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New comment by skipnup in "Gemini 3"

skipnup — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:43:51 +0000

The Swiss and German railway clocks actually work the same way and stop for (half a?) second while the minute handle progresses.

https://youtu.be/wejbVtj4YR0

New comment by skipnup in "Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python"

skipnup — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 06:59:24 +0000

Doesn't look like it:

> PlutoBook depends on the following external libraries:

> Required: cairo, freetype, harfbuzz, fontconfig, expat, icu

> Optional: curl, turbojpeg, webp (enable additional features)

Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design

skipnup — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 11:07:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Deathbyteacup/fluentbird

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549413

Points: 217

# Comments: 151

New comment by skipnup in "Space Selfie"

skipnup — Wed, 28 May 2025 06:40:17 +0000

He doesn't either, does he? But he's great in outlining how to get to the point of having enough idea to go through with his project.

New comment by skipnup in "BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English"

skipnup — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 04:59:58 +0000

Correcting the number/date formatting will probably be the more challenging, yet still boring, Job, I guess.

New comment by skipnup in "Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?"

skipnup — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 06:41:28 +0000

Don't know much about corporate traffic usage, but at some cheap VPS place like Hetzner you get 20TB traffic per month included für less than 4€.

Seems like a lot of traffic to me, probably is next to nothing or would cost more.

New comment by skipnup in "Microsoft's new Outlook client moves your email to the cloud"

skipnup — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:28:02 +0000

I switched to doing most of the automation in power automate

This of course only works with exchange afaik, but why else would I use outlook.

New comment by skipnup in "Wp2hugo: Best WordPress to Hugo migrator (written in Go)"

skipnup — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:30:40 +0000

The author of the software called it like that. Maybe quotes would still make sense.

New comment by skipnup in "Notepad Tab"

skipnup — Tue, 28 May 2024 06:48:55 +0000

It’s actually compressed. It uses https://github.com/nodeca/pako and then applies base64. Try entering hundreds of "a" and you’ll see that the base64 doesn’t really get much longer.

New comment by skipnup in "Small Things"

skipnup — Sun, 05 May 2024 17:35:57 +0000

And if you live with a toddler, even those have to exist and are necessary for becoming a healthy being. At least if they are met with understanding by the parents.

New comment by skipnup in "Windsor Typeface (2018)"

skipnup — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:43:37 +0000

https://fontreviewjournal.com/feed/ ?

New comment by skipnup in "Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI"

skipnup — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 15:43:06 +0000

It always was, you just didn't realize that as a student. At least here in Germany.

New comment by skipnup in "The unfortunate math behind consulting companies (2011)"

skipnup — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 22:37:38 +0000

Sounds about right...? End of November 2023 the average German worker hat 20 sick days already. Add 2 for December and 2 for good measure and you're at 2/month.

New comment by skipnup in "In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users"

skipnup — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 21:32:50 +0000

Same thing on Android, e.g., WhatsApp uses Google storage automatically for backups.

New comment by skipnup in "The Curse of Docker"

skipnup — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 06:06:33 +0000

But that could be said about each an any dependency.

And some (very rare) companies do enforce that, everyone else has to build up a bit of trust.

New comment by skipnup in "EurKEY: The European Keyboard Layout – For Europeans, Coders and Translators"

skipnup — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 07:58:48 +0000

As the guy is German and most certainly uses ä/ö/ü/ß, he probably has an idea.

New comment by skipnup in "Laws of UX"

skipnup — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 17:23:54 +0000

From the site itself:

> 1. All processes have a core of complexity that cannot be designed away and therefore must be assumed by either the system or the user.

> 2. Ensure as much as possible of the burden is lifted from users by dealing with inherent complexity during design and development.

> 3. Take care not to simplify interfaces to the point of abstraction.

New comment by skipnup in "Displayport: A Better Video Interface"

skipnup — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 16:02:00 +0000

One extremely convenient situation for me is getting sorround sound from the TV to the AV receiver in a single cable.

New comment by skipnup in "TikTok is a threat. So is the rest of Big Tech"

skipnup — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:46:36 +0000

You wouldn't believe how much tiktok helps at parenting, giving tiny bits of information every day to help with the problems you have with a newborn. To have you constantly updated on first-aid for newborns...

Same thing also goes for a ton of other topics, eg. woodworking.

Of course, you have to get into the right circles first, bit there is so much knowledge, easy to grasp, not much time or effort needed. But it takes a couple of days to get there.

New comment by skipnup in "Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos"

skipnup — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:58:33 +0000

All the time actually. I have monthly folders, automatically backed up by my phone to the NAS. Each month my wife and I sift through the photos and delete all duplicates and boring stuff and then we have around 150 photos per month that we sometime just have on as a slideshow.

Yearly, we create printed photo albums that we look at regularly and show to our kids.

But all this only works after lots and lots of hours of manual work filtering the photos.

Still, over the last 15 years or so for two people we have way more than 100k photos stored on the NAS.