Hacker News: tomcooks

New comment by tomcooks in "Incident: Air Asia A320 near Kuching on Feb 10th 2022, snake on the plane"

tomcooks — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 05:10:59 +0000

HN why did you change so much? Did Yahoo! become an investor?

New comment by tomcooks in "You can change your number"

tomcooks — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 05:16:05 +0000

You chose your username here and in most other places. You can even change it easily on many platforms. Your username doesn't require you to show your ID and have your calls tapped and traced towards your person.

Do you want me to continue?

New comment by tomcooks in "Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?"

tomcooks — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 03:31:08 +0000

Opposite of my experience, helps you have the proper mechanical info to learn the basics, skipping marketing nonsense and mumbo jumbo. Knowing how to lift something heavy safely goes beyond the practice of strength training, it's a life skill.

New comment by tomcooks in "Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?"

tomcooks — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 07:22:11 +0000

Starting Strength by Rippletoe

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

New comment by tomcooks in "Send your email right to the other person's spam"

tomcooks — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 10:21:05 +0000

emojis mid text, emojis mid text, emojis mid text.

pictograms, pictograms, pictograms, gu gu ga ga.

also, this is going to make your address reputation plummet, if you enjoy convincing (often in exchange for a 30$+ commission) 100+ different blacklist operators that you're not a spammer please use this tool

t. grumpy, no-fun, old fart

New comment by tomcooks in "Did I just lose half a million dollars?"

tomcooks — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 08:53:53 +0000

Why worry about mainstream crypto adoption to the point you want to remove the freedoms that brought you there in the first place?

New comment by tomcooks in "How to avoid layout shifts caused by web fonts"

tomcooks — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 08:50:07 +0000

> Most designers will cringe at the thought of showing users a fallback system font.

Explaining them that web is not paper, helps removing a lot of this childish behaviour.

New comment by tomcooks in "Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users"

tomcooks — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 06:36:00 +0000

The "digital plaza" ownership and total control on one's own community is a literal 2.99 euro/month VPS running mastodon away.

Shitposting one's thoughts by arranging pixels on a public forum is NOT a necessity, it's a luxury. If you value it as a necessity consider funding your own for yourself and others you care about, it would end up costing about 7 euro/year if you find even just 4 other like-minded persons.

New comment by tomcooks in "Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users"

tomcooks — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 06:33:44 +0000

If there's a community that's going to hunt you down until they find the info they need in your ultraspecific, obscure, niche blog, it's metalheads.

Open a quick forum and work on it, build SEO articles, ask people to share articles on other pages, and grow your community double the one you had on FB instead of despairing and worrying about stupid upvotes. Best of luck

New comment by tomcooks in "Make Front End Shit Again (2018)"

tomcooks — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:51:35 +0000

This faked nostalgia is becoming irritating.

Websites which were like that didn't last long, and mostly were hosted on free webservers.

If you want to get rid of nostalgia please spend 60 whole minutes making sense of HTML+PHP5.6+jQuery copy pasted code. And make it IE6 compatible. And use tables for layout. And don't use stackoverflow, caniuse, or an IDE. You'll soon understand how we reached the current state of things.

t. Boomer that spends 8+ hours straightening PHP5.6 sghettis for a living, who still swears by FTPZilla and jQuery scripts.

New comment by tomcooks in "Self-improvement is embracing your messy, imperfect life"

tomcooks — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 05:42:45 +0000

I wholeheartedly disagree with this defeatist attitude, which is supposed to magically lead to change more than actually planning and actioning chance itself.

Nowhere in life change happens without trauma. Get good at trauma and you'll get good at life.

I suggest to learn one's own limits through suffering and systematically repeated failure. It's the only way to build not only a map of current yourself, but also a trail towards your future self.

Time is ticking, memento mori, the beatings will continue until morale improves.

New comment by tomcooks in "GravityLight – Light from the Lift of a Weight"

tomcooks — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 05:28:39 +0000

Update title to use "nowlight"

New comment by tomcooks in "Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air energy storage"

tomcooks — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:23:17 +0000

Finally someone mentioning this, it's a gem of an article in a gem of a website

New comment by tomcooks in "Bulgaria Freelance Taxes: Detailed Breakdown"

tomcooks — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 13:24:25 +0000

Albania also has great sea, amazing food and welcoming people

New comment by tomcooks in "Bulgaria Freelance Taxes: Detailed Breakdown"

tomcooks — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 13:21:48 +0000

I'm all ears, if you want to explain how this is possible without breaking multiple laws and cross-country agreements

New comment by tomcooks in "Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?"

tomcooks — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 06:22:09 +0000

In EU companies have to appoint a medical expert that checks worker's health (for free) upon joining the company, and routinely (1-2 times a year, depends on country I guess). Edit: Could be something that only companies whose workers have to do physical labour ("blue collar" jerbs)

If you call in sick for more than three days you usually go through your own doctor, so that you get a certification that you're taking X days off in order to cure yourself

New comment by tomcooks in "OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light"

tomcooks — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 19:44:00 +0000

Then lose your knife ok.

New comment by tomcooks in "OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light"

tomcooks — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 13:15:12 +0000

Wool is known to take longer to dry, while retaining isolation properties even when drenched

New comment by tomcooks in "OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light"

tomcooks — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 13:14:36 +0000

Problem is that they're bulkier.

Moreover, when you wash them, they take longer to dry.

New comment by tomcooks in "OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light"

tomcooks — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 13:12:45 +0000

Not in most European countries, where what matters is whether the blades are lockable or not