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Re:Hledger 1.50 on Thursday September 04, 2025 @01:48PM (#45130058)
hledger is not just a budgeting app, but an accounting app to track your finances, debits/credits, investments, etc.
Re:Go Away Green on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @12:34PM (#43027595)
Why would disney want to divert attention away from trash cans? Don't you want them to to visible for folks to be able to use?

I get the desire to divert attention away from infrastructure stuff, though.

Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @12:13AM (#40796318)
> Imagine your own scenario where the facts reported on the day might conflict with something claimed to be true much later, and the person wasn’t notable at the time but they’re highly notable now.

I do see your point. I'm reminded of the photograph who snapped basically a digital throw away picture of Monica Lewinsky weeks/months/years before anyone really knew who she was. later on, he was happy to have that picture, since it was one (or the only one) of her at some event hugging Clinton.

Text is easy enough to store, but making it useful to search and access seems like another problem to solve.

Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @04:26PM (#40793188)
Or small groups of people interested in the community could archive it themselves and host it. I don't know if MTV news had a serious following or not, maybe that part of the reason the archive was taken down - nobody really cared to keep ~20 year old articles.
Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @04:24PM (#40793165)
> A universal pay as you consume. That is, one "wallet" with "credits" but many / all sites would be something new.

So if i want to read one article from website XYZ, i may need to pay 00001 credits and if I want to read another article from website yyy, i may need to pay 00002 credits?

How would yyy or xyz content creators/journalists actually make a living from this, though?

Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @04:11PM (#40793031)
Are you really interested in reading a 50 year old newspaper article about a collision that happened midday on Saturday afternoon in your community newspaper?
Re:Inside Netflix's bet on advanced video encoding on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @09:54AM (#40788668)
Yeah, the industry focused on 4k (and soon to be 8k) for some reason. I guess the same reason there's a decrease in good acting and an increase in special effects.
Re:Inside Netflix's bet on advanced video encoding on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @09:49AM (#40788607)
> When I think about it, there's no reason every single streaming movie even needs to be in 4K.

I agree. I'd rather have better audio and actors not whisper their lines, forcing you to either turn on CC or turn up the volume. I wouldn't want to purposefully stream in 4k anyway - I don't really have a reason.

The content I watch on YT is, IMO, much more interesting than the netflix shows anyway, and recorded with much less expensive gear.

Re:How do you cool a 100F city? on Thursday June 13, 2024 @05:43PM (#40675151)
> I’m down to prevent the poor and elderly from dying of heatstroke

And i also assume from freezing to death?

First hand experience tells me that living outside in a large metro city during the summer was easier than trying to stay warm in the same city during the really cold nights.

I'm not saying it was _enjoyable_ during the summer, but I didn't have the concern of hypothermia during those really cold early mornings.

Re:How do you cool a 100F city? on Thursday June 13, 2024 @05:32PM (#40675037)
How much heat to jets generate?
Re:Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative on Thursday June 13, 2024 @04:51PM (#40674624)
Does this mean you don't plan on taking any ideas from screen/tmux and implementing them in your tool?
Re:How to Copy a File From a 30-year-old Laptop on Friday May 31, 2024 @06:05PM (#40540806)
I think I would have just pulled out my audio recorder and played the file on the computer.

The files were very small and recorded with the internal mic on the computer, so it's not as though these are high quality recordings, they're more sentimental to whoever owned the laptop.

Re:The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @12:44PM (#40300163)
Could you please consider adding a volume control button on the website?
Re:The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @10:50AM (#40298724)
Is this basically a listing of archive.org's live music archive (LMA)?
Re:Practical Vim Command Workflow on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @12:29PM (#40212850)
I like to use vimium with firefox: https://github.com/philc/vimium
well it doesn't necessarily have to be AI generated content. I rarely read those posts, but when I do, I find myself actually questioning if it's really true. I suspect some people have too much time on their hands and make stories up for reddit karma instead of writing journals and books that nobody will read. At least they're exploring creative writing, though.
Re:Don't Just Say "Hello" in Chat on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @09:52AM (#40210951)
This annoys me, along with people asking about a jira but just sending the number. That means I'll need to copy it and go to my browser to type in the URL and the jira number.

Chances are the colleague was just looking at the jira in their browser, so why wouldn't they copy/paste the link...

Re:Why SQLite Does Not Use Git on Monday July 24, 2023 @02:38PM (#36852458)
Who should have written git and fossil?

Both were written by people who had problems to solve. Should they have waited around for someone to solve their problems?

Re:Cooklang – Recipe Markup Language on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @02:07PM (#36510264)
Is there a way to see recipes based on the cooking method?

Show me all the recipes that use the oven, sous vide, grill, smoker, etc.

Re:Cooklang – Recipe Markup Language on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @02:04PM (#36510231)
Just about three weeks ago, I made a fossil repo to keep track of my recipies.

I write them in markdown and use fossil's webserver to be able to access them while in the kitchen. If I need to see ingridents while i'm out, i activate my tailscale VPN on my phone and browse to the fossil webserver.

Thankfully i'm not the only one who has oven-engineered a simple solution.