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Hublium | 3 years ago | on: Seed-firing drones are planting 40k trees every day to fight deforestation

Do this "seed pod" things work well enough? (as in do they get a decent proportion to grow into trees?) I'm sure they wouldn't work where I live though most places in the world have less pressure from game than there is here.

Hublium | 3 years ago | on: What are your most used self-hosted applications?

> Xbrowsersync - sync bookmarks across device

Thank you, this is exactly something I was looking for!

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Any programmers use non-standard editors?

Anyone using SlickEdit or any editor with "BRIEF"-style key bindings? I am not, but I am interested what people have to say.

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: Video Has 51,988,216 Views [video]

Great video explaining the concept of an API to a layperson. Unfortunately, 90% of the comments are just kids writing "yep, still works!".

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: Map of Surnames in Europe

For Austria:

https://namenskarten.lima-city.at/de/

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: I have no capslock and I must scream

I recommend something like Super+C.

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: I have no capslock and I must scream

many non-alphanumeric characters?

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: Where Did CP852 Come From?

Very interesting read as for some reason I've been fascinated with old code pages lately.

Can anybody point me to some more resources about this general topic? The Wikipedia articles about code pages are all so generic and uninformative.

Or maybe answer some of my specific questions: When was the first DOS with support for Icelandic shipped? When for Hebrew? Why are there three different code pages defined for Greek and were they all supported by Microsoft/IBM?

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: The Problem with C (2020)

> [C++] also had type inference very early on, but the developers of the mid-80s were not quite ready for that and Bjarne Stroustrup was pressured into removing auto, until it was added back to C++11.

Does anybody have background information on this claim? Was there actually a working compiler with it back then or was it just some proposal paper at the time?

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: The southernmost point of mainland Europe is 6.6 feet north of the 36th parallel

We Europeans easily forget how far south the US really is.

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you see a weird Google result when you Google for “miggelil turshi”?

Do you think OP is doing some kind of SEO experiment?

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: Intel CEO: Clients Want Custom x86-Based SoCs

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jOJl8gRPyQ

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: Why are hyperlinks blue?

The whole thing felt like "intern from high school searches for 'old computer screenshots' with Google Image Search and comment on what they found".

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: If you could change one thing about Emacs what would it be?

Evil mode?

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)

Telefunken, too.

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app

I still install Sumatra PDF on every Windows PC I have to work on. It's a habit I've kept from the days when Acrobat Reader took like 30 seconds to start.

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: Underground Man: The Curious Case of Mark Zborowski (2010)

How many of us clicking on this were reading "Mark Zbikowski"?

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: Career Advice

Firstly, have https://marzoukdev.com/ redirect to https://www.marzoukdev.com/

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: On Leaving California and the Silicon Valley

quite literally probably

Hublium | 4 years ago | on: Both Vim and Windows Terminal Focus Mode Are Hard to Exit

Non-mirror: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10044