Hacker News: twarge

New comment by twarge in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

twarge — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:25:48 +0000

Yes, notably, the File Provider extension is where the value is for me. Are there any open source options other than Seafile's SeaDrive?

New comment by twarge in "I sell onions on the Internet (2019)"

twarge — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 23:25:13 +0000

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

— Jobs ?

New comment by twarge in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

twarge — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 02:22:19 +0000

We used Mattermost but eventually started getting annoyed by the nags to upgrade in the free version. Zulip is has been far better.

New comment by twarge in "PYX: The next step in Python packaging"

twarge — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 03:02:55 +0000

it's the pyx you get with `pip install pyx`?

New comment by twarge in "PYX: The next step in Python packaging"

twarge — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 02:44:53 +0000

The real pyx is an absolutely wonderful graphing package. It's like Tex in that everything looks wonderful and publication-quality.

https://pyx-project.org/gallery/graph/index.html

New comment by twarge in "Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years"

twarge — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:06:05 +0000

How does this compare with the manufacturing capabilities in ERPNext?

New comment by twarge in "Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice"

twarge — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:34:11 +0000

The midpoint constraint you seek in the symmetry constraint that looks like this: ><

New comment by twarge in "High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers"

twarge — Sun, 11 May 2025 21:48:12 +0000

You missed overtime pay

New comment by twarge in "Development on Apple Silicon with UTM"

twarge — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:17:41 +0000

Indeed, and here are a large variety of OSs directly from the source:

https://mac.getutm.app/gallery/

New comment by twarge in "Ames Shovel and Tool Catalog of Shovels, Spades and Scoops (1926) [pdf]"

twarge — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:08:09 +0000

These shovels are marvels of mechanical disadvantage. When I had to manually plough a field, the Kodali-type shovel was a much better configuration than a normal shovel because your arms are around the shovel instead of at the far end of a stick.

https://www.ppguk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/PPG-UK-NMM-...

https://www.photosnepal.com/photo/a-kodali-blx54z6kz

New comment by twarge in "Pi Chess Board"

twarge — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 02:35:54 +0000

I absolutely remember encountering one of these at a friend's house. I clearly remember the detail about moving the pieces out of the way as needed to make moves. I do not remember the noise of the xy mechanism.

New comment by twarge in "Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI"

twarge — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 02:46:21 +0000

Which uses Google results?

New comment by twarge in "All the electricity you'll need for 40 years"

twarge — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 19:54:35 +0000

Solar allows one to prepay for power. Would be nice to see more efficient financing for it.

Using solar to heat and cool, heat water and run your dryer is quite a bit more. And generally doing the HVAC efficiently requires a large investment in insulation. Those non solar costs may dominate.

New comment by twarge in "An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped"

twarge — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 23:14:36 +0000

Yes, they are apparently exactly the same, with exactly the same neurons and connections!

Happened to go for a walk with the corresponding author and made her repeat this fact for me.

New comment by twarge in "GnuCash 5.9"

twarge — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 09:44:18 +0000

Can confirm. It's excellent software, though getting going on your own server is not as smooth as, say, gitlab-ce.

New comment by twarge in "Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS"

twarge — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 21:09:24 +0000

This sort of high performance minimalism is precisely what makes the Mac app ecosystem great. Not because you can't write the same thing on other platforms, but because everyone who cares about it has condensed on the Mac platform.

Would love to see this adopt the document-based app API and the toolbar API.

New comment by twarge in "Overleaf: An open-source online real-time collaborative LaTeX editor"

twarge — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:40:21 +0000

Texifier is incredible. So much faster and nicer than overleaf. They wrote their own display engine in Metal if I understand correctly.

New comment by twarge in "Which Electric Cars Have Bidirectional Charging (V2L, V2G, V2H)"

twarge — Tue, 21 May 2024 10:36:54 +0000

It may be on topic, but I'm not sure how you get to selfless if you're promoting your venture.

New comment by twarge in "This USB flash drive can only store 8KB of data, but will last you 200 years"

twarge — Mon, 20 May 2024 12:47:52 +0000

Ceramic capacitors should be fine, right?

The pico microcontroller, on the other hand, has normal flash and won't last very long. Here's an interesting article:

https://www.ni.com/en/support/documentation/supplemental/12/...

Maybe keep it in the freezer?

Otherwise I would expect tin whiskers or some other process to dominate reliability at long periods.

New comment by twarge in "Ancient Chesapeake site challenges timeline of humans in the Americas"

twarge — Mon, 20 May 2024 10:29:01 +0000

Linguistic evidence of the same timeline.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=64074

The controversy claimed is entirely overblown. Longer timelines for migration have been discussed widely for quite a while.

I completely understand not wanting to bother with peer review but generally your peers want a good result to be published.