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lom··on Unbundling Airbnb
Is that the reason for the LBTQ+ friendly tag you can add in google maps?
lom··on There's a new longest suspension bridge
Only 5 years is insane. It took 4 to build the Golden Gate Bridge, and this one is almost 3 times longer.
lom··on The case for induction cooking
The article mentioned that some induction ovens come with lights attached to emulate the feeling of fire…
lom··on Comfort of Bloated Web
I think what really throws people off is that they don’t have any way of seeing their comment.

e.g. on hackernews comments are submitted fairly quickly, and I find myself reloading very often to check if the comment really has been placed.

lom··on No_color
One case I can think of is parsing output without the intermittent hidden unicode codes to change the color. Changing terminal settings won’t change that.
lom··on Bitcoin miners revived a dying fossil fuel plant – then CO2 emissions soared
That’s now how the justice system works..
lom··on Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022
And the Budapest Memorandum means nothing to you? https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%203007/P...

Every country can make their own decisions regarding their international treaties and alliances. The NATO expansion is also not something that’s happening against the will of the people in eastern countries. After the Crimea annexation, most countries in that sphere of influence turned anti-russia and more pro-nato. The majority of Ukrainians is currently also pro joining the NATO.

> Since June 2014, polls showed that about 50% of those asked supported Ukrainian NATO membership. Some 69% of Ukrainians want to join NATO, according to a June 2017 poll by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, compared to 28% support in 2012 when Yanukovych was in power

lom··on Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022
To add to this, this is entirely Russia’s fault. Before the invasion of crimea eastern, former soviet countries, were more pro-russia and against the “west”. Obviously nobody likes to interact with someone annexing parts of countries, and displacing many civilians, or even worse. So to nobodies surprise the tides turned and the majority in Ukraine and other countries are now pro joining the Nato.
lom··on The unsustainable growth of the container ship industry
The article claims that 15 ships pollute as much as all of the worlds cars in terms of co2, but a minute of googling reveals that it’s not the case.. All cars pollute around 3 times more than all ships. That’s still a lot of pollution from ships, no doubt - but I don’t understand how two different sources can come to such different conclusions.
lom··on I got pwned by my cloud costs
If anything, this shows the insane scalability of the cloud
lom··on Tarrare
I can’t help but notice that they lived at the same time! Charles was born 6 years later and died 2 years later.

Since he was on the Russian side, fighting against the french, where Tarrare was, they should’ve organized a ‘who can eat more’ battle, and winner wins the war. Would’ve saved lots of lives.

lom··on You can build a skyscraper anywhere in Davis, California
This just shows how complex and convoluted zoning and housing laws are. I did not understand a single thing why this is legal now.
lom··on Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map
Frequency is freedom

- transit advocates

lom··on Our recent server issues
You could maybe paralyze the matchmaking process by making buckets in which players of all the elos are ranked. Nobody in the top 100 will be paired with someone who is in the last 2000 anyways. So why not split it up on every 1000th player and treat them separately.

The leaderboard then only needs to modified (read can be done without race conditions) by the top 100 or whatever.

lom··on Tabby – A Terminal for the Modern Age
I strongly dislike this, no terminal emulator should have a big tech login, for syncing your configuration.
lom··on One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again
RTX support isn’t a thing in the java edition, which is showed off in the article here. But you can get minecraft for windows for free if you already have a java key that’s older than 2018.
lom··on One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again
I remember seeing a project like that (maybe even here, on HN), but unfortunately I can’t find it
lom··on How to Learn Nix
The name is actually referencing nix in latin, which means snow. That’s also why the logo. But even better is “nix flakes”, which just takes the name to a completely different level.
lom··on A city within a city in Kyiv, whose design was inspired by Legos
Have we always wasted so much space for parking? I get that they serve an entire block, but they’re just cars - doing nothing 23h of the day.

Not to mention that the parking looks horribly designed. How will you get to your car, if it’s parked in the middle of the road in the middle of the block? You’ll first have to pass on the other side without cars paying much attention to you, and then also drive on the street, with the view being potentially blocked by a larger car (for you and the drivers on the street)

lom··on Trojan Source: Invisible Vulnerabilities
How can I check my own source code for these unicode glyphs with (recursive-)grep?
lom··on Vscode.dev
LPT: press . on any github repository when logged in and it will open that repository in vscode.dev with everything set up

Similar to github codespaces without a real computer to back it up

lom··on Facebook-owned sites were down
No, it’s back up by now.

The link was to show that facebook was down.

lom··on Artificial Intelligence completed Beethoven's unfinished Tenth Symphony
No, that’s completely flawed. Beethoven’s style of music is not about liking it or not, it’s about his way of understanding and composing music.

If you wanted to know if they liked the music more, you could play any modern song and it would probably score higher, and I say that as a classical music fan.

To give an example, I would always go to a Mozart concert if the chance comes up, despite me not really liking his music a lot, there’s still no denying that they’re musical masterpieces and provide more than nice sounding tunes.

lom··on Show HN: Save and search the full text of your browser history
Seems like a cool project! I use my browsing history a lot to find certain things again and it’s always frustrated me that it’s slow and horrible at finding what I need.

But please release a linux version ASAP :)

I’m also not sure if I like that is’s always running in the background, not because of privacy but because it just seems a bit unnecessary - something that I use maybe a few times in a week and that’s nothing more than a search engine shouldn’t be using system resources all the time

lom··on “Death” one of 5 ways to lose at Chess, according to PGN standard
Does this imply killing the opponent is a viable strategy in chess?
lom··on Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt
It’s not only about gmail. The google suite is unbeatable in terms of functionality and UX.
lom··on Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity
He said it in his description that his email is locked as well.
lom··on The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
> replace the CPU

I believe you cannot replace/upgrade the CPU. At least that’s what I remember reading.

You’ll have to buy a new one, but you can always use the old ram, wifi chip (if it’s still supported) and SSD.

lom··on Text entered into Windows' Run dialogue gets sent to Microsoft's telemetry
> tried using NixOS

Yes, I use it daily and it’s been the most reliable distro I’ve ever used. My current install is 6 months old, completely shadowing anything I ever got before that. It’s package repository nixpkgs is the largest and most up to date out there, when counting unique packages.

The learning curve might be very steep in the beginning, but it’s very much worth it!

lom··on Microsoft ruined passwords, now aims for a passwordless future
I’ve seen the EFF mention that the police is working technologies that will allow them do this amass. Also see the article OP (me) mentioned in link 2. Biometric passwords have less protection under the law in the US.
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