Hacker News: ukyrgf

New comment by ukyrgf in "The Far Side – By Gary Larson"

ukyrgf — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 03:33:45 +0000

Just FYI, if people remember having the day-by-day calendars back when, the dates have now repeated and they're selling them again.

New comment by ukyrgf in "Razor 1911"

ukyrgf — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:43:03 +0000

Oh boy. I got my friend's old CRT when he was moving. Carried down 3 flights of narrow stairs, drove the hour back to my house, loaded it up the front steps, got my PS2 out of the attic, was so excited... and the PS2 doesn't work anymore.

New comment by ukyrgf in "Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?"

ukyrgf — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 03:23:03 +0000

Wow, that design is modern but brings me back to the days of application skin sites and early digital art communities back in the early 00s. Great job. I'm going to sign up.

New comment by ukyrgf in "Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana"

ukyrgf — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 02:39:53 +0000

My boss does this every day. Instead of thanks for getting it done, it's why wasn't this done last year? Just an exhausting way to live life.

New comment by ukyrgf in "Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B"

ukyrgf — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:02:49 +0000

I went a step further, or maybe backward, and I have a separate computer that I connect to with AnyDesk and it has all the Adobe crap installed on it.

Also, our company credit card got replaced, and the process of updating the card and re-activating Creative Cloud took two weeks. It got canceled August 29 and only yesterday, September 14, was I able to launch Illustrator without a nag window. I hate Adobe.

New comment by ukyrgf in "Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says"

ukyrgf — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 17:49:44 +0000

Yep, I've had this as my first bookmark on my toolbar for years:

> javascript:(function(){$('.js-search-input').val('!g '+$('.js-search-input').val());$('.js-search-form').submit();})()

New comment by ukyrgf in "Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus"

ukyrgf — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 07:52:47 +0000

Yeah I actually thought about using it for a project for a second, but they're praising how it now uses PHP7, recaptcha 2, Symfony 3...

New comment by ukyrgf in "Inflation is crushing rural America and may even drive people to the cities"

ukyrgf — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:35:19 +0000

I live near downtown in the largest city in the US and my eggs, seafish, and rum come from 5 miles down the road.

New comment by ukyrgf in "The Winamp Skin Museum is powered by a SQLite3 database with 1.2GB of metadata"

ukyrgf — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 20:42:10 +0000

It is very cool that this is archived. I was the application skin admin over at deviantArt and Deskmod way back in the day (wild times, pre-Web 2.0 so everybody was just making it up as they go) but sadly none of these names ring a bell. I think Deskmod just piddled out and dA got bought and the original crew all left. I lived in the middle of nowhere so being exposed to that level of programming as well as passion for art was extremely inspiring. I even made a punk music spinoff called I Hate Music that introduced me to lifelong friends all over the world.

New comment by ukyrgf in "I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium"

ukyrgf — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 17:19:11 +0000

Creative Cloud.

New comment by ukyrgf in "Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down"

ukyrgf — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 19:20:38 +0000

I manage IT for an office and one of our hires said they got covid, took a month to join, and then when she showed up her manager decided to move her desk. I think maybe I got the desktop and a monitor moved before I was told to stop because she just quit. I can think of maybe 3 people in my office that have stayed for over a year, none on bad terms, just hopping jobs.

New comment by ukyrgf in "Apple must pay a man $1,000 for not including a power adapter with new iPhone"

ukyrgf — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 18:06:12 +0000

I've been an Android user since my first smart phone, but when AT&T dropped support for my last phone I decided to just give it a shot and get the new iPhone SE. I have a 12 year old MacBook that I got after an old job retired it but I never really bought into the Mac environment, so I thought maybe this could sell me. So I get the package, I open it up, ooh ahh, pull out the phone, pull out the USB-C cable, uh oh, and then lift up the cardboard liner annnnd nothing. The phone was charged, my girlfriend had cables and I could get a power supply overnighted, but I really sat there for a minute just thinking "man, fuck this." Not a good start.

New comment by ukyrgf in "A 4-year-old can run errands alone and not just on reality TV"

ukyrgf — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 21:17:47 +0000

Holy cow. I was just thinking about all the crazy people in my neighborhood, drug dealers, etc. and how I probably wouldn't want my kid walking around alone. And then I realized that there is a middle school down the street and there are dozens of kids walking home from it, playing in the field, cussing up a storm. Kids come by and ask if we need yard work done. We just moved there last year and I genuinely teared up when the first trick or treater came to our door, every other place I've lived in the parents drove their kids to rich neighborhoods.

New comment by ukyrgf in "Final Fantasy 7: An oral history (2017)"

ukyrgf — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:35:20 +0000

The remake is so different that I don't think it could spoil it. The character / art design, voice acting, format of missions, etc. are so different that it's basically just an homage.

New comment by ukyrgf in "The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)"

ukyrgf — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 18:19:12 +0000

Hm, for me it meant I mostly stuck with the same student peer group throughout grade school, I think we got to skip some standardizes tests, and I was able to get a school bus to the bigger schools even though I was way out in the sticks. I had to go through an aptitude test and even though I was only like 7 I still remember sitting in the car after and being mad at myself for missing a question about "another word for water" being H20.

New comment by ukyrgf in "LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage"

ukyrgf — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 19:01:57 +0000

I switched. Bitwarden just seems easier to use. Everytime I install Keepass on a new computer I have to spend 15 minutes remembering where all the options are to configure it. Bitwarden feels more like a vault of information while Keepass seems like you gotta fight it to be anything other than URL-username-password.

To be honest though I'm still not 100% moved over, and may never be. I doubt I'll need to transfer the login to the public library from a town I lived in 10 years ago.

New comment by ukyrgf in "Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again"

ukyrgf — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:28:04 +0000

I have an outage way over in the southeast, looks to be affecting the major monopoly ISP. Can't get a tech to our data center until 2PM.

New comment by ukyrgf in "Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand"

ukyrgf — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 22:28:42 +0000

Windows 7 had a "loudness equalizer" that was basically just a limiter, and that made my computer my my go-to for watching movies. It still exists in Windows 10 but doesn't seem to work as universally with different devices.

New comment by ukyrgf in "Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely"

ukyrgf — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 02:57:32 +0000

Last week my car wouldn't start when I was heading home. I called AAA and waited. And waited. After 2 hours I went to the street and it's 5 miles of housing developments one way and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 fast food restaurants the other. I got a $30 Lyft after 4 hours of sitting in the dark at my office. AAA called at 3AM asking if I still needed service...

Why would I want to go to the office???

New comment by ukyrgf in "Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag"

ukyrgf — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:50:39 +0000

I've been buying Dell Vostro laptops and they certainly feel premium and have decent battery life. This years model removed the SATA port where you could expand storage with a cheap HDD, but it does have an extra M.2 drive and expandable memory.