Hacker News: magissima

New comment by magissima in "Reinventing Firefox for Android"

magissima — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 19:09:16 +0000

I've been using Firefox Preview for a while and I like it, especially the bottom navigation bar, but one thing that I hope survives from the old app is the tab queue, which sends links opened from other apps to Firefox in the background without stealing focus from the original app. To me it's a game changer on the level of tabbed browsing and I don't know why all mobile browsers don't have it.

New comment by magissima in "Investigating the impact removing password masking has on consumer trust (2014)"

magissima — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 15:54:37 +0000

More often than never!

New comment by magissima in "Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019"

magissima — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:13:50 +0000

"From Middle English -ish, -isch, from Old English -isċ (“-ish”, suffix), from Proto-Germanic -iskaz (“-ish”), from Proto-Indo-European -iskos."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ish

New comment by magissima in "Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps (2012)"

magissima — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 21:54:53 +0000

Considering it's a national park, hunting antelope is probably also considered poaching.

New comment by magissima in ""DigitalOcean Killed Our Company""

magissima — Fri, 31 May 2019 20:01:29 +0000

DO's cofounder seems to have intervened.

https://twitter.com/moiseyuretsky/status/1134547532149854208

New comment by magissima in "A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident"

magissima — Thu, 30 May 2019 17:51:30 +0000

"Those connected to and victims of criminal acts" are supposed to be excluded, so Ted Bundy should probably be removed from Burlington and Salt Lake City.

edit: and while I'm looking at Lake Champlain, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are in Plattsburgh, NY, though the link doesn't work.

edit 2: Oops, I read "including" as "excluding" because that's what I expected, never mind!

New comment by magissima in "A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive"

magissima — Fri, 03 May 2019 15:01:13 +0000

And people complain that ranked-choice voting is too complicated for the average voter...

New comment by magissima in "Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement Violates Constitution"

magissima — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 20:53:40 +0000

She was still parking illegally, the court just threw out the method they used to catch her.

New comment by magissima in "Starkey and the Future of Hearing Aids"

magissima — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 21:22:53 +0000

I recently made a similar upgrade (old ones from 2010-ish) and I was also impressed by how much better the new ones were. The old pair's performance may have degraded over time, but the way the new ones blew them out of the water I doubt it was just that.

New comment by magissima in "Starkey and the Future of Hearing Aids"

magissima — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 21:15:26 +0000

Agreed on both counts. Wearing hearing aids for essentially my whole life I've been made fun of for it maybe once or twice, and that did suck, but there's so much more stigma in an oticon pamphlet than I've ever experienced in real life. It definitely feels like a pitch aimed at older people who are in denial about losing their hearing, no matter how many pictures of teens chatting in a circle they put in there. Matching colors, assurances that they're unnoticeable, the implication that you need hearing aids to be "normal" (true-ish for me, but still not appreciated), and so on.

Insurance is a joke. Every private insurance plan I've ever had, even my current otherwise decent one, has paid a total of 0% for anything HA-related. And it's not just the hearing aids themselves, it's the tests and the followups and the fittings and on and on. It really adds up. Iirc medicaid actually had decent coverage, but I wasn't paying for it at the time so I don't know have numbers.

New comment by magissima in "YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content"

magissima — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 19:09:40 +0000

And yet I've barely heard a peep about Alex Jones since he was deplatformed. It seems to have worked pretty well there.

New comment by magissima in "New human species found in Philippines"

magissima — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:36:46 +0000

Definitely, I'm not normally one to criticize headlines but this one is missing some pretty important context.

New comment by magissima in "CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust"

magissima — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 16:52:56 +0000

I thought "transit planner" would be a hint that I was referring to the first part of the parent's comment, that "somebody was pushing a transit agenda hard".

New comment by magissima in "CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust"

magissima — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 21:35:19 +0000

Here's transit planner Jarrett Walker making the exact opposite argument: https://humantransit.org/2019/03/notes-on-simcity-at-30.html

New comment by magissima in "Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing"

magissima — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 19:46:30 +0000

So "abolish the NLRB" then.

New comment by magissima in "Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing"

magissima — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 19:39:06 +0000

In European countries where this is the model there are often several competing unions with different political affiliations.

New comment by magissima in "Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing"

magissima — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 19:24:04 +0000

Inherited wealth, disparities in access to education, racism, and a weak labor movement are a few of the many forces that impede upward social mobility.

New comment by magissima in "Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing"

magissima — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 19:19:12 +0000

They're probably mostly referring to Bernie Sanders, who ran a campaign very focused on wealth inequality. The union link is that when people become more aware of inequality and by extension class, they become more likely to participate in class-based politics and organizations such as unions, in theory at least.

New comment by magissima in "Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing"

magissima — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 19:08:51 +0000

At least you have a vote in the union, unlike when your employer decides to use the products of your labor to lobby for policies or support parties you find abhorrent.

New comment by magissima in "GNU Parallel Cheat Sheet [pdf]"

magissima — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 22:19:51 +0000

Try changing your terminal's width and running it again ;)