Hacker News: yoodenvranx

New comment by yoodenvranx in "Firefox Release 89.0"

yoodenvranx — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 15:13:20 +0000

The funny thing is that Chrome re-added icons to their menu on Android 1-2 months ago

New comment by yoodenvranx in "I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service"

yoodenvranx — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:58:38 +0000

Yeah, that product is pretty much dead on arrival in Germany

Such emails would look _very_ sketchy to most Germans

New comment by yoodenvranx in "AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs"

yoodenvranx — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 21:53:27 +0000

If you go to /r/amd you will see that basically everybody over there hates userbenchmark.com because it's intel-biased garbage.

Just one of many threads from the last few weeks:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/fyhl1g/tim_from_hardwa...

New comment by yoodenvranx in "YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”"

yoodenvranx — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 18:48:37 +0000

They day Youtube decides to ban the LockpickingLawyer Channel for "showing users how to bypass secure doors" will be the day I uninstall and block Youtube on all my devices.

New comment by yoodenvranx in "Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity"

yoodenvranx — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 19:20:32 +0000

Yes, I know that there are approaches which use the normal file system.

But what I want is different:

I want a universial "DB for binary files" where I can store binary data and all its metadata.

Then I can use this DB to build a app for picture galleries, music collections and tons of other things.

This DB should also support:

* automatic checksumming so that I can detect data corruption

* Some sort of version history so that I can store multiple versions of a file

* there could be built-in replication which I can use to see the same data (or parts of it) on all my devices

New comment by yoodenvranx in "Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity"

yoodenvranx — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 17:17:57 +0000

I want to have both options because traditional folders and a tag based file system solve different problems.

Let's say I go on vacation with my dog and make pictures. After I am home again I want to sort the pictures but then I have a problem: the pictures in which you can see my dog in belong into the '2019 vacation to Bavaria' collection _and_ also in the 'Best pictures of my dog' collection.

I'd love to have some sort of universal file-database where I can store all my "final" images and then create collections by adding tags.

New comment by yoodenvranx in "What is a coder's worst nightmare?"

yoodenvranx — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 09:21:42 +0000

My personal nightmare:

Working in a company where I have only one monitor and a PC without SSDs. And I am not allowed to bring my own mouse/keyboard. And I don't have admin rights for the OS.

New comment by yoodenvranx in "Tokyo mechanical keyboard meetup photos"

yoodenvranx — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:36:04 +0000

Of course there is no need for them but I am just used to use one and I would miss it.

New comment by yoodenvranx in "Tokyo mechanical keyboard meetup photos"

yoodenvranx — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 11:30:23 +0000

I am looking for a DIY kit for a split ergonomic keyboard _with_ an attached num block.

Does anyone know if such a kit exists? There are a few kits for split ergonomic layouts but none of them seem to include the num block.

New comment by yoodenvranx in "YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views"

yoodenvranx — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:55:42 +0000

> I'm starting to think that comment sections on news sites are a really bad idea

I have no idea how it is in other countries but in Germany the comment sections in every single newspaper is _horrible_, especially when it is articles about refugees, climate change and similar topics.

New comment by yoodenvranx in "Driving on the Autobahn"

yoodenvranx — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 21:13:08 +0000

> Your post seems odd. The autobahn is generally regarded as some of the best highway experience there is when it comes to other road users

I drive Autobahn both in Germany and Netherlands and I can tell you that driving in Germany is a 100 times more stressfull compared to NL! As soon as you cross the border to Germany everyone channels their inner race car driver and it becomes stressful. Driving in NL is much more relaxed and laid back.

New comment by yoodenvranx in "I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I Expected"

yoodenvranx — Fri, 31 May 2019 11:57:14 +0000

I think this article is about the study about that topic which started it all:

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/14/science/praise-children-f...

New comment by yoodenvranx in "Cake or death: AMP and the worrying power dynamics of the web"

yoodenvranx — Wed, 29 May 2019 14:29:57 +0000

Thx for the reply! I did some more investigation and I can reproduce it the following way:

- go to https://news.google.com and scroll down until the address bar is hidden

- click on any of the AMP links

- the AMP links loads and the address bar is still hidden

- scroll around the page. The address bar only re-appears if I scroll to the very top, otherwise it stays hidden

I use Chrome 74.0.3729.157 on Android 7

New comment by yoodenvranx in "Cake or death: AMP and the worrying power dynamics of the web"

yoodenvranx — Wed, 29 May 2019 13:36:43 +0000

Has anyone noticed that since a few weeks mobile Chrome shows a really curious behavior?

On a normal webpage:

- I scroll down -> address bar is hidden.

- I scroll up a bit and then down again -> address bar is shown

On any AMP page:

- I scroll down a bit -> address bar is hidden

- and then I can scroll in any direction I want and the address bar never appears unless I scroll to the very top

For me that feels like Google wants to keep me inside the AMP page and makes it harder to navigate to a normal page.

New comment by yoodenvranx in "Consuming Hacker News"

yoodenvranx — Fri, 24 May 2019 15:35:30 +0000

> for a lot of people, including me, a lot of the value of HN is in the comments

If I have enough time to kill I usually read the comments first in order to figure out if the article is worth reading

New comment by yoodenvranx in "Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?"

yoodenvranx — Fri, 10 May 2019 12:51:40 +0000

This is why I usually check out the 2-3 top comments and then read the article.

New comment by yoodenvranx in "eBPF Can't Count?"

yoodenvranx — Sat, 04 May 2019 10:43:33 +0000

I love stories like this, thx for posting!

New comment by yoodenvranx in "How Doom Fire Was Done"

yoodenvranx — Fri, 03 May 2019 23:30:53 +0000

This reminds me of the good old times where I learned programming by reading Denthor's Asphyxia Tutorials [0]!

[0] http://archive.gamedev.net/archive/reference/listed82.html?c...

New comment by yoodenvranx in "Use mmap with care"

yoodenvranx — Thu, 02 May 2019 11:32:15 +0000

Since I am a really big fan of Sublime Text I tried to switch from Gitkraken to Sublime Merge a few times but I just don't enjoy working with Sublime Merge.

Is there any chance that merging and rebasing via drag-n-drop is coming to Sublime Merge? For me that's the one big feature which keeps me from switching from Gitkraken to Sublime Merge.

New comment by yoodenvranx in "Vim.wasm"

yoodenvranx — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 14:57:37 +0000

That's why I use the EurKEY [1] layout on all my machines!

This way I can use all the default US-based shortcuts for emacs/vim/... while still being able to easily type the special chars for my native language, e.g. pressing AltGr+o results in 'ö'.

This method is slightly inconvenient for typing long texts but for me it's still the perfect solution to such problems.

[1]: https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/start.html