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SommaRaikkonen··on 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time
Inaccessible Island Rail (#6) is my favorite, because none of these words imply anything about what the species is going to be
SommaRaikkonen··on How to Remove the Frustration of Reading in Games
I've played Cultist Simulator too! I remember winning (ascending) just once after quite a few hours. The aesthetics and sound design in that game fit together real nicely, and I always suggest to my friends to play that game blind
SommaRaikkonen··on How to Remove the Frustration of Reading in Games
I can provide 2 examples of text in games that I've never been tired of reading:

- OSRS quests: Even though the "press spacebar in quests" meme still applies, the quest dialogue box is small enough - with a decent sized font [1]- that I don't feel tired reading through the tidbits one box at a time

- Control: I'm a big fan of SCP so I have an _incentive_ to go through all of the collectible files, then read through them. In this instance, having optional incentivized reads massively boost my enjoyment of the game.

[1]: https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/images/Monkey_Madness_II_-_...

SommaRaikkonen··on Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its cloud features
Here's a video that brings more perspective from My Deep Guide who reviews quite a whole lot of e-ink devices (timestamped for relevant part): https://youtu.be/K79MPnPq4_M?t=508

The thing that stood out for me is the way they push for a subscription as you purchase your device. The Marker Plus used to be $99, but they inflated the price to be $129 so that if you choose the Connect plan, it "slashes" the price back to $99 - how it originally cost before, according to the video.

SommaRaikkonen··on ROT8000
For those who want to test it out: http://rot8000.com/Index
SommaRaikkonen··on Runelite HD has been shutdown by Jagex right before release
For context. Runelite HD is an graphical overhaul plug-in to go with Runelite, the de-facto 3rd party client for OSRS players. The project has been announced a while ago and regularly updated (teased).

This morning we learn that the plug-in would have been released today, but Jagex has asked the developer to shut it down.

A side by side comparison, as an example of how the graphics plug-in would look when enabled: https://old.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/k5lp5s/ferox_enc...

SommaRaikkonen··on We prefer abusers like you to stop using Puffin instead of becoming paid abusers
Forgive me, I meant "user". Thank you for the correction
SommaRaikkonen··on We prefer abusers like you to stop using Puffin instead of becoming paid abusers
I have never seen an app developer berate a customer for saying that ads are disgusting, but that changed today. From one of the review's replies"

"You, instead of Puffin, are disgusting. You are OK to pay for the phone. You are OK to pay for the mobile data. You are NOT willing to pay for the app that you use extensively. You need to fix yourself for not being disgusting."

Image link with reviewer's name blocked out: https://i.imgur.com/gxmEmLu.png

SommaRaikkonen··on Show HN: VentScape – Minimalistic site to vent, chat and see others do the same
Just went to the site and spent 5 mins rooting for the guy trying to finish the q p w thingy from RuneScape. What a legend that was

Edit: He finished - https://i.imgur.com/SxOWD1A.png

SommaRaikkonen··on Husband of Amazon employee sentenced to prison for insider trading Amazon stock
From the article

> As part of the plea agreement, Bohra’s wife will not face criminal charges. Bohra’s wife is no longer employed at Amazon.

SommaRaikkonen··on Beware HN: The rise of weaponized "abuse" reports
That's a bit...concerning. If I may ask, what was your solution to the abuse? Did you send Namecheap an email to confront them?
SommaRaikkonen··on A new chapter – full-time working from a van in a forest
Glad to hear it's working out for you on the work front Geoffrey. Do you have any concerns about long-term plans living in the van?

Also, any cool stories to tell about power maintenance? I see you have giant solar panels but wonder if they're enough for your daily workload - do you have enough power at night?

Sorry if you've answered these questions before, I'm new to your blog!

SommaRaikkonen··on Fan Death
For that 4th bullet, did you mean "hóa vàng"? I think the paper stuff that's burned symbolizes things that will be carried to the afterlife - where their ancestors/dead loved ones currently are. This is why you may find many modern objects like phones, cars or even houses in small paper forms ready to be hóa vàng-ed.
SommaRaikkonen··on Deep-learning text-to-speech tool for generating voices of various characters
Welp, after messing around with a few voices I was completely impressed with Glados's. This is really cool because I have no idea how the character's voice was synthesized, but apparently ML can do it for me so props to that.
SommaRaikkonen··on GitHub is fully available in Iran
> We want every developer to be able to collaborate on GitHub, and we are working with the US government to secure similar licenses for developers in Crimea and Syria as well.

I'm very interested in hearing about the experience of HN people from these regions in terms of open source collabs. Since Github has such a large presence, what are you all using instead?

