<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: pcchristie</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pcchristie</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:38:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pcchristie" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "Show HN: Trackm, a personal finance web app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Actual Budget is incredible. Happy (now free since it's gone FOSS, formerly paying) customer since migrating from YNAB4 ~ 3/4/5 (?) years ago.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:02:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409170</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409170</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How does that prove that you only voted once? If I know someone's name and address (and by extension their electorate) I can rock up and vote as as many as I want.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:37:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348387</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348387</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Building coal plants doesn't impact emissions (materially, anyway). It's the using them to burn coal part that causes emissions (and generates electricity).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:22:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47318412</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47318412</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47318412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "FrameBook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What era and which distro? I have one from ~ 2011... would be cool to do something with it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:55:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303951</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "Good software knows when to stop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember the first time I experienced this was an iOS app called Task Eater. It was simple To-dos. Attractive, snappy, everything you could need. The dev released a "final update" where he basically declared it was done. This was pretty early iOS (iPhone 4 era?).<p>The only problem is he never updated it to roll forward to future iOS version/iPhone models and it hasn't been usable for years (and years).<p>This made me search it up - the world moves so fast it's difficult to find any information on it whatsoever.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:51:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269819</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269819</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "Does that use a lot of energy?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is wrong, and by a long way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:01:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47260201</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47260201</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47260201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's uninformed mimicry. Someone very close to me (I won't name names!) bought one and did it the other day for their business and I was absolutely shocked when I saw their draft video. I asked them what they thought the clip was for.<p>It's a massive trend all over IG and TikTok these days as there's a lot of mobile-friendly consumer gear that brings your Social Media Content up a fairly large way for fairly low cost. Ironically, the mimicry probably spreads because those that know what they're doing partially or fully conceal it which is by definition less likely to be noticed and therefore imitated by first timers/novices.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:20:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164568</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164568</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "Use Microsoft Office Shortcuts in Libre Office"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep and funnily enough it's less subtle/aesthetic than before. The letters appear as big yellow stickers over each UI button, making them very easy to find & learn.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:13:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069067</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "Use Microsoft Office Shortcuts in Libre Office"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nah I appreciate that. And you're probably right. Only reason I hadn't looked into it was:<p>a) I didn't know if it could simulate the "Alt Codes" i.e. Alt + 3 separate keys in quick succession.<p>b) There's 50-100 I'd need to replicate (and arguably all of them as I pick up a new one every short while and it would be nice to be able to universalise them and be able to go back to Excel any time).<p>c) Even if a and b were no issue, I haven't "mained" Libre Office ever so I'd want to be sure the juice was worth the squeeze and I didn't find that it was missing some key/edge capability (I believe some of the newer functions released for 365 might be proprietary... at least they aren't on Sheets).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:11:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069055</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "Use Microsoft Office Shortcuts in Libre Office"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, I do/did doubt this would port over the Alt Codes, though as you say I'm not sure someone couldn't just long-hand re-write the Alt Codes in either a mod/add-on/config file for any given Office competitor suite.<p>After all, the majority of the "mappings" are arbitrary/obscure anyway as only one option can "match" the letter (e.g. F is for File, so ForMulas needs to use M. I and D are used for legacy Office Shortcut compatibility so iNsert and dAtA use N and A respectively).<p>In other words, looking for a logic to these codes even in Office is a hiding to nothing anyway and it's really just a case of building muscle memory (or coming up with a bizarro-logic that helps e.g. "A is for dAtA").