Hacker News: soulmerge

New comment by soulmerge in "Home Loss File System"

soulmerge — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 10:52:54 +0000

What? "Home Loss File System"? There is a new file sytem? And it's lossy? How isthat supposed to work!? click ... Ooooooh

New comment by soulmerge in "OpenWrt 23.05"

soulmerge — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:50:15 +0000

Also note, that there is DD-WRT, which is a similar, but different project. Some routers might be supported by one, but not the other. I have a Netgear Nighthawk, for example, which is not supported by OpenWRT, but by DD-WRT.

New comment by soulmerge in "Conduit: Simple, fast and reliable chat server powered by Matrix"

soulmerge — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 06:24:20 +0000

For me it's about federation. I have my own server and chat with my family there. And I also have friends with accounts elsewhere and I can message them as well.

And I'm looking forward to integrations (Slack, Signal, ...) being more user-friendly, and easier to install, configure and maintain, so I can message others, too.

New comment by soulmerge in "The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)"

soulmerge — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 20:13:41 +0000

I was confused by that, too. But I think there are two classes here: The "Below Level 1" group, that is capable of deleting emails, and the "Can't Use Computer" group, that is unable to do so. The latter group contained 26% of all participants.

New comment by soulmerge in "The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)"

soulmerge — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 18:50:48 +0000

I was quite surprised to read that about a quarter of the participants weren't able to delete an email in their email app (the "Can't Use Computers" group). This was 2016, though, so maybe things have changed drastically since then. Does anyone know of a related, but more recent study?

New comment by soulmerge in "This Sneaker Does Not Exist"

soulmerge — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:11:03 +0000

I think the experience is more like an employee coming to you and asking you what you're looking for in a shoe, instead of entering an empty store and browsing all available shoes. I would certainly prefer some guidance, as I usually have no clue what I'm looking for.

New comment by soulmerge in "This Sneaker Does Not Exist"

soulmerge — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:09:01 +0000

I don't think that is an issue: The process should just help the user find the right shoe. If the user repeatedly picks shoes with a logo, he will be presented shoes of that brand, that the vendor has in stock. This is actually beneficial to the trademark holder.

New comment by soulmerge in "This Sneaker Does Not Exist"

soulmerge — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 09:01:40 +0000

Wow, I think this would be pretty useful as a shopping guide in an online shop: Let the user pick a few models they like and render more items based on the chosen ones. Present actual sneakers you have in stock at the last step.

A gas crater burning since 1971

soulmerge — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 20:21:04 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvaza_gas_crater

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28101494

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by soulmerge in "Show HN: Share It, Anonymously with Self Destruct Messages"

soulmerge — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 09:44:35 +0000

I usually use https://onetimesecret.com/ for sharing secrets. Its code is also on github, so you can install it in your own environment, too, if you don't trust the author.

https://github.com/onetimesecret/onetimesecret

Starship: Cross-Shell Prompt

soulmerge — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 19:37:08 +0000

Article URL: https://starship.rs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25961379

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by soulmerge in "Total number of Brave Browser Publishers"

soulmerge — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 07:39:59 +0000

I tried visiting several of the websites, youtube channels, github accounts and vimeo accounts listed in the footer, but none of them contained any content.

15 Year old MySQL bug: triggers not working correctly

soulmerge — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:10:11 +0000

Article URL: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=11472

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23747481

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by soulmerge in "Python programming is drowning in red tape"

soulmerge — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 07:00:19 +0000

Interestingly, the question whether this particular choice of code formatting in black adheres to pep8 is still an ongoing discussion[1][2][3][4]. Guido, for example, thinks that black's choice is not compatible with pep8 and I think he described the situation quite well on Python's Discourse[5]:

> So the root of this argument is that Black produces code that isn’t always in compliance with PEP 8. I say this is fine – if you use Black you don’t need PEP 8 to tell you how to format your code. (PEP 8 is still useful for other things like naming things.)

> Black optimizes for a different goal than PEP 8; PEP 8 optimizes for readability while Black sometimes compromises readability in order to satisfy other goals such as minimizing lines changed as code evolves.

> I don’t want to compromise PEP 8 though.

[1]: https://github.com/psf/black/issues/48

[2]: https://github.com/psf/black/issues/1178

[3]: https://github.com/psf/black/issues/1336

[4]: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/289

[5]: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-8-clarify-if-multiline-argu...