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k_··on Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game
Dune: Spice War's codename being "d4x" , this statement is absolutely fair :)
k_··on Paris Vote Targets SUV Drivers with Parking Fees Set to Triple
Well it's France.. when there's no parking spot sidewalks and bikelanes become parking spots..
k_··on Signal commit Username Integration Test
That's also part of the issue here: we _are_ getting new [useless] features for the sake of new features lately: stickers, stories, crypto currency support are the main ones that come to mind atm.

And a formatting feature with (seemingly? would love to be wrong there) no syntax to use it without clicking/taping everywhere which makes it useless for me (and frustrating because with a syntax (say, markdown like?) I would love it).

k_··on Morocco earthquake kills more than 1,000
That his research subject has not given "proper" scientific results yet (or ever) doesn't make him a fraud. We wouldn't go far if researchers could only research proven concepts.
k_··on We bailed out the banks but we’re not prepared to bail out the planet
_We_ are in danger of ending up living on a planet that is much less human friendly
k_··on 27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful (2020)
Same date here, but I don't even think they locked mine. I did give up too, but not on physical keyboard phones. I bought a unihertz titan pocket and I love it.

Keyboard is great despite the top row that is really weird coming from blackberry (but I guess it's because of B patents..). Form factor is weird but I actually like having a small phone, and it's ok for most of my use cases.

k_··on Unrelated Words Puzzle
Same here, was puzzled too and had to add "wavelength" to complete today's words.
k_··on Flux Keyboard
Looks like a nice use case for eink IMO, as I don't see the point of having video playing under my keys but having keycaps that can change depending on the context sounds nice.
k_··on Microsoft Designer
I also don't like where this is going, and can't see any way to make it stop. Maybe some of these illustrators may see their job evolve from content creation to AI training through their art / vision.
k_··on Microsoft Designer
It's still bad enough imo when it comes to respecting copyright / intellectual property, so not a surprise at all they're doing this to illustrators now :/ Not that they're the only ones doing it these days, admittedly.
k_··on How I Use My Mouse
I was half expecting a very short entry basically saying "Well, most of the times, I don't."
k_··on Show HN: Link Book – Quickly save links from around the web to GitHub
Browsers provide the tool to save those pages (ctrl+s), in what way is it different? Honest question, as I'm building something that could be impacted.
k_··on Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
I'm experimenting with that right now on firefox with userChrome.css changes, and it's starting to work:

/* Kinda unrelated, but I'm using this to go with Sidebery / Tree Style Tab */

#TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse; }

/* Hide the whole top bar */

#nav-bar {

  position: fixed;
  top: -10vh;
  width: 100%;
  z-index: 1;
  height: 0;
  min-height: 0 !important;
}

#urlbar-container:focus-within, #search-container:focus-within {

  position: fixed;
  top: 15vh;
  left: 50%;
  background: #111;
  outline: 4px solid #f8b218;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  padding: 1em;
  transform: translateX(-50%);
  width: 40vw;
  border-radius: 4px;
}

Top bar stays hidden, but url bar / search bar appear when I press ctrl+l / ctrl+k. Likely need to tweak css to your likings, and you need to set toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in about:config to enable userChrome.css (you can find various guides on that if needed)

k_··on Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
Funny timing for me to see this on HN today

After some years of love/hate relationship with Vivaldi, I'm currently trying (once again...) to go back to Firefox after one too many chrome-based browsers fuck-up: opening Edge in a windows VM suddenly got my RAM usage up by 32GB, which were shared with my non-VM chrome-based browsers (chromium, vivaldi). First time just crashed my whole computer, second time I had to kill it all (the memory usage moved to chromium and then vivaldi when I closed the VM).

Vivaldi performance issues (and some bugs) was already putting me on the edge very often, but I really like the features so switching is very hard and will take a lot of time getting used to. Mouse gestures, panels, integrated mail (took way too long to come), tab stacking/tiling, command palette, etc. Sure some of these have firefox extensions doing something similar but it's still far from being the same.

k_··on French court: refusing to disclose mobile passcode to law enforcement is a crime
If only we could set a specific password that if used would wipe the entire device..
k_··on Ask HN: How would I send 1 dollar to everyone on Earth?
Now that's the kind of inequality I can live with.
k_··on Take Advantage of Git Rebase
Good luck bisecting such a repository, unless you squash PRs (for which build passes of course)
k_··on Keeping a project bisectable
This might be a good argument for keeping tests as a separate repository. Which would bring a lot more problems of its own, though...
k_··on Health effects of the use of non-sugar sweeteners: a review and meta-analysis
I agree to some extent. But it doesn't strike me as strange to use such terms for a behavior which is endemic in a country with a very bad rate of morbid obesity which could well be linked to such behavior.
k_··on Health effects of the use of non-sugar sweeteners: a review and meta-analysis
Why would calling 1/4 of extremely unhealthy consumption "highly unhealthy" that strange?
k_··on Ask HN: Heavy Metal Music for Programming?
Yeah, "wildly" (as in _very_) foreign languages work well.

I'm glad I discovered The Hu (for example [0] -- edit: forgot about the intro on this one, might want to fast forward a minute), with which I am usually not worried to be distracted because of the lyrics.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xZUr0BEfE

k_··on Ask HN: Heavy Metal Music for Programming?
Lately I often switch from metal to "viking/norse" music for programming. I would recommend a lot of what ends up in Fimbul Radio [0], and it being a radio takes away the burden of choosing what to hear / when to switch.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcm6Sj0_W1E

k_··on Ask HN: Heavy Metal Music for Programming?
Would definitely also recommend Finntroll (especially this album) and Alestorm (wearing a we are here to drink your beer t-shirt right now xD) too! Some Korpiklaani could fit this playlist pretty well I think.
k_··on Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
And the colleague that just came out of it looks at you with a big grin saying "Good luck!" (true story.. x_x)
k_··on Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
That, and also workout during compilation. Which does also seem good for concentration, so win-win?
k_··on Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
> How else are you solving this problem?

Working from home.

k_··on Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
Especially since I kinda doubt said sprays are good for our health. At least they're not better than what they're covering...
k_··on [dead]
With HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29880115
k_··on Ask HN: What happened to “Ferdi” – the “multi-messenger”?
Apparently ferdi started disappearing a while ago? https://twitter.com/EggermontRomain/status/14837540947246243...
k_··on Ask HN: What happened to “Ferdi” – the “multi-messenger”?
Strange =/ I still have it open, with the last $96.71 USD withdrawal 11 days ago. Can't find much more about what happened.
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