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Re:Tracking when Trump chickens out on Monday April 20, 2026 @06:02AM (#47832234)
It's Claude Design. How do I know? A site I was working on has the same aesthetic... Which is disappointing but not unexpected.
Re:One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @10:47AM (#47766362)
It is just a product pitch with beta access (I don't have access to it) But also agree that the direction is good. I think once everyone using the 12 terminal agent setup emerges from the void, teamwork processes will need to have a rethink. So it's interesting to follow this and other projects. What is yours?
Re:Test Your Microphone Online on Monday November 27, 2023 @04:23AM (#38430125)
From the privacy section on the front page: "All operations required for testing are performed by the browser and all data is stored in the user’s device memory."
Re:Loss of Smell May Be an Early Sign of Brain Diseases on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @09:23AM (#36771758)
Not being able to smell sucks. I was able to smell for the first 20+ years of my life and then lost it.

After years of going to doctors getting treated for polyps and allergies and all kinds of things I was diagnosed with Samter's Triad.

I know you have this since birth and it most likely is not what you have, but other people with similar symptoms may want to look into that, because not many doctors that I came across knew this.

Do you suffer from allergies/chronic rhinitis by any chance? I have hyposmia because of rhinitis.

But I get the same - go without food for a while and my sense of smell increases until I eat and become satiated.

Now whether it’s related to certain allergens that I eat or the body/senses becoming less sharp I do not know.

Probably worth investigating a bit more, I never really dug deeper into this.

Re:Anki-Fy Your Life on Saturday March 18, 2023 @05:35PM (#35213329)
This is from Kagi's summarizer:

  Anki is a powerful tool for improving long-term memory.
  Anki is best used in service to a creative project.
  It is important to ask good questions when using Anki.
  Anki is most useful for learning new fields.
  Anki can be used to develop virtuoso skills.
  It is important to avoid orphan questions and yes/no patterns when using Anki.
  Memory is complicated and we should be careful before putting too much faith in any given model.
  Distributed practice is important for maximizing retention.
  Anki can be used to remember non-verbal experiences.
  Anki can be used to memorize APIs and code.
If you trace back the addresses, you get to this:

https://etherscan.io/address/0x6365abaad54863bfd11acb6c4b611...

Which in turn shows it came from Tornado Cash which was put on the OFAC blacklist in August. So redox will likely have a very hard time to get this converted.

See here for more https://www.coincenter.org/u-s-treasury-sanction-of-privacy-...

Re:RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @04:46AM (#32493882)
They rebranded due to legal reasons - https://twitter.com/ravynsoft/status/1520779114336071680
Re:Thunderbird 102 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:50AM (#31918135)
You can bypass that with running a local instance of davmail - https://github.com/mguessan/davmail

It works really well if you are comfortable on the command line to get it running.

Does anyone know of EU based alternatives to the above?
Re:Zas Editor on Friday April 08, 2022 @05:28AM (#30954997)
The payment process is a little tricky - it doesn't ask you for an email address and displays the license on the resulting page. If I don't record the license key manually I will need to get in touch with you to try and recover it.

It would be better to get it emailed or get some prompt to record it etc.

Well here is one other random sample who has to turn the inner voice on when necessary :)

Instead of a voice I have a constant song playing in my head when I am not focused. The song changes multiple times per week but if I am on idle I have a song.

When I speak the song turns off, but no voice comes on, unless I consciously prepare my words.

Now when typing this comment, I have a voice (which is my own voice) say the words I am about to type milliseconds before I type them.

Re:The Itanic Has Sunk on Friday July 30, 2021 @10:20AM (#28008272)
Totally agree with this. External consultants are easily blamed. But the problem usually lies elsewhere - someone makes a decision without understanding the full scope of the challenge.
Re:The Itanic Has Sunk on Friday July 30, 2021 @05:49AM (#28006250)
Little anecdote:

The Itanium led to one of a more remarkable episodes in my career. Around 2007 we were running a heavy workload on MS SQL Server in a fast growing business.

We faced a lot of outages due to DB overload. Instead of trying to investigate and understand the issue better and optimize the software, some external consultants were brought in and recommended to upgrade the hardware to an Itanium based monster. It was a massive piece of hardware with a price tag close to 7 figures.

The thing went live and performance decreased and issues increased. After a couple of weeks of trying to run on the Itanium we switched back to the old setup and then focused on software improvements.

Long story short - after about 8 weeks of dedicated troubleshooting and improvements the whole app became stable, was capable to double workload on the same hardware without outages for the next 12 months.

The Itanium took up a lot of space in the server room before it was dismantled and used as a paperweight. A lawsuit involving multiple parties (supplier,consultant,business) eventually got settled out of court in 2015 (?) long after I left there.

Farewell Itanium :)

Re:Show HN: Hackable No-Code Tool for MVPs on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @02:23AM (#24904902)
Hello, nice looking product and great copy. 2 points:

1. Make your screenshots english too, keeping the code structure and copy consistent. Unless you want to highlight i18n. But seeing Portuguese and English mixed sticks out to someone like me with a mildly severe case of OCD.

2. Can you mention the language I can use to hack or export the source code in? I assume it’s javascript but spelling it out at least once on the frontpage seems appropriate.

Good luck with it!

Re:Ask HN: How to find work while homeless? on Friday February 28, 2020 @11:06AM (#22443697)
Thanks!
Re:Ask HN: How to find work while homeless? on Friday February 28, 2020 @10:18AM (#22443309)
I cannot promise anything but I’m in the Utrecht area and would be more than happy to give you some advice face to face or potentially help you somehow with projects if there is a fit.

Do you have an email address to reach you?

Re:Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software? on Sunday July 15, 2018 @07:25AM (#17534757)
I am using an Apple Pencil. Not sure if 3rd party pencils work.
Re:Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software? on Sunday July 15, 2018 @06:27AM (#17534630)
Second the notion of goodnotes and the pen. The one feature that really is quite significant is being able to move hand written text around using the lasso tool.

So you write something, circle it and move it to the right spot.

If your brain works in chaotic ways at times it is such a cool feature to just write/dump everything and then order it later.

Also excellent for drawing diagrams and mockups and all kinds of other flows that require expansion or significant change later on.

Using the pen/ipad combo feels quite natural to write so this has been my solution for a while and has stuck more than any solution I have tried over the past 20 years aside from regular pen/paper.

I signed up for an account and have some feedback:

* The signup was very easy

* 2FA is missing, considering withdrawals will be made through the account if automatic withdrawals are not enabled, that is an absolute must have.

* Clicking on "Upgrade your Plan" takes me back to the logged out site even though I remain logged in

* I uploaded a logo and I am not sure what it is used for, it's not displayed anywhere.

* I signed up in particular because I saw Woocommerce on the front page. Post login there is no mention of it, and I am not sure there is actually a plugin for it.

Keep working at it guys - it's a good segment to be in.

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