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If I ever find myself with the money to do this, that was exactly what I was thinking.
I’d love to do something similar to an El Camino. I don’t even need triple digit range; I’d use it as a local runabout, mostly to my art studio.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) on Monday March 09, 2026 @01:57AM (#47305327)
I got laid off a while ago and I’m privileged enough to take time to reconsider what I want to do. I’ve been learning how to sketch which supports my bigger passion- printmaking. I’ve primarily been doing linocut which is carving negative space into linoleum, inking it up, and printing it on paper. I’ve got a membership at a local atelier and have branched out into drypoint, kitchen lithography, and what I guess is called LEGOpress. I’m sparking a lot of joy working with my hands every day. I have been finding adequate challenge in honing my craft as I try to figure out how to draw/carve the images I see in my mind.
Re:Just Let Me Select Text on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @11:27AM (#45361719)
Instagram is the same way if a link is dropped into the comments. Infuriating.
Re:Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster on Monday September 08, 2025 @09:00PM (#45176149)
Any docs or talks about this somewhere?
Re:Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML on Sunday September 07, 2025 @11:21PM (#45164374)
If you're using Apache you could just use Server Side Includes and forget the JS.
Re:Why is D3 so Verbose? on Friday August 22, 2025 @11:59PM (#44993021)
Vue is about as ancient yet people still use that. Python is even older.
Re:DHH: The Framework Desktop is a beast on Saturday August 09, 2025 @05:21PM (#44850350)
Why is that? Why would soldering the connections vs plugging them in affect how much data per second they transfer?
If they move jobs every two years, that’s 5 periods of interviewing. 40 interviews per period doesn’t seem too out there.
Re:Programming on 34 Keys (2022) on Monday May 26, 2025 @01:19AM (#44094208)
I can easily switch back and forth. I have more than 34 keys, but I don't use the number row or modifier keys. My layout is also columnar, similar to the OP's.
Could be confused with Feathers, a Javascript web framework.
Re:AnimeJs v4 Is Here on Saturday April 05, 2025 @01:02PM (#43594880)
I’d love to see that.
Re:AnimeJs v4 Is Here on Saturday April 05, 2025 @01:02PM (#43594877)
Maybe it displays oddly on your phone but all I’ve seen is effusive praise for how the landing page is constructed. The graphic is meaningless but the information around it is informative. The graphic itself is meant to inspire rather than inform.
Re:The Egg (By Andy Weir) on Monday March 31, 2025 @11:48AM (#43536379)
Does anyone remember the parody of this where the answer is an “abbatoir” and the character also has to be every animal?
Re:Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:10PM (#43110262)
I recall using cartoon logic to think that the web might be stretchy or bouncy. I’m way from my desk right now so I can’t easily consult the doc, but I recall Manny’s observations filling in whatever else I needed to do to solve the puzzle.

The only puzzle that stumped me was much later in the game, when a pneumatic tube demon asked me questions about Maximino where the answer was a number. I was so used to gleaning info from conversations or Manny’s quips that I didn’t realize the demon was using some bingo number picker or something in the background.

Re:Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @11:19PM (#43098526)
Perhaps I’m biased because I played the game when I was 14 and had much more free time to dedicate to it, but it’s my impression that Grim Fandango was known for having few of the rubber-chicken-with-a-pulley-in-it type of puzzles.

As for your question about “what is the player being challenged to do?” I had to sit and think for a bit. I think the most straightforward answer is to just think abstractly and make connections in the context of a humorous noir story. You certainly aren’t being challenged to solve a mystery, but I’m not sure it really matters. I’m not sure if you mean it like Chess challenges you to vanquish your opponent and The Witness demands color/pattern/maze analysis.

Re:Shortest times between train stations in Europe on Saturday December 28, 2024 @04:42PM (#42535021)
I’d take this comment more seriously if there weren’t car companies that bought up rail networks and shut them down.
Re:Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file on Saturday December 21, 2024 @09:08PM (#42483916)
Is there a repo or list of single HTML files like this? I’ve seen people mention Tiddlywiki but that’s it so far.
Re:Clay – UI Layout Library on Friday December 20, 2024 @12:47PM (#42473158)
It's a good first draft. I do find it a shame that the HTML output is only div elements. I think a little accessibility would go a long way. I also can't select text in many places before some re-render de-selects before I can hit control-c.
Your concerns about some people being more deserving of a good investigation reminds me why it's great that hospitals will serve everyone, even if they are a gangbanger.
You wouldn’t be, but the police doing so would be in such a situation, if there was equality.
Re:Grim Fandango on Monday November 11, 2024 @01:53PM (#42109511)
It’s a film noir coded game. It does nail that dark aspect in many scenes and does it masterfully. I recently replayed it and it was remarkable how great it still is after decades of gameplay evolution.
Re:I Got Dysentary So You Don't Have To on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @10:47AM (#41925583)
Wait times in the USA suck. I just moved to a west coast city, need to set up new doctors. Soonest I could get for an endocrinologist is February, and I made the appointment a month ago.
Re:Microjs on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @09:51AM (#41109202)
Ten years of working corporate and contractor front end gigs and I’ve found that most companies are loathe to update unless there’s a feature they need from something more modern.
Re:Show HN: Tailwind Template Directory on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @11:40AM (#40928154)
Tailwind reminds me why I'd rather go classless and then write a `custom.css` for anything not covered by semantic HTML.
Re:How to Run Adobe Photoshop 2024 on Wine (Linux) on Thursday June 27, 2024 @02:59PM (#40813824)
I hope something like this gets figured out for the Affinity Suite. Since I game on a Steam Deck now, the only thing holding me back from having Linux do everything I need is those three programs. Yes I know Gimp, Inkscape, and Krita exist. I just think Affinity does it better.
Re:Duolingo Sucks, Now What? on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @03:01PM (#39374487)
Do you enjoy reading a line of text 13.5 inches long?
Re:Details of the new Suzuki Omnichord OM-108 on Saturday January 27, 2024 @12:57PM (#39157967)
They technically form the same shape, but orientation matters. Triangles pointing up are major, those pointing down are minor. Minor and major chords from the same base note, C in this case, will have both major and minor tonalities clashing.
Re:Comics I Loved in 2023 on Monday January 08, 2024 @11:35AM (#38914496)
I just don't see it. With the exception of children's cartoons/shows, there's just always been political stuff. Any USA show with a black family dealt with racism, and if they were wealthy, not being 'black enough'. Poor families like in Roseanne were dealing with layoffs and hoping that the trickle down effect of Reaganomics would kick in any day now.

Looney tunes, Animaniacs, some SNL skits, Blue's Clues- these all had that lack of present day political stuff, but even something as light as The Drew Carey Show had themes about stuff like political correctness in the office place, and cross-dressing/genderqueer folks.

Re:Comics I Loved in 2023 on Sunday January 07, 2024 @02:22PM (#38904272)
I think that if you think those tropes are just tropes and not intentional political messaging, then there is no longer any point in discussion with your level of reading comprehension.

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