Hacker News: no_protocol

New comment by no_protocol in "The appeal of serving your web pages with a single process"

no_protocol — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:17:59 +0000

The traditional pattern seen here of serving pages under a hierarchy called `~cks` indicate this is the personal site of someone who is affiliated with the university. Unless otherwise noted you should probably assume all the content is from "cks", not an army of dozens of coders.

New comment by no_protocol in "Last undersea Internet cable connecting Vietnam with the world breaks down"

no_protocol — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 21:19:34 +0000

I am assuming the "SMW3 cable" mentioned is SEA-ME-WE 3, which was mentioned multiple times in "Mother Earth Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson (1996, Wired) [0]. It was noted as a competitor to FLAG, the cable Stephenson was mainly following.

That seems like a very long lifespan.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

New comment by no_protocol in "How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising"

no_protocol — Wed, 11 May 2022 21:49:52 +0000

It doesn't talk about a senate at all:

> It is divided up into 10 districts, each of which sends one representative to the national legislature, which consists of 10 people.

They take this as a given and try to come up with convoluted ways to 'fix' the problem, when just fixing this axiom would solve it much easier.

New comment by no_protocol in "How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising"

no_protocol — Wed, 11 May 2022 21:44:54 +0000

Why do they need to only have single-member districts? How about having fewer districts with more members per district? It seems like Fix Gerrymandering is a solution aimed at the wrong problem when the entire problem could just be eliminated.

New comment by no_protocol in "Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's"

no_protocol — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 03:39:12 +0000

Read Snow Crash

New comment by no_protocol in "How fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode (2019)"

no_protocol — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 08:03:15 +0000

Allow 3rd party resources, it has visual aids and buttons.

New comment by no_protocol in "Email providers – which one to choose?"

no_protocol — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 02:12:00 +0000

> PGP is still fucking awesome and should always be used for any sensitive communication (best case scenario: all for every contact you can get to use it) - in addition to secure providers and all the other stuff we should be doing.

Sorry, I actually live in the real world, not whatever fantasy land the author comes from.

New comment by no_protocol in "Printing Presses Are Giant GPUs"

no_protocol — Fri, 01 May 2020 06:00:51 +0000

Printing presses are also giant, asynchronous CPUs. Depending on what you put in, they can cause society to take certain actions.

Perhaps in recent years their effectiveness has been dwindling, though.

New comment by no_protocol in "Request Node lib used by 48k modules is now deprecated"

no_protocol — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 18:55:52 +0000

If someone knows your account number, they can take money from it, there is no separate secret or anything. It would be illegal, but they can do it.

New comment by no_protocol in "Show HN: There are 100s of similar Monitor Arms so I built this"

no_protocol — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 07:04:44 +0000

Stands for 3 monitors should be broken down by whether or not the middle one is fully adjustable.

Do you know why there are no wall mounted 3 monitor stands?

New comment by no_protocol in "Firefox Multi-Account Containers"

no_protocol — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:26:51 +0000

I can forgive the somewhat limited user interface for setting these up that is in the stock add-on, but the lack of automatic syncing of rules to all computers with the same Firefox account is really frustrating to deal with.

Putting in the effort to get them all set up nicely and then having them either blown away (I think this happened once...) or needing to get that over to another computer has made me limit my use to fewer containers than I probably would otherwise use.

New comment by no_protocol in "Granular convection"

no_protocol — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 19:38:26 +0000

In many places, the frost line is more like 3 to 6 feet, than 6 inches.

New comment by no_protocol in "[dead]"

no_protocol — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 04:16:48 +0000

I have had this happen to me twice as a pedestrian, in 2011 and 2012. I didn't care about what it does to the environment, it felt like a personal attack upon me.

New comment by no_protocol in "The Asymmetry of Internet Identity"

no_protocol — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 19:53:15 +0000

> I can't use my Twitter!TeMPOraL_PL account to talk to you, because there's no transport between Twitter and HN. And even if it was, now two brands would be involved in communication.

You could almost do it if things like the Keybase identity graph were widely used. It seems like that concept would lift the identity out of the brands. As long as you linked back to an identity chain from your identity on each brand.

New comment by no_protocol in "Show HN: Zapmarks"

no_protocol — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 05:40:18 +0000

Hmm:

- Are variables allowed in the links?

- Can you set it as the default search engine for your browser so these can just be typed into the main search bar instead of going to the Zapmarks site each time?

Firefox's built in keywords already do great for this, and I have seen https://shortmarks.com/ for other browsers. What does your site offer that those do not? They are both free options.

New comment by no_protocol in "Show HN: TeXnique – A LaTeX Typesetting Game"

no_protocol — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 18:06:44 +0000

Probably was supposed to be \notin rather than \not\in? They are not pixel for pixel identical.

New comment by no_protocol in "Show HN: TeXnique – A LaTeX Typesetting Game"

no_protocol — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 17:53:27 +0000

I was able to complete one problem within the 3 minute time limit. I had to try multiple times to get the right code for two of the symbols required. The linked symbol drawing site would have helped on one of them.

I really like the format of the user interface with instant response/feedback.

It seems like you're pretty close to having an genuinely useful page.

Suggestions:

- As-is, this is really only useful to people who already have some familiarity with this material already. It would be way more useful if it had an additional mode for an absolute beginner

- Instead of being just a memory/recall test, the primary usage mode should be a tutorial and response format for learning

- In the learning mode, first present information on one new concept, then allow the user to test their new knowledge on a problem similar to the way the existing system works

New comment by no_protocol in "Dear web developers: set the font color, too"

no_protocol — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:20:42 +0000

> are users really expected to be able to improve their browsing experiences with custom CSS

Actually, yes:

https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html#cascade

User stylesheets are supposed to be applied at a precedence level below the page author's style, so any time the page author did not specify a style, the user's style can be used as default.

Browsers should have made this an easily accessible feature, but they seem to instead like to remove access to it. Think "Developer tools window", but persistent.

New comment by no_protocol in "Dear web developers: set the font color, too"

no_protocol — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:19:11 +0000

> Browsers have supported user defined CSS defaults since forever, and plugins like Stylish have been around for a while.

It looks like Chrome removed these several years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7329855

Plugins are a thing but why should you need a plugin for something that is a core part of the CSS specification?

https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html#cascade

> the average user

This is (mostly) about accessibility. Even if the average user does not need it, some do. And those that do would be quite glad to have it easily.

> there is no "quick and easy" way to do that for any but the simplest sites

Just because user stylesheets have been ignored for many years doesn't mean they shouldn't be acknowledged. Design your site with them in mind.

New comment by no_protocol in "Dear web developers: set the font color, too"

no_protocol — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:44:13 +0000

What has happened to the concept of "User Defined CSS"? Is it totally gone? Did Chrome kill it?

Browsers should be making this a prominent and first-class feature.

Users should be able to quickly and easily set their default styles for various elements and choose at what precedence level they apply.