Hacker News: mtVessel

New comment by mtVessel in "Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?"

mtVessel — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:02:24 +0000

I would replace Teams in a heartbeat. It's not about availability, it's about license structure and bundling.

New comment by mtVessel in "What happened to TheNumbers.com"

mtVessel — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:50:01 +0000

| Now you can do something with your time besides writing pointless one-off doo-dads.

...thus eliminating all the tedious chatting, relaxing and making friends that people were previously forced to do while waiting for elevators.

New comment by mtVessel in "Surprise, pay $1000"

mtVessel — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:50:27 +0000

I dunno. I'm in the US and I feel that those saying they wouldn't expect to be liable for services they consume beyond free tier limits sound awfully entitled.

I mean, it's a sleazy practice, especially considering how they word their emails, but I wouldn't expect something for nothing just because I hadn't set up a billing mechanism yet.

New comment by mtVessel in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

mtVessel — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:40:07 +0000

All mice supported scrolling. In the before times, you use the mouse to drag the scroll thumb, which was located on the scrollbar. And you'd drag it down to see information further "down" in the document.

New comment by mtVessel in "Kniterate Notes"

mtVessel — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:31:00 +0000

I applaud their restraint. Me, I would've been compelled to title it, "Kniterate Knotes".

New comment by mtVessel in "A website to destroy all websites"

mtVessel — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:00:55 +0000

When I saw the article (which, for some reason, I had no trouble finding) I felt the same way, but then remembered I could adjust the font size myself with a few keystrokes.

New comment by mtVessel in "What you need to know before touching a video file"

mtVessel — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:21:21 +0000

| I assume nowadays it's much better...

It's not, but the Linux weenies won't hear of it. Maybe it's a great choice on Linux, but on Windows, it often renders things much worse than stock WMP (both legacy and modern). Videos with a lot of motion play especially poorly.

But, yeah, it opens everything.

New comment by mtVessel in "Explaining the widening divides in us midlife mortality: Is there a smoking gun?"

mtVessel — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:17:58 +0000

What was the reason?

New comment by mtVessel in "Stop Explaining What Things Are"

mtVessel — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:25:47 +0000

Please always explain what things are. All day long I'm following deep links, and nothing bothers me more than people assuming I have perfect context.

New comment by mtVessel in "Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces"

mtVessel — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:12:03 +0000

At least there's a way out of scrollbar madness (at least, for now):

Settings -> Accessibility -> Visual effects -> Always show scrollbars

No such luck for title bars, though, or the general Fisher-Price-ification of Windows overall.

New comment by mtVessel in "Windows-Use: an AI agent that interacts with Windows at GUI layer"

mtVessel — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:59:04 +0000

I feel vaguely vindicated that the agent can't figure out how to use the modern Save as workflow, either, and reverts to the traditional dialog.

New comment by mtVessel in "Look Out for Bugs"

mtVessel — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:06:15 +0000

| > What actually prevents bugs at scale is boring stuff: type systems...

| Nonsense. The most widely-deployed software with the lowest bug-count is written in C. Type systems could not have done anything to improve that.

C is statically and fairly strongly typed. Hard to tell if you're arguing for or against the statement you're responding to.

New comment by mtVessel in "The Subway Game (1980)"

mtVessel — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 18:55:28 +0000

Sure, but don't forget to look for posted signs, like:

"In Upper Manhattan, downtown 1 skips 137 St-City College, 125 St, 116 St-Columbia University, Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) and 103 St

    Aug 1 - 4, Fri 9:45 PM to Mon 5:00 AM

For service to these stations, take the 1 to 96 St and transfer to an uptown 1.

For service from these stations, take the 1 to 168 St and transfer to a downtown 1." [1]

There are often many simultaneous service changes.

[1] https://www.mta.info/

New comment by mtVessel in "Ask HN: Why is Gmail so incompetent at basic search?"

mtVessel — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 23:52:03 +0000

It likely doesn't make any money by itself. It's a loss leader to entice companies into its enterprise offerings.

New comment by mtVessel in "Show HN: Reverse Pac-Man"

mtVessel — Tue, 06 May 2025 18:10:30 +0000

On FF (similar on Edge):

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to reverse-pacman.staticrun.app. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

New comment by mtVessel in "People who don't ask me questions drive me crazy. Why are they like that?"

mtVessel — Thu, 01 May 2025 22:10:35 +0000

"Wanda, do you have any idea what it's like being English? Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of, of doing the wrong thing, of saying to someone 'Are you married?' and hearing 'My wife left me this morning,' or saying, uh, 'Do you have children?' and being told they all burned to death on Wednesday."

-A Fish Called Wanda

New comment by mtVessel in "Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un"

mtVessel — Thu, 01 May 2025 20:10:12 +0000

| I don't know what the legal definition of Enemies is, but I would imagine it would involve a declaration of war.

These days, some vague tattoos will do it.

New comment by mtVessel in "ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation"

mtVessel — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 18:57:28 +0000

Serious question: how did you envision "wide-scale deportations" playing out, prior to these events?

New comment by mtVessel in ""Big 3" science fiction magazines including Asimov's and Analog acquired"

mtVessel — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 23:06:05 +0000

I didn't realize they were still in print!

New comment by mtVessel in "Lip Reading as a Service (Read Their Lips by Symphonic Labs)"

mtVessel — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 23:00:03 +0000

So far, it's no HAL 9000.

Uploaded video dialog:

Bowman: You know, of course, though, he's right about the 9000 series having a perfect operational record. They do.

Poole: Unfortunately that sounds a little like famous last words.

Bowman: Yeah, still it was his idea to carry out the failure mode analysis, wasn't it?

Poole: mmm

Bowman: Should certainly indicate... (away from camera): his integrity and self-confidence

Bowman: If he were wrong, it'd be the surest way of proving it.

Poole: It would be if he knew he was wrong.

Results:

"Of course there is recommended getting necessary to have a perfect operational rank i know youre going to be the first to do that youre going to get the best youre going to get the best youre going to get the best youre going to get the best youre going to get the best of yours if you want to rock better sure its well perfect."