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Re:Explore the world in real time in a retro flight sim MMO on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:58AM (#50362590)
With ICAO Code KSTL for that one it works.
These are really important questions when evaluating a place to live. The point about “tourism” is somehow covered by mentioning the nearest national park—unfortunately only in the US, which leads to Arcadia National Park for all European locations. In times of endless possibilities for AI-driven data and meta-analysis, this seems all the more poorly done and unimaginative.
Re:Conbini Wars – map of Japanese convenience store ratios on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:05AM (#46586349)
Often, several stores belonging to the same chain are located in close proximity to each other so that goods can be distributed more cheaply and frequently. This strategy is known as dominant policy (ドミナント政策, dominanto seisaku).[1]

[1] https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%9F%E3%83%8A%E3...

Re:Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1 on Thursday December 18, 2025 @04:18AM (#46310513)
𓇋𓅓 𓋴𓂋𓊪𓂋𓇋𓊃𓂧 𓊃𓄿𓏏 𓄿𓂋 𓊃 𓉔𓇋𓂋𓅱𓎼𓂋𓇋𓆑𓋴 𓄿𓂋 𓎡𓄿𓆑𓂋𓂧 𓃀𓄿𓇋 𓇌𓈖𓇋𓎡𓅱𓂧.

Even such rather exotic glyphs, like the biliteral 𓏞, which is U+133DE [1]. But I assume that the coverage by webfonts is somewhat bad.

P.S.: Sorry for such intended misuse of the principles of hieroglyphic writing.

[1] https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+133DE

Re:How to Synthesize a House Loop on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:26AM (#46136389)
What‘s going on with all these code-2-music tools these days? See other front page discussion about strudel.cc [1]. Did I enter an established bubble or is there a rising trend? It‘s incredible, though, what people are able to obtain with it, especially when built-up during a live session [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46052478 [2] Nice example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GWXCCBsOMSg

Re:Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @03:53PM (#45984998)
So far this extension was a solution for accessing Mail-Accounts hosted on Exchange and even O365 by using OWA in a miraculous manner. It‘s not easy to overlook how this compares for simple end-user.

Owl for Thunderbird https://reviewers.addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/a...

Re:Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release on Thursday October 02, 2025 @12:11PM (#45451620)
io200[1] might be worth a look - a CMS for photos with low requirements for self-hosting (shared hosting is sufficient), nice themes, a powerful backend for managing photos and a proper free tier for more than testing. This CMS started its journey as Koken[2] which some might remember.

[1] https://www.io200.com/

[2] https://www.koken.me/

The more videos with the FW12 moving and used before the Camera I see, the less I can ignore the fat bezels. The design language at all is not made for „business“ which is refreshing and they obviously have a budget approach, but such ancient bezels don‘t do a contribution for anything. The lack of any Windows Hello enabling hardware was the final bit for my sad no-buy decision.
Re:Notebooks App – The Perfect Mobile Word Processor on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @07:01AM (#43182889)
An inconspicuous app with a not-so-catchy name with a natural, moderate development history, good documentation and the claim to be the perfect tool for digital text in the Apple ecosystem (although there is also a Windows version). Works with a real flat file storage, which can be synchronized with various services, including WebDAV and explicitly also Nextcloud.
Re:ZetaOffice: LibreOffice in the Browser on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @02:43AM (#42253904)
I would love to have something like this in order to provide the office features for documents hosted in nextcloud directly. Yes, there is Nextcloud Office/Collabora Office but this needs separate provider and is not included in hosted Nextcloud (e.g. at Hetzner). The ease of OneDrive + MS365 in comparison is quite attracting. For my current use (sharing documents in a team of 50 - non-commercial but somehow professional approach) the latter is still the tool of choice. Being able to share a link, which allows others to directly edit presentations and spreadsheets in a browser (while the files are available in a local file structure) is just great.
I remembered this extensive article immediately (only that I've read it, not what and where to find). Thanks for saving me from endlessly searching it.
Design of a comprehensible and accessible e-book reader that you can build yourself (or at least have manufactured affordably). It’s designed to be incredibly simple: there are 7 through-hole and 14 surface mount components, nearly all in a 1206 package that’s easy to hand solder.
I would like to see the calculation for sour milk / Acid-set cheese, especially German variety Harzer. Among countless kinds of cheese, despite strongly polarizing due to its taste and smell, it has some "super food" features: Harzer contains very little fat (less than 1%) but extremely high protein (usually around 30%).
Congrats for such an profound launch of kind an Army knife for office needs. I like this approach of "modules" very much, especially compared to MS365 cosmos where you've got the great four apps very prominent and new apps / functions hiding their potential power behind a lot of new names and rather confusing menues.

