Hacker News: polyvisual

New comment by polyvisual in "Withnail and I (2001)"

polyvisual — Wed, 21 May 2025 08:49:23 +0000

What an interesting read.

I have a friend who is just like Vivian. I'm sure that in an alternative universe their wasted talents of observational wit and caustic retorts would have made them a world class comic playwright.

"Here hair here". What a great film, also.

New comment by polyvisual in "3D Army Land Navigation Courses"

polyvisual — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:01:34 +0000

Possibly the longest email address I've ever seen!

usarmy.jble.tradoc.mbx.eustis-tboc-dtl-helpdesk@mail.mil

New comment by polyvisual in "Hacker in Snowflake extortions may be a U.S. soldier"

polyvisual — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 13:46:29 +0000

221B is 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes lived.

New comment by polyvisual in "DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine"

polyvisual — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:33:37 +0000

I read that Gaggia would replace flaking boilers. Contact your supplier for information.

New comment by polyvisual in "Show HN: Hacker League – Open-Source Rocket League on Linux"

polyvisual — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:18:44 +0000

I've been playing different styles and genres of video games ever since Wolfenstein 3D and I consider myself pretty adept at playing them.

However, Rocket League is one game that I just can't master. I've tried, really really tried, but I just can't play it with any amount of skill.

It's a shame, as it looks really fun and I hear my son and his mates having a ball when they play.

New comment by polyvisual in "Show HN - A side project I built to help with my laziness/procrastination"

polyvisual — Sat, 11 May 2024 06:40:27 +0000

I thought I'd share a side project I've been work on recently.

I've always struggled with procrastination. The final straw came last year when I forgot to book an MOT for my campervan, resulting in a cancelled weekend away, grief from my wife and kids and a realisation that I needed to address my procrastination problem.

So, I did what all good software engineers do: I spent a weekend hacking together a small reminder service.

The service emails me 12 weeks before, 8 weeks before, 5 weeks before, 3 weeks before, 2 weeks before, and 1 week before an important deadline. I can also choose daily reminders on the same 12, 8, 5, 3, 2, 1 schedule.

I have found that this increasingly frequent nagging helps me focus on important tasks and I haven't missed any renewals or deadlines since.

Following feedback from people I have shared the idea with, I put some more effort into the service and built remindify.co

Thanks! Matt

Show HN - A side project I built to help with my laziness/procrastination

polyvisual — Sat, 11 May 2024 06:40:27 +0000

Article URL: https://remindify.co/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40326446

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by polyvisual in "Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive"

polyvisual — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 12:40:57 +0000

Brave is great. I disabled all the web3 stuff and tidied up the homepage so it doesn't show me all the news etc.

The only issue I have is that the sync between my iphone, macbook, windows can sometimes get out of sync.

New comment by polyvisual in "End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App"

polyvisual — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 18:05:13 +0000

I use Authy. I've read a few comments about how migrating away is difficult. What do you use instead?

I also use bitwarden, but not sure how I feel about passwords and totp being in the same app.

New comment by polyvisual in "A new approach to local multiplayer / splitscreen perspective with raytracing"

polyvisual — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 07:58:46 +0000

Interesting take on split screen! In the demo, when the screen splits at about 4 seconds, I felt a bit nauseous, almost like a very light seasickness.

New comment by polyvisual in "Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, is to charge all users subscription fees"

polyvisual — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:11:26 +0000

I can't see this ending well for X.

Forcing all users to pay for access seems a pretty heavy handed way of dealing with bots.

Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, is to charge all users subscription fees

polyvisual — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:11:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/19/elon-musk-twitter-x-subscription-fees-users-posts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37567707

Points: 21

# Comments: 17

New comment by polyvisual in "Liquid Bewitchment: Gin Drinking in England, 1700–1850"

polyvisual — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 20:00:31 +0000

Thanks, will do.

New comment by polyvisual in "Liquid Bewitchment: Gin Drinking in England, 1700–1850"

polyvisual — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 07:23:05 +0000

If you want to read more about life in 1800s London, you should read The People of the Abyss by Jack London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People_of_the_Abyss

It's his first-hand account of spending two weeks living in Whitechapel, East London.

New comment by polyvisual in "Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?"

polyvisual — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 14:47:51 +0000

My goodness, that accordion needs to removed from their code base immediately.

A horrific piece of UI/UX/engineering/whatever.

New comment by polyvisual in "GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023"

polyvisual — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:52:17 +0000

My lord, that behaviour drives me mad.

The experience of using the editor for writing and editing is horrendous.

New comment by polyvisual in "Windows Subsystem For Linux a.k.a. WSL 1.0.0 released"

polyvisual — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:18:16 +0000

I can `tail -f` a file on windows. That's enough use case for me :D

New comment by polyvisual in "Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop implementing SMS/phone 2FA"

polyvisual — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 14:36:54 +0000

Agreed. My day job is in fintech. Our average customer age is > 60.

Explaining 2fa via SMS to that age group is hard enough. Adding authenticators or QR codes into the mix would blow their frail minds.

New comment by polyvisual in "OwnTracks – keep track of your own location"

polyvisual — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:00:48 +0000

Related to OwnTracks I suppose... how does Google Maps on iOS know where I parked my car, if I've set it only use my location 'whilst I'm using the app' and I haven't used the app to navigate to my parked location?

New comment by polyvisual in "A CIA website was out of date about who runs the UK"

polyvisual — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 09:23:59 +0000

ha ha, yeah, records might need updating in the not-too-distant future :)