d99kris

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 carvings well, and they had a distinctly different style compared to others in Tanum.

As for lichen growth, I couldn't differentiate the growth inside the carvings from that around them, so to 10-year-old me the carvings certainly appeared old.

But as an adult, I'd guesstimate that in that area, only ~100 years of lichen growth is enough for carvings to blend into the surrounding rock.

Edit: I am not sure if an lichen study was conducted.

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 surrounding our village, looking for adventures.

During one of those climbs, around the age of 10, me and a friend actually found some rock carvings that hadn't been recorded before. Which was kind of a big deal, especially since no carvings had been discovered in our part of southern Tanum.

We ran home and told our parents, who in turn called the municipality. When they came down to inspect, we were told the carvings weren't authentic, as in not from the bronze age. I don't remember any tests being conducted, I think it was mostly judged by the style.

My archaeology career peaked, and ended, at age 10.

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_Casaro

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Struzan

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 though, but not in Sweden.

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++ -std=c++11 -o ${TMP}/a.out ${0} && ${TMP}/a.out ${@:1}; RV=${?};
  rm -rf ${TMP};
  exit ${RV};
  #endif
    
  #include <iostream>
    
  int main()
  {
    std::cout << "Hello, world!\n";
  }

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.ycombinator.com/item?id=30696061

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 clients with GMail, given the self-paid security assessment OAuth clients must undergo. It would be a sad development given that email is one of the last popular "open messaging protocols" in use, where one can choose what client to use.

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 Finnish)", I should be looking at column "Hylkäys-%" sorted in ascending order to find the models with least failed inspections?

(I don't know Finnish, used Google Translate)

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-block-as... for the local news about the blocking.

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 lies.

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.

The fact that Telegram provides an API enabling third-party clients (like this one) is the main thing that sets it apart from the other big mobile chat platforms (WhatsApp, Messenger, Signal) for me.

It's really nice to have access to a wide variety of client softwares, and the ability to build ones own (shameless plug - I built https://github.com/d99kris/nchat which is a simple TUI client).

I share the same general experience with DBS.

One issue I have with the bank is that they use push notifications to advertise products and also use push notifications for security purposes.

This was my main issue with DBS as well until about a month ago. I then contacted their customer service and complained that I was receiving notifications/emails, despite having opted out from marketing material in my DBS internet banking profile. I didn't expect they would stop, but I figured if enough people complain maybe someone higher up will review this one day.

Within an hour I got a response that they will "opt you out from receiving non-marketing/service messages from all channels".

Thanks for the help! So I've followed those instructions previously without any luck. I also double-checked my settings just now. Push notifications are delivered timely with other apps, like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc.

Thanks, that's at least one good data point for me. :)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25820533

Seeing Pidgin on HN brings back good old memories, having used it back in its hey day.

I actually tried it again just a couple of months ago but the main thing I miss is syncing / download of server-side chat history.

I guess one can assume Zynga didn't make enough money from FarmVille to justify porting it to a modern platform.

I wonder if they considered a kickstarter or similar, to gauge the interest of their users to finance the porting.

GMail IMAP is also down.

It was recently (Oct 8) announced that that Google would provide a 12-month heads-up for stopping less secure app access, so it's my understanding that IMAP is not affected at this point.

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2020/03/less-secure-...

WA here is likely Western Australia.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-illegal-to-be-in-possession-of-m...

To play the devil's advocate, Apple's Safari has been hiding full addresses for quite a while, without having any direct benefit as a company as far as I know.

A bit off-topic, but I like the tty-player you're using for the demo (and apparently have created). https://tty-player.chrismorgan.info/

I haven't come across this kind of terminal playback on the web before, seems a bit more bandwidth efficient and snappier than video or gifs.

Note that it's still in beta as of now. But it will (most likely) be released today.

That's too bad, there aren't too many companies offering ARM-based VPS'es. I ended up getting a Scaleway account as late as last month, for the sole reason of using their ARM64 instances. Needed it for debugging some user-reported ARM-specific bug in one of my side projects.

Their ARM64 instances were actually disabled for new users, and required submitting an IT-ticket to be enabled. I thought it was strange at the time, but now with the EOL notice I guess it makes sense.