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kaapipoon Why hundreds of thousands of kids in the US dread their 21st birthdays

>I agree, but the truth is that EU/CH isn't much better either. There is a large stigma of German professionals, specifically physicians, coming to Switzerland 'taking all the jobs' when most Swiss who do attend university don't even study medicine to fill the roles they require in most cantons.

What does the EU-Switzerland immigration situation have to do with Northern European welfare states?

kaapipoon Emulating an iPod Touch 1G and iPhoneOS 1.0 using QEMU (Part II)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095830

kaapipoon Ask HN: What to do with a coffee plantation with about 8000 trees?

Get rid of it and invest the money

kaapipoon Valve is paying open source developers to keep Steam Deck playable

Taking a page out of Microsoft's book: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

kaapipoon Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative

While I am a little surprised by some of the words on the list, as a WEIRD [1] white hetero male I do not think my opinion on some of the terms is earned.

What I would really like to know, however, is if people from various backgrounds have been consulted. If not, the authors of that list have fallen to the very same fallacy I described: only a person of background X should have the right to decide whether an expression is hateful or otherwise undesirable towards group X. If this is not the case, we get this [2] kind of hypocrisy.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#WEIRD_bias 2. https://mooseyanon.medium.com/github-f-ck-your-name-change-d...

kaapipoon Getting Started with Tmux

Depends on your keyboard layout. On my (Finnish) keyboard, | requires alt.

kaapipoon Facebook tracking is illegal in Europe

And how is this helpful? Is this a solution? What if the app-in-question was a different one? Not using Instagram at that would be very helpful, indeed...

kaapipoon Facebook tracking is illegal in Europe

Well, active consent has been seen before with cookie banners. Let's see how long it takes before every time you open Instagram you get a prompt like: "I allow not not omitting the usage of tracking"

kaapipoon The Peacekeeper missile’s navigation suite (2019)

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-missile-knows-where-it-is

kaapipoon Please restore our registers when you’re done with them

How does this add to the conversation?

kaapipoon Show HN: Get answers for shell commands from GPT3 from your terminal

Looks very cool!

kaapipoon What is the Difference between px, rem and em?

I have always thought `em` is the line height?

I didn't know about `ch` and `ex`, I'm gonna try them

kaapipoon Ask HN: Working in a VR Headset?

As someone who has worked with Varjo products (XR-3, XR-1 and VR-3), my feelings about them are that the image quality is really good, but the accompanying hardware and software make the experience a PITA

kaapipoon New Hampshire set to pilot voting machines that use software everyone can see

>In the old days, paper ballots would also 'go missing' from districts known to be favorable to the other side (aka be chucked out of trucks on a bridge over a river).

The problem with electronic voting, however, is that it takes roughly the same effort to change one vote than it takes to change millions

kaapipoon Low Energy Chest Fridge

It'a a sure sign you're visiting an American site when the unit of energy used is kWh/day :)

kaapipoon Lufthansa has not banned AirTags

Umm...? Walk to school by themselves? How old was your eldest, again?

kaapipoon Google officially launches Equiano subsea cable

So huh, how many years before they're going to sunset it? :P

kaapipoon Automation of Canon camera using their WiFi-based Camera Control API (CCAPI)

Only if Nikon had sth like this... I have used their PTP/IP stuff and it's almost unusable because it's on top of TCP, not UDP

kaapipoon A Story About ‘Magic' (1983)

The electric feeling is actually caused by EMI reduction measures: per regulations, a Y2 class capacitor must be connected between live and earth in your laptop's power supply. If you connect your charger to an earthed outlet (like you should), the earth is going to absorb the resulting high-impedance supply. If not, the resulting voltage will be present on your computer's metal chassis, which must be connected to the earth per other regulations on electrical safety. Of course, since the capacitor has a high impedance (reactance, to be precise), no meaningful current can go through it, so the "seemingly mains-voltage" on your chassis isn't dangerous at all (as long as everything is working as intended)

kaapipoon How do video games stay in sync?

With all this in mind, how does a monitor's refresh rate matter, like, at all in games like CS:GO (e.g. 60 fps vs 120 fps)?

kaapipoon Before Ships Used GPS, There Was the Fresnel Lens

There have been multiple occasions where I would've ran aground if I had trusted Navionics' charts.

Granted, I sail in Finland which has one of the rockiest waters in the world but in my situation, their products are simply inadequate for any serious use.

But yeah, I could see a use case for it in some situations

kaapipoon Before Ships Used GPS, There Was the Fresnel Lens

GPS as a technology is incredibly accurate and precise. The problem in narrow waterways is that even with the modern chartplotters of today, the fix lags behind – sometimes even twenty seconds or so. GPS is a very important aid in determining the rough position of a vessel, but the micro-scale navigation is just so much easier to do with navigational aids (buoys, lighthouses, glitters, leading marks, etc.)

> But doesn't virtually anyone have a smartphone now?

Perhaps one tool amongst the others, but they have several disadvantages

* You have to hold them -> one hand less available to anything useful

* Even if you can figure out a way to mount a phone so that you can read it (remember to somehow accommodate charging!), the screen is still quite small -> can't be viewed at a distance

Even if you somehow get all of the physical problems sorted, software problems still persist:

* Where are you going to get your charts from? Certainly do not expect to not have to pay for them (a couple of hundred of dollars is not uncommon)

* How are you going to view them? The solutions of the big players are quite expensive (couple hundred quid per season). Sure, the play store and such are full of some random dude's chart viewers, but are you going to trust that some random ass guy got the projection and datum conversions right? Even if they mostly did, even an error of ten meters or so could be critical.

tl;dr: a good phone-based solution costs at least as much as a basic chartplotter. In addition, you have to make multiple compromises.

kaapipoon Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

I hate to agree on this one.

kaapipoon Software Mise En Place

This so much. If I'm cooking at the end of a long workday, in my 2 m² kitchen, I won't give a fuck about mise en place

kaapipoon New pill bottles for shaky hands will help people with Parkinson’s (2021)

What a shit show that website is

kaapipoon Tell HN: Recruiters are lying about remote positions

*your

kaapipoon Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://kaapporaivio.fi

Just my personal website. I'd like to use this opportunity to get HN to stress test it :D

kaapipoon Hints for Writing Unix Tools (2014)

Probably best would be to print the column labels in stderr

kaapipoon T-Mobile 5G home Internet: $60 a month, 100Mbps speeds, and no data cap

That's archaic!

My current mobile data plan is 15€/month with 150 mbps symmetrical and no any limits (Finland)