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New comment by wintermutestwin in "Long Range E-Bike (2021)"

wintermutestwin — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:37:55 +0000

The problem is the rider not the bike.

New comment by wintermutestwin in "Long Range E-Bike (2021)"

wintermutestwin — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:37:04 +0000

As an oldster who used to do weekly century rides and lost that ability due to nerve damage in my foot (thanks to decades of wearing pointy Italian riding shoes), I’d love it if we could focus on simply enforcing laws that exist rather than saddling arbitrary blanket regulations on lawful citizens.

I built an ebike and hell yes I put a throttle on it because it enables me to ride more technical trails. This bike has dramatically increased my quality of life. Please leave me alone and if someone uses a throttle bike in an illegal manner give them a ticket.

New comment by wintermutestwin in "A shortage of tenors"

wintermutestwin — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:23:46 +0000

On the Song Exploder podcast, Take on Me episode, the artist talks about the producer saying that a male falsetto was a “make this song a hit” button…

New comment by wintermutestwin in "25 Years of Wikipedia"

wintermutestwin — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:13:23 +0000

It absolutely is possible to write completely neutrally. All it takes is for the writer to be aware/honest of their biases and to have a goal of achieving a neutral perspective. Of course the goal of most writing is explicitly to not be neutral.

New comment by wintermutestwin in "A tab hoarder's journey to sanity"

wintermutestwin — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:06:19 +0000

Subscription Bookmarking apps will never be part of my workflow.

New comment by wintermutestwin in "A tab hoarder's journey to sanity"

wintermutestwin — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:39:12 +0000

Bah! Tab “hoarding” is part of my workflow and it works great with the right tooling in place: FF with sidebury, containers, and suspender extensions. Panels for 8 high level topics with a set of 10-20 pinned tabs for each and I can see ~60 tabs per panel at once. I work in three phases: tab accumulation (browsing), tab elimination (reading), tab reorg to move tabs to specific panels. Of course vertical tabs make this all possible and it is frustrating that there isn’t a browser with all of my extension functionality and ux baked in.

New comment by wintermutestwin in "State of the Fin 2026-01-06"

wintermutestwin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:08:44 +0000

I use Infuse on an appletv and simply point it at a samba share. Easiest setup ever. What am I missing out on by not using jellyfin or plex?

New comment by wintermutestwin in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

wintermutestwin — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:06:05 +0000

While the UI designers are rearranging deck chairs, the UX is totally failing to love up to the promise of an ecosystem. Cross system cut n paste is a neat trick, but I just want timers and alarms to actually work as expected.

I shouldn’t be surprised given that the mac save as dialog box has a name field that is still hard coded to 32 characters visible. Whenever I bitch about it I get pushback that filenames shouldn’t be longer than that! Um hello - tell me you have never worked in the real world outside your iphone bubble without telling me.

New comment by wintermutestwin in "The best things and stuff of 2025"

wintermutestwin — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:50:42 +0000

Agreed. I just wish it could fix these crappy fixed width layouts.

New comment by wintermutestwin in "The best things and stuff of 2025"

wintermutestwin — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:04:01 +0000

I am befuddled. How do are you hearing Portishead (and DCD is even more bizarre)? I hear a touch of Beach House on older releases when there are vocals. But yeah, agree that it is a good addition to my library. Stereolab still hasn’t clicked for me, but I’ll give it another try. Along these lines, Yndling was my cool find this year

New comment by wintermutestwin in "I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus"

wintermutestwin — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:15:35 +0000

I looked at the git page for sponsor block TV, but it’s super confusing. It’s talking about installing python and docker. You can’t do that stuff on an Apple TV right??

New comment by wintermutestwin in "Backing up Spotify"

wintermutestwin — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:23:50 +0000

Why do you want a megacorp to tell you what to listen to!?? There are a million ways to do discovery where some enshitified corp isn’t incentivized to push something at you.

New comment by wintermutestwin in "The Beauty of Dissonance"

wintermutestwin — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:33:12 +0000

Interesting read, but I was surprised that the author didn’t discuss the dynamics of the interplay between dissonance and consonance. What makes consonance so satisfying is the juxtaposition against dissonance. Maybe it didn’t come up because his examples don’t exhibit it? I wouldn’t know because I listen to different genres than he discussed. It is certainly a concept explored in many forms of jazz.

As another modern example, one could listen to the live recordings from the latest The Mars Volta tour where these incredibly beautiful progpop songs are interspersed with atonal and arhythmic interludes giving the simple beauty of their original studio songs a satisfying contrast.

New comment by wintermutestwin in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

wintermutestwin — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:44:21 +0000

This looks very interesting and I appreciate the pricing model and lack of cloud. It wasn’t clear from the site, but is there a check all moves prior to execution function? Undo?

New comment by wintermutestwin in "Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's"

wintermutestwin — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:36:01 +0000

Ah! That was exactly the problem. Dark Night on Safari on ios.

New comment by wintermutestwin in "Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's"

wintermutestwin — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 23:09:20 +0000

I know we shouldn’t be discussing website design, but using light grey font on a white background is not only ugly, it is basically illegible for anyone with oldster eyes.

New comment by wintermutestwin in "Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud"

wintermutestwin — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:30:27 +0000

Thanks to this post, I checked my ultrasonic filled with tap water. With it running all night in a bedroom with an open door, morning pm2.5 readings are ~30 and the meter is in the kitchen.

New comment by wintermutestwin in "The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks"

wintermutestwin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:55:34 +0000

Can someone please explain why these token guessing models aren't being combined with logic "filters?"

I remember when computers were lauded for being precise tools.

New comment by wintermutestwin in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

wintermutestwin — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:14:00 +0000

Is it piracy to pirate a pirate? Most of the content that I view on YT is old live concerts uploaded by fans. Did goog pay a license for those pirate recordings? Who should goog pay? The label? The pirate who uploaded? The OG pirate who recorded the show? So doesn’t this make them pirates too?

These are honest questions and it seems way too fuzzy to me to be making moral judgments about the whole mess.

New comment by wintermutestwin in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

wintermutestwin — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:26:14 +0000

Where are the AR driving glasses that automatically dim oncoming headlights (and alert the driver to possible road hazards, and…)?

Seems to me that all of this tech to create autonomous driving could be also used to augment human driving.