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Re:Swimmable Cities on Friday September 13, 2024 @06:05AM (#41529696)
In Belgium, I pay 4.5 eur as an adult to use any of the numerous swimming pools around me. Also, I never had to show my ID once in my lifetime to enter said pools. My kids are perfectly afloat and learned to swim with their school by going to the pool every week.

Not denying your personal experience, just sharing another point of view from another part of the country.

Re:Why doesn't capitalism produce good kettles? on Saturday March 13, 2021 @04:36AM (#26445318)
I am quite happy with this recent purchase : https://www.palaisdesthes.com/en/stainless-steel-with-variab...
Re:Sonder: E-Ink Keyboard on Monday June 01, 2020 @05:41AM (#23376745)
You are right, this method only works for specific set of languages, e.g same family languages.
Re:Sonder: E-Ink Keyboard on Sunday May 31, 2020 @06:04PM (#23373206)
You should 100% have a look at text-expansion tools e.g. espanso with https://hub.espanso.org/packages/french-accents/.

The general idea is that you would type something like :e' to type out é. This allows you to use a single keyboard layout across languages.

Re:Anatomy of a Mechanical Keyboard (2018) on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:20PM (#20436572)
> Why are so many mechanical keyboards tiny?

It's more about travel distance from your home row. Adding more modifiers or having vim like modes baked in your keyboard help filling the gap.

Re:Linux Desktop Setup on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @10:24AM (#19254971)
Firefox -- Tridactyl
Re:Write good git commit messages on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @03:26PM (#18667440)
I still follow my past team definition of a good commit : the commit message should answer in it's first line why this commit was done. Overtime I realized that when I git blame I never care what a commit does because this is always obvious by reading the code of the commit. The reason why, however, is most of the time not obvious at all.
Alt + double click can also toggle maximize the window under the cursor.
Re:Petition: Public Money Should Produce Public Code on Monday September 18, 2017 @01:31PM (#15277800)
I like how this video also calls for open architectural plans, aka the source code of our buildings.
Re:Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? on Saturday April 08, 2017 @06:19AM (#14066252)
Not in the browser, just markdown files structured like those github *-awsome repos.
The pedestrian was already engaging on the crosswalk and would have required the car to stop too.
Re:Mongo BSON Injection: Ruby Regexps Strike Again on Thursday June 04, 2015 @04:41AM (#9658076)
I've been thinking about live coding on twitch but having to think about not revealing any sensitive information would make it a hassle. I will give it a try for some side projects.
It's also on android and this is basically the same but easier.
Re:Drop millions of allocations by using a linked list on Friday March 13, 2015 @08:50AM (#9196842)
U can also run with option -j4 to get 4 workers doing the task; u can also add it to your global config : bundle config --global jobs 4
Living in trilingual country here. I suggest u to try google.com/ncr to get English google wherever you are in the world.
Re:Ask HN: Paypal alternatives for vendors outside the US? on Saturday February 28, 2015 @02:14PM (#9124669)
In europe https://www.hipay.com/ was cleary easier to set up then something more popular, like ogone, and had much better prices for us
Re:Show HN: A curated list of Chrome DevTools tips and tricks on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @04:24PM (#8429253)
I don't see a way to suggest a tip or trick.

My ah ha moment was when i discovered the usage of :' debugger; ' in a.js with inspector open

Re:2048 in 4D on Monday March 17, 2014 @10:03PM (#7419537)
Why would one choose wasd over ijkl if foreign keyboard layouts aren't going to be supported.
Re:2048 in 4D on Monday March 17, 2014 @09:58PM (#7419523)
this 4d is actually harder since each dimension is 2x2. 7052 :/ still haven't beaten it..
aka what's app story made us craving
Re:Why I Will Never Go Back to the United States on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @08:45PM (#6765856)
This website has disabled scrolling and zooming and all keyboard shortcuts in chrome. This UX ...Real ...
Re:Soylent on the latest Vice piece on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @07:22AM (#6724713)
Makes much sense for disaster relief.
Re:Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @03:28PM (#6601083)
I believe that some good doc - diagrams to show how code is structured and how parts interact can mitigate this.
I wished this would be based on http://www.ledger-cli.org/
Hipay comes in handy for the card + digpass combo
Re:Storage Space Doubled For All Linode VPS plans on Thursday July 25, 2013 @07:42PM (#6105681)
$ aunpack archive #how_hard
backupsy op

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