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New comment by kiiski in "Blender for Hackers – 3D modeling is just like using VIM"

kiiski — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 12:23:14 +0000

Or alternatively click on the start point, hold shift and click on the end point.

HMD Global launches first smartphone, the Nokia 6 in China

kiiski — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 07:26:09 +0000

Article URL: http://www.hmdglobal.com/press/2017-01-08-nokia-6/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13348755

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New comment by kiiski in "Family Lives in the Arctic Circle by Building Cob House in a Solar Geodesic Dome"

kiiski — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 15:43:30 +0000

> place where the sun doesn't shine in winter

For at least one day a year. Not the whole winter.

New comment by kiiski in "Apple pulls Nokia’s Withings health product line from stores"

kiiski — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 16:51:56 +0000

Here isn't Nokia anymore. They sold it to Audi, BMW and Daimler in 2015.

New comment by kiiski in "IQ is only a minor factor in success"

kiiski — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 12:23:54 +0000

I was a member about 5 years ago. I also left the club soon, but my experience was pretty different from yours. I never went to the "official" meetings, but I did go to two of the "Mensa youth" (I was around 20, others there seemed to be 25-35) weekend gatherings in the countryside.

The gender ratio was around 60/40 men/women. I don't think anyone even mentioned the term "IQ". It was mostly like a student group outing with people drinking, talking, playing board games, going to sauna (this was in Finland), swimming, flying around in a inflatable boat someone had converted to an ultralight floatplane and such.

New comment by kiiski in "VimWiki – A personal wiki for Vim"

kiiski — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 07:39:27 +0000

Regarding 1. Emacs does have keyboard macros. A bit more involved than just hitting dot, but they do let you compose an arbitrary sequence of operations (including selection) that can be repeated or saved and applied later.

New comment by kiiski in "VimWiki – A personal wiki for Vim"

kiiski — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 19:36:40 +0000

What kind of workflow do you mean? Simply taking a screenshot and inserting a link to it would be pretty easy, at least in Emacs

  ;; There probably are better solutions already 
  ;; available somewhere.
  (defun org-insert-screenshot (filename)
    (interactive "sFilename: ")
    (let ((filename (concat filename ".png")))
      ;; import is from ImageMagick, change to whatever you like to use
      (call-process "import" nil nil nil filename)
      (insert (format "[[file:%s]]" filename))
      (org-display-inline-images)))

New comment by kiiski in "The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Concrete"

kiiski — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 18:05:51 +0000

Wikipedia claims that "In 1950, New York City was the only urban area with a population of over 10 million."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacity#Growth

New comment by kiiski in "The Free-Time Paradox in America"

kiiski — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 05:11:45 +0000

> But then she's upset

To be fair, from her point of view your hours playing Civilization might not balance out her having dinner alone.

New comment by kiiski in "Norway plans to cull more than two-thirds of its wolf population"

kiiski — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 15:47:56 +0000

I'm not familiar with the details of Norway, but the Nordic countries have so called "everyman's rights" which among other things say that owners of forests can't restrict people from roaming in their (uncultivated) land. Building a fence around your forest would most likely not be allowed.

New comment by kiiski in "Apple is working with Energous on wireless charging"

kiiski — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:22:03 +0000

District heating[1] has been around for a long time. At least here in Finland most people in cities use it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heat

New comment by kiiski in "Finnish Carrier Sets New World Record for 4G Download Speeds"

kiiski — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 17:01:52 +0000

> I can't talk about Finland

Here's a map for the carrier in question: https://elisa.fi/kuuluvuus/

New comment by kiiski in "Colorized man pages"

kiiski — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:39:35 +0000

One could also use Emacs (in a graphical window rather than in the terminal) `woman` and `variable-pitch-mode`.

New comment by kiiski in "In Bungled Spying Operation, NSA Targeted Pro-Democracy Campaigner"

kiiski — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:31:33 +0000

It's very unlikely that he is there to actually guard anything. In most countries, outside a state of emergency or war, soldiers do not have any right to shoot citizens in the streets. Even if someone specifically attacks the soldier, the correct response is to back away and call the police to handle it.

He's just standing there either for ceremonial reasons or for training (possibly both). In any case, his only task is to stand there and call the police if there's trouble.

New comment by kiiski in "Only 9% of America Chose Trump and Clinton as the Nominees"

kiiski — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 13:55:20 +0000

Edit (re: reply by dagss): I seem to have misunderstood the comment, but can't delete anymore.

New comment by kiiski in "Ooh Ooh My Turn Why Lisp? (2008)"

kiiski — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 05:53:38 +0000

What do you mean with "macro code injection vulnerabilities"? Macros are expanded before the code is compiled; by the time someone is running the program there are no macros. Well, technically, someone could call `EVAL` in a production app, but that's strongly discouraged.

New comment by kiiski in "Emacs 25.1 RC1"

kiiski — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:44:34 +0000

> Spacemacs takes so long to load that it's laughable.

Emacs is typically started once, and then you open files in the same instance. With vanilla emacs you can use `emacs --daemon` to start it as a server, and then use `emacsclient` to open files. That way it should open pretty much instantly. I'm not sure what Spacemacs calls those.

New comment by kiiski in "Emacs 25.1 RC1"

kiiski — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:52:54 +0000

In the regular speedbar you can hit `b` to see a list of buffers. I imagine it works with sr-speedbar too.

New comment by kiiski in "Pokémon Go Is Teaching Americans the Metric System"

kiiski — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:10:39 +0000

I just went to my local S-Market and looked around a bit. The big soft drink bottles were all 1.5L (as noinsight said). Milk is available in 1.5L cartons too, but no plastic bottles of any kind. Of course, I do live in a pretty remote corner of the country, so maybe the selection isn't what it is in Helsinki.

New comment by kiiski in "Pokémon Go Is Teaching Americans the Metric System"

kiiski — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 19:55:40 +0000

Sure, now that people mentioned them. That's why I said "can't associate .... of the top of my head". But that's not the point. The parent implied that there is something that's 2 liters that all Americans know, and I was curious as to what that is, because I, despite living in a metric country, couldn't think of anything.