Hacker News: roelschroeven

New comment by roelschroeven in "Splitting a Git Commit"

roelschroeven — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:28:57 +0000

> P.S. The stack overflow question for splitting commits discusses the old and cumbersome approach. The 20th answer discusses the right approach but has a meagre 2 upvotes as of today, compared to 2656 for the older top answer with the cumbersome approach.

It now has 5 upvotes. A long way to go to 2656 but at least it's going in the right direction.

New comment by roelschroeven in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

roelschroeven — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:26:29 +0000

It is illegal, but compliance is not enforced to the degree that it should. Companies get away with a lot of GDPR infractions, unfortunately.

New comment by roelschroeven in "Wind turbine is being used to produce zero-carbon "green ammonia" fertilizer"

roelschroeven — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:50:28 +0000

Kinda looks like a low-quality executive summary of a longer text. I agree, it's garbage.

New comment by roelschroeven in "How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown"

roelschroeven — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:42:52 +0000

Much like https://ciechanow.ski/

New comment by roelschroeven in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

roelschroeven — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:56:04 +0000

Both far-right and far-left are bad, and often in many ways actually quite close to each other.

New comment by roelschroeven in "Aisle Discovers 6 New CVEs in Curl, Including the Oldest Issue Ever Reported"

roelschroeven — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:19:27 +0000

How? Looks like a bog standard corporate website to me, and it would surprise me if they would let their highly skilled programmers spend time on creating the website.

New comment by roelschroeven in "Fossil Fuels Are 40% of Freight Shipping Tonnage, but Half Its Fuel Use"

roelschroeven — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:30:12 +0000

60% efficiency? How do these power plants manage to circumvent the limit set by Carnot efficiency?

New comment by roelschroeven in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

roelschroeven — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:49:52 +0000

The only basis they have is the low chance of enforcement. It is absolutely contrary not only to the spirit but also the letter of the law.

New comment by roelschroeven in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

roelschroeven — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:31:48 +0000

> and rarely if ever on a train or a plane

I experience motion sickness more easily on planes than on trains or buses. Boats are a problem too, in heavy seas.

In a large plane with no or very light turbulence the motion sickness doesn't brake through, it's only an uneasy feeling. In heavier turbulence, or in things like a small Cessna or a sailplane it gets worse. I haven't had to vomit in these situations since I was a little kid, but I do feel bad from nausea.

New comment by roelschroeven in "Why does paper fold so well?"

roelschroeven — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:26:29 +0000

And once you have created such a straight line, you can fold the paper again such that the first crease lines up on both sides of the new crease, and then you have a right angle.

New comment by roelschroeven in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

roelschroeven — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:39:51 +0000

In addition to sibling replies, function keys are very useful in debuggers (to step in/over, set breakpoints, ...). And lots of other things that don't immediately come to mind.

I'm old enough to remember WordPerfect on DOS, with a paper template to put over the function keys on your keyboard as a little cheat sheet for all their functions.

New comment by roelschroeven in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

roelschroeven — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:44:39 +0000

It's poorly worded. There aren't three motors per axle, there are three motors total: one on the front axle and two on the rear axle.

New comment by roelschroeven in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

roelschroeven — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:28:43 +0000

> I don't know how to write an email without it making the spacing between paragraphs/lines larger than I would like. (I.e. double-spacing)

The Compose window by default uses Paragraph style. Change it to Text instead, that works like you want. You can change the default in the settings. Still not ideal because in some cases after certain types of formatting it still reverts to Paragraph style.

New comment by roelschroeven in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

roelschroeven — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:55:53 +0000

Aha, that's what I missed. That explains it all. Thanks.

New comment by roelschroeven in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

roelschroeven — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:28:21 +0000

I probably should have said Toyota-like hybrid system, to include manufacturers that either licensed Toyota's system or developed something similar themselves.

New comment by roelschroeven in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

roelschroeven — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:30:55 +0000

What surprised me in the video is that Alec was telling how his engine can charge his battery while in the car wash. I had a 2016 Auris which I had to put it in neutral in the car wash, and in neutral the engine couldn't charge the battery. That was never a problem, I never had an empty battery in the car wash or even came close to it, but it does seem different from Alec's experience (unless I misunderstood).

New comment by roelschroeven in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

roelschroeven — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:24:30 +0000

Yes, but specifically about the Toyota's hybrid system. Other systems are more complex, they have a traditional engine and transmission and an electrical system on top.

New comment by roelschroeven in "HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker"

roelschroeven — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:03:11 +0000

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/opinion/hantavirus-compla...

An interesting view on this. No need to panic, but we should take this outbreak, and others like it, more seriously and not leave things to chance, crossing our fingers and hoping for the best.

New comment by roelschroeven in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

roelschroeven — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:13:48 +0000

For scrolling large distances in large documents, that's an important use case to me. As an indication of progress is another important use case, but also as an indication to show the size of the document relative to the viewport.

New comment by roelschroeven in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

roelschroeven — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:10:23 +0000

Absolutely, but there are many programs that don't use that accent color, making it less useful than it should be.