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halfdan··on Ask HN: How do you prioritize Job offers by money and interest?
Why not ask to meet some of them? You are interviewing them just as much as are interviewing you.
halfdan··on Lychee – Self-hosted photo-management done right
I'm pretty happy with Synology Photos on my NAS. It's got face detection, interprets the exif and gives you geo maps, has albums and sharing. Got it set up for my entire family.
halfdan··on Ask HN: Any ways to make Gitea safer for my private projects?
I'm not sure I understand the concern. If they have shell access to your linode they already have access to everything - even if your db password were encrypted gitea can communicate with the db and so can any attacker coming from that system.
halfdan··on Ask HN: How on earth are you using your Apple computer with external displays?
Never had an issue when using a single external monitor. That across Macbook Pros going back to 2013.

Dual external monitors are a different beast. Here I get random issues depending on the external monitors ranging from:

- random reorganisation of my apps

- different resolutions not working well

- one monitor constantly flickering (this may be due to the use of a docking station)

Waking up from sleep works 99% of the time with a single press on the keyboard.

A bigger issue for me is theac not actually going to sleep when I turn off the screen.

So, not sure about your specific problems. Macs can be fiddly, but they tend to work for my professional use case (programming).

halfdan··on Show HN: Feather – 90 percent of Bloomberg terminal, for 5 percent of the price
That's a bold claim. Care to share how you aim to achieve that with similar data quality?
halfdan··on Bolt announces layoffs
Having 5000 employees will do that quickly.
halfdan··on Ghost 5.0
It's not a job though - you're not paid for it. Your employer can't prevent you from solving leetcode challenges either.
halfdan··on Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021)
Honest question: What does that even mean?

Web3 feels like a hodge podge of random ideas with some crypto-blockchain sprinkled on top.

halfdan··on Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under intense heat wave
Public transport hasn't solved the problem of "the last mile". How do I get to/from the train station/bus stop? Frequently you still need a car to even get there and then you will need parking - which is often limited and costs a lot.

Then there's timeliness. Deutsche Bahn is known for frequently their trains are delayed. In summer, even on the Intercity connections (IC, ICE) trains will be filled to the brim and air conditioning unavailable.

I love trains. I want to use public transport. It's just so goddamn inefficient.

I live in a small town about 70km north of Frankfurt am Main. A lot of people will commute daily from here to Frankfurt. The drive is 45 minutes to 70 minutes depending on traffic. If I were to take a train I could: - Walk to the bus station (5 minutes) - Take a bus to the train station (25 minutes) - Take the train to Frankfurt (60 minutes) - Take the metro to the closest location for my office (10 minutes) - Walk into the office (5 minutes)

The time given is assuming no delays, and a schedule that matches up perfectly. Realistically you'll lose another 30 minutes just standing around on platforms.

Ultimately the whole trip, even with a daily ticket will already cost you double your fuel costs for the same ride while sacrificing air condition, quiet and comfort.

We need better solutions for a lot of things. I loved seeing how Oxford in the UK has massive parking lots outside the city center with free buses connecting you to the city. It means that people can take the highway to the city but not get stuck in city traffic.

halfdan··on Ask HN: Do you think remote work will hurt Americans?
There's companies that specialise in this sort of thing: https://www.letsdeel.com/
halfdan··on It is physically impossible to exceed the weight limit for a Small Flat Rate Box
They are, but as a diver I will never touch them unless they look in proper shape and are the types wrapped in some other material. Some fishy dive centers will have the old style raw lead blocks..
halfdan··on Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)
As someone who had to travel to the bay area for years I'll add: Caltrain honking its way through all suburbs, even at night.
halfdan··on Linux has bad battery duration compared to Windows. What can I do?
This.

I love Linux, but I also just want to be productive in my job. Gone are the days where I can spend hours happily compiling my own kernel to optimize the hell out of bootup time and slim it down. There's no single ready to use distro that has a somewhat modern feel to it (IMHO).

So I bit the bullet long ago, bought a Mac, made it feel as close as home as I could and I haven't spent a second trying to debug a random bug affecting my bluetooth, audio, graphics or wifi card since. The only thing I truly miss is i3wm.

halfdan··on Mourning loss as a remote team
That's not how reproduction works though. The unprivileged often have more kids and people on the corporate bandwagon tend to have fewer.
halfdan··on Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole
I switched to the Kinesis Advantage 2 about 9 months ago (https://geekmonkey.org/learning-to-type-dvorak/) and couldn't be happier. It takes quite a while to rewire the brain (at least it did for me) but I feel a lot more confident and a tad bit faster than I was before I switched.
halfdan··on Google Analytics 4
I'm not sure how you get to that conclusion. Data privacy laws are among the strongest in the world here. It is a selling point because of that, but also because there are laws against sending user data to non-EU countries.
halfdan··on Silencing the Kinesis Advantage 2
I personally love the clicky sound of the Advantage 2. I switched to it some time last year after having RSI related symptoms. Since the keyboard required me to retrain muscle memory I also ended up switching to Dvorak (wrote about it at https://geekmonkey.org/learning-to-type-dvorak/).

It took a significant amount of time to get back up to speed, but some time last month it finally "clicked" and I couldn't be happier.

Definitely wish the keyboard was a bit more portable for travel, but for short stints I can stomach typing on a regular laptop keyboard.

As for the Kinesis 360: I recently saw it in use on a twitch stream (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1422298932) and it looked fantastic. Looks like the general public will have to wait until later this year to actually buy it though.

halfdan··on Argentine family comes home after 22-year drive around the world
Not sure if this is missing a /s, but brits regularly cross the channel to europe and vice versa and drive on the opposite side, there's even clever roadworks that swap lanes around the border.
halfdan··on Russia-Ukraine Warning Update: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment February 27
To be fair that should count for both sides. Everything should be taken with a grain of salt.

I, for one, have a hard time believing the 4k Russian casualties claimed by Ukraine.

halfdan··on Russia-Ukraine Warning Update: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment February 27
Starlink is available: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/27/elon-musk-starlink-...

Not sure how easily accessible this is to the average citizen but it surely makes it hard to shut down the internet entirely.

halfdan··on Ask HN: How much gas we could save in EU if we reduce our heating temp by 3°?
Get it fresh from the market, consume immediately?
halfdan··on How I learned French in 12 months (2020)
Here you go for German: https://m.dw.com/en/slowly-spoken-news-reports-learning-germ...
halfdan··on Jujutsu – A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
That's not correct. You can use --force to to create a duplicate worktree pointing to the same commit-ish: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree#Documentation/git-work...
halfdan··on Jujutsu – A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
Duplicate storage as already mentioned, but you will also lose the ability to merge / doff cross branches if you have separate checkouts.
halfdan··on Jujutsu – A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
Try using git worktrees: https://geekmonkey.org/rethink-your-git-workflow-with-git-wo...
halfdan··on Where Is Chrome's Read Later Button?
In my chrome it's located at the very right side of the bookmarks bar under "Reading List" where I can click "Add this tab to read later"
halfdan··on Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers
Same boat, here's mine: https://geekmonkey.org/
halfdan··on Did I just lose half a million dollars?
There's a page explaining it with that exact title: https://weth.io/

Can't say I understand it now after reading it though.

halfdan··on Show HN: Record Your Accomplishments
The pricing page lists the paid version as a one time payment of $10 and not a subscription. Price seems fine to me if you end up getting any value out of it.
halfdan··on Germany doesn't rule out closing Telegram – interior minister
Whataboutism isn't helping. Obviously the answer to your question is no, but you could do the same with snailmail.
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