Hacker News: orhmeh09

New comment by orhmeh09 in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

orhmeh09 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:31:00 +0000

You are spreading false information. I routinely enter my other country with a combination of US passport and national ID card. I haven't renewed my passport for that country in almost 20 years, more than half of which I was living there for.

New comment by orhmeh09 in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"

orhmeh09 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:51:26 +0000

I never noticed any problems, but I did have the mmx version. It wasn't fast but never did the playback stutter , even with dreamweaver and several browser windows

New comment by orhmeh09 in "Dates That Don't Exist (2015)"

orhmeh09 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:16:47 +0000

People working with buildings, infrastructure, and artifacts that predate 1582. Many such things in Europe

New comment by orhmeh09 in "Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone"

orhmeh09 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:25:28 +0000

I have the same issue. For all the talk of USB-C's supposed design for redirecting damage from the ports to the connector, it failed pretty badly here for probably thousands of people. Never had these issues with a barrel connector.

New comment by orhmeh09 in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

orhmeh09 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:37:33 +0000

Sounds like a job for a more capable LLM than Opus.

New comment by orhmeh09 in "Don't Roll Your Own"

orhmeh09 — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:34:30 +0000

This is one of the most useful programs I use every day. Works in Firefox too

New comment by orhmeh09 in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

orhmeh09 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:45:08 +0000

I enjoy watching TikTok, especially local or niche creators who have just a couple hundred followers. This is not going to be a problem as you imagine.

New comment by orhmeh09 in "Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable"

orhmeh09 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:39:40 +0000

World facts provided by the CIA, too, have intrinsic quality issues. I'm not too worried!

New comment by orhmeh09 in "DOGE Track"

orhmeh09 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:25:34 +0000

> The world sucks. Whataboutism only makes it worse.

If you believe this, why did you just go "well, what about China?"

New comment by orhmeh09 in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

orhmeh09 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:25:39 +0000

I use uBlock on mobile safari.

New comment by orhmeh09 in "Local First Htmx"

orhmeh09 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 06:24:01 +0000

> But really the ultimate goal for any good website engineer should be to offload as much logic and processing to the browser, not rewrite everything in JS just because you can

Why? This makes for a horrible user experience. Things like TicketMaster, and in recent years GitHub, slow my machine to a crawl sometimes. I much prefer mostly static content. This is a well-made website: https://www.compuserve.com/

New comment by orhmeh09 in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

orhmeh09 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:17:08 +0000

I can't imagine a scenario where I would want to reimplement rm just for this.

New comment by orhmeh09 in "PYX: The next step in Python packaging"

orhmeh09 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:26:23 +0000

I think CRAN for R is very good, partly aided by an aggressive pruning policy for broken packages.

New comment by orhmeh09 in "PYX: The next step in Python packaging"

orhmeh09 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:25:12 +0000

It is not fast. Mamba and micromamba are still much faster than conda and yet lack basic features that conda has to provide. Everyone is dropping conda like a hot plate since the licensing changes in 2024.

New comment by orhmeh09 in "Don't animate height"

orhmeh09 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:59:28 +0000

Yes, with StopTheMadness https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/

It works on Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, but you must buy it.

New comment by orhmeh09 in "Debugging Bash Like a Sire (2023)"

orhmeh09 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 07:22:16 +0000

Because it's better at the task than Python is.

New comment by orhmeh09 in "What the Fuck Python"

orhmeh09 — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 07:12:47 +0000

Reticulate is a bridge that lets you use Python from R so that you don't have to suffer Python the language.

New comment by orhmeh09 in "Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts"

orhmeh09 — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 07:11:55 +0000

Just use restic. It handles these things.

New comment by orhmeh09 in "What the Fuck Python"

orhmeh09 — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:29:00 +0000

You can get by with R and reticulate.

New comment by orhmeh09 in "Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law"

orhmeh09 — Sun, 18 May 2025 00:30:35 +0000

They might log access in some circumstances, according to their privacy policy (https://proton.me/legal/privacy)

> 2.5 IP logging: By default, we do not keep permanent IP logs in relation with your Account. However, IP logs may be kept temporarily to combat abuse and fraud, and your IP address may be retained permanently if you are engaged in activities that breach our Terms of Service (e.g. spamming, DDoS attacks against our infrastructure, brute force attacks). The legal basis of this processing is our legitimate interest to protect our service against non-compliant or fraudulent activities. If you enable authentication logging for your Account or voluntarily participate in Proton's advanced security program, the record of your login IP addresses is kept for as long as the feature is enabled. This feature is off by default, and all the records are deleted upon deactivation of the feature. The legal basis of this processing is consent, and you are free to opt in or opt out of that processing at any time in the security panel of your Account. The authentication logs feature records login attempts to your Account and does not track product-specific activity, such as VPN activity.

See also section 3, "Network traffic that may go through third-parties."