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New comment by snowstorm82 in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

snowstorm82 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:15:45 +0000

I am skeptical about there is such "people that know what they are doing", nor would I trust such a claims. But with little twist I think I could onboard the idea with, "people who aim for analytical and open approach and reports". Thus opening the decision making under post analysis and future improvements so research body of knowledge would eventually turn the tide.

I haven't installed or used windows much for last decade, but still I'm bit a shamed that each time I install Linux on some computer I live existing windows drive untouched and available for backup in case I need it for some reason.

New comment by snowstorm82 in "Show HN: Vibe Code your 3D Models"

snowstorm82 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 06:44:06 +0000

Great work - looks like building block towards 3d-model composition integration testing. I have been looking for a solution that would allow testing component fit into surrounding components. My use-case would be to create parametric boat hull and then add components to that could be tested for fitness in the arrangement.

New comment by snowstorm82 in "Company as Code"

snowstorm82 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:51:52 +0000

I have started learning cuelang and there was nice webinar style video where the GitHub policies where defined as code and deployed with terraform. I immediately thought that such thing would be very valuable at auditing.

New comment by snowstorm82 in "Map of all the buildings in the world"

snowstorm82 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:06:53 +0000

Groups of boats in the dock have become buildings. Cool project still.

New comment by snowstorm82 in "Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing"

snowstorm82 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 09:02:06 +0000

Last summer we motored ~10% of the miles.That includes full day leg when there was practically no wind and few hours occasionally with combined powering. Working towards less or fractional oil based power can have significant benefits.

New comment by snowstorm82 in "Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing"

snowstorm82 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 08:19:07 +0000

They likely can but with reduced changes for being optimal. Sails, keel and rudder should be balanced so that adjusted sails cause minimal pivoting force to mitigate with the rudder. Also the supports below the mast and plates for the stays likely need planning to allow sufficient structure without limiting the working angles of boom too much.

New comment by snowstorm82 in "Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Courses"

snowstorm82 — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:50:35 +0000

I would most likely go with Semver prefixed dir & md-files. Then concatenate with python + transform with Pandoc. It was not bad when we (3persons) were doing requirements documentation in a way that our changes are backed by git remote.

New comment by snowstorm82 in "Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by a website"

snowstorm82 — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:22:07 +0000

As a person getting dozens of tabs open to do cross comparisons all the time I would gladly opt in at settings to enable and tweak such limit values. Exceeding those would then alert if I truly am interested in allowing the exception to rule.

Another thing could be to allow the site to read those limits and consider what to load. Kinda like mediaquery.