Leftium

64 ms·

781.
by Leftium 5y ago
Thanks! This saves a whole lot unnecessary syncing when working on projects (and 8% of my Dropbox storage). Yesterday, I actually wrote a Git Bash for Windows script: https://gist.github.com/Leftium/290422ceff5c4af16519
782.
by Leftium 5y ago
I didn't even notice/forgot it was there! I usually just went to hn.algolia.com manually
783.
by Leftium 5y ago
I think the OP is just using square brackets to tell HN the words inside are a placeholder for their query. (Google doesn't do anything special with the square brackets.)
784.
by Leftium 5y ago
When will anonymous (guest) accounts be available, and how will they work? Will there be a simple way to promote them to regular user accounts? As you may know, HN never fails to complain about having to create a new user account to try a s
785.
UserFront: Auth Without Complexity(userfront.com)
37 points by Leftium 5y ago|28 comments
786.
by Leftium 5y ago
Prototype of my bookmarking app: https://instant.leftium.com/ You can only search for bookmarks right now. I loaded my bookmarks by converting a Netscape-format bookmarks.html file to JSON. So you could just use your browse
787.
by Leftium 5y ago
I'm pretty sure your data is just stored locally in your browser. The only risk is maybe the domain stops working. You could use an archived version if you're worried about that: https://web.archive.org/web/20
788.
by Leftium 5y ago
HTML5+JS is the best stack for games that will work in the browser without installing any additional software. PixiJS and Phaser seem to be two great libraries. However, it is nontrivial to cheat in JS games. And I'm not aware of any g
789.
Bricks app: free note-taking and multi-line calculator(free.getbricks.app)
16 points by Leftium 5y ago|4 comments
790.
by Leftium 5y ago
I have a filter that automatically adds the "Sub" label to all emails that contain "unsubscribe." Then I have a bookmarklet to show me all emails without the "Sub" label. Works wonderfully.
791.
by Leftium 5y ago
I have an actual index fund of the top 200 coins minus stable coins via shrimpy.io. Shrimpy does all the calculations, then puts in the orders required to rebalance via an exchange's API. I think you can try the demo for free (with pla
792.
by Leftium 5y ago
I second Enpass. OP says "I've tried BitWarden and Enpass, but their integration is worse and they suffer from some of the same problems as 1Password (subscription/server-based, not really in control of own data, etc.)"
793.
by Leftium 5y ago
The website was very Korea-themed, so at first I thought it was a Korean company. However they must have different versions and detect your country based on IP address.
794.
by Leftium 5y ago
Similar service: https://deltabadger.com/
795.
by Leftium 5y ago
https://simplenote.com/ Simple, clean, gets the job done. I often publish notes for others, using markdown syntax
796.
by Leftium 5y ago
Some other comments have kind of covered this, but the biggest mistake I see is focusing on your product/company/self instead of the audience. The audience cares much more about themselves than you. So talk about the audience firs
797.
by Leftium 5y ago
This bookmarklet will get you the same effect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28605875
798.
by Leftium 5y ago
This bookmarklet marks where the bottom of the page was when you press space to page-down[1] I modified it so the marker is not a red line, but a transparent gray block marking the part of the page you've already seen. (Sometimes I cou
799.
by Leftium 5y ago
The human mind defaults to the truth, so it's not good at detecting lies. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth-default_theory ) The human mind is good at linear estimation, but sucks at other stuff like exponential
800.
by Leftium 5y ago
In the cases where you need to go over 99F, Fahrenheit does not need a full digit. You only need two thin segments for the "1." Or you can double it up with the negative sign. It's big enough of a deal that most appliances do
801.
by Leftium 5y ago
OK, so: -30C to +38C is -22.0F to +100.4F exactly. Celsius can only represent 56% of your "habitable scale" without a negative sign. Fahrenheit can express 83% of the same scale without a negative sign. 1 degree C is equal to 1.47
802.
by Leftium 5y ago
I think you could pick the "fairly habitable" temperature range in pretty, round C temperatures, then convert to F and the argument would still hold. The main argument is not the prettiness of the numbers, but the need for decimal
803.
by Leftium 5y ago
> I started writing this because of a thermostat in Australia that didn’t use decimal points in Celsius. It was never a comfortable temperature inside. This article explains the problems with Celsius from a UX perspective. (And how to
804.
Celsius Needs a Redesign (2019)(uxdesign.cc)
4 points by Leftium 5y ago|8 comments
805.
by Leftium 5y ago
But surely deriving the WBT couldn't change the unit of measurement? A measurement that has no unit is relative humidity. It is just a percentage. There is no way to measure relative humidity directly and get any other type of unit bes
806.
by Leftium 5y ago
> The wet-bulb temperature (WBT) is the temperature read by a thermometer covered in water-soaked cloth (wet-bulb thermometer) over which air is passed It seems to be a direct measurement, not derived from anything. You might be able to
807.
by Leftium 5y ago
The Wet Bulb temperature still needs a unit of measurement. > Even heat-adapted people cannot carry out normal outdoor activities past a wet-bulb temperature of 32 °C (90 °F), equivalent to a heat index of 55 °C (130 °F) So the F wet bul
808.
by Leftium 5y ago
I've learned to use both C/F (although I admit I am more accustomed to F). More detailed arguments for F for weather here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28524505 Merits of Metric vs. Imperial generalized: -
809.
by Leftium 5y ago
I found the exact timestamp in the video, but MKBDH actually didn't explain it very well. So I found some other articles that articulate why F is better for weather: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28524505
810.
by Leftium 5y ago
After making a weather app that helps me switch between C/F temperatures, I came to the same conclusion as MKBHD: "Fahrenheit is better for weather..."[1] Fahrenheit roughly covers the scale of air temperatures experienced

More ›