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mihaifm | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

Not so many posts, but I did build my own blog engine for the sake of it.

mihaifm | 2 years ago | on: Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022)

One likely cause that's not mentioned so far, is that paradoxically the stomach doesn't produce enough acid. The sphincter usually closes when the stomach begins digestion, but this only happens if a certain pH threshold is reached. There are some receptors in the stomach that detect this pH level and signal the sphincter to close. The lower acidity output is typically caused by unhealthy diet and frequent meals. To fix it, apart from reducing the frequency of meals, you can ingest more acid, in the form of vinegar or lemon juice. This is counterintuitive but I can confirm it works, it helped me a lot to mitigate the problem.

mihaifm | 2 years ago | on: How to lose your work using Undo Copy in Windows

Thanks for giving us hope but it's not there

mihaifm | 3 years ago | on: Playing video games can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood

Stress response depends vastly on the game. A lot of games will actually increase stress levels. Take Elden Ring for example, that game will make you sweat at almost every encounter. But it’s possible that this kind of exposure might make you more resilient to stress in the long tun.

mihaifm | 3 years ago | on: Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game

Nice one, how did the interviewer react?

mihaifm | 3 years ago | on: Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100M°C for 30 seconds

Cheap energy means lower costs of manufacturing therefore lower prices for consumer goods, thus increasing quality of life.

mihaifm | 3 years ago | on: Meta VR prototypes aim to make VR 'indistinguishable from reality'

There's no easy way around it. I enabled continuous motion in a few games and practiced for a few minutes until I could no longer tolerate it. Try feeling the ground with your feet, that helps a lot. The interesting part is that when you lose motion sickness you also lose some of the VR immersion, it's like telling the brain "this is not real, it's the body you need to trust not the eyes".

mihaifm | 3 years ago | on: Meta VR prototypes aim to make VR 'indistinguishable from reality'

I think one of the greatest barriers to VR adoption is not resolution etc. but motion sickness. It is caused by the conflicting signals the brain receives from the body and from the eyes. Currently the only way to get rid of it is through training, but I'm not sure how many people are willing to go through the process. It took me about a month to fully get rid of it, but I assume it vastly differs from person to person.

mihaifm | 3 years ago | on: We lost 54k GitHub stars

> We even offered GitHub financial compensation for any resources required

What? Can anyone explain this? Are people so desperate about github stars these days that they’re willing to pay Microsoft for them?

mihaifm | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: We built an app for reading articles saved for later

Unsurprisingly I'm doing the same, and the file is also named 'links.txt'. Using tags however, instead of categorising. Problem is, I almost never get to read them, an issue that this app is trying to alleviate.

mihaifm | 4 years ago | on: Linus Torvalds: “GitHub creates useless garbage merges”

Signing commits is a local affair, you don't want to be uploading your private key to Github. You sign locally via command line and then push to Github where they get verified with your public key.

mihaifm | 4 years ago | on: If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job?

Another aspect might be that companies list job openings when they don't actually need them. It's probably just to gain visibility in the market, justify HR salaries or keep a door open for the next 10x developer who might land on their site. The only ones who lose here are the people taking the interviews and getting rejected for no apparent reason.

mihaifm | 4 years ago | on: Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt

In VSCode it actually draws the font with very small size. It might look better on larger resolution displays. You can also increase the size with "editor.minimap.scale": 4

mihaifm | 4 years ago | on: Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt

I’ve seen it, it’s really innovative but I was hoping for a more traditional one that has actual characters.

mihaifm | 4 years ago | on: Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt

Could this support a code map? That would be a killer feature for any vim/neovim UI.

mihaifm | 4 years ago | on: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

Problem is the tech world is changing very fast. If you're going to sit idle hoping to make the same amount of cash every year, you're going to disappear within 5-6 years. Not liking where Discord is headed either, just saying some change is necessary not only for growing, but for staying relevant.

mihaifm | 4 years ago | on: Naval Architecture

Also interested. Looks like a lot of it is JS code written by hand. This is certainly readable code: https://ciechanow.ski/js/navarch.js

mihaifm | 4 years ago | on: A work-in-progress Magit clone for Neovim

Thanks. Can't say I'm surprised of developers not including relevant links on their readme page.

mihaifm | 4 years ago | on: GitHub Copilot

I can see in their FAQ that there are plans to monetize this. So they're building an ML model that feeds on the work done by millions of people and then selling it? How is this even ethical? Not to mention we'd be feeding the model while using it. Guess this is another instance where we are becoming the product.

mihaifm | 4 years ago | on: Onivim 2 is a retro-futuristic modal editor

Fully agree on the color issue. Most color schemes in any editor today look like rainbows, very distracting for day to day usage. I ended up building my own color scheme for vim using only 4 colors.