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Ghjklovon Show HN: MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements

This is for when "shit I just want my website to look good like those other websites I see on the web but I don't know how or don't want to put in too much effort"

Ghjklovon Covid-19: Landlords will kill our economy

This is the kind of solution I would like to see. But you just know, there's a number of people with the power and influence to decide whether or not something get's done DESPISE the idea that people are allowed to have a roof over their head, eat food, and be happy without paying them anything.

Ghjklovon Ask HN: One Giant monitor, or multiple large monitors?

I was thinking about this one time. From a utilitarian standpoint, having multiple monitors provides a sort of redundancy. If one fails, you'll still have one to work on.

On the other hand, it also depends on your setup. If your setup can easily allow you to manage your workspaces across two different monitors, it might be better than managing everything on one screen. The opposite could be true, and you benefit from only having to deal with one screen and don't have to fiddle with anything.

Ghjklovon G7 statement canceled: US wants to call it the Wuhan virus

When I leave the home, my mom has to tell me to be careful since if bad people mistake me for Chinese they may beat me up.

Note: I live in SoCal

Sad times.

Ghjklovon Why America Is Losing the Toilet Race

That reminds me. This would never work since everyone has different sized asses.

Ghjklovon Why America Is Losing the Toilet Race

Okay imagine this. You finish taking a shit. And then there's a hole in the wall that you stick your ass in. Then your ass sealing the hole creates a vaccum where it can then flood the hole by violently shooting warm soapy water at your ass. It does this for 3 cycles with new recycled soapy water each time. Then it switches to the dryer mode and completely dries your behind.

Ghjklovon How coffee took over the world

Instant coffee can be pretty great. I like the Japanese/Korean brands like UCC and Kanu.

Ghjklovon New MacBook Air

I don't know specifically about your dell laptop, but Dell XPS's nowadays use the Killer wifi chip instead of Intel's like Apple and Lenovo.

Ghjklovon Ask HN: Will you buy a 5kg (11 pounds) 17 inch notebook?

I can take a power bank with me if I need more battery. I probably can't leave the 320Wh thick boy at home if I want to get rid of some weight. Around 2.5kg is probably the max I would carry and even then, that's very annoying. Note, that's about how much the Thinkpad P50 weighs. If you want to offer battery life, it should be an option, but you should have a base option that is reasonable, but has the potential for upgrades. Modularity is cool.

How about a 17 inch notebook with a 100Wh battery + 100Wh battery extension and a good display that weighs 3kg~ (with only one of the batteries)?

Ghjklovon $1000 stimulus for every American

Maybe it isn't the best way. I did only say it would help in theory. $1000 alone won't help, if the landlord decided to increase our rent by the same amount after finding out. Instead of $1000 in my pocket, it might be better to just put a freeze on paying the bills until things get better. That could also be wrong too.

But it does make me a little appreciative, that for once in my personal experience, they might bail out the people and not just the corporations. That is more of what I would like to see in response to this crisis. Will we choose human life or will we choose economic growth? Are most of us just ultimately disposable while the wealthy can sit through this until things get better and then they'll be well positioned to become even richer? It is sick. We were already sick, the coronavirus just makes it clearer. I'm afraid this crisis will pass without addressing any of the core issues that made this crisis so difficult, and then we will move on and pretend that everything is okay until the next big thing.

Ghjklovon The state of the restaurant industry

A good number of us will be locked out in the comfort of the fucking street if we can't pay the damn rent.

Ghjklovon Cambridge University Press make their books free until May

And how long for access to be removed prematurely...

Ghjklovon $1000 stimulus for every American

It would extend my and my family's life under a roof by at least another month. In theory.

I don't know how things will play out honestly. Everything's fucked up. But alternatively, they could've said fuck it, do nothing, and let all the people like me go homeless and die.

Ghjklovon How to get your money back on a non-refundable hotel

There's an idea there, what if we turned empty hotel rooms into covid-19 care facilities? Then you can isolate a good number of infected in one place that you can keep an eye on.

Ghjklovon Activists create a 12.5M block library in Minecraft to bypass censorship

>2) slight scepticism, how is this information curated ? can someone infect the pool by injecting bogus news ?

I think your skepticism is genuine but it just makes me think about how long it will be until this library get's banned, cancelled, and censored because they found some small percentage of fake information that could've been planted by literally anyone for fun or by state actors who have the incentive.

This library was created for a reason.

Ghjklovon Companies that feed America brace for labor shortages and worry about restocking

You know what else is a necessity? A roof over your head. And people need money to pay rent, utilities, etc. to live. As far as the government and companies are concerned, the virus is no excuse to skip on your bills. Like I said, the ball is in the company/government's court. If they think it's so important to have x done, they are the ones who have the power to make anything happen at scale.

Maybe society does have to go through something like this to realize their mistakes.

Ghjklovon Companies that feed America brace for labor shortages and worry about restocking

>Someone's going to have to make and deliver the food. If food manufacturers and distributers lack people to do it, then someone will have to step up to the plate and help them or we'll all starve.

