News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

spread_love

Re:Ask HN: How did you get rid of your performance anxiety? on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @08:17AM (#37843510)
Do you struggle with anxiety in general? This sounds like a symptom of a bigger problem.

First step is cut out all drugs (yes even our beloved alcohol). As a depressant it might work in the short term, for the same reason long term it will make things worse.

Toastmasters is a good idea. Have you tried talking to a therapist?

How do you fence stolen gasoline? Is there a black market for the stuff?

Even if you got away with this, you're looking at $2000-$4000 in profit? Seems hardly with the risk (even if you're not concerned with ethics). Not to mention you have to safely store 800 gallons of gas somewhere.

Re:Getting into Pinball on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @08:11AM (#37583213)
Is pinball seeing a resurgence in popularity?

A friend of mine is internationally ranked, and he started out much like the author:

> What if I built a wall cutting it in half and built a pinball room in the resulting new room

Their small apartment is now full of pinball machines, tools and parts

Re:WordPad will be removed in a future release of Windows on Saturday September 02, 2023 @04:56PM (#37365460)
> we recommend Microsoft Word

Which now costs $159.99?!

Re:Eighty Shades of Option Key on Saturday August 26, 2023 @09:53AM (#37272946)
Like a train switching tracks! I never noticed.

So what does ⌘ represent?

Re:Why the vagus nerve is so exciting to scientists on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @08:46AM (#37234971)
Thanks for sharing. I'm considering VNS but frankly I'm terrified of complications and recovery time.
Word, remember the world before the hockey puck mouse? Strange to think we used to shape those like a human hand.
> You’d better know how to touch type. The Cyrillic-ish alphabet designed for Acronym by Rudnick is all part of the theme

Any high res photos of the keys/lettering?

Re:Don't use Control Center to turn off Bluetooth on iPhone on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @06:33PM (#37154778)
> Turning off WiFi makes your battery life worse, because you'll forget to turn it back on

What? (I'm not OP)

Re:Don't use Control Center to turn off Bluetooth on iPhone on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @01:33PM (#37150563)
Simply conserving battery life?

And according to the article iPhone users that thought their Bluetooth was turned off were vulnerable to attacks; that's not a superstition.

> Throw some D's on that bitch [to keep the car safe and stable and meet the mandated safety standards]

-- Rich Boy

Re:A Blog Post with Every HTML Element on Monday August 14, 2023 @10:23PM (#37129422)
...and <i> is supposed to mean "idiomatic text" now but let's be honest it's never used that way
just a joke, apologies :(

you leaving is actually part of the reason I left at the time, you were one of the few admins who regularly participated (it seemed)

By reading the source code? No wonder reddit used to go down so often...
Old Man Musk can talk it, can't walk it. This playground provocation was boring enough when it started, good call by zuck.
Re:A Blog Post with Every HTML Element on Sunday August 13, 2023 @08:24AM (#37109290)
Thanks! I should have specified it's impossible without a fixed height (height: auto).
Re:A Blog Post with Every HTML Element on Saturday August 12, 2023 @10:30PM (#37106109)
Most of these aren't widely used because they were quaint attempts at solving problems that no longer exist, could be better solved with CSS (as the author concedes with <small>), and very much depend on browser implementation.

I was excited when <details> and <summary> landed in all evergreen browsers for example, but just to get the content to slide open (guiding the user) instead of pop open requires JS (the best implementations I've seen use WAAPI), Safari adds a proprietary pseudo element, etc.

> without a slight risk of being stabbed by a crazy person

So you've never been to Port Authority...

Commute from BK or Queens is still feasible, they are BIG boroughs so it differs on which part. Prices are lower but climbing, especially in neighborhoods very close to Manhattan.

Bronx still has a high crime rate; depends on where. Tremont and Highbridge are pretty rough. Lots of the Bronx is still as safe or safer than, say, East Harlem (in Manhattan).

> Brokers say the lack of apartments for sale, due to higher interest rates, have forced many would-be buyers to rent
Re:Theft of the Mona Lisa on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:08AM (#37050127)
Argue against me please: da Vinci's real Mona Lisa is not what's hanging in the Louvre; the original was never recovered. (This is one of my favorite conspiracies)
So much about darkrooms are tranquil, watching a b&w photo "come to life" made the idea of gelatin silver emulsion click for me. Great project!
Tile works with all phones, Android and iOS
Re:Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020) on Thursday July 27, 2023 @01:48PM (#36897465)
Another "article" summarizing a reddit post. They even took the top comment and put it at the end

> wavy walls that lawnmowers surely detest!

Re:Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F) on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:11AM (#36846642)
I'm delighted to let you know that you missed the point. It was a very short comment.
Re:Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F) on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:58AM (#36846466)
I can see users misreading this as a "close" icon in the "share on..." section of every article
Re:Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F) on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:49AM (#36846360)
No, it changed ownership many times since 1999.

> On July 5 2017, Musk repurchased the domain name X.com from PayPal

They even took a little jab at him when it happened

> "We are delighted to sell the domain x.com back to its previous owner"

Re:Social media is too much for most of us to handle on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:41PM (#36818593)
I went dark and lost touch with a lot of friends and family. I was just keeping up with their life by Liking posts instead of, you know, calling them.
Re:MDN Playground on Thursday July 20, 2023 @10:14AM (#36800756)
Freemium teaser?

I'd monetize this by adding features and hiding them behind MDN Pro+ (or w/e the subscription is called) in the future. Ala Codepen.

You didn't remove all the default styling added by all browsers? This site is styled differently depending on browser.

I suppose that means "you're trying to cover up your lack of interesting information"?

Older »