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New comment by slobotron in "STFU"

slobotron — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:34:09 +0000

IMO, in person it's much nicer on the ears than the old single-tone beep that they used to have. It's less jarring and easier to locate where the noise is coming from, ye olde beep seemed to come from everywhere at once.

New comment by slobotron in "Fresh Cloudflare Issues"

slobotron — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:26:11 +0000

anyone else experiencing the slowdown?

Fresh Cloudflare Issues

slobotron — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:26:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/?t=123

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328410

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

New comment by slobotron in "Custom firmware for MI fitness band"

slobotron — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 09:13:13 +0000

Amazfit watch gives a "score" that can be seen on device screen, in addition to the total hours and and breakdown per awake / REM / deep / light time.

New comment by slobotron in "List one task, do it, cross it out"

slobotron — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 22:56:47 +0000

TFA says the task could be procrastination too

> And don't forget that it could be "take a nap"!

New comment by slobotron in "Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users"

slobotron — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:38:49 +0000

And JS can detect that and send it back to the server.

New comment by slobotron in "UK backs Rolls-Royce project to build a nuclear reactor on the moon"

slobotron — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:37:02 +0000

I thought that it's hard to radiate-away heat in vacuum?

New comment by slobotron in "Show HN: Pole Clock, a single 24h clock with multiple timezones"

slobotron — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 19:42:27 +0000

Seems that the World Map is "fixed" and does not rotate to keep it aligned with the hands (expectation is that New York hand should roughly point to New York on the map)?

New comment by slobotron in "Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area"

slobotron — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 16:00:49 +0000

Submitted lino includes hardcoded location, maybe that's what's tripping people up?

New comment by slobotron in "J&J tried to get federal judge to block publication of Reuters story"

slobotron — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 16:00:16 +0000

Presumably when inhaled, since the lawsuit talks about talc containing asbestos.

New comment by slobotron in "Professor Fortran's Encyclopedia"

slobotron — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:03:05 +0000

Better translated as "Professor Fortran's Encyclopedia"?

New comment by slobotron in "How bad is QWERTY, really? A review of the literature, such as it is"

slobotron — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 02:21:33 +0000

Highly recommend you look into keyboards that have "Enter" and "Backspace" reachable by thumb/index fingers. I've been dailying a TECK for nearly a decade, and it's helped immensely with RSI.

Their new Clevo keyboard is a bit different, so can't vouch for it, but my SO likes it so far as first foray into ergo keyboards: https://trulyergonomic.com/

Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start

slobotron — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 19:15:34 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/12/toyota-owners-have-to-pay-8-mo-to-keep-using-their-key-fob-for-remote-start/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29543194

Points: 876

# Comments: 716

New comment by slobotron in "Mobile LTE Coverage Map"

slobotron — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 02:11:10 +0000

I don't know how reliable that Canadian towers site is, it shows seemingly ridiculous number of towers in some suburban blocks?

New comment by slobotron in "KeyCastr – Open-source keystroke visualizer"

slobotron — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 03:19:24 +0000

Screenkey https://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/screenkey/

New comment by slobotron in "Ask HN: Have you found a good desk chair?"

slobotron — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 03:20:53 +0000

Spinalis looks to be similar idea, available in Canada. I had a lot of lower back pain that went away shortly after I started using it.

https://spinalis-chairs.ca/

New comment by slobotron in "Electron vs. Qt for a new open-source project? Looking for advice"

slobotron — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 17:16:19 +0000

Last time I used Qt, it had classes to abstract hardware.

Stuff like QSerialPort worked fine across platforms for my usage. YMMV

New comment by slobotron in "A top-grossing scam on the App Store"

slobotron — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 18:55:54 +0000

Kind of funny that we trust Google's index of the whole www to take us to manufacturer's legitimate website, but don't trust Apple's own search of their curated store.

New comment by slobotron in "New England Almost Seceded over the War of 1812 (2012)"

slobotron — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:57:28 +0000

From Wikipedia you linked:

> There are recurring tales of sailors being pressed after a shilling was slipped into their drink, leading to glass-bottomed tankards. However, this is likely to be a myth, for the Navy could press by force, rendering deception unnecessary.

New comment by slobotron in "Extracting the list of O'Reilly Animals"

slobotron — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 16:55:38 +0000

Article comments on this nearly immediately:

> even if “animals” is a bit of a loose term that encompasses “Catholic Priests” (Ethics of Big Data) or “Soldiers or rangers, with rifles” (SELinux).