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New comment by runxel in "OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it"

runxel — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:13:25 +0000

Dumbcad line barf will not help you with that at all.

There already is a format that is plain text and preserves the semantics: IFC. That's what it was made for.

New comment by runxel in "Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)"

runxel — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:07:53 +0000

I concur. I had "inherited" the sets of my 10 years older brother, and they where a pain to play with. It was sometimes impossible to separate the pieces, especially if it were plates with no leverage and nothing to grip.

Violit – Streamlit but make it stateful

runxel — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:09:36 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/violit-dev/violit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46699482

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by runxel in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

runxel — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:41:16 +0000

Another note to add here: The whole system was stupid, too! What do you mean, I can only give answers, but not comment?

While there is much more to say about SO's demise, the "interaction" on the platform was definitely not one of its strengths, either.

New comment by runxel in "Are the Three Musketeers allergic to muskets? (2014)"

runxel — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:27:54 +0000

Does anybody know which edition with the cheerful footnotes is referred here?

Why 22.62 Degrees?

runxel — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 15:19:06 +0000

Article URL: https://shop.fxbricks.com/blogs/news/why-22-62-degrees

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182302

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by runxel in "Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS"

runxel — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:40:17 +0000

So weird that this is nowhere stated on the website at all. Was literally the first and only thing I was interested in. So bad.

New comment by runxel in "Getting syntax highlighting wrong"

runxel — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:20:00 +0000

And yet here we are in VSCode, still completely unhinged, not letting us have background colors in themes at all.

Apparently it's too technically complex :D (their words in the open GH issue, not mine)

New comment by runxel in "Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email"

runxel — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:25:08 +0000

Good luck to them!

On a nother note: still 1+ year(s) until we get a real email database (enabling gmail like thread view) in TB. [0]

[0] https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/video-conversation-view...

New comment by runxel in "The history of cataract surgery"

runxel — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:44:59 +0000

Before clicking on the link I assumed circumcision actually. Basically half the population has got it done :D

(I know that the rate has lowered over the last years, but USA still has what... 85+% ? Even higher in South Korea e.g.)

Egg-Shaped Curves (2007)

runxel — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:54:46 +0000

Article URL: https://nyjp07.com/index_egg_E.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45444004

Points: 48

# Comments: 5

New comment by runxel in "I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse"

runxel — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:01:50 +0000

Came here to recommend that as well.

Or just leave it. Nobody needs to comment on blog posts, really. :D

New comment by runxel in "Notion 3.0"

runxel — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 08:37:22 +0000

I have entirely no clue about how other folks are using Notion .... but, errr – how exactly is this supposed to help me, or work at all?

How could the AI possibly know what I want to put in? The whole point of note taking and ordering and rearranging data is that I have the control over it. And by that a better understanding.

New comment by runxel in "Meta exposé author faces $50k fine per breach of non-disparagement agreement"

runxel — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:49:59 +0000

Definitely a Must-Read. One of the best books I read this year, and basically spent my whole holiday digging it.

I think it is a real eye-opener.

New comment by runxel in "Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0"

runxel — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:37:49 +0000

Very interesting. I did the treasure chest emoji proposal back in 2018.

Back then the committee was very determined not to let in more emojis – for the treasure the official response was that Unicode already had money symbols and that this should be more than enough for all use cases.

Looks like they caved in now and just adding more clobbers left and right. Half of me is happy to finally have the treasure chest, but the other half is sad, that somehow now they added it, when we could have had it 8 years ago!

New comment by runxel in "Alterego: Thought to Text"

runxel — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:28:39 +0000

I've seen tech like this on display at the IFA already 15 years ago. Forgot the name, but it was pretty hyped at that time. You could even demo it live. Sure, it was only to steer a sidescrolling video game character, but it worked great with as little training of half a minute or so.

Anyhow, Alterego just seems like another vaporware product, that will never enter or even begin to penetrate the overall market. But let's see!

New comment by runxel in "Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design"

runxel — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 09:06:14 +0000

Mh, yeah. You are right. It's flaky tho for me... Sometimes it displays my own messages, sometimes not. I won't open a bug for that right now. I just keep my fingers crossed we get the better implementation.

What is still missing now (even if or when it works), is a continous display for me. Currently you have to go email by email, which can be a bit cumbersome to navigate, because then you'll never get the "full picture" for a quick glance, if you get my drift.

New comment by runxel in "Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design"

runxel — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:25:24 +0000

It's not my words. There is a 1.5 hour long video of a maintainer chat uploaded to their YouTube channel a while ago. There one dev explains it very carefully and in depth – "ugly hack" is their words, not mine! Seems a lot of work to untangle that mess. They are already a long time over their estimates of how long it would take.

Not sure what you mean by that you see your own response. In the current "conversation" (thread) view the chain will only display incoming answers, but never your own outgoing emails – which well... would make it a true conversation view.

New comment by runxel in "New records on Wendelstein 7-X"

runxel — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:57:42 +0000

Both ideas are pretty old (50s) and in development for a long time. Both designs have their pros and cons. The biggest drawback of the Tokamak however is that it can only be pulsed... which is kind of dumb to actually generate and provide energy in the long run. You really want the Stellarator here, since there it is at least theoretically possible to run "for ever" (not entirely true, but long enough cycles to be used in a power plant).

There are 2 podcast episodes with the guys who run Wendelstein here: http://www.alternativlos.org/51/ (it's German tho)

New comment by runxel in "Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design"

runxel — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:45:32 +0000

The current "conversation view" is misnomer. There really is nothing like that. Again, just think of Gmail and how it's handled there. This is how it would look like, e.g. you actually see your own response, too. Currently this is impossible because Thunderbird does not actually know what messages belong together. It just applies some ugly hacks to even find the ingoing emails. It's a trainwreck, but I believe it will get better and we will finally have some decent mail software out there.