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csson TIPP10 – Free Touch Typing Tutor

I drilled keybr from 30wpm to 110 several years ago and still come back every few days to practice. It is a great tool. I sometimes use it to "study" documentation by pasting it in as a custom prompt.

csson Bouncer – Private SMS Blocker

It shows up when you allow the app to filter your messages in iOS settings: https://imgur.com/zPhUdnL

csson Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you

> I would buy clothes with no distinctive marks if I could find them.

Find a local tailor. Pick the fabrics you want from a catalog. Get your clothes made for your body while supporting someone's small business and artistic craft.

csson Ploopy open source thumb trackball

I have had the same MX Ergo for a few years now; no issues. I went through several M570s before making the switch. In addition to durability I had constant signal issues with my M570s–lag, dropouts, etc–that I do not experience with my Ergo.

csson Ask HN: How do you sync your computer’s development configurations/environment?

- Dotfile repo hoested on GitHub

- `git clone` said repository to my machines

- `ln` from repository folder to `~/` (can be done in an install script or piecemeal)

- `git pull` to update

I also purposely try and use as many default configurations as possible. I use a lot of remote machines that do not have my configs on them, so I do not want to become too reliant on custom setups.

csson The strange business of hole-in-one insurance

In this vein, one of my favorite financial vehicles is a catastrophe bond[0]. They are essentially short term debt instruments that pay a coupon normally, but in the event of a specified disaster, forgive the principal (thus removing the liability from the bond issuer's balance sheet).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_bond

csson How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel?

This popped into my mind too, it's a very chilling story. Highly recommend a listen.

csson Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://chrissardegna.com

I spend so much time in a shell, I wanted my website to reflect that. Main pages use augmented-ui [0] and concrete.css [1].

[0]: https://augmented-ui.com/

[1]: https://concrete.style/

csson Air-purifying headphones with active noise cancelling

From the design video, it looks like it forces air in through the ear cones and then expels your exhalation forward with fans. Wouldn't this turn your face into an even more powerful droplet cannon?

csson Ask HN: Who operates at scale without containers?

Same here, the workflow is great.

csson Using hamburger menus? Try sausage links (2019)

I do not agree. Content should fit the viewport.

csson Using hamburger menus? Try sausage links (2019)

Horizontal scrolling should be avoided in almost all cases.

csson Nova 9

When Nova first came out I wrote a small extension [0] to provide an autopep8 formatting, but there is too much manual management on the user's end. Since there is no API to manage extension dependencies, the user has to manually install and specify the path to where `autopep8` is, which to my mind is a lot of friction.

Compare that to VSCode, where there is a whole API [1] for formatting extensions!

[0]: https://github.com/ReagentX/Nova-autopep8

[1]: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2016/11/15/formatters-be...

csson Apple Music Cover Art Rules

Are they gonna take Kanye's Yeezus or Jesus is King off of the service? Oh right, these rules only apply to small artists.

csson The Autism Phenome Project: Toward Identifying Meaningful Subgroups of Autism

The issues are purely that of communication and not the lack of diagnostic tools?

csson The Autism Phenome Project: Toward Identifying Meaningful Subgroups of Autism

> Gastrointestinal (GI) concerns are frequently reported by parents of autistic children and may be related to immune dysregulation (Buie et al., 2010). This is particularly concerning because it may be more challenging for autistic children to verbalize or communicate physical pain, leading to lack of appropriate medical care.

Is this more challenging "to verbalize or communicate physical pain" because of the lack of understanding we currently have for GI-related issues? Having dealt with several GI doctors who just want to prescribe PPIs for everything, I am curious.

The citation given seems to suggest that is the reason, but it isn't clear:

> Gastrointestinal disorders and associated symptoms are commonly reported in individuals with ASDs, but key issues such as the prevalence and best treatment of these conditions are incompletely understood.

csson Unbuffered I/O Can Make Your Rust Programs Much Slower

> Python will turn off line buffering when it detects it's not talking to a tty

Okay, I’ve been running into a bug in one of my Rust programs and I think this comment has the answer. My program uses a Command [0] to listen to stdin and stdout. Theoretically that Command should terminate when the parent process dies, but if the Command is a Python script that doesn’t include a `print()` with `flush=True`, it doesn’t die. I think you might have found my problem for me.

[0]: https://docs.rs/tokio/1.15.0/tokio/process/struct.Command.ht...

csson Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux

Possibly, but how many of the bugs are rare edge cases (i.e., attempting to break the game) versus problems players actually face in normal gameplay? Without knowing what priority or severity these bugs take, it is difficult to say how useful the increased volume of feedback is.

csson Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

Apple compared the M1 Max to the 3080 in the Razer Blade 15 Advanced, saying it outperforms the Nvdia’s GPU [0], but Geekbench seems to disagree [1].

[0]: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/10/introducing-m1-pro-an...

[1]: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/compare/3551790?bas...

csson Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag

The page has been edited and no longer mentions warranty at all.

csson Show HN: Logparser – Alternative to GoAccess Written in Python

IMO this could benefit from using `collections.Counter` instead of `defaultdict(set)`.

csson Apple announces first states to adopt driver’s licenses and IDs in Apple Wallet

> Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Utah are among the first states to bring state IDs and driver’s licenses in Wallet to their residents

csson The only skin care that works? science video response (2020)

Again, disagreeing with their risk assessment is one thing, but pretending the database itself is misinformation is dishonest.

csson The only skin care that works? science video response (2020)

This article cherry-picks a few items and discussed how EWG interprets the ingredient safety. It does not follow that all of EWG is misinformation; dismissing the useful database of ingredients, animal testing statuses, and other data is itself misinformation.

csson The only skin care that works? science video response (2020)

I searched for a ton of products I use on this site and found no results–I find EWG[0] to have a much better dataset.

[0]: https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/

csson Force Click for Layer Selection

Keynote.app does this already if you have multiple items stacked on top of each other or an item made of several smaller items (like charts). It’s a really hand way to “drill down” to edit stuff in your presentation.

Here is an example where I slowly push down on the trackpad to edit data in a chart: https://gfycat.com/vapidfinishedbarebirdbat-technology-60fps...

csson Discord Launches Threads

Oops, yeah. Looks like there are not really any docs for the existing (better) system: https://docs.mattermost.com/messaging/sending-receiving-mess...

csson Discord Launches Threads

Slack threads don’t (or at least, didn’t; it’s been a couple years) show in the main message feed, they show when you expand the thread into the sidebar. In the feed, it shows the original message with an “n replies” text below it.

In Mattermost, new replies show as normal messages in your feed with a bit of context for what they’re replying to, and clicking on the context expands the full thread in a sidebar.

I find the Mattermost implementation more ergonomic because you can read replies without expanding the whole thread every time, and stale threads will get bumped by new messages.

csson Discord Launches Threads

Of all the chat apps I have used, Mattermost's implementation of threads/replies [0] has felt the most natural. That said, all implementations I've tried leave something to be desired.

[0]: https://docs.mattermost.com/messaging/organizing-conversatio...

csson [dead]

The article title was too long for me to include the full context. From Dell:

> Yes, this was driven by the California Energy Commission (CEC) Tier 2 implementation that defined a mandatory energy efficiency standard for PCs – including desktops, AIOs and mobile gaming systems. This was put into effect on July 1, 2021. Select configurations of the Alienware Aurora R10 and R12 were the only impacted systems across Dell and Alienware.