Hacker News: jvzr

New comment by jvzr in "The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes"

jvzr — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 19:33:17 +0000

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New comment by jvzr in "The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube"

jvzr — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 04:51:35 +0000

Very minor anecdata I would like to share: I have discovered Veritasium like most others, at the time when they weren't "clickbaiting", when their videos actually had the thing that they discussed right there in the title. I learned tons of things. Each new video, and each title, made me eager to discover that thing.

But around the time they implemented their "clickbait" titles and thumbnails, it had the opposite effect on me. They all just *seemed* like so many other videos: bland and tasteless. The content itself hasn't much changed, but the allure certain has diminished for me. I've stopped watching their videos.

Compare that to Curious Droid, or Practical Engineering, which still use descriptive titles, sometimes questions, but always exactly about the subject.

New comment by jvzr in "FormKit: Form building framework for Vue 3"

jvzr — Fri, 13 May 2022 14:37:39 +0000

They will apparently (at least) offer new input types such as tag fields. You can find a few references of the pro features in the documentation and guides.

New comment by jvzr in "Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources"

jvzr — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:20:17 +0000

> If I could go on Twitter and only see stuff from people I follow I'd feel the same as you about it. But they make it almost impossible not to be barraged with other stuff too, and not just ads, but hate and insanity that I tried hard not to follow. Those are the things that drove me away.

The only sane way to use Twitter is through a 3rd-party client: no ads, none of that Notifications spam and other recommendations

New comment by jvzr in "Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes"

jvzr — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 13:01:17 +0000

I have opened a merge request on Refined Hacker News (https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news) which is a pretty great HN extension for Firefox and other browsers. Thank you to OP

Edit: I'm pretty pleased with my blue Space Invader!

New comment by jvzr in "Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A story from hell"

jvzr — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:46:53 +0000

I understood it like you did. She--the author--even wrote that she had translators for all the languages supported by the app, hence the 50-to-30 chars kerfuffle.

New comment by jvzr in "iNotch for Gnome Shell"

jvzr — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:56:15 +0000

The screen is apparently a 16:10 display, plus approximately 70 (not sure about the number) pixels on top: thusly, when an app goes fullscreen, the OS just blacks out those top pixels and puts the app in the 16:10 area (unless it uses the new API and requests access to these pixels)

New comment by jvzr in "Firefox Browser: best for a free web"

jvzr — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:56:45 +0000

It appears to work for Netflix, but not YouTube videos. Are there restrictions in the implementation?

Edit: following this¹ (without installing any driver though) was enough to make it work for YouTube, apparently. Thanks for the info!

[1] https://askubuntu.com/a/1291873

New comment by jvzr in "Firefox Browser: best for a free web"

jvzr — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 05:07:53 +0000

I'd been using Firefox ever since the Phoenix days. And somehow, sometime, I moved to Chrome like everyone did... until I had enough of Google, and came back to Firefox right at the start of the Quantum days. Haven't left since.

Firefox is a really good browser (at least on Linux, even though the lack of HW-acceleration on NVIDIA cards is a pain) made even greater with best-in-class uBlock Origin support, and of course piroor's Tree Style Tab. Containers are also a great feature (I containerize Google, Facebook, Amazon and Twitter properties in their own silo). Tab unloaders (I don't remember which I'm currently using) is also a good idea to reduce memory usage (even though with 32 GB I have NEVER run into issues)

I've been rocking it and a custom user stylesheet to hide the tabs on top, reorder and customize the address bar to be tighter, have more contrast; and the whole UI to be black (I use the dark variant of Adwaita all day on my desktop). Having an ultrawide display, I have plenty of horizontal space. Here's an screenshot if that interests you: https://imgur.com/a/8PEKED5

Edit: How could I have missed that?! Picture-in-picture is incredibly good as well! I use it daily, mainly to watch a YT video on the side while continuing to browse the web. They even added multiple PIP windows a while back, which is a god-send when I watch livestreams such as a rocket launches (eg. official livestream in one window, and EverydayAstronaut's in another)

New comment by jvzr in "England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary says"

jvzr — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 12:14:17 +0000

Government numbers in France show 80.2% today ("The figure gives the share of the population over the age of 12 that are fully vaccinated (all required doses")

We crossed 60% on July 29, and 70% on August 20

New comment by jvzr in "Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux"

jvzr — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 17:50:10 +0000

GreenWithEnvy is such a NVIDIA-focused utility

New comment by jvzr in "Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux"

jvzr — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 17:45:53 +0000

Pipewire (which is being released in mainstream distros since this summer) has mostly/entirely fixed these issues. On my particular end (Arch, for gaming) it's 100% perfect with no latency

Edit: Pipewire is a new system AND a "drop-in" replacement for any of PulseAudio/Alsa/JACK (just add whichever package you want and it will replace that particular audio stack with Pipewire's replacement)

New comment by jvzr in "Why don’t the French celebrate Lafayette?"

jvzr — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 13:59:04 +0000

There's a boulevard in my city named after him. According to autocomplete, there's at least six another french cities having such a boulevard.

The big store "Galeries Lafayette" is also named after the street in which the first store was opened.

New comment by jvzr in "Why don’t the French celebrate Lafayette?"

jvzr — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 13:52:24 +0000

Also, those are old bridges/columns/whatever. The French are not erecting any new structure bearing his name or symbol.

New comment by jvzr in "In 2009, Two Nuclear Submarines Collided Under the Sea (2016)"

jvzr — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 16:47:43 +0000

I remember (barely) from a diver friend that colors disappear below 20 meters (everything appears blue, unless a bright light is shone), and sun light disappears completely below 70 meters. You'd assume that an optical system with flood lights could theoretically work, but then it would be pretty simple to monitor for light at these depths (for counter-intelligence/retaliatory purposes)

New comment by jvzr in "SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are getting ‘out of control’"

jvzr — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 22:08:27 +0000

There was concern at one point that the laser component of Starlink woulldn't burn up during atmospheric reentry. I don't think many (if any) satellites currently in orbit have that laser module (which will be used for satellite-to-satellite communication, and IIRC better latency by removing a necessary ground round-trip when the satellite leaves radio "line of sight" with your antenna; I don't have the correct terminology). I don't know either if that's been fixed

New comment by jvzr in "Blue Origin Sues NASA over Lunar Lander Contract Given to Rival SpaceX"

jvzr — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 06:17:21 +0000

The (tl;dw) money quote of that video:

> Today there would be, you know, three protests, and the losers would sue the federal government because they didn’t win…

--Bezos

New comment by jvzr in "Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch"

jvzr — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 13:40:38 +0000

In case it wasn't a rhetorical question, Crew Dragon does not have an airlock that would allow for a suited astronaut to leave the craft while maintaining atmosphere inside it. Plus, a big thing missing is a manipulator arm, such as Canadarm, which was used to capture the telescope, and essentially make the shuttle and telescope one body.

New comment by jvzr in "Valve Steam Deck"

jvzr — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:41:25 +0000

Isn't that a tax thing? Prices in Europe are displayed VAT-included, while prices in the US are VAT-free, are they not?

New comment by jvzr in "Valve Steam Deck"

jvzr — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:37:00 +0000

They specifically mention Arch Linux (with KDE Plasma desktop) in the software specs

SteamOS 2 was Debian-based