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dekerta commented on The Economic and Fiscal Effects of the Trump Administration's Proposed Tariffs budgetlab.yale.edu/resear... · Posted by u/danboarder

blackeyeblitzar · a year ago

Fiscal effects are what everyone focuses on, but tariffs have many other goals geopolitically. Those other goals include negotiations that may leave the economy better off than before.

dekerta · a year ago

So Trump's master plan is to renegotiate the free trade agreement that he already renegotiated during his last term? He obviously has no idea what he's doing. Is there even a point in signing treaties with the United States when you guys will just keep electing madmen that want to tear everything up every 4 years?

dekerta commented on Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine github.com/popcar2/GodotO... · Posted by u/popcar2

bufio · 2 years ago

I have never encountered an Electron app that can even display the results of keystrokes in a timely manner, and that includes vscode. All Electron apps waste system resources to an obscene degree. Also, Electron apps have already thrown away OS conventions to the point that user interface consistency has become a thing of the past.

I don't believe that either choice is ideal, but if Godot were ubiquitous instead of Electron, applications would probably at least be less laggy and more memory-efficient.

dekerta · 2 years ago

Are you running a 15 year old netbook or something? I've never noticed any input lag in VSCode or Slack (or any other Electron apps I can think of)

dekerta commented on Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in England tonight and tomorrow bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk... · Posted by u/hanoz

codingminds · 3 years ago

A nice page, but I highly suggest to add a hint which timezone it shows. I opened it and was totally frustrated to not knew if it's UTC, my timzone or something else.

dekerta · 3 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add that

dekerta commented on Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in England tonight and tomorrow bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk... · Posted by u/hanoz

throwaway12245 · 3 years ago

Here's the best aurora forecast tool : https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast from NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. Looks like cloud free parts of Canada are in for a show (minus the most populated part). [edited, thank you, anthomtb]

dekerta · 3 years ago

I like taking photos of the aurora, and I often use NOAA's forecasts to plan sightings.

I wanted the forecast in a simple non-video format, and was tired of doing the mental math converting from UTC, so I made my own tool to show Kp forecast values (from NOAA) in the user's local timezone. Here it is in case it can be useful to anyone else:

https://auroraoutlook.com

Obviously, it's pretty bare bones. You need to have an understanding of which Kp value is needed to see the lights at your latitude. I'm working on adding more features to make it more user friendly

dekerta commented on Bing thinks Mars has 2.5B people based on an AI generated blog wrong answer imgur.com/a/Qj9U2ia... · Posted by u/nstart

brundolf · 3 years ago

People were talking about how pre-AI internet content might one day be valued like low-background steel, as something that's no longer being produced in a pure enough form

Guess we're there already

dekerta · 3 years ago

The "dead internet" is here, and unfortunately there's no going back

dekerta commented on Microsoft Azure Outage twitter.com/MSFT365Status... · Posted by u/maxaigner

cutemonster · 3 years ago

What will you use instead? What don't you like about teams (or wiring integrations)

dekerta · 3 years ago

Our work switched from Slack to Teams after an acquisition, and I can confidently say that Teams is just complete garbage compared to Slack.

- The interface is laggy

- Scrolling back in long messages is buggy, it often skips around and loses its place

- No built in "whiteboarding" tools in screen sharing

- Teams will often keep ringing on my phone for up to a minute after I picked up a call on my laptop

- Sometimes I can't click reactions on messages. I click the emoji and nothing happens

Overall, it's just poorly made software. It feels like something that was made by a couple of interns in their spare time, not a keystone product from a multi-billion dollar company

dekerta commented on Universal flu vaccine against all known subtypes takes promising first steps science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

sdo72 · 3 years ago

I get chills, fever, aches, and sometimes headaches. Those are flu viruses.

dekerta · 3 years ago

You can get a fever, aches, and headaches from the cold as well

dekerta commented on Hello, PNG da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog... · Posted by u/EntICOnc

greggman3 · 3 years ago

Honestly, I don't consider PNG a simple format. The CRC and the compression are non-trivial. If you're using a new language that doesn't have those features built in and/or you don't have a reasonable amount of programming experience then you're going to likely fail (or learn a ton). zlib is 23k lines. "simple" is not word I'd use to describe PNG

Simple formats are like certain forms of .TGA and .BMP. A simple header and then the pixel data. No CRCs, no compression. Done. You can write an entire reader in 20-30 lines of code and a writer in other 20-30 lines of code as well. Both of those formats have options that can probably make them more work but if you're storing 24bit "True color" or 32 bit "true color + alpha" then they are way easier formats.

Of course they're not common formats so you're stuck with complex formats like PNG

dekerta · 3 years ago

I really like QOI (The Quite OK Image format). It achieves similar compression to PNG, but it's ridiculously easy to implement (the entire spec fits on a single page), and its encoding and decoding times are many times faster than PNG.

https://qoiformat.org

dekerta commented on Filmora and Adobe decide to use “Kdenlive” as a keyword in their online ads old.reddit.com/r/kdenlive... · Posted by u/ladyanita22

LarryMullins · 3 years ago

This is just senseless hating IMO. What is wrong with KMail? KolourPaint? Konsole? Ktorrent? KSudoku? These are all straight forward and descriptive. Nobody bats an eye at "Gmail" but KMail makes people lose their shit apparently. Come on.

And of those that aren't plain and descriptive, most of them seem inoffensive. What makes Kate such a worse name for a text editor than "Vim", or "JOE"? What's so awful about a PDF reader called "Okular", when the competition is named named after southwestern construction materials and trapeze artists e.g Adobe Acrobat? At least 'Okular' suggests the program is for viewing something. Corporate brand can be as bizarre as the strangest KDE names, the only difference is what you're acclimatized to.

dekerta · 3 years ago

It's just a personal preference. I can't tell you why, but I just don't like how all of the programs start with K. I think it looks weird.

It also annoys me every time I try to search for the calculator by typing in "Calc", but nothing is found because I forgot I need to look for "KCalc"

I think at the very least, commonly used applications like "Calculator", "Console", "Mail" should just be called "Calculator", "Console", and "Mail". Not everything has to be branded. The mail application on Windows is called "Mail", the terminal is called "Terminal", etc. They don't call them "WinMail" or "WinTerminal" for a reason. They know most users would find that off putting

dekerta commented on Universal flu vaccine against all known subtypes takes promising first steps science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

sdo72 · 3 years ago

I get flu vaccines yearly, and every time I still get sick. My kids got the vaccine this year, and all of them got sick because of the flu, 3 times. I really don't know if the flu vaccine does anything, but it definitely gives me lots of doubts.

Then we had a family member who got very sick a month or two ago because of the flu, he was sent to ER, ICU, and eventually didn't make it. That sent a shock wave to our family. He planned to get the flu vaccine a bit later but got sick right before.

Please get vaccinated, if it doesn't work well, it may give us the second chance to survive.

dekerta · 3 years ago

Are you certain you're getting the flu every year? Do you get tested for it?

A lot of people assume they have the flu when it's really a bad cold