Hacker News: okramcivokram

New comment by okramcivokram in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

okramcivokram — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:31:10 +0000

I have received the email that my photobucket account is going to be deleted, so I've logged in after who knows how many years and got offered the same thing, to subscribe. Instead I've went to close the account and in the process (or somewhere else, don't remember exactly) there was an option to first download all the data which I've used and got the images back (there were just a few as I haven't used the service really), then I've closed the account. There was no need to subscribe.

New comment by okramcivokram in "Show HN: An easy-to-use online curve fitting tool"

okramcivokram — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 11:34:19 +0000

I've now tried it by adding a bunch of random points and I find it very cool! It can make curves fit very snugly. Maybe enhance it by a mode that runs all the models and shows you which one has the least errors/best fit.

New comment by okramcivokram in "Show HN: An easy-to-use online curve fitting tool"

okramcivokram — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 11:28:16 +0000

It'd be nice if there was some demo data because I might want to play with it to see how it works, but don't have any data to use it on.

New comment by okramcivokram in "TIL: The Data Furnace"

okramcivokram — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:55:34 +0000

During the Ethereum GPU mining craze I used ~10GPUs as a primary heat source for the whole house during the winter. It was awesome. For the first time I didn't have to care about using only 'cheap' electricity as it was not getting 'wasted' on heating only, but doing 'useful' work (mining). The only downside was the noise.

New comment by okramcivokram in "Reusable grocery bags durability test"

okramcivokram — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:40:05 +0000

From the article:

> The Canadian government counts bags containing plastic as reusable if they can withstand 100 trips of 53 metres each while carrying 10 kilograms, without breaking or tearing.

New comment by okramcivokram in "Video encoding requires using your eyes"

okramcivokram — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 20:34:02 +0000

I don't see (or maybe don't recognize) any issues with the image that they're talking about (ringing, color shift, or fake details). It most certainly doesn't look awful to me, it looks exactly the same, only a bit sharper.

New comment by okramcivokram in "I Got a Sleep Study in My 30s. It Probably Saved My Life"

okramcivokram — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 18:01:00 +0000

I don't understand how these types of devices are supposed to help, as it's not my nostrils that get blocked, but the far back of my throat.

New comment by okramcivokram in "Cutting Board Designer"

okramcivokram — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 17:21:02 +0000

"Random" should have some sanity checking, I doubt anyone can make a board with thousands of stripes with micron thickness with twenty different woods. Looks good though.

New comment by okramcivokram in "Welcome to Virtualdesktop.org"

okramcivokram — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:45:13 +0000

These are recreations of popular operating systems look and feel done in HTML, not actual virtual machines with original software as I expected.

I expected something like Fabrice Bellard's JSLinux [1], or PCjs [2] which I just found.

[1] https://bellard.org/jslinux/

[2] https://www.pcjs.org/

New comment by okramcivokram in "Simple streetlight hack could protect astronomy from urban light pollution"

okramcivokram — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 08:55:20 +0000

There are maps online [1],[2] that you can use. Oceans and deserts are the darkest, but national parks and sparsly populated areas are also a good choice. Of course, most of the time there’s nothing ‘nearby’ as population centers are always well lit.

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

[2] https://djlorenz.github.io/astronomy/lp2020/

New comment by okramcivokram in "Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup"

okramcivokram — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 13:02:49 +0000

This one is x86 architecture, and if you need more speed, there's one 4x PCIe slot available for expansion.

New comment by okramcivokram in "Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup"

okramcivokram — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 12:44:26 +0000

There’s also the upcoming Zima Blade that is very tiny too, quite a bit cheaper, with a SO-DIMM slot, single Ethernet port, and USB-C powered.

New comment by okramcivokram in "Passkeys will be importable, exportable, cross-device, and across managers"

okramcivokram — Mon, 08 May 2023 05:48:19 +0000

That's just how those vendors implemented it. There's nothing stopping you from using the TOTP apps that support the import/export functionality, as it's just strings, no secret sauce.

New comment by okramcivokram in "U.S. Hits Z-Library with New Domain Name Seizures"

okramcivokram — Fri, 05 May 2023 14:58:23 +0000

It's around 31TB right now, you can read more about it on https://annas-blog.org/ or get the data from https://annas-archive.org/

New comment by okramcivokram in "Modern Mono"

okramcivokram — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:09:15 +0000

I love them and use them everywhere I can, mostly with JS/TS. I find the code displayed with ligatures more readable, and the only time I notice any overhead is when modifying === to !== or back, when I have to remember that I have to change only the initial character. Having => as arrows instead of `equals+more than` is enough of improvement, for me, that I keep using them, even without all other tiny tweaks that they give you.

I used to use "Fira Code", but then I've migrated to "JetBrains Mono" everywhere.

New comment by okramcivokram in "Amsterdam looks incredibly realistic in the new Call of Duty"

okramcivokram — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:52:42 +0000

Looks very realistic, here's the same location in Google Street View https://goo.gl/maps/q2qrUGSoFEouq3Kj6

New comment by okramcivokram in "Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?"

okramcivokram — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 07:41:03 +0000

Firefox has this feature. When you edit the bookmark, you have the "Keywords" field that says "Use a single keyword to open the bookmarks directly from the address bar".

New comment by okramcivokram in "A biological super glue from mistletoe berries?"

okramcivokram — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 18:57:07 +0000

I remember my neighbor using glue made from mistletoe berries to catch small colorful birds (80s eastern europe). I don't recall the exact process, but I think it involved cooking the berries and thickening of the glue. Then coating some thin branches and placing them near the already captured birds. Other birds would land on the treated branch and remain glued to it until freed.

New comment by okramcivokram in "The PalmOS powered wristwatch from Fossil"

okramcivokram — Tue, 03 May 2022 12:35:38 +0000

I am not wearing it every day, so it probably conserves energy when it's idle.

New comment by okramcivokram in "The PalmOS powered wristwatch from Fossil"

okramcivokram — Tue, 03 May 2022 07:01:05 +0000

I've got Huawei Watch GT2 and it feels like I recharge it once a month. I was honestly quite positively surprised by it, having expected having to recharge every 2-3 days.