SommaRaikkonen··on Happy New Year HN
hyvää uutta vuotta HN. I haven't been here long but I'm having a great time!
SommaRaikkonen··on Ask HN: How can I find meaningful problems to work with long-term people?
>What is up next?

This is a really tough question to answer because it depends on who's asking the question. On a forum like HN you'll find that these questions are often asked anywhere from the context of a small-scale startup ("I built a platform to predict stock signals "before the crowds know". What's next?") to mid-scale ("I want to build a deep-learning powered engine to clone people's voice") to real high level stuff (Autonomous vehicles).

What's the common trend in those 3 cases? They identified a need for a service using Deep Learning/Trend Analysis, but that's just one subset of a field. Fortunately for you, if you frequent HN enough you'll have no trouble figuring out the cross-section of (what you're good at) X (what's hot right now).

Off-topic but that small scale example got instantly flagged on HN while I was still figuring out what OP's company was about

SommaRaikkonen··on Leaked documents from Nintendo investigation of hacker in 2013
I think 32c3 (and the amount of hacks after) really opened the gateway to 3DS modding [1]. I had my eyes glued on the screen with what they'd revealed at the time.

I hope Smea, Derrek, Pluto et. al were approached by Nintendo in a different way because those guys had been stellar throughout the scene's life.

[1]: https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7240-console_hacking

SommaRaikkonen··on Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming
Since you're a lawyer, please clarify for me one part so that I can understand. The paragraphs are presented as:

1 - condition 1;

2 - condition 2; or

3 - condition 3.

Does this mean that condition 1 should be applied all the time (1 and 2 _or_ 1 and 3) or (1 or 2 or 3) in order to be liable?

SommaRaikkonen··on Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming
You quoted the preamble but didn't quote the rest of the text: [...]transmission service that:

(1) is _primarily _ designed or provided for the purpose of publicly performing works protected under title 17 by means of a digital transmission without the authority of the copyright owner or the law;

(2) has _no commercially significant purpose or use other than_ to publicly perform works protected under title 17 by means of a digital transmission without the authority of the copyright owner or the law; or

(3) is _intentionally marketed by_ or at the direction of that person to promote its use in publicly performing works protected under title 17 by means of a digital transmission without the authority of the copyright owner or the law.

Emphasis are mine. It's clear to me through reading this that a service/platform that specifically aims and is marketed as streaming pirating content will suffer the consequences here.

SommaRaikkonen··on Changes to Code Search Indexing
Man I remember when the thread was active, the OP got contacted by 2 CEOs and a CTO immediately because his search was so blazing fast.

I wish I was half as good at building a program like him. Instead I'm here struggling building my own RPI4 Radio player =(

SommaRaikkonen··on Ask HN: What are some minimal Linux distros that I can use?
Give Manjaro a shot. A lot of people (me included) believe that it's a preview to what Arch can do while still giving new users decent control when it comes to installing packages (Both official repos and from AURs). Plus if you want it to look nice: https://aptrinh.js.org/manjaro-rice.html

Arch still stays on top when it comes to total control of the distro you're using imo.

SommaRaikkonen··on Dear Google: Search Competition should be 1 Click Away so why 15+ on Android?
On my non-root phone I use Nova Launcher to get rid of the stock homescreen functions and added some gestures. See if that works for you
SommaRaikkonen··on Illusion of the Year Winners
>Vote NOW for your favorite illusions until 10am EST on December 10th

Thanks for reminding me OP. Also here's the page that lists the candidates and videos (The title of the page still shows 2019 though): http://illusionoftheyear.com/vote/

SommaRaikkonen··on YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25359003
SommaRaikkonen··on Ask HN: What's that Game that predicts your choices?
Except the part in the theme selector that asks you if you want to select between Characters, Objects and Animals.

https://en.akinator.com/theme-selection

SommaRaikkonen··on Ask HN: What's that Game that predicts your choices?
Both 20q and Akinator failed to get what I was thinking of in under 20 questions: A fuel cap.

Now that I mention this and others are trying it, maybe the result will be better though!

SommaRaikkonen··on Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
The context for those out of the loop:

https://www.fast.ai/2020/10/28/code-of-conduct/

SommaRaikkonen··on How to Live with Dying
Lately there's been quite a few articles on HN about cancer, death and a variety of subjects regarding mortality. I read all of them, and the HN comments as well.

Plus, ever since having a kid, I've begun to appreciate living more and more.

SommaRaikkonen··on Andy Kelley (of Zig) intimidated into vacating apartment for Hulu filming
Here's the video that Andrew uploaded to show some evidence of harassment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGYUAgXR8Y0
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