<p>It would be incredible to just be able to install a "365 Mode" or config where the full re-map has been done. I'm semi surprised this hasn't already existed for a long time, even to the point of being shipped built-in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:25:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057497</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057497</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "Use Microsoft Office Shortcuts in Libre Office"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a finance guy, this is a massive, massive impediment to me "maining" Linux. Without my long-ingrained Excel shortcuts I'm not getting very far. I was previously planning to investigate a couple of "containerised" ways to run 365 (the names escape me) and I may yet have to in order to be able to use the collab/live edit features of Office, but this is a big step if it does what it says on the tin. Thanks for sharing!<p>EDIT: On second look, it looks like this might only bring over the native/bespoke hotkeys rather than the "Alt Codes" which are the majority of (my) shortcuts? e.g. Alt + H - I - S for Insert Sheet. Will have to have a look at it properly</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:18:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056316</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056316</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Was this AI? What was with the weird uncanny smoothing effect over the whole video?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:51:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955867</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46955867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's ringing a bell. I think it might have been GTA London? I downloaded it and probably have it archived somewhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:26:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954565</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954565</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "Self Driving Car Insurance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not directly related to the topic, I spose, but I have a Model 3, and absolutely love it, but the Smart Cruise Control/Driver Assist is, I hate to admit it, pretty annoying (I think it's gotten worse, too). It's incredibly "jumpy" and over-cautious. A car could pull out in your way 300m ahead of you, totally safely, and the car will shit itself and slam on the brakes to be over-cautious. Same thing with pedestrians who are walking alongside the road, posing no risk.<p>It's so jarring at times that I'll often omit to use the Cruise Control if I have my wife in the car (so as not to give her car sickness) or other passengers (so as not to make them think I'm a terrible driver!).<p>I now have developed a totally new skill which is to temporarily disengage it when I see a mistake incoming, then re-engaging it immediately after the moment passes.<p>NB I am in Australia and don't have FSD so this is all just using Adaptive Cruise Control. Perhaps the much harder challenge of FSD (or near-FSD) is executed a lot better, but you wouldn't assume so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:14:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46833402</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46833402</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46833402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't disagree with your broad comment but it's not hard to fix by slightly dispersing the control/responsibility.<p>1. Electricity moves for 5/10 min clearing intervals with defined caps at either end (currently in Western Australia it's simply 2 intervals, peak & off-peak). 
2. Expose the pricing/market data via API
3. Develop existing home automation frameworks/tools/device IOTs/routers to access that.
4. End user grants permission/configures it on their smart phone when they set their dishwasher and washing machine on set up ("would you like to enable this smart-go button by connecting to Wi-Fi? It could save you $150 per year").<p>No control ceded to third parties to turn on equipment whenever they want, just allows the end user to cue jobs for when the PowerCo anticipates lowest prices.<p>PowerCo not any more of a honeypot for attack, at least not more than they are now with control over critical generation/tx/dx infra.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:12:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727920</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727920</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought the reason prediction markets were useful was not that people with inside information participate in them which can provide an indicator to the rest of us, but that by providing a sense of consensus at scale we can more accurately predict things.<p>e.g. two sports teams participating in a fair match tomorrow, someone runs a book and after 200,000 punters bet, the odds are 90/10 in favour of Team A indicates that 90% of the time Team A is going to win that game.<p>This assumes perfect and fully available information with punters availing themselves of this info (or at least an equal split of passionate/casual/informed/wreckless or even slightly "inside" punters on each side).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:27:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675356</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675356</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How can we get HQ versions for a desktop background?<p>Incredible photos.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 05:54:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46643415</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46643415</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46643415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No it's not. The efficiency of an EV Motor > efficiency of ICEV motor. Even with 100% black coal. The carbon is reduced by about 30% IIRC (that number can and does improve as the grid greens).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 05:01:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46643143</link><dc:creator>pcchristie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46643143</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46643143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcchristie in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I got to 3, then opened one of his YouTube videos in the "bottom" browser. Nothing seemed to happen then the audio started playing and everything slowed to a crawl. After closing the tab the audio kept playing and my entire PC became unusable until I rebooted. I'm not even mad, I'm impressed!</p>
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<p>It's annoying they don't allow migrating in a data dump from Spotify (they do, but everything is tagged as listened to on the day of import...). My Spotify account is 10 years old but I only discovered Last.fm ~ 6 months ago.</p>
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