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by marttt 5d ago
This is interesting. Do you consider Yandex absolutely safe to use (wrt their possible connections with the Russian government, and current war in Ukraine)? Asking this as a geeky end-user from Estonia -- I wonder if I would be considered &
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by marttt 12d ago
Great example, thanks for sharing! We seem to have that same reflex (always calling moms in case of emergency) in our country. I guess it just takes time, probably a few decades, for societies to really start trusting dads as caregivers equ
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by marttt 12d ago
> ... And be praised whenever a diaper is changed or I fetch the little one from school. I may be calling names now, but maybe this is an unnecessary "oldschool" meme that should already be forgotten. In my country (Estonia),
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by marttt 13d ago
How big are the project files these days? In the .aup3 format all source material was rendered into one big pile, so with lots of "raw tape" (e.g. for a radio show) the session files became huge. It was annoying to transport an 1.
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ReactOS 0.4.16(reactos.org)
156 points by marttt 17d ago|44 comments
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by marttt 29d ago
Insightful comment, got me thinking, thanks for sharing. I suppose, in the end, there isn't all that much logic in human relations, or there are always far too many "unknown unknowns".
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by marttt 29d ago
Yeah, the group dynamics of, say, a family with two children: 1. Kid A plays with Kid B 2. Kid A plays alone and Kid B plays alone As compared to a three-child household: 1. Kids A, B and C play together 2. Kid A plays wi
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by marttt 2mo ago
Yeah, wifi on DOS is doable, but very limited in speed and not exactly straightforward to set up (so much that I haven't seriously considered trying myself). Here's an overview and a writeup: https://help.fdos.org/
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by marttt 2mo ago
Re: distraction free writing machine -- another option would be a FreeDOS/SvarDOS-based system: https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/04/26/build-your-o... No kidding. Lots of fun to see a syste
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by marttt 3mo ago
Similar guy (though a more mysterious persona), and another noteworthy low-key web page: https://simplifier.neocities.org/
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by marttt 3mo ago
Thanks! I wasn't sure about this one, and guessed wrong. Considering pronunciation, it does feel that there should be a soft sign as well.
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by marttt 3mo ago
Sasha may also refer to Alexandr a , which is a feminine first name. What's more, there's like a ton of diminutive short names for these -- my first ever instagram link on HN, but: https://www.instagram.com/reel&#x
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by marttt 3mo ago
This whole story somehow reminds me of the Fosbury flop technique in high jump -- amazingly, Dick Fosbury started to develop it at the age of 16: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Fosbury#High_school_and_t... From the
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Ask HN: Encouraging a child's gaming PC build despite fear of gaming addiction?
2 points by marttt 4mo ago|3 comments
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Hermitary – the hermit, hermits, eremitism, silence, and simplicity(hermitary.com)
2 points by marttt 5mo ago|0 comments
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by marttt 5mo ago
Is there a current and pre-compiled Windows port for Dillo somewhere?
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by marttt 5mo ago
+1, same here, I've used line editors a fair bit (and enjoying line-oriented interface in general), so rlwrap has been an essential tool for me. Many thanks for your work!
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by marttt 5mo ago
See also -- The Screenless Office: http://screenl.es/ (On HN 2017, 138 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15960056 )
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by marttt 7mo ago
Nils M. Holm's essays about highly intelligent people and IQ are worth a read here -- "Where Do The Failed 0.1% Go?" [1] and others [2]. 1: https://t3x.org/files/vidya_324-325_NH_reprint.pdf (on HN 2015,
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by marttt 7mo ago
DOS is very much alive these days, though [0]. Text-mode internet is there (should you want online in the first place), and, thanks to some amazing devs, soundcard support has made a huge leap [1]. I use it every day lately (for text-relate
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by marttt 7mo ago
+1. I would add RJ The Bike Guy's youtube channel -- straightforward, down-to-earth, no-nonsense videos, may prove immensely useful if you have simple, traditional, cheaper-end bicycles at home, and only a basic set of tools. Excellent
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by marttt 7mo ago
Here's another, ultimate bike derailleur geekery -- Disraeli Gears: https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site/home.html
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by marttt 7mo ago
Yeah. There's probably tens of thousands of internet users worldwide with that same story. Myself included: when I was fixing my Bianchi retro road bike's derailleur etc some 20 years ago as a univesity freshman, this site was a d
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Harold Cohen on artist programmers (2003)(grandtextauto.soe.ucsc.edu)
2 points by marttt 8mo ago|0 comments
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Yori: CMD reimagined(malsmith.net)
1 points by marttt 9mo ago|0 comments
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by marttt 9mo ago
Side note: looking at the screenshot gallery on the linked site, it is interesting to see how often audio software GUIs mimic real, physical devices in remarkable detail. Carefully crafted graphics for volume dials, sliders etc.
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Niklaus Wirth: Recollections about the Development of Pascal (1993) [pdf](pascal.hansotten.com)
3 points by marttt 9mo ago|0 comments
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Fallacies advocating software bloat(sininenankka.dy.fi)
3 points by marttt 9mo ago|0 comments
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by marttt 9mo ago
Another distro worth noting here is EasyOS, a current project by Puppy Linux creator Barry Kauler: https://easyos.org/ I remember having tested it, but can't remember what it was like :) -- at least it didn't make
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by marttt 9mo ago
This appears to be new to me. Very interesting, many thanks for sharing!

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