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jtha commented on Victorian Glass Fire Grenades (2020) museumcrush.org/the-beaut... · Posted by u/RyanShook
Fucking brilliant. It's meant to put out a fire. You grab it by the handle and toss it at the fire. But it contains too little liquid. Anyway, they switched to using Carbon Tetrachloride which is good at smothering flames, except if it is heated to 200 C at which point it turns into phosgene which is a chemical weapon. Brilliant. This was great.
Ah yes, the good old days.
jtha commented on Everything will be alright in Iceland memoirsandrambles.substac... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri
I'm pretty sure I heard something like "nennessekki" a few times when things where getting tense.
That would be the infamous Icelandic verb of "nenna". It's used as such "Ég nenni þessu ekki", which translates roughly to "I don't feel like it" or "I don't want to".
But we have a word for both want and feel like, but they're different from "nenna". In some ways a better translation would be "I can't be bothered to".
The word is somewhat socially acceptable as an excuse not to do something.
"Þetta reddast" and "Ég nenni þessu ekki" are words many of us Icelanders live by.
jtha commented on Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager paisa.fyi/... · Posted by u/ananthakumaran
The problem I faced when I looked at data export was that none of the banks had any apis. You always had to go through 3rd party commercial apis. Maybe there are ways bur I didnt find them
If you're talking about European banks they all have APIs. But only licensed companies can use them directly. Those companies are called AISPs within the PSD2 framework, sometimes referred to as aggregators. Some of them have ways for individuals to access their own accounts at banks via the AISP APIs. But there are limitations, one major one being that PSD2 doesn't cover credit card data or anything other than deposit accounts. [I'm a product manager at a bank]
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jtha commented on Anime.js – A lightweight JavaScript animation library animejs.com/... · Posted by u/doodlesdev
rcmd looks cool. Good work. I use Windows + Number to go to the same apps, your idea of letters is a definitive improvement.
I've been using a simple home-made Autohotkey script for years (decade?) to do it more like rmcd is doing.
Here's an example for opening Chrome or switching to it if it's open. If there is more than one Chrome window open it cycles between them by minimizing the current one, then opening the next one etc.
SetTitleMatchMode, 2
#c::
IfWinExist, Google Chrome
IfWinActive
WinMinimize
else
Winactivate
else
run,"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
jtha commented on Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project? · Posted by u/max_
Not really $2K/mo but I run a SaaS for pest control businesses that brings in $100K/mo and started this business during the pandemic.
Is it a platform to connect providers and customers? What's the business model?
Yup, it's another task manager.
I made it for myself to help me focus on one task at a time, hence the name.
It implements my number one productivity hack of picking a task and setting a timer. Time spent on a task increments.
Data is stored locally in the browser although there is a sync option i wouldn't shake a stick at if I hadn't built this myself.
Plus it's a PWA! Those are lovely.