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Unfortunately I don't have any pictures. I should take some next time I go back, at the end of this year. Might be worth re-evaluating. Having that said, I do recall several of the…

Fun to see my home municipality on HN! I grew up in Tanum. Growing up on the countryside during the 80s meant spending a lot of time outdoors, in my case climbing the mountains sur…

Happy New Year from Singapore!

On a vaguely related note, two accomplished film poster artists passed away in the past month: Renato Casaro [1] and Drew Struzan [2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato_Cas…

If you write it out as "one litre" vs. "one point zero litres" it becomes a little bit more consistent though.

I'm also a Swede living abroad. I have signed up with Swish using a non-Swedish phone number (but with Swedish bank account), it works fine in most cases. I do have an address thou…

I do something similar (but less portable and more verbose) in C++ sometimes when I want to prototype something. My boilerplate is something like this: #if 0 TMP=$(mktemp -d); c++ …

You could give my email client https://github.com/d99kris/nmail a shot. It does basic html email parsing (leveraging w3m and pandoc) and its user interface is inspired by pine.

Xmake gets posted here once in a while, here are some previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19610459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22583147 https://news…

I understand their announcement says app passwords will stay (for now). But should Google eventually also deprecate app passwords, it would really restrict the use of third-party c…

This is a very interesting data source. So let's say for "Model-specific statistics on faults detected in passenger cars during inspection in 2022 by year of entry into service (in…

Thanks, updated the title.

It's blocked at DNS level, so if you (or your wifi AP) uses let's say Google or Cloudflare servers it's accessible. Edit: See https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/singapore-bl…

TLDR; Go to chrome://flags/#organic-repeatable-queries and set it to Disabled, in order to avoid this.

I think this is a good advice. To add on, for some of my projects I explicitly list out-of-scope areas in the README to give users a better idea on where the project boundaries lie…

I don't have a concrete answer, but I'd suggest checking https://github.com/topics/telegram-client and filter it based on programming language preferences.