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New comment by tetraca in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

tetraca — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:57:02 +0000

The people that will take this as a good thing unironically will just have their personal Yes Man do that work internally.

New comment by tetraca in "SQLite as an Application File Format"

tetraca — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:24:53 +0000

Because Windows can view and extract them out of the box without installing any additional applications. If it supported anything better out of the box I'd guess people would use that instead.

New comment by tetraca in "We're losing our voice to LLMs"

tetraca — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:43:07 +0000

Subsume your agency. Stop writing. Stop learning. Stop thinking for yourself. Become hylic. Just let the machine think everything for you and act as it acts. Those that own them are benevolent and there will never be consequences.

New comment by tetraca in "Why English doesn't use accents"

tetraca — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:03:52 +0000

I don't see why it couldn't be. It has a pretty large corpus of decent literature/poetry/other media/etc, and the worst people seem to complain about is its inconsistent spelling rules that even native speakers struggle with. In general I'd rather deal with spell check failing on some common homophone from time to time than say, having to memorize arbitrary genders for inanimate nouns that lack any consistent marker and then tables of grammatical cases to apply on them based on those genders. Or having to shove a verb to the end of a complicated sentence and having to unroll the whole thing to figure out what's being said (not to pick on any particular language(s) I've learned).

New comment by tetraca in "Got Ghosted names and shames companies that stop communicating"

tetraca — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 18:13:38 +0000

Most times I've applied anywhere they will at least send you a generic letter of rejection.

New comment by tetraca in "Paper cuttings made by 17th-century schoolgirls discovered beneath floorboards"

tetraca — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 14:56:29 +0000

If the only way you could entertain yourself is either make something interesting or (maybe) read the Bible, you'd be very good at making things.

New comment by tetraca in "Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?"

tetraca — Mon, 06 May 2024 17:24:45 +0000

QuickBASIC or even Visual Basic 1 immediately come to mind. They have good, discoverable navigation and documentation.

I have no idea where you'd be able to find it since it's a proprietary product but InfoLease 9 had one of my favorites TUIs from a long gone era. You could navigate through and edit complicated contract information extremely quickly through a series of fixed number based menus and views. Once I got the hang of it I could blaze through entering tons and tons of data without any effort. I suppose a lot of BBSes had a kind-of similar interface but without the field validation and documentation (you could write ? virtually anywhere to get quick documentation about what you were editing or what something was intended for, and fields were validated in this really "perfect" way where it never felt like you lost time if you fat-fingered something).

New comment by tetraca in "OpenVoice: Instant Voice Cloning"

tetraca — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:39:04 +0000

> Sometimes I wish I could get an honest answer from trolls about what they hope to achieve, but of course that will never happen.

It's usually not that complicated: They enjoy provoking people, particularly people that can be reflexively upset by reading words. It's a game to them, against a party that they do not respect. The words they say might upset you, but the words ultimately mean nothing to them outside of provoking you, and the more chaotic they can make the situation the more amusing it is.

New comment by tetraca in "Sega Saturn Architecture – A practical analysis (2021)"

tetraca — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:18:30 +0000

Panzer Dragoon (the rail shooter) might have but not Panzer Dragoon Saga (the RPG). That was never re-released and the source code was lost.

New comment by tetraca in "The Matrix Trashfire"

tetraca — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:56:54 +0000

I don't know iOS users, except one, who already used XMPP. Most people I talk to on a regular basis already use it. The ones that don't either don't bother with apps at all (my grandparents), or are not close enough / frequent enough contacts to bother with anything beyond SMS.

New comment by tetraca in "The Matrix Trashfire"

tetraca — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 15:11:29 +0000

Having set up and administrated both an XMPP and a Matrix server, XMPP is way less a pain in the ass. I've enjoyed dealing with prosody much more than either synapse or dendrite. XMPP doesn't tank my server every time I try to join a new room and it doesn't take forever to start talking in a room after you join it. And provided you're running the server, getting people onto XMPP has not been hard in my experience. I made a basic registration page with simple instructions. I have gotten people with low technical know-how to successfully register accounts and use it without issue. They just create an account, enter their username into a client I recommend, and they're ready to go (I've never even had them complain about OMEMO).

New comment by tetraca in "Ask HN: Are height adjustable desks worth it?"

tetraca — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:21:25 +0000

When I was working on the road/relative's houses, the height adjustable desk was the only thing that I missed from the office. You have to get one that has a motor though - I've never found the manual ones worth the effort (they usually seem to be low quality and very wobbly). But being able to switch between standing and sitting has been valuable for keeping me comfortable.

New comment by tetraca in "Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone"

tetraca — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:45:20 +0000

I use one. I don't think that it would be a good substitute for this use case. You can try and do steno on your phone with Dotterel but it's not a good experience - you're better off using a swiping keyboard. I've not used a T9 system in my life, but I can imagine that it's a system that would let you input anything just typing with your thumbs. To have a good time doing steno, you have to exercise all of your fingers on both your hands. That's not quite so nice on your phone.

New comment by tetraca in "How to compete with Patreon"

tetraca — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 16:25:31 +0000

Whether or not it's tolerable enough for the Russian government probably depends on whether or not SubscribeStar is keeping up with giving the appropriate people in the Russian government a cut of their money.

New comment by tetraca in "Show HN: Use an old tablet as an extra monitor"

tetraca — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 18:03:59 +0000

You categorize your screens. One screen for dev work, one for communication, and one for documentation/browsing. That way you can alt+tab between your primary work tasks with a tiny eye movement.

New comment by tetraca in "ZSA Voyager: Low profile split keyboard"

tetraca — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:28:14 +0000

I have one. Personally, I prefer the Kinesis Advantage2 when it comes to plain typing, because I find dipping my hands into a well of keys is more a little comfortable than tenting them. The Moonlander has better software, aesthetics, and is more compact (which would be useful for someone else, but not me). The main reason I got it, though is that it supports GeminiPR, which makes it suitable for stenography.

Ortholinear split takes a while to get used to but you really never want to go back to a regular keyboard after you get used to it - it makes you feel like you've been breaking your wrists.

New comment by tetraca in "Loss of Mid in English: Free Peasantry and Their Linguistic Advantage"

tetraca — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:00:22 +0000

Nobody wants anything average.

New comment by tetraca in "A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves"

tetraca — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:27:15 +0000

That's easy. Put it on treads, and add a tree cutter/stripper, and a hopper, so that it can pick up all the fuel it needs to wood-fire the pizza off the side of the road before it goes to the next destination.

New comment by tetraca in "YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers"

tetraca — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:22:13 +0000

Without advertisements, you have to be bothered by things enough to actually want to implement or look up a solution. When it comes to banal consumer goods, if you can't think of a product on your own, you probably don't actually need it.

New comment by tetraca in "Cuneicode, and the Future of Text in C"

tetraca — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:09:38 +0000

> where I will probably embarrass myself by suggesting 犭(dog) + 瓜 (melon) = 狐 (fox), which, though cute, feels like as much a false etymology

I don't know Japanese but with what I know about classical Chinese character construction, I'd expect that melon acts as a phonetic hint and dog hints at the meaning (e.g. the word this character represents sounds like "Melon" but is related to "Dog").

Edit: I was curious and looked it up, it's exactly this https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%8B%90#Chinese