What is your vision about email? I know, it's not an advanced nor modern technology but still the established backbone of office communication, especially if you want to conquer the given field. Despite MS365 has Outlook as default app working with emails in other contexts is still a pain.

Re:The Rules of Extreme Programming on Saturday January 06, 2024 @02:50PM (#38894726)
The first Extreme Programming project was started March 6, 1996. Extreme Programming is one of several popular Agile Processes. It has already been proven to be very successful at many companies of all different sizes and industries world wide.
Re:Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant on Saturday December 30, 2023 @04:38PM (#38819448)
This was my paradigm through the last years and I'm always promoting it to my colleagues. What for should invest something in folder structures (representing only one of many possible criterias)? Reliable automation for this task find its limits when subject-lines are not written in in a formally complete an consistent manner. And of course since Googlemail preached "never delete" we all stick to some email hoarding attitute (better having it than needing it, especially for long running projects there are some arguments). This way I left a 90 GB Mailbox at the company I worked for before. :-)

But such unstructured bunch of emails is hard to manage, if any subset is to be handled over to another person or to be archived in some other environment. Furthermore size limitations for the inbox will force you to get rid of something earlier or later. And there is no fun in going through thousands of emails from years ago. Therefor I recently started to at least using a rough structure of folders for archiving (all mounted as sub-folders of Inbox and therefore searchable at a glance).

Some categories (ToDo, Waiting for result etc.) I'm realizing by categories in Outlook. This is quite handy to follow-up as search-queries for those categories and more can be pinned as virtual folders in Outlook.

However, I wish there were more tools in Outlook for categorizing emails while leaving them all in the same place. I'm not sure whether I ever will become an exemplary user of Inbox Zero or even reach this state.

I‘m asking this obvious question as well from time to time, and indeed some insights were given here: Ask HN: Why are there no open source 2d printers? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24786721
Re:Winterover Statistics (2004) on Sunday July 16, 2023 @05:27AM (#36745084)
Re:JMAP – a much needed modern email open standard on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @04:11PM (#36130018)
For my hosted E-Mail I've configured one inbox as "catch all unknown". This allows me to "generate" e-mail addresses on the fly without any configuration (at least receiving). Once one of the addresses / aliases was burnt for some reason I could make a separate postbox of it with all blocking rules and dead end for spam. This is a quite comfortable way for me, although the emails are not flagged in any way. They will come through in any case and I postponed the the work to any malicious event.
Re:Wavelength on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @03:59AM (#35337277)
https://www.beeper.com/ might offer an (expensive) solution for you.
Re:Made with Adobe PageMill, still updated on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @05:24PM (#31345994)
> When I started this website, my screen size was a mere 13" and my resolution was 1024x768. Over the years, screens have become both larger and smaller (tablets and smart phones). My authoring software is unsophisticated and may not auto-rearrange to suit. So, apologies if my site doesn't look its best; I can only suggest using your browser zoom control to assist with legibility.
Re:I saw a cool truck today on Monday May 09, 2022 @05:41AM (#31312199)
With the Econic[1] Mercedes Benz as one of the established manufacturers of utility vehicles already offers a product which implements some of the mentioned advantages of lower position for driver an extended window area. Here in Germany they can be often seen as garbage truck or fire fighting truck[2] in the cities. An BEV version was announced[3].

On the other hand, even tallest semi trucks (here 40 tons class) are allowed to roll through German cities widely. They are often involved in accidents with pedestrians or bicylclists with fatal outcome. The main reason is bad sight when turning right. Therefore turning assistants[3] will become mandatory. However, placing the driver better and giving him more field of view is preferred.

[1] https://www.mercedes-benz-trucks.com/de_DE/models/econic.htm... [2] https://mbs.mercedes-benz.com/de/special-trucks/feuerwehr/au... [3] https://www.mercedes-benz-trucks.com/de_DE/models/eeconic.ht... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_assistant but better see German version : https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbiegeassistent

Re:Plain Text Sports on Monday March 21, 2022 @12:47PM (#30756355)
Same here in Germany, where regular operation of Teletext (or called "Videotext" here) started in 1979[1] and is still a thing. Surprisingly, I experience deaf people in my sphere using it. Of course, all the information is available on websites as well, but the strict form and reduced text amount per information in Teletext seem to make it very accessible for those who struggle with complexity of written language.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext#Deutschland

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