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shimonabi··on Frasier Fantasy
Fun little game. I played it on my Miyoo Mini+.

The blinking contest is the end, isn't it?

shimonabi··on Addictive cheap and controversial: the rise of China’s Temu app
I made just 1 order from Temu until today. Unlike Aliexpress, Temu doesn't seem to pay any tax or customs in my EU country. I don't get it how they can get away with it.
shimonabi··on Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base
It's used in Okular, which is the only free software I know that you can digitally sign documents with.
shimonabi··on Slovenia’s beautiful beehives turn apiaries into art
I think the most famous and my favourite is the one where the devil is sharpening a woman's tongue.
shimonabi··on Delphi 11 Community Edition
If you bought a license in the past for one of their products, but let the subscription expire, they won't let you download the version of the product for which you have a valid license.

I had to search my backups for the installer of C++ Builder when I bought a new laptop. Luckily I had a backup.

shimonabi··on Touch Pianist
Can someone suggest some good piano learning software? I really don't like subscriptions.

Many years ago I used Voyetra Teach Me Piano Deluxe which ran on Windows XP, but gave up after some time. I think I'd have to create a virtual machine to run that again. My town is so small I can't find a piano teacher.

shimonabi··on Alexandria: A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader
A few days ago I discovered https://github.com/ealang/pixel-reader which lets you read EPUB-s on the Miyoo Mini Plus retro gaming device with a 3.5" screen. I really enjoy reading on it.
shimonabi··on What happened to Wirecutter?
When I was in the market for a new washing machine I tried to purchase a review, but the online system wouldn't let me, because I'm not a German resident.

It may be because the foundation recives German public money.

shimonabi··on Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language
By knowing English, you can communicate with most of the world, because almost every country teaches English as a foreign language. For example, more than half of the popuation of Europe can easily communicate in English. I've seen that in Netherlands they already prefer English to Dutch when they talk to each other.

I know 3 foreign languages and I think it's a waste of time to learn more, because if a person is not literate enough to communicate in English, I have nothing to talk to them about.

shimonabi··on Delphi 11 and C++Builder 11 Community Editions Released
They should pay someone to create a good modern tutorial/book how to develop real commercial applications, not just include code of trivial examples.

I'm using C++ Builder in my day job and the documentation is sparse, with very few examples and most recent books are from the early 2000's.

shimonabi··on Borland C++ Builder (2015)
I use the newest version (Alexandria) of C++ Builder everyday in my job since other developers in the company have legacy software from the 90s.

You can't really open old projects in new versions of the software. Some devs use VMs to develop on the old versions of Builder.

The documentation and the example code for the C++ side are horrible, because they are focused on Delphi. You must know Delphi to figure out how to use the libraries in C++. The documentation for Delphi also feels very light and outdated. The latest books about it are from the begining of the 2000s and there are very few Youtube videos about it.

Sometimes Intellisense stops working and you don't know why. Sometimes some access violation happens and the debugger gives you no hint why.

The price is also expensive. I think my company spent 2300€ for a single license and they expect you to renew every year.

shimonabi··on The Windows 11 Trash Party
My computer is a couple of years old and a bit slow. When I search for something and I click on it in the Windows 10 Start Menu, the search lag causes something completely else to appear under my cursor and a completely different program opens.

This is absolutely insane! New results should not replace the already found ones.

shimonabi··on The inner beauty of a Tesla Stropkov DS 3600 telephone from the early 1980s
You should chech out the Iskra ETA 80 (1980) from Yugoslavia, which was plagiarised in the USA:

https://www.tms.si/en/the-bramao-and-iskra-eta-80-telephones...

shimonabi··on Libreboot: HP Elite 8200 SFF support added (plus more desktops coming soon)
I have a 8300 at home and recently spent half a day searching for an old driver that would enable WOL, since it's not supported by Windows 10 drivers. I managed to find a compatiable one that wouldn't be rejected by Windows eventually, but it was pure luck. It's a shame libreboot doesn't support WOL.
shimonabi··on HP have updated their printers to ban ‘non-HP’ cartridges
I bought a Brother HL-L5100DN last week, after seeing several people like you recommending Brother printers on HN.
shimonabi··on How cheap digital verniers work (2017)
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004683435276.html

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32985627216.html

shimonabi··on How cheap digital verniers work (2017)
A model that looks exactly the same costs 5€ on Aliexpress. I don't like to be ripped off.
shimonabi··on How cheap digital verniers work (2017)
It's not. I take the battery out after each use. Several users have reported this, for example:

"Turns out they pull almost as much current off (15uA) as they do on (17uA)."

https://www.reddit.com/r/harborfreight/comments/z7j8hp/fixed...

shimonabi··on How cheap digital verniers work (2017)
If you leave the battery inside a cheap caliper, the battery will be dead in a couple of hours, even if the caliper is switched "OFF".
shimonabi··on Ask HN: How can I find a German family by their crest?
If the OP would just post a picture of the ring he would probably have the answer by now.
shimonabi··on Ask HN: Strategies for working with engineers that are too smart?
I know exactly how you feel. I'm currently learning an embedded system to take over from a genius engineer who wrote half the code in assembly and uses lots of goto statements, because they take fewer cycles to execute.
shimonabi··on Ask HN: What's on your home server?
- Samba server - Nginx reverse proxy - Wordpress - Nextcloud - Mediawiki - Jellyfin media server - FreshRSS client - RustDesk server (like Teamviewer/AnyDesk) - restic + Backblaze for cheap daily backups - Octoprint server for 3D printing - Deluge + WebUI torrent deamon - Syncthing
shimonabi··on Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone
I'm Slovene and now we have the same currency and open borders with Croatia again after 22 years.

One of the reasons Yugoslavia fell apart is because the richer north didn't want to pay for the under-developed south. EU has the same problem. The currency without a political union is a time-bomb. I also think the loss of the (educated) population to the north is unsustainable. Croatia has lost 10% of the population since it joined the EU.

shimonabi··on A guided intro to the Free Pascal language
Is there a way to use the Lazarus libraries, but write code in C++, like with C++ Builder?
shimonabi··on Set Adrift
I've met several people like this who have a scientific background and seem to be good at their job, but also have an insane paranoid worldview. They make me question my own sanity.
shimonabi··on Which face is real?
I got 9/10 correct.
shimonabi··on Michael Lewis' next book is about Sam Bankman-Fried
As someone who has read one of his books, I strongly doubt that Lewis didn't look at the whole crypto-sphere critically.

Remember, a lot of these guys are huge narcissists. They will reveal their darkest secrets to a famous journalist, because a bit of fame overpowers their most basic survival instincts. It's like when Trump had Bob Woodward embedded in the White House.

shimonabi··on Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
When I uploaded my first website in 1998 I got quite a few comments in the guestbook, even when there was really no interesting content there. Now I upload carefully produced and edited videos and I get no response.
shimonabi··on An AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj ŽIžek
You must add some Judith Butler and Peter Sloderdijk quotes and some Yugoslav army jokes.

This AI is far too coherent for Žižek.

shimonabi··on Lula defeats Bolsonaro to again become Brazil’s president
If I was Brazilian I would never support Bolsanaro, but he was right about the electronic voting machines.

It is shocking to me that there is not a paper record for each cast vote in Brazil.

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