Hacker News: ozyschmozy

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

ozyschmozy — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:13:23 +0000

Yep. Cat, find, git, date, gimp, gnu. All very distinctive, easy to search for

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

ozyschmozy — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 08:08:57 +0000

Can you comment more on your VM setup? Can it utilize the GPU properly? Any performance or compatibility issues with running windows in a VM? Etc.

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Ditching Obsidian and building my own"

ozyschmozy — Mon, 19 May 2025 09:06:31 +0000

I don't disagree with the overall comment but this bit seems like extreme hyperbole:

> If you're a regular at a bar or restaurant, you pay an order of magnitude over $1000 a year for THAT service. This one is probably worth more.

An order of magnitude over 1k per year is almost $30 per day, every day.

New comment by ozyschmozy in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

ozyschmozy — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:08:46 +0000

I see a lot of people saying Google services don't work well on other browsers. Can someone give an example? I've been using Firefox desktop and mobile for a year and haven't had any issues with Google stuff. At least YouTube, drive, docs, sheets, etc. seem to work just fine

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Kagi Snaps"

ozyschmozy — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 07:07:03 +0000

Kagi has the same syntax as well, this is just new syntactic sugar

New comment by ozyschmozy in "52 Factorial"

ozyschmozy — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 22:35:34 +0000

Pretty easy to calculate how many distinct shuffles considering only the numbers: 52!/(4!^13)=~9.2e49. Still monstrously big

New comment by ozyschmozy in "I've stopped using box plots (2021)"

ozyschmozy — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 08:36:52 +0000

> There are very real use cases for box plots,

The author argues otherwise, can you give an example of a use case where box plots would be preferable to the alternatives the author suggests?

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Former NASA Engineer Says He's Invented a Thruster That Doesn't Require Propell"

ozyschmozy — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 06:05:37 +0000

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CapitalLettersAr...

Pretty common in scifi and fantasy books

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Show HN: Domino Fit – Domino Tiling Puzzle"

ozyschmozy — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 14:04:13 +0000

This is really fun, wonder how many different dominos you could introduce and still be able to generate puzzles with a single solution

New comment by ozyschmozy in "The seventh most popular easily understood unsolved problem on MathOverflow"

ozyschmozy — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:44:13 +0000

Well in this case you weren't wrong about the first 10^10 numbers:

> the smallest counterexample is n = 906,150,257, found by Minoru Tanaka in 1980.[5]

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Meta now lets EU users unlink their Facebook, Messenger and Instagram accounts"

ozyschmozy — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 22:02:10 +0000

They already did, the news of Google doing the same on hn last week iirc.

New comment by ozyschmozy in "'A mouse for your mouth': New device allows users to scroll with their tongues"

ozyschmozy — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:55:58 +0000

In case you're not joking about public transit and gloves, you can get gloves with pads on the fingertips that allow you to use touch screens. And if your gloves don't have it, there are pads you can stick on or liquids you can apply to make existing gloves touch screen compatible.

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Uniqlo's Automated Self-Checkout"

ozyschmozy — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 09:05:27 +0000

In Netherlands as well. It actually picked up 3 of my items when I approached before I put anything in the basket. I was pretty confused at first

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Electrocaloric material makes refrigerant-free solid-state fridge scalable"

ozyschmozy — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 08:09:00 +0000

> A syringe pump pushes the silicone oil one way through the stack

This is better than the refrigerant cycle we're using now, sure, but I don't see how this is "solid state"

> “We can scale it because those elements we are using are already commercialized for other purposes.”

> For one thing, none of the present ceramics’ key elements are appealing for mass production. Lead is toxic; scandium is prohibitively expensive; tantalum is a conflict material in Central Africa and, Defay says, best avoided.

So it's not available with the current materials they need?

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Fluent Search"

ozyschmozy — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 08:55:05 +0000

> every few months, an update bricks my install

I'm really curious about why this is. I have a desktop I update daily, a laptop I update very irregularly (once even went without an update for over a year), and a toy server that I update once a year or so (I know, terrible security practice). All running arch. And I think I've had two situations where something broke significantly after an update, and even those didn't require a live boot USB.

What desktop environment/window manager/compositor do you use? I'd guess one of those is the culprit if anything

New comment by ozyschmozy in "Fluent Search"

ozyschmozy — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 08:46:54 +0000

Not at the os level but you might want to check out vimium for chrome or Firefox if you haven't already. Does what you explained (and a lot more) for browsers

New comment by ozyschmozy in "You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It"

ozyschmozy — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 13:30:18 +0000

How often does phone theft actually happen? I keep hearing this argument but in my ~15 years of owning non-apple phones and laptops, I've never had one stolen, or heard of anyone getting theirs stolen. Have I just been very lucky?

New comment by ozyschmozy in "MIT design would harness 40% of the sun's heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel"

ozyschmozy — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 20:06:33 +0000

But solar has <50% efficiency so you're looking at less efficiency overall. But yeah seems finicky. And won't you need to also spend a bunch of extra energy desalinating/distilling for either option?

New comment by ozyschmozy in ".io considered harmful"

ozyschmozy — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:57:38 +0000

What's wrong with .eu domains?

New comment by ozyschmozy in "YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin"

ozyschmozy — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 21:30:56 +0000

I don't think not wanting to pay for YouTube is the same as not wanting to pay, period. I happily pay for Nebula but block ads on YouTube. I know plenty of people who do the same, or subscribe to patreons and such of people they follow.