HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

davidandgoliath

618 karma · joined October 3, 2010

Computers hate me, I hang out with them anyways.
submissionscomments
davidandgoliath··on Ask HN: Has anyone been using VR to socialize lately?
Try poker vr. Perhaps too many kids at this point, but it'll return to normal soon enough.
davidandgoliath··on Alcoholics Anonymous vs. other approaches: the evidence is now in
Works very well — confirmed here. :)

I've since returned to drinking periodically, but, it's nice knowing I can cease at any given moment using this methodology if I choose.

davidandgoliath··on Rocket League Will Drop Support for Mac, Linux Versions in March
What on earth are you talking about?
davidandgoliath··on Ask HN: Any Pebble Alternatives?
No, but the google fossil wear (no idea re: name) watch is great.
davidandgoliath··on Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?
Second-most would be `this naked mind` by Annie Grace (wrt: alcohol).

Edit: Crud, `why we sleep` was easily my first, but I'm now digging into the potential debunking of it.

davidandgoliath··on UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years
These are multi-million dollar machines built on billions in R&D for explicitly this purpose, with highly trained operators that spend thousands of hours in a simulator / live flight: Let them do their job.
davidandgoliath··on Stripe Capital
That's far more compelling. If a % of the ~$15k+ we give stripe annually (via cc processing fees) went towards loan repayment, we'd likely have perpetual loans open :)
davidandgoliath··on FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad
"- How to disable the "Hot Corner" in Gnome (Fedora) and many more things." — uh, this here. Why that's a default is beyond me. Simple enough to disable, but shouldn't need to.
davidandgoliath··on Global Outage?
Same Mr. Mark.
davidandgoliath··on Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home
Better to use syncthing, simple equivalent & free / open source.
davidandgoliath··on Cashify – a lightweight currency conversion library and Money.js alternative
Get over yourself.
davidandgoliath··on Moving the Linux desktop to another reality
Playstation, xbox 360 / xbone, & more all work with it. Use those!
davidandgoliath··on Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack with 13M daily users
As long as they don't mind fighting with the SEC, sure.
davidandgoliath··on Ask HN: Best office chair for home office work?
Standing desk + bicycle underneath for ~4 hours a day is what's working for me. Biked ~46 hrs since last Sunday.

Standing otherwise.

davidandgoliath··on 2015 MacBook Pro recall: batteries overheating
Profit.
davidandgoliath··on Lo-fi hiphop beats mixed with live police scanners
Beautiful.
davidandgoliath··on Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
Keen point: It's likely the '18. Bought early '19. Regardless, keys already becoming non-functional on the left-hand side of it after very little use.
davidandgoliath··on Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
I abandoned apple in Dec. of '17 after 5+ years in the ecosystem & went on a hefty soul search for what to use next. I knew the touchbar was sort of a warning flare that they were trending away from what I'd need out of computing.

After frustrations with windows / linux (laptop, dell xps 13), I ended up shelling out a bunch of money to get a macbook pro '16 with just the two ports: No touchbar. Had to have the top replaced within 6 months due to keyboard. The two ports heated up and pushing heavy throughput via wireless would make bluetooth go apeshit. Sold it immediately afterwards, endured a few more frustrating months with linux. Got a '17 pro, surely they had fixed things. Keys started sticking. Replacement, sold it. Now on a '19 macbook air, because surely they've fixed it, yes?

Keys are sticking after less than ~10 uses.

My desktop has been linux powered since that soul search started, without issue. The trackpad on my lenovo x5c is working wonderfully under ubuntu after I realized I had been importing broken configs from my 10+ year old backups: Exclude your dotfiles.

I only miss two things from the entire ecosystem: ulysses (the text editor) & little snitch. Everything else about linux is far superior.

davidandgoliath··on Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help
TIL he already does! Most excellent, don't hesitate furthering his project.
davidandgoliath··on Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help
The idea of forking libinput, vs. simply generating ~$95-150k p/annum for the guy behind libinput to go full-time, is a silly one. He was the same guy behind synaptics, and understands all of this far better than the OP.

Let's get him some bounties! :)

davidandgoliath··on Kdenlive: an open-source video editor
Is this list public? My biggest battle using linux is keeping a list of great software! :)
davidandgoliath··on Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app
Thanks for the heads up on this one! Looks great.
davidandgoliath··on Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app
syncthing covers all of those, just note it doesn't support iOS.
davidandgoliath··on Sobriety startups shaking up the 12-step model
Link? Curious!
davidandgoliath··on Sobriety startups shaking up the 12-step model
Wow! Beautiful results. Count me in :)
davidandgoliath··on Bahnhof’s 10 Gbit/s router for home use – the fastest on the market
vs. AT&T?
davidandgoliath··on Ask HN: Is there a modern “power on to basic” computer, for kids to learn on?
My kids are enjoying working through the kano. It's a raspberry-pi with a linux distro attached to it, lots of coding opportunities.

A bit too graphical for my tastes, and lots of distractions — but, lots of learning.

davidandgoliath··on Ask HN: What was the one book that you read and it actually changed your life?
Why we sleep has given me an immense amount of respect for sleep, something I rather apparently knew so little about. I've put off sleep for decades, and amidst this book I've come to understand that it's been a really stupid approach to realizing my goals.

I still don't understand sleep, but, Walker breaks down sleeps benefits & shows the data to back up why we should be getting a full night's rest. He has given me a newfound respect for something I wantonly would throw away at my next personal whim. Silly me, it's been working against me the whole time.

Fewer late nights learning to code, and I'm making much better progress already in the memory department.

As for Cavey's book: Cavey takes a really interesting look at Jesus through a historical lens, coupled with all these little things I had missed in my own reading of the New Testament. It's full of goodies, and is one of those books I've got 20 copies of in my library to hand out like candy.

davidandgoliath··on Ask HN: What was the one book that you read and it actually changed your life?
`Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams` by Matthew Walker. Still in the midst of it actually, and it's had a huge impact.

Runner-up would be `the end of religion` by Bruxy Cavey.

davidandgoliath··on Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
Boostnote is another great alternative, though it currently lacks a mobile app.
← PreviousPage 4 of 14Next →