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New comment by trivialities777 in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

trivialities777 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:49:25 +0000

These days you can just install SMPlayer and have all the codecs bundled in the player.

New comment by trivialities777 in "Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company"

trivialities777 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 04:17:37 +0000

The big thing keeping me from switching from Google Fi is how easy international roaming is. For every country I've been to, I've just had it automatically work within ten minutes of landing, at my regular price, without buying any addons

New comment by trivialities777 in "Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations"

trivialities777 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:52:45 +0000

That's true of every executive position, but not necessarily for HR or legal. Especially if they use an external firm.

New comment by trivialities777 in "Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations"

trivialities777 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:10:50 +0000

> (again, Ars Technica appears to be open for business today). There's certainly no legal reason why they'd need to wait to fire people.

They normally aren't, they probably write the stories on the weekdays and prepare them to automatically publish over the weekend, with only a skeletal staff to moderate and repair the website. Legal, HR, and other office staff probably only work weekdays, or are contracted out to external firms.

Their CEO posted a quick note on their forums the other day about this which implied they don't normally work on holidays and it would take until Tuesday for a response.

New comment by trivialities777 in "Delta single handle ball faucets (1963)"

trivialities777 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:50:53 +0000

I just installed a similar one in my bathroom, except the handle is on the side instead of on top. Also has a pull-down flexible hose that snaps back in with a magnet, very useful for cleaning.

New comment by trivialities777 in "Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker"

trivialities777 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:32:33 +0000

> how people wrap their head around multiple changes in multiple features at the same time?

Long before AI I routinely had 5 parallel development environments I would flip between. (I do distributed systems stuff, think HPC-adjacent clusters, when you're too big for Kubernetes and too small for supercomputing). One would be running long-running tests for my current changes, one being reset to a clean state, and 3 more on standby so I had 100% "duty cycle" (the reset took a while). You got used to multitasking.

New comment by trivialities777 in "Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker"

trivialities777 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:30:36 +0000

> but it feels like a lot of setup

Ah, but you can have Claude Code set it up for you!

New comment by trivialities777 in "Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker"

trivialities777 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:36:17 +0000

you can use https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree to have many "views" of a single git repo.

For more complex environments, use multiple VMs (common to have large VMs running in AWS/GCP for development and only use your laptop or phone as a thin client)