throwaway798214

10 ms·

1.
by throwaway798214 7mo ago
People with all Apple devices do not consist "most" of users
2.
by throwaway798214 1y ago
EU is not a single country and starting a business varies from one member state to another. I currently own a business in both Finland and Portugal, and I can start a new business in Finland, online, without even stepping into the country i
3.
by throwaway798214 1y ago
Coding, cooking and fine dining, LEGOs, walking, motorcycles, gym
4.
by throwaway798214 1y ago
52, started coding when I was 12 but doing mostly sysop/admin things now
5.
by throwaway798214 1y ago
https://archive.ph/Yy2Bb
6.
by throwaway798214 1y ago
Client company of mine likes to document server rack layouts with Excel sheets (not a bad idea really). I used LibreOffice for years to _read_ those Excels, but any time I would write the smallest change the whole Excel sheet broke... In th
7.
by throwaway798214 1y ago
The Finnish version of Excel used to have all of the functions translated to Finnish (in late 90s when I was doing Excel for living). It was literally impossible to do anything with it as none of the documentation knew about the translated
8.
by throwaway798214 2y ago
I literally learned English reading the only computer books that were available at the time, mid 80s. That was before I had a single English class in school - in fact I already knew English pretty well by the time I started studying English
9.
by throwaway798214 2y ago
There are loads of programming languages which have nothing to do with the English language. Assembly: LDA #$01 STA $0200 LDA #$05 STA $0201 LDA #$08 STA $0202 Brainfuck: >>,[>>,]<<[ [<&lt
10.
by throwaway798214 2y ago
I standardized on US ANSI layout (straight Return, not the L-shaped). I'm from a country where the local language has accented chars and while it's nice to be able to chat with correct accents I find it better to be able to code w
11.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
Not mine originally but "always check your inputs"
12.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
Fear of change, mostly.
13.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
Don't take this the wrong way... but I control my lights with mechanical switches that are installed to walls of my home. They don't need logins to any cloud services, in fact they don't even have internet. They just work.
14.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
Separate network stacks? Separate filesystems? Separate processes and memory allocation? With WSL1 processes started from WSL console appear on Windows Task manager and starting a network daemon on WSL1 uses the Windows network stack and fi
15.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
WSL1 is what keeps me on Windows - but I don't understand why they keep calling WSL2 "WSL" as it has nothing to do with the traditional "Windows service for XXX" model. For better or worse WSL2 is just a virtual mac
16.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
What it's worth my own RSS reader also fails to find any feeds from your site because my parser expects the link type to be quoted with either single or double quotes. Not sure what the offical specs say though. type="applicat
17.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
I'd like to reverse the whole question: why do mobile browsers force every website change their layout/fonts/etc instead of just rendering sites so that they would be readable by default? (also I don't understand why peo
18.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
Nope, not using, I'm not even using command history or bash completion. The only way to actually learn what you are doing is by doing it yourself - but that's just me, I don't judge others for doing differently.
19.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
At least in Finland and Sweden those highways-as-emergency-airfields are always in use, no need to prep the area or remove dividers in any way. They are mostly used by the army for practicing, basically the police will just close the road s
20.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
If you are running uBlock Origin (and why wouldn't you?) edit your "My filters" and add these lines to the end: ! Hacker News dark mode news.ycombinator.com##html:style(filter:invert(100%) hue-rotate(180deg)) news.yco
21.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
You probably want to fix the page title: <title>Document</title>
22.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
It's not even about tracking, sessions are perfectly cromulent under GDPR without popups. It's only if you start tracking users without any other purpose than marketing/spamming when GDPR steps in and demands you ask the user
23.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
What does being ~50 years old have to do with anything? I'm 50 and I'm the one who designs and implements those login screens, password managers, authentication databases etc etc... The actual question is why haven't we solve
24.
Finding Undocumented 8086 Instructions via Microcode(hackaday.com)
2 points by throwaway798214 3y ago|0 comments
25.
Microsoft still isn't sure how Chinese hackers got access to its systems(techradar.com)
4 points by throwaway798214 3y ago|0 comments
26.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
Offtopic but lately I've been building a "new" physical C64 which is nearly done - SD2IEC + Epyx Fastload for fast disc emulation and Kung Fu Flash for near instant .prg loading. Related to the discussion I think KFF is faste
27.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
I think your requirements are quite contradictory; my old Commodore 64 had a lean operating system or basically no operating system at all. Yet it took me nearly half an hour to load a single 40 kilobyte game from tape (only to see it didn&
28.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
You can already run Hit & Run on modern computers - I'm playing it here on an ultrawide monitor full-screen with 5120x2160 resolution. All you need is to download "Lucas' Simpsons Hit & Run Mod Launcher" and enab
29.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
Encode your game state to the URL itself and tell the user to bookmark that URL. User can then use browser sync, email or whatever to sync the bookmark to another computer to continue where they left off. No services, no tokens, no sharing
30.
by throwaway798214 3y ago
Not in Finland, there's some noise before the movie starts and during ads but pretty much everyone turns off their phones (or puts them into airplane mode) when the actual movie starts.

More ›