>This machinery has to be operated by somebody, and people can be trained to do it. It takes people willing and able to do it, however.

Sure, but it's on the companies to make the move and hire people, not the people to go and beg to volunteer for them. This isn't the old days where you walk into a factory and give the manager a firm handshake and then you get the job.

If a company is willing and happy to train anyone who is up for these jobs and will pay them properly, then there will be people who will do it. But if they are still going to reject people based off credentials or experience like usual, then that's their problem if no one wants to do the work in a crisis like this.

Ghjklovon Companies that feed America brace for labor shortages and worry about restocking

What are you even saying? A lot of those people forced to "sit home on their ass all day" will be the ones who primarily work in service jobs that have been greatly impacted by the virus due to companies downsizing or worse, shutting down completely in response to less foot traffic and demand. They cannot remote into their cafe and make coffee for anyone. Actually, a good number of them might not even have a home after this. They are not going to suddenly be able to start working or volunteering for free(lmao) to "make and deliver food".

Ghjklovon Intel-Funded Study Finds AMD Procs Incl. Ryzen Vulnerable to Side-Channel Hack

The best architecture is no architecture. Big brain move. They can't hack you if you don't have anything to hack.

Ghjklovon Lesspass – open-source stateless password manager

https://filepush.co/ZBdm/20200314_230353-maim.png

Masterpassword gives me a huge variety of different types of passwords of minimal to high strength. Hell it even let's you use a personal password or key, which is something I learned just now.

Say I only used the most powerful password type and have a very strong master password with 7+ words generated with diceware, do you think it's still fake security? Genuinely would like to know.

Ghjklovon Coronavirus: It is time for a radical acceptance of reality

I know a conservative/right-wing kind of guy who thinks all the people trying to prep for disaster right now are dumb media sheep for falling for the coronavirus craze or whatever that means. I'm paraphrasing. I know he's not the only one who thinks this way, because there have been a bunch of instances even on HN where common people genuinely worried about their and their family's safety and wellbeing are mocked like this. This attitude is not uncommon here in the U.S. I said this earlier today too, these same asshole people are the same ones who will ask "Oh, well why didn't you prepare?" when disaster does happen. I think it's because these people have money or something that gives them such a huge sense of security, they believe that even if something bad could happen, they would still come out okay.

Ghjklovon Lesspass – open-source stateless password manager

Looks a lot like https://masterpassword.app/ which is what I use and describe as more of a password calculator.

Ghjklovon Ask HN: What are your UI pet peeves?

I don't know if this is modern UI or just plainly stupid UI, but recently I had to use the Riot messenger web app and I was looking for the page to show the device/encryption/fingerprint information. I tried to find it in the room-settings which is where it used to be, but no not there. Then I looked in the main settings, also not there. Looked over and over again. In their attempt to simplify the Riot UI, they placed that information inside the chat bubble's settings and only there. Right, the only way to get to it now is to right click any chat bubble in a room and access the page from its options. Nothing indicates it. I guess you are supposed to just know to right click the chat bubbles for that stuff. I'm not infallible though. Maybe there was some indication and I just missed it.

Ghjklovon Ask HN: People are panic buying. What to do?

Anyone who calls you stupid for being vigilant and preparing for the worse, are just as likely to call you stupid for not preparing if disaster does strike. It looks like many people prefer to be stupid and fed, than stupid and hungry.

Ghjklovon Not all young people are ‘digital natives’

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6186730

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13506283

Just posting because I was reminded of this

Ghjklovon The Staggering, Heartless Cruelty Toward the Elderly

I think millenials/gen z would love to have sympathy for the elderly or others in general, but they are caught up trying to have any future at all in today's world. It seems cruel, but nihilism and dark humor are great coping methods to avoid being overburdened by all the bad things we can do nothing about. Yes, the elderly may die a little sooner than they would've liked after living long and fulfilled lives. But the young people making these jokes are probably struggling with the idea that they may not even live half as long as "those boomers".

Ghjklovon Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in deaths and tactics

How long can the virus survive in a container of kimchi? I truly would like to know.

Ghjklovon Ask HN: How are you going to cope living in the time of a pandemic?

I've done a pretty lean amount of stocking up of supplies since I'd hope that even in a quarantine situation, there would be an opportunity once every week or two to restock. I don't have a lot of money, so going all out would ruin me since the roof over my head is just as important as food. What gives me anxiety is the fact that I've mostly worked in food service type jobs, and I've been working part-time until recently so that I could have some free time to skill up and get better work, so in a pandemic, it might become harder to find work that'll pay rent and for food. I only have enough money for one or two months of rent left, so I'm pretty desperate, trying to find work again while under all this anxiety. I have to avoid getting sick too, because I don't have healthcare and am not insured. I'll probably become homeless and die if I had to go to the hospital and got a bunch of debt I can't possibly pay. All I can do is pray and hope for the best honestly.