comment by hrnnnnnn in "X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch"

hrnnnnnn — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 22:43:04 +0000

Probably not.

https://existentialcrunch.substack.com/p/space-weather-and-c...