Hacker News: rjmorris

New comment by rjmorris in "Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros"

rjmorris — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:29:53 +0000

No, it doesn't imply that. Saying party X plans to do something implies nothing about what party Y plans to do.

New comment by rjmorris in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

rjmorris — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 01:19:04 +0000

I had the same problem. Updating uBlock Origin fixed it.

New comment by rjmorris in "How they clean the balls in a ball pit"

rjmorris — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:58:31 +0000

Can you elaborate on how the two titles mean something different? To my reading, "Here's how they ..." and "How they ..." mean the same thing. "Here's" is unnecessary. (Not saying I agree with HN removing it automatically, just that in this case I don't think it changes the meaning.)

New comment by rjmorris in "Stealing from Google"

rjmorris — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:20:40 +0000

They sold .dev to Squarespace a couple years ago.

New comment by rjmorris in "De minimis: US small parcels loophole closes pushing up Shein, Temu prices"

rjmorris — Fri, 02 May 2025 12:22:37 +0000

Unless you get hit with the flat fee instead.

> Packages sent to the US from mainland China and Hong Kong with a value of up to $800 now face a 120% tax rate or are subject to a flat fee. The fee started at $100 and is due to rise to $200 at the beginning of June.

New comment by rjmorris in "Customizable HTML Select"

rjmorris — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:15:12 +0000

This is specifically not selectlist. "Previously, the Chrome team was working on the idea of a selectlist element. What's described in this post is that feature redesigned to reuse the existing select element instead."

New comment by rjmorris in "Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks"

rjmorris — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 17:47:13 +0000

> History is full of examples of companies doing the right thing if only to prevent government regulation.

Citing a couple would help your argument.

New comment by rjmorris in "Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update"

rjmorris — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 02:07:09 +0000

You were lucky. Lots of people who recently had their battery replaced (before the update was announced) were affected by this.

New comment by rjmorris in "Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update"

rjmorris — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 01:56:32 +0000

> I can say from experience that it doesn't.

No, I don't think you can say that. If you're getting daily notifications about being out of date, then you clearly haven't gotten the update yet. There are two possibilities: (1) You have rebooted. In this case, the dev option must have worked, because you rebooted and didn't get the update, exactly what the dev option promised. (2) You haven't rebooted. In this case, the dev option doesn't apply, because it specifically refers to what happens after you reboot.

New comment by rjmorris in "Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update"

rjmorris — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 01:49:11 +0000

Google didn't announce anything. That's a message from a customer support rep to a single individual.

New comment by rjmorris in "Ever used Google Chrome in incognito mode? You could be entitled to up to $5k"

rjmorris — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:23:15 +0000

Only for 2006. All months are available for earlier years.

New comment by rjmorris in "A post by Guido van Rossum removed for violating Python community guidelines"

rjmorris — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:39:30 +0000

I don't understand why you said they didn't explain the reason for the 3-month ban. Your link [0] lays out the reasons.

New comment by rjmorris in "Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs"

rjmorris — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:27:13 +0000

How did they type '2' on those old typewriters?

New comment by rjmorris in "General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker"

rjmorris — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 01:43:56 +0000

Maybe I misunderstood you, but Anduril doesn't include strobe modes on the main cycle, and it lets you configure how many brightness steps you want (or hold for continuous ramping). So it sounds to me like you should want people to check out Anduril, since it addresses the two issues you mentioned with your old flashlights.

New comment by rjmorris in "Why early modern books are so beautiful"

rjmorris — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:00:23 +0000

That didn't work. You should get that cough checked out.

New comment by rjmorris in "Firefox address bar"

rjmorris — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:41:16 +0000

Except when you run across sites like https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web that intercept Ctrl-K for their own internal search tool. At least that one passes a second Ctrl-K on to the browser for focusing the search bar. I've seen others that don't, although I can't bring one to mind right now.

New comment by rjmorris in "CPR's true survival rate is lower than many people think"

rjmorris — Tue, 30 May 2023 00:16:06 +0000

The article pointed to a study noting that about half of patients who survived wished they hadn't. In other words, they found survival to be a worse outcome than death.

New comment by rjmorris in "Show HN: Timeretain – Track, visualize, and export your hours"

rjmorris — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 02:15:55 +0000

I had the same issue. I think changing the logo to improve legibility is a good idea.

New comment by rjmorris in "Life as a door-to-door salesman"

rjmorris — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 00:57:44 +0000

I think they meant not answering the door.

New comment by rjmorris in "An accentuated Emacs experiment (à la macOS)"

rjmorris — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 21:19:01 +0000

I'm a native English speaker, and it's confusing for me sometimes, too. I've had to ask multiple times whether someone was expecting an answer from me when they used this construct.