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Re:The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II on Saturday June 27, 2026 @12:17PM (#48699494)
I understand the intellectual satisfaction you're talking about. Now I'm wondering if we can push the minimalism to using these four holes with only two fingers. It seems doable from the diagram you link, using link fingers, and assuming half holes can be covered from the left side, and two holes can be covered with one finger at the same time. Would that work, or does the physicality of the instrument prevent that ?
Other overview pages would be:

[Zen of Reticulum](https://reticulum.network/manual/zen.html)

[Understanding Reticulum](https://reticulum.network/manual/understanding.html)

Re:How Core Git Developers Configure Git on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @05:32AM (#43170201)
Related: Popular Git config options by Julia Evans [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39400352

Re:Interacting with Paper on the DigitalDesk (1993) on Friday November 29, 2024 @02:23AM (#42271678)
Demonstration video on the author's youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJIa746B-eJwVRSbYdCylyg
Re:Choose Boring Technology and LLMs on Thursday November 14, 2024 @07:32AM (#42135596)
Agreed, especially for "serious" project, where LLMs are a good approximation of an average dev that could easily increase your bus factor.

On the other hand, this could be the same slippery slope that starts at "choose a boring project because it has mature tooling" but ends at "IDE's are a language smell". If the language is so boring that you can't focus on it without an LLM doing the menial work, that could be because there is too much menial work to start with.

Re:We have lift-off Element X, Call and Server Suite are ready on Friday September 20, 2024 @05:50AM (#41600338)
> Finally, cryptographic warnings are being eliminated. Historically, as end-to-end encryption was rolled out throughout Matrix, not all apps verified the identity of their users, triggering confusing and unactionable warnings to users. We are now shifting towards only letting devices whose ownership has been verified by their owner participate in conversations, killing those warnings - as well as other underlying protocol changes to eliminate warnings.

As the operator of a small instance for family and friends, that's an important topic. The very frequent use case is : "I lost/replaced my phone and didn't save my passphrase". Does that mean that the account would be lost ?

Re:We have lift-off Element X, Call and Server Suite are ready on Friday September 20, 2024 @05:47AM (#41600325)
It's also on FDroid :)
Re:What's the fastest EC2 instance CPU? on Friday March 15, 2024 @05:27AM (#39713651)
oh nice, I was actually wondering what was the quickest way to build a meteor.js app (which is mostly a single threaded process).

My 2 cents: I had to scroll down all the way to find out where the "CPU speed" comes from... And I'd still like to know about the "avg" part, so you may want have a more detailed "Method" section (before the results) ;)

Newbie question: how do we know we can trust the microphone?

It sounds like a chicken-and-egg problem to equalize speakers with an equalized microphone, but maybe microphones are simpler and can be assumed to be equalized ?

Re:What keeps earth from collapsing in on itself? (2010) on Saturday April 30, 2022 @08:22AM (#31215490)
N. K. Jemisin wrote a triple Hugo winning trilogy[1] about what could happen to humanity with a sliiightly less stable crust, if you want some more unnerving ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._K._Jemisin#Broken_Earth_ser...

Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos? on Monday May 31, 2021 @06:03AM (#27342353)
linuxserver.io made an rdesktop-web based docker image of DigiKam[0], so I guess it could be "upgraded" to self-hosted. I'd be tempted by the potential of setting up various digikams as a service for my various users (the member of my family), where each instance could share some but not all photo folders with others.

[0] https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-digikam

I haven't used C++ in a while (sadly), but in my days I had stumbled upon deheader[0] which I don't seem mentioned here. From what I remember, it was very simple and easy to use, and yielded useful results.

[0] http://www.catb.org/~esr/deheader/deheader.html

Re:Ruby adds experimental support for rightward assignments on Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:40PM (#24435265)
A math tutor of mine was actually pretty angry at computer science for writing things like `a=1; a=2; //so 1=2 ?` I guess he'd rather have the "assign 42 to age"... Except he'd probably read `42 => age` as "42 implies age", which would probably cause him more sleepless nights ;)
Re:Threema Goes Open Source on Thursday September 03, 2020 @11:00AM (#24364677)
I kinda forced a friend of mine into using element/riot. He mostly complained about the lack of "polish" (which I also feel, and I'm a rather "frugal" user). He proposed Threema as an alternative, so I guess that the polish is quite the missing box.

The box I'm missing in Threema (unless I'm wrong of course) is the "not centralized" one. If for some reason (and admittedly, there aren't many realistic ones), Threema's servers/organisation are corrupted, the whole networks falls, right?

Re:How do wombats make cubed poo? on Sunday September 15, 2019 @04:42AM (#20976222)
> NOTE: This the SECOND Ig Nobel Prize awarded to Patricia Yang and David Hu. They and two other colleagues shared the 2015 Ig Nobel Physics Prize, for testing the biological principle that nearly all mammals empty their bladders in about 21 seconds (plus or minus 13 seconds)

https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/the-2019-winners/

Trilium Notes[0] allows that. In fact I'm surprised that it's not mentioned here, because when I discovered it (via HN IIRC), it seemed to me that Trilium had already implemented everything I could have ever thought of for a note taking/personal knowledge management tool, and more.

[0] https://github.com/zadam/trilium

Re:What are children dying from and what can we do about it? on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @06:56PM (#20815273)
Look closer... How else would you explain the decrease in congenital birth defects? Eugenism?
Re:How true hackers write JavaScript on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @03:56AM (#17915924)
Not to mention the "ajax" function in the script...
Re:How true hackers write JavaScript on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @03:49AM (#17915890)
> function addClass (el, cl) { if (el) { var a = el.className.split(' '); if (!afind(cl, a)) { a.unshift(cl); el.className = a.join(' ')}} }

Why does it use `unshift` rather than `push` ?

The only reason I can think of is that the last class added will be faster to remove when iterating over the array...

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