Hacker News: shimonabi

New comment by shimonabi in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

shimonabi — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:30:59 +0000

Can it show the date in the European format, like the GW-M5610U-1ER?

New comment by shimonabi in "Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available"

shimonabi — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:40:38 +0000

It's 90's tech. Their business model is selling expensive subscriptions to keep legacy projects alive. I was at one of the conferences in my country and the average age of a developer was about 60.

New comment by shimonabi in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

shimonabi — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:13:54 +0000

I'd rather have Henry Kissinger on the note.

New comment by shimonabi in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

shimonabi — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:10:00 +0000

I don't like the designs.

I didn't even know who the person on the 200€ bill is until today and I have a suspicion she was chosen by some woke EU bureaucrat. I'm sure Europe had better persons in its history.

If Maria Callas is suitable for currency, why not put Daft Punk on it?

New comment by shimonabi in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

shimonabi — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:17:03 +0000

72k and I made one stupid mistake at "beginner". I'm not a native speaker.

New comment by shimonabi in "Americans Are Smashing Flock Cameras"

shimonabi — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:50:47 +0000

Less social inequality. Where I live there are no cameras and I don't even lock my doors when I take my dog on a walk.

New comment by shimonabi in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

shimonabi — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:35:43 +0000

My mother died 2 years ago and a couple of months ago I lost my job. I don't have any friends and have no family left. I tried antidepressants, but I don't believe in chemical help anymore. I read self-help books like "Feeling Good".

I take care of the house, walk the dog, apply to jobs, go swimming twice a week. I won't starve. If I don't find a job soon I might go back to school and go into teaching.

New comment by shimonabi in "First Website (1992)"

shimonabi — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:46:35 +0000

It's not that WWW was quick, it's that Bitcoin is useless.

New comment by shimonabi in "Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo"

shimonabi — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:55:22 +0000

I've also heard Cory Doctorow recently offer a similarly dismissive view, describing AI as "just statistics".

New comment by shimonabi in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

shimonabi — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:14:13 +0000

Over the last few months, I’ve increasingly come to believe that depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance. After trying ten different antidepressants with no success, I found far greater improvement by changing my patterns of thinking.

New comment by shimonabi in "Calendar"

shimonabi — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 05:27:25 +0000

Adding one letter to the day of the week would be way less confusing.

New comment by shimonabi in "Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)"

shimonabi — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:44:03 +0000

He was a con artist with a Nobel Prize.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKpj2ISQAc

New comment by shimonabi in "Qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser"

shimonabi — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 17:09:54 +0000

When I tried to install the Windows release, I got a message that it contains the Vigram.A virus.

New comment by shimonabi in "Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify"

shimonabi — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:02:27 +0000

It's buggy. I got stuck in the blue "pool" in the last stage, under one of the green ramps.

New comment by shimonabi in "Losing My Hands"

shimonabi — Fri, 03 May 2024 10:40:18 +0000

My impostor syndrome is cured a little when a machine learning expert mentions acupuncture.

New comment by shimonabi in "Bitcoin Block 840000"

shimonabi — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:47:01 +0000

People have always loved gambling. Crypto is nothing but a game of musical chairs. Also, smart people fall into cults like everyone else but they tell themselves they are into it for rational reasons (techology).

New comment by shimonabi in "Esperanto, Toki Pona, Swahili, Indonesian"

shimonabi — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:54:45 +0000

I started learning Mandarin in December with a Taiwanese teacher that teaches at a university in my tiny country. We have classes for an hour and a half every week online. She forces us to read the sentences in simplified characters, not just to know what the pinyin words mean. It's not easy.

I never had any interest in learning an invented language, other than those I use for programming.

New comment by shimonabi in "The dating app paradox"

shimonabi — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 20:21:00 +0000

I'll never install Tinder again.

6 years ago you could actually match with real local people that you even met before, now you just get matched with Asian crypto scammers and Thai women.

They scammed me out of 60€. Don't waste your money or mental health on this.

New comment by shimonabi in "Which shows got their finale right, and which didn't?"

shimonabi — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 05:22:56 +0000

It's pretty well established now that The Sopranos finale HAD closure. It's just that only the real fans figured it out.

New comment by shimonabi in "Wikihouse: Open-Source Houses"

shimonabi — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:39:09 +0000

The walls are the least expensive part of building a house.