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randomluck040··on Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
There is an open source application called „AltTab“ that basically brings the behaviour of Windows‘ app switcher to macOS
randomluck040··on Ask HN: If you cut caffeine, how long would you last at your job?
Why settle for one if you can have both? I think the smell of freshly baked bread is from another world but the satisfaction during consumption for me is on the coffee side of things.
randomluck040··on Ask HN: What is your digital-nomad equipment?
Interesting. I only use one dongle for a roccat mouse with it and it never stopped working or was lagging. When I touch it I can notice that it’s warm but it’s nothing too crazy. Currently there is no power cable attached so it might get warmer with a power cable attached to it.
randomluck040··on Ask HN: What is your digital-nomad equipment?
This surely helps, even if only the end that goes to the charger is USB C and you have a „multi connector dongle thing“ with you that extends the functionality of the USB C port to the other things you might need (lightning, micro usb, …).
randomluck040··on Ask HN: What is your digital-nomad equipment?
Not OP but I‘m using one by Anker that also has a SD card slot and two USB-C type ports with Power Delivery so I can hook up my MacBook to the power outlet and load stuff off of it at the same time if there is no other possibility. I don’t know about HN rules so I‘m not sure if I‘m allowed to link it. The Anker stuff however hasn’t failed me yet, I have some chargers from Anker as well.
randomluck040··on My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
It’s crazy because among friends I’m the only one working with geodata (remote sensing, too) and the last few days I keep stumbling upon people who already do some work in the same area and are probably much more advanced than I am. Good luck with your endeavour!
randomluck040··on My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
I can think of two things. Large time series data for large areas with a lot of attributes like temperature or other atmospheric data or a huge amount of point clouds or comparable 3D Data.
randomluck040··on Show HN: Photogrammetry of Seattle landmarks rendered in WebGL
So can I "simply" go ahead and use this for my own projects, too? The documentation makes it seem like that but I have zero experience with front end development so I'm not sure what to make out of it.

/Edit: sorry, just have seen that you create the 3D model for the customer. I thought I could publish my selfmade 3D models on my own.

randomluck040··on K-9 Mail 6.000
I’m not sure but I’m using Outlook on iOS and it’s been better than the regular mail app in my opinion. No idea about security and privacy though, after all I’m introducing another developer into my mails which can’t be too good I guess.
randomluck040··on The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want
I would love to know more about the possibilities of Remote Sensing in the private industry. I‘m working in academia and have the feeling that I’m in an echo chamber all day every day and no insights at all. Any chance I can contact you or can you point me into a direction?
randomluck040··on Ask HN: Is joining AWS a bad idea? (MSFT, Oracle options)
Thank you for taking your time to answer. Apparently you're talented and hard working to be able to work for a compensation like that and companies like Amazon and Microsoft - isn't there any leverage to get better conditions regarding free time? I have to take my time to dig a little deeper into how vacation works in the US since I did not know and thought it'd be comparable everywhere.
randomluck040··on Ask HN: Is joining AWS a bad idea? (MSFT, Oracle options)
Sorry for asking so directly but since I don’t have any idea how „work“ works in other places, does 10 days mean that you have 10 days of total vacation days per year? Or is it 10+7(+6)? If it’s 10 days/year, is it normal in the US?
randomluck040··on Ask HN: What code have you written that you regret?
In my experience bad code isn’t written for the sake of being bad. A lot of companies don’t value IT and software they work with almost daily as much as they should. The idea is that if they click a button and it works, it works. Next project. Not enough time, pressure from everywhere to develop new features and behaviours and there you go, badly written code.
randomluck040··on Zine – an simple and opinionated tool to build your own magazine
We live in a world where everyone and their dog (sometimes literally) fights for your attention. If you are trying to advertise something comparable to a blog or magazine creation software, add a screenshot on what to expect at least.
randomluck040··on An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
I do that the old fashioned way with a catchall mail address and forward them. If they start smelling weird, I filter the address and change the mail address with the service provider.
randomluck040··on Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
Today I’ve learned! I knew about the export function but not that you could export the entire workspace. I’ll take a look into that. I’m currently 50/50 between Notion and Obsidian, however a blog post regarding obsidian plugins makes me think twice…
randomluck040··on Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
I‘ll give it a read, thank you!
randomluck040··on Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
You might write your own Pipeline where you forward a mail, scrape the content and e.g. save it to a Markdown or plain text file to open it with your text editor of choice. I don’t know of any piece of software unfortunately.
randomluck040··on Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
What bugs me more than Notion not being open source is that the notes are nowhere on my device apparently but on their servers. I don’t have anything locally. If something happens to Notion or I don’t have access to the web, I’m done?
randomluck040··on Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
You might take a look at Obsidian. For me it’s the best of two (or how many you like) worlds. You can sync your files via git or a cloud service of your liking. What bugs me is that it’s not open source but what makes it great is a lot of open source developers contributing plugins and themes.
randomluck040··on Show HN: Smort.io – Edit, annotate and share articles easily
Thanks for answering - I have learned about Hypothes.is just a few days back and looking through the thread, there are many alternatives to Hypothes.is apparently and all of them seem different in their own way. Best of luck with your project! :)
randomluck040··on Show HN: Smort.io – Edit, annotate and share articles easily
How does snort.io compare to hypothes.is which is open source?
randomluck040··on Ask HN: Who's getting pulled back into the office?
I think it’s really depending on the specific area someone is working in. For me the main benefit of the office is to discuss things on the whiteboard with three people and everyone is adding something to the discussion chaotically. Maybe that’s a dynamic that isn’t present somewhere else which is fine but that’s what works for me and every alternative that is online simply didn’t work as good. On the other hand when I’m working alone on tasks, WfH is great.
randomluck040··on I feel dumb(er) when typing, and smart(er) when writing
For those who are interested in the „two-pizza-rule“:

Bezos believes that no matter how large your company gets, individual teams shouldn’t be larger than what two pizzas can feed.

http://blog.idonethis.com/two-pizza-team/

randomluck040··on Machine Learning for MRI Image Reconstruction
It often still is a good idea to have an approach for a possible second step for when the first step or steps are established. A lot of ifs and sometimes countries entirely skip kinds of technology like the landline phones in Africa and go to mobile phones directly since it was easier to establish. Maybe not-so-wealthy countries will see an entirely different kind of health care in 10 years than we know it now.
randomluck040··on Show HN: I made a tool to improve Mission Control on macOS
I just downloaded the free version and I'm going to purchase a license. It's baffling how it is not possible to have the functionality to navigate with arrow keys in mission control really...

How is the license managed? Can I take it with me when I get a new device and want to use it there?

randomluck040··on Recording 660FPS Video on a $6 Raspberry Pi Camera (2019)
Would it be possible to go for a lower framerate and gain more flexibility regarding the resolution?
randomluck040··on Show HN: Linkhorse – A Simple Bookmark Organizer
I’ve taken a look but I only have a mobile phone at hand for a few days. I can’t find any info on how this works, where the data is stored or a privacy policy. Is there a link when you are on the desktop version of that website?
randomluck040··on Show HN: I made a tool to improve Mission Control on macOS
If I’d only use one window/instance of each app, I wouldn’t mind. Since cmd+tab isn’t showing each instance without clicking up-arrow again when on the item, I prefer Mission Control.
randomluck040··on Show HN: I made a tool to improve Mission Control on macOS
Like I can go to Mission Control and with the arrows I can move around and click enter? This is godsend, this was so disturbing and workflow disrupting for me when I’ve switched to macOS. I‘ll be back at my laptop at 28th and will try it out. Thanks!
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