barefootcoder (u/barefootcoder)

barefootcoder commented on Merlin Bird ID merlin.allaboutbirds.org/... · Posted by u/twitchard

Be careful when playing the bird songs. A few days ago I clicked on the cardinal song that was in my identification list and the male cardinal nesting in my hedge went NUTS and I’ve not seen either of them since, and used to see them daily. They’re very territorial.

I’m afraid that I scared them away from an active nest by accident just playing around with the app. :(

barefootcoder commented on Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021) sprocketfox.io/xssfox/202... · Posted by u/AndrewKemendo

barnabee · 2 years ago

The advantage I've found with multiple monitors is the ability to independently switch the "desktop" that's showing on each.

I can have a desktop for coding, a desktop for reference docs and previews, another for working on non-coding tasks, one with general browsing, one for chat/email/calendar, etc.

I've not found a satisfying way (on Mac OS on my Macbook or with various WMs — Sway is my go-to) to quickly replicate this ability to have multiple task oriented sets of windows visible at the same time and make them quickly switchable without multiple physical screens.

barefootcoder · 2 years ago

I'm in complete agreement with you. I use i3 (still using Xorg) and find the ability to have multiple desktops that I can move atomically between monitors to be far better than having to position windows individually. I put reference material, chat, etc, on the side monitor and then can very quickly move it back to the primary monitor when I need it. I find a normal 16:9 monitor to be just right for two side by side windows, or a tile of three, with one tall window taking half of the screen and two terminals top and bottom on the other side.

I hate using the mouse to manage windows, and having one huge ultrawide just feels like a nightmare to manage -- I'd need some way to split it logically into 2 or 3 virtual monitors.

barefootcoder commented on First tomato ever grown in space, lost 8 months ago, found by NASA astronauts cbsnews.com/news/tomato-l... · Posted by u/koolba

squarefoot · 2 years ago

- take seeds from tomato

- plant them on Earth

- start a business selling space tomatoes

- ...

- Fund mission to colonize Mars in 5 years

barefootcoder · 2 years ago

Already been done, I was one of the recipients of the 1984 tomato seeds and we planted, grew, and ate them...

https://parkseed.com/seeds-in-space/a/13/#:~:text=In%201984%....

barefootcoder commented on Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01 seiya.me/blog/reading-lin... · Posted by u/ingve

js2 · 3 years ago

Git's first commit:

https://github.com/git/git/tree/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca...

barefootcoder · 2 years ago

Funny, if not helpful, error message:

     pw = getpwuid(getuid());
     if (!pw)
        usage("You don't exist. Go away!");

I find it interesting that originally each command was a separate executable.

barefootcoder commented on Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors blog.zaccohn.com/Fruitfli... · Posted by u/zacharycohn

b112 · 3 years ago

releasing horse flies.

Horse flies are the bitey kind, so release?! ... well, no polite words here.

(House flies are typically just... flies)

Also, you probably have a dead mouse or some such, in a crawl space. Thus maggots, thus flies.

barefootcoder · 3 years ago

Oops. Autocorrupt got me. Houseflies.

barefootcoder commented on Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors blog.zaccohn.com/Fruitfli... · Posted by u/zacharycohn

Jaygles · 3 years ago

I am convinced fruit flies are some sort of multidimensional being. I will sit in a room, observe three fruit flies in the air, swat and kill those three fruit flies, then sit back and observe no change in the number of flies in the air.

They either throw out decoys when you swat them to fool us, or there’s a large queue of them waiting to take their turn to keep the number flying constant

barefootcoder · 3 years ago

I think I had one lay eggs in my house. A few weeks ago, on a day when I hardly opened a door for more than a few seconds I suddenly found at least 100 horseflies in my house. I was sucking them up with a hand vac and releasing them outside, and every few hours I’d go suck up about 30 more — and every single day after that I found at least 30 or so more for at least a week. I’m still seeing 1-2 per day, but at least that’s manageable. Hopefully these last stragglers are the last that I’ll have. It’s nuts!

barefootcoder commented on 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021) projecteink.com/pages/abo... · Posted by u/alexandernl

swores · 3 years ago

Depends on the person but it doesn't seem completely impossible - ignoring inflation, $250/yr for <5mins a day (part of an existing delivery route, so no worrying about the commute time except from front door to wall hanging location - realistically could be 2 mins rather than 5 but say 5 to be conservative) is ~30hrs for 365 days, so ~$8/hr.

If they can manage it in 3min rather than 5, it's up to $13.70/hr.

Where I am (UK) I think most newspaper delivery people are aged 13-18, and while there's far less of them about than when I was a kid, I wouldn't be surprised if >50% would be willing to do it to earn an extra $4.80/week.

Of course, you also need to trust the person to come into your house every day, either giving them a key or being available to let them in each time; and while I skipped over inflation it's likely that $250 in ten years has devalued a lot - but maybe you could get a yea for just $150-200/yr at the start to have room for annual increases...

So I don't think your curt dismissal adds much to the conversation.

And that's feasibility thinking about US/UK people, as konart points out in their comment there are countries where $250/yr stretches much further than in wealthy, high-CoL countries.

barefootcoder · 3 years ago

I think you've overlooked the realistic useful lifetime of the product, and how long the novelty factor would last -- if you price it according to that duration I think that you'd find the hourly rate to be far higher.

barefootcoder commented on Please don't say just hello in chat nohello.net/en/... · Posted by u/mooreds

bluefishinit · 3 years ago

How is it "wasting time"? It takes less than a second to type "hi". Presumably you have something you're doing while you wait to hear back, no? Not being uptight and pedantic is far superior to trying to "optimize" everyone's time by forcing them to communicate in an unnatural way.

barefootcoder · 3 years ago

Because the query is an interruption. Frustratingly, about 30% of the time (or more!) the person who sent me the hi doesn’t send their actual question even if I respond almost instantly after it’s sent, so I’ve stopped responding to a bare hi.

Moreover, now that I’m interrupted I can’t really go back to what I’m doing because I know that (presumably) a question is coming very soon, so the interruption clock has already started and I have to sit and wait while they painfully slowly type the actual question.

And then there’s the frequent case where I get a bare hi, but cannot get back to it until a few hours later, and then that person is offline — but I don’t know what they needed, so I cannot ask them and cannot send a response. If they’d have just included their question then I could just answer it and we’d all be better off.

I’ve just gotten to where I just refuse to answer a bare hi… if that’s all you’re willing to type, then I guess you didn’t need anything.

barefootcoder commented on Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing old.reddit.com/r/apolloap... · Posted by u/robbiet480

deafpolygon · 3 years ago

Can't comment on 9 in an hour anyways. You get rate-limited on HN. :)

barefootcoder · 3 years ago

I'm not the one that you responded to, but I had no idea that HN had rate-limiting -- shows how little I comment or post!

barefootcoder commented on Ask HN: What UI/UX trends do you find most baffling and annoying? · Posted by u/barefootcoder

rzzzwilson · 3 years ago

Maybe I'm getting old and slipping slowly into "get off my lawn" mode, but moving an entry widget when it gets focus was something that wasn't done back in the day since it can be jarring. Yet google.com on my tablet does it to this day: you touch the search text widget to give it focus and the whole damn screen changes and the widget relocates to the top of the screen. Most off-putting. I thought google would know better.

barefootcoder · 3 years ago

That doesn’t bother me quite as much as when partial results are displayed and then change a few ms before you can tap the one you want such that you touch the wrong one.