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Are we allowed to submit filthy socialist country prices like Norway? * runs away

wattengard on Pantone 448 C

I have two friends who work in grocery shops... They hate it... It takes at least twice as long to find the correct item when customers ask for it...

wattengard on Tell HN: I grew Visa List to $5k per month in a year

People pay for convenience, it's as simple as that.

wattengard on Show HN: Have I Been Pwned donations page is awesome

I really like the phrasing in that donation-text :D

wattengard on How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch

You misspelled happy...

wattengard on Show HN: Shy – A Shunting Yard Rules Engine in Rust

I have no idea what this is... ELI5?

wattengard on A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices

If your light is exposed to the internet and use default security, maybe...

wattengard on Tell HN: My usability pet peeve – am/pm times with a leading zero

You don't subtract it though. Once you are used to it your brain just correlates 14 with 2 and 17 with 5 and 23 with 11 without thinking. In Norway, and I think in most of the 24-hour world, we still use the 12hr clock in speech. I don't go around saying that "the clock is quarter past fifteen", I say "quarter past three" and the context usually makes it clear when I'm talking about.

wattengard on Show HN: A game I made in 48 hours

You fix it then, the code is on github...

wattengard on Show HN: Audit your ISP with a speedtest cronjob

I have integrated this into my Home-Assistant setup. The speedtest runs every 30 minutes and logs to an influx-database. I also run a pingtest every minute, logging to the same database. Helped me identify some strage behaviour from my router in one case.

wattengard on Show HN: Audit your ISP with a speedtest cronjob

I believe the USB on rpi is limited to USB2, so that's a 480Mb/s theoretical limit.

wattengard on Canadian researcher behind one-minute workout has a shorter option

Considering that a 30 minute workout often incorporates, getting dressed (5 min), driving to the gym (20 min), working out (30 min), driving home (20 min), taking a shower (15 min), being so exhausted that the rest of the night is down the drain....
The 30 minute workout is a myth...

wattengard on Show HN: New storage technology

Is this not DriveSpace all over again? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace

wattengard on Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?

Jake Archibald talking about the javascript event loop and actually making it both entertaining and easily grokable! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOL7MC4Pl0

wattengard on Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria

I'm not a mouse...

wattengard on Show HN: SAN – a Safe and Nice TOML/YAML Alternative

What are the benefits over JSON5?

wattengard on Rave.dj – an artificially intelligent mash-up machine

Ok. I think I nailed the perfect one: https://rave.dj/ySGzN-0svLlPpA

wattengard on SF hospital charged $15K ‘trauma response fee’ for baby that needed no treatment

I'm norwegian.
I have two kids, and have used the emergency care unit a couple of times throughout my life. Total cost $0 in care fees. (They are allowed to charge for stuff like bandages and such for non layovers, usually $5-$20 each visit).
We don't have health insurance, but some insurance companies have begun selling "treatment guarantee" which guarantees start of treatment typically within 14 days of injury. (For non life threatening ailments of course. Elbow pains, leg pains, such..) The best thing about those are that they are usually paid for by your employer because they want you back at work as soon as possible :D (The premium is added to our income tax though)
Socialism hell yeah!

wattengard on EU copyright law proposal rejected

And don't even mention the Olympics! No ... seriously ... don't mention them ... You'll get sued.

wattengard on Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

Kids don't need to be exposed on the internet until they are able to decide themselves if they are okay with it. When that is is up to the parent. I always ask my 8-year old even before I share photos with her grandparents.

wattengard on Show HN: Maid – Markdown driven task runner

The suffix "ake" is "standard" for these task runners... Cake (C#), Fake (F#) etc... So of course it should be called Make! ... ... wait ... ... shit ...

wattengard on Show HN: A module to color console messages || NodeJs

If you want to deal with ANSI-codes be my guest. Libraries like this and Chalk are made for those of us that has better things to do than remember if ESC[0;32;41m is the correct ansi color code to show important information in.

wattengard on Show HN: bindings. Open source app for managing keymaps in popular editors

This should be part of the .editorconfig solution...

wattengard on Show HN: UI Faces – Aggregator of avatars for design mockups

Got stopped in our firewall with reason "Sex"...

wattengard on Show HN: Niche SaaS Idea Generator

It symbols words that will be replaced when you click the button...

wattengard on Show HN: Generate high-res images of code samples with Chrome Headless

Batch-shotting without reloading chrome each time?

wattengard on Show HN: Generate high-res images of code samples with Chrome Headless

You assume he uses HTML/JS/CSS for presentation. What if it's Keynote/Powerpoint?

wattengard on Show HN: Generate high-res images of code samples with Chrome Headless

Why are they ridiculous?

wattengard on Show HN: GreenPiThumb – A Raspberry Pi Gardening Bot

expected this one http://i.imgur.com/3PBpIQm.gif

wattengard on Show HN: Best Chmod Calculator Ever (stupid Simple)

Don't push state every time I make a change. It might be the "right" thing to do, but it's annoying that my back-button doesn't work when I've just been fiddling with switches on your page.
Maybe try to get some more prosaic descriptions on the most popular mods? Like: "777, the one you go for after trying everything to make your files readable on windows throught samba, and it still doesn't work"... ;)