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pieterhg

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pieterhg··on The bottleneck might be the air in the room
This was probably CO not CO2? A CO2 monitor doesn't "go off", it just silently reports. CO would go off because it's deadly to have a CO leak.
pieterhg··on Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar
Awesome. Can you add extra bright mode like Vivid? I'd love to get rid of Vivid cause it's so buggy and never re-enables after I close my MacBook Pro
pieterhg··on Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller
Top reply on an HN thread is an AI bot, what a time @dang
pieterhg··on Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive
And if you want your nostalgia interactive - https://pieter.com
pieterhg··on Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it
What was the sales price? $100,000,000?
pieterhg··on Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE
AI reply
pieterhg··on I launched a Mac utility; now there are 5 clones on the App Store using my story
I don't think I've ever said that
pieterhg··on Our love letter to Internet Relay Chat [video]
You can see how mIRC looked and use it on my site https://pieter.com on a working IRC server with a working dial up connection with Winsock and a real ISP made by @bai0

Also has Hacker News in Gopher!

pieterhg··on Ghostwriter – use the reMarkable2 as an interface to vision-LLMs
Blocked for AI reply @dang
pieterhg··on More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market
Blocked for AI reply
pieterhg··on IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts
This is amazing.

Are there any Windows 3.11 programs that support PLATO?

I'd love to add this by default on my virtual PC at pieter.com.

pieterhg··on Virtual Windows 3.11 Computer
I read this so I added Reversi for you now!
pieterhg··on Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to woo digital nomads
Yep, wanna improve my continent
pieterhg··on A live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing
Yep but getting your luggage back is the responsibility of airlines (and usually whoever they outsource to).

That means airlines that cheap out on that will rank higher for lost luggage because they'll get more mentions on social media for lost luggage (usually after days of not getting it back!).

The airlines that return luggage fast won't show up on social media as much.

pieterhg··on Why isn't anyone signing up?
Too difficult to use.

Start with the upload image box then give them a URL

But unlock it only if they then continue to Stripe payment with recurring plan

Only 0.1% will convert but that's OK if you get traffic

pieterhg··on OpenAI: Streaming is now available in the Assistants API
Same it was super slow and unusable when I tried. 10 seconds for a reply or smth. GPT4 API itself was way faster
pieterhg··on With seemingly endless data storage, people are 'digital hoarding'
Reality is probably nobody cares about your backups with old files. Except maybe photos/videos. But even that's to be debated. You're not that important.
pieterhg··on Show HN: I made an app that uses AI to change your interior
Sorry I'm not US, with 1/2 cent I meant 1 to 2 cent. Actually it's more like 1-4 cents depending on image dimensions. A square image is 1 cent, a wide image can be 4 cents. But yes it's not cheap
pieterhg··on Interior AI autofills photo of room with CG furniture/art
@dang can you merge these? thanks!
pieterhg··on Show HN: Search Away – Housing search companion
I make Nomad List alone and don't have a designer either, so you can do it too :D
pieterhg··on CNIL makes Google Analytics almost illegal in France
How?
pieterhg··on Ask HN: What's your greatest enjoyment in life?
After waking up and showering, making coffee with V60 drip filter and sitting on the couch and drinking it in silence.
pieterhg··on Ask HN: Have you used SQLite as a primary database?
No in the filesystem on a VPS. All my sites just run on a VPS. Nothing fancy!
pieterhg··on Ask HN: Have you used SQLite as a primary database?
Yes! It kinda happened because I had no idea how SQLite worked so I thought this was normal.

Then I thought this is great and makes it easier to move the db file if it just has 1 table. So I can download it easily for local dev for ex.

And yes in case there's corruption which never rly happens, only one file thus table would be affected.

PS: one thing that really helped reduce issues was setting PRAGMA MODE to WAL

pieterhg··on Ask HN: Have you used SQLite as a primary database?
Yes for all my sites: Nomad List, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Rebase etc. No real issues at all.
pieterhg··on Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze
You can make a snapshot of a Backblaze Personal and then store it in Backblaze B2. Works fine.
pieterhg··on Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?
My sites https://nomadlist.com and https://remoteok.com are single person creations. And exist about 8 and 7 years now! :)
pieterhg··on Show HN: Cloning a musical instrument from 16 seconds of audio
Where is the blog post?!
pieterhg··on Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
https://simpleanalytics.com is what I use on all my sites and I love it
pieterhg··on Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card slot in 2022
This hasn't been my experience. I use only eSIMs now on an iPhone 13. I buy eSIMs via Airalo's iOS app (not affiliated, not an ad but love it).

It takes me 30 seconds from buying an eSIM in any country worldwide from their app, paying with Apple Pay, to having it active and working with data and voice line.

I travel a lot and before it'd take 15 minutes to sometimes an hour of driving to a phone shop or finding it at the airport, getting your passport copied (fraud risk), getting foreign money in cash out to pay, and handing a stranger your phone.

Big improvement for me. And I can run 2x eSIMs at the same time!

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