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Re:Minimax M3 on Friday May 29, 2026 @04:33AM (#48320614)
In most of europe tap water has very good quality and you can just drink and use it without any filtering.

edit: meaning it's a personal choice to soften / filter you water, but most people are fine with just tap water

it's for households. Energy prices for industry is much lower and in 2024 actually cheaper than 2017 (2024: 16,99, 2017: 17,09) Source: https://www.bdew.de/service/daten-und-grafiken/bdew-strompre...
Re:Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks on Friday April 26, 2024 @05:12AM (#40167311)
probably works when using a single screen. But on a multi screen setup, so having the macbook as 2nd screen, it's not working
On a user level I agree, on a technical level I disagree.

Reason for disagreement is that the preview is generated once with the access rights for the user posting that link (with the permission Slacks Google Docs integration got from the posting user). For performance reason it would be quite costly to generate a preview for every viewing user since access rights could be different for every user. Also access rights can change every time, so it would be necessary to recheck permissions regularly to decide if the preview should be renewed (removed/added/changed). This also would mean users need to wait longer for the preview to generate.

So every user posting a link on Slack (or any platform which generates previews with a special integration) should be aware of that fact

Re:Ask HN: Show me your New Tab on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:59AM (#34597723)
On Chrome (browser I use for development) I use the Google Arts & Culture Extension, to have see something nice while working (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-arts-cultur...)

On Firefox (my main browser for all non-dev related things) I just use the main screen with the shortcuts - some of them sticky, most are just often visited pages gathered by the browser itself

Re:Ask HN: Best way to spend $1000 on health on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @05:56AM (#28365881)
Buy a pair of good running shoes and sport clothing and start running. Maybe a tracking device if you don't own one to track you progress. Also maybe do some weight/bodyweight training. Save the rest of the money. Or buy a bike.
his sources are basically YouTube and other unproven articles, mostly from far right extremist sites.

German truth check article for that one: https://www.volksverpetzer.de/uncategorized/uni-hamburg-unwi...

Re:Ask HN: Developers tools that enhances your productivity on Monday October 05, 2020 @06:23AM (#24686283)
- Dash (https://kapeli.com/dash) for browsing documentation locally (often faster than searching the web when you know what you are looking for), alternative: https://devdocs.io (works in browser), Zeal (https://zealdocs.org, for Windows & Linux)

- Sublime Merge for solving merge conflicts and committing individual lines (I'm for command line when working with Git, but `git add -p` is often frustrating, with Sublime Merge it's very easy once you got used to the tool)

Re:Ask HN: Emoji in Commit Messages or Not? on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:46AM (#24419966)
I can recommend that article: https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/
Ah, yes. Didn't thought about that.
quick fix would be to use NPM directly

(create a `.yarnrc` file with `registry "https://registry.npmjs.org/"`)

Getting older each day is probably also linked to increase the risk of getting cancer
so basically he want to use a IDE, not a editor
Re:Google as a search engine is becoming useless on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:29AM (#19387946)
I stopped reading after the first sentence

> Before Google, you just had to know the www address of the sites you could be interested in.

Before Google there were other search engines. Remember Altavista? Also Yahoo was a thing to discover new sites.

Re:cd –, a shell feature I didn't know about on Monday February 11, 2019 @10:08AM (#19134936)
also available on git

  git checkout master
  git checkout my-branch
  git pull
  git checkout -
  git merge -
Re:DuckDuckGo Doesn't Hide or Encrypt User Search History on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:00AM (#18237058)
Also you can go to Settings -> Privacy and turn off GET requests. With this done the search term is also not shown on the browsers title
Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system? on Thursday October 04, 2018 @09:21AM (#18139611)
for work (development) macOS, Linux on the server side, Windows when it comes for private things (gaming, making music)
Re:There Are No More Small Phones on Friday September 14, 2018 @10:06AM (#17987249)
I'm currently waiting for my Atom Phone. It was sold good, so I think there is still a market niche, even it is small.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/atom-world-s...

Re:Curated List of Coding Music on Monday September 04, 2017 @04:28AM (#15166627)
the "Dub Techno" (music genre) in general
Re:Ask HN: Best VPN Router Setup? on Friday March 24, 2017 @04:11AM (#13947420)
I had a Netgear WNR3500L with a OpenWRT Tomato build by Shibby (http://tomato.groov.pl/) for some month as secondary VPN network in combination with AirVPN. Sometimes the VPN disconnected and I had to connect using the OpenWRT UI, but most of the time it was ok. Also there are some good posts about router setups at the AirVPN forum, maybe you should have a look there (https://airvpn.org/forum/15-how-to/)