Hacker News: mrloop

New comment by mrloop in "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"

mrloop — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:51:33 +0000

Same here, migrated off of them shortly after they announced there first price hike.

New comment by mrloop in "StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta"

mrloop — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:56:38 +0000

It’s tricky and maybe locale specific. A lot of roads near me have no pavement. You have to anticipate pedestrians, cyclists and horses on the road. Not at the same frequency as motor vehicles but not completely out of the ordinary.

New comment by mrloop in "200 Milliseconds"

mrloop — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:18:29 +0000

Yes similar here, async operation that could be quick enough not to warrant a busy state, but not all the time. So rather than show a flash of busy state, that makes the ui look janky when the operation is quick, show the busy state for a minimum amount of time

New comment by mrloop in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

mrloop — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:31:00 +0000

BBC Dynasties https://youtu.be/2Co_hmLenD8

New comment by mrloop in "Box of Secrets: Discreetly modding an apartment intercom to work with Apple Home"

mrloop — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:09:41 +0000

Or between 13 and 19 which intermittently is interpreted as 30 or 40 etc. Maybe it's just my enunciation.

New comment by mrloop in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"

mrloop — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 08:38:35 +0000

An MTP

New comment by mrloop in "Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war"

mrloop — Sun, 11 May 2025 20:05:15 +0000

My old ford tourneo custom has a well placed phone holder. I use this and a MagSafe charger plugged into usb port on dash. Works great, I can use my phone, or anybody else can use the van and their phone, it’s really easy. Just looked and newer models have great big touch screen instead :(

New comment by mrloop in "I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)"

mrloop — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:22:04 +0000

I had to inform numerous companies of my mums death last year. A lot of them had either phone support with very long wait times or a postal address, no email. It took me less time to write a letter and post it than to wait on hold

New comment by mrloop in "Trying Out a Far Infrared Heated Poster"

mrloop — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:12:49 +0000

Or even good woolen jumper can make a big difference. Something light so you don’t notice your wearing it but with good insulating properties and you retain a lot more of your own body heat than a cotton or synthetic top.

New comment by mrloop in "What happens in a mind that can't 'see' mental images"

mrloop — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 11:00:16 +0000

When another poster described a red star with sun spots I started forming a moving image in my mind of a sun with swirling in motion sun spots

New comment by mrloop in "Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years"

mrloop — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 05:51:46 +0000

Could this be the same tooltip issue I see everyday on Thunderbird? I must use Firefox differently but in Thunderbird I'm often left with a tooltip telling the date of the last message I was looking at after changing to a different app.

New comment by mrloop in "Comlink Makes WebWorkers Enjoyable"

mrloop — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 18:51:34 +0000

Used Comlink for a small toy project and made it really easy with very little change to move an expensive file merge off the main thread and do it in the background. Next time I use WebWorkers I'll probably use Comlink.

Example of using here https://github.com/mrloop/activity-merge/blob/main/app/contr...

New comment by mrloop in "Show HN: OPML list of Hacker News Users Personal Blogs"

mrloop — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 05:30:32 +0000

I tried importing at feedbin.com, 524 of 598 imported successfully. The failures being a mixture of not found or connection errors and a couple of invalid URL errors

New comment by mrloop in "Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter"

mrloop — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 20:51:22 +0000

I generally have my heating at 18, anything more I am opening windows or taking off my jumper. 20 degrees would be too hot for me, if I lived in an apartment that mandated 20 degress heating at all time I wouldn't be happy about it.

New comment by mrloop in "Tell HN: Instagram's API has broken, support tickets ignored, status page green"

mrloop — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:03:19 +0000

I'm building an integration that will use a long lived token once a month. In your experience will a long lived token expiry if not used for a month? How long do they remain valid until expiring from not being used?

New comment by mrloop in "If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now"

mrloop — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 19:22:03 +0000

I was thinking the same thing, screenshot of commits with most code deleted https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...

New comment by mrloop in "Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image"

mrloop — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 11:15:10 +0000

This brings back memories of art school, a friend recorded themselves running up and down a hill and made many copies of copies of the video on VHS. They displayed different generations of the degrading video side by side on a bank of monitors.

New comment by mrloop in "Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier statement"

mrloop — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 11:03:15 +0000

The final judgement at https://chinatribunal.com makes somber reading about forced organ harvesting from prisoners in China and its increase in the last 20 years.

New comment by mrloop in "A submarine's weakness: its software?"

mrloop — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 23:15:30 +0000

Reminds me of Glen Quaich which I regulary cycle. Single track road, with switch backs and 12% gradients. Often I'll cycle by besumed tourist off the main road wondering where they are. Its a public road but not cleared or gritted in the winter. A couple visiting a nearby village last week were rescued by a farmer after Google sent them along this scenic route in a snow storm.

New comment by mrloop in "The Unicorn Tapestries"

mrloop — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:17:42 +0000

There are woven reproductions of these in Stirling castle, worth going to see if you are in Scotland. https://www.stirlingcastle.scot/discover/highlights/the-stir...