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People with all Apple devices do not consist "most" of users

EU is not a single country and starting a business varies from one member state to another. I currently own a business in both Finland and Portugal, and I can start a new business in Finland, online, without even stepping into the country in about half an hour and by the end of the day company is fully operational. Portugal however works in a traditional way with lawyers and actual physical paperwork and signatures and takes forever.

Of course completely different thing is that while starting a company in Finland takes half an hour getting a bank account to your company might take 3-6 months if you even manage to get one. I had a good relationship with my Finnish bank and I had been a customer for over 40 years and when I asked about a business account they just said "no we are not going to give you an account and this is final" without even asking for any paperwork. This is not just because of banks, it's mostly because of KYC. Luckily there are new banks which really want customers and I assume that if I wanted to start a new company in Finland _today_ I could get both the government side and a bank account done in half a day and start billing the next day.

Coding, cooking and fine dining, LEGOs, walking, motorcycles, gym

52, started coding when I was 12 but doing mostly sysop/admin things now

https://archive.ph/Yy2Bb

Client company of mine likes to document server rack layouts with Excel sheets (not a bad idea really). I used LibreOffice for years to _read_ those Excels, but any time I would write the smallest change the whole Excel sheet broke... In the end I just bought Office (one-time payment still exists) and while that company is using Macs and I'm using Windows we never have any problems sharing and modifying those xls files.

The Finnish version of Excel used to have all of the functions translated to Finnish (in late 90s when I was doing Excel for living). It was literally impossible to do anything with it as none of the documentation knew about the translated functions and it was very hard to self-translate the functions (as in there was mostly no logic in the Finnish function names thanks to the way Finnish language works).

What was supposedly done in good faith to make it easier for non-English speaking Finns to do Excel functions ended up making it impossible for everyone. If you didn't know Excel then =IF() was just as cryptic as =JOS() and if you did know Excel then you couldn't figure out why =IF() didn't work. At least .xls files were compatible because apparently functions were saved as opcodes and not as strings.

I haven't used non-English software since so no idea if Finnish Excel still has translated fuctions. Hope not.

I literally learned English reading the only computer books that were available at the time, mid 80s. That was before I had a single English class in school - in fact I already knew English pretty well by the time I started studying English on 7th grade. I come from Finland and the Finnish language has absolutely nothing to do with any other language (except Estonian), no words are even remotely similar to English.

Also I totally suck at learning languages. I've tried to learn Swedish, nope, German, nope, Spanish/Portuguese, also nope.

Ja jos mielestäsi suomenkieli liittyy johonkin muuhun kieleen niin ihan vapaasti voit ajatella niin. Viime viikonloppua yritin opettaa muutamia suomenkielen sanoja ja taivutusmuotoja kielenopettajalle joka jaksoi kuunnella noi puoli tuntia ja totesi etta "mahdotonta oppia koska mitään referenssiä muihin kieliin ei ole".

There are loads of programming languages which have nothing to do with the English language.

Assembly:

   LDA #$01
   STA $0200
   LDA #$05
   STA $0201
   LDA #$08
   STA $0202

   >>,[>>,]<<[
   [<<]>>>>[
   <<[>+<<+>-]
   >>[>+<<<<[->]>[<]>>-]
   <<<[[-]>>[>+<-]>>[<<<+>>>-]]
   >>[[<+>-]>>]<
   ]<<[>>+<<-]<<
   ]>>>>[.>>]

I standardized on US ANSI layout (straight Return, not the L-shaped). I'm from a country where the local language has accented chars and while it's nice to be able to chat with correct accents I find it better to be able to code without dead keys (~) and AltGr.

I also solved the lack of accented chars by just mapping RALT+<char> into it's accented version. Took me about a week to learn but now it comes naturally and I'll never go back to my local keyboard layout.

Of course trying to find a laptop locally with US ANSI layout is a pain...

Not mine originally but "always check your inputs"

Fear of change, mostly.

Don't take this the wrong way... but I control my lights with mechanical switches that are installed to walls of my home. They don't need logins to any cloud services, in fact they don't even have internet.

They just work.

Separate network stacks? Separate filesystems? Separate processes and memory allocation? With WSL1 processes started from WSL console appear on Windows Task manager and starting a network daemon on WSL1 uses the Windows network stack and firewall. There's no NAT, no bridging and no VPN problems as you truly are running just a single operating system. WSL2 using but not releasing memory? Not a problem with WSL1 as it doesn't allocate any memory, it just runs processes on top of Windows kernel.

Of course WSL1 has it's limitations as it's not Linux but Windows with Linux userland - anything that touches the Linux kernel directly pretty much doesn't work (like loop mounts etc).

WSL1 is what keeps me on Windows - but I don't understand why they keep calling WSL2 "WSL" as it has nothing to do with the traditional "Windows service for XXX" model. For better or worse WSL2 is just a virtual machine, nothing else, while WSL1 actually integrates with the underlying Windows with a single network stack etc.

What it's worth my own RSS reader also fails to find any feeds from your site because my parser expects the link type to be quoted with either single or double quotes. Not sure what the offical specs say though.

  type="application/atom+xml"

I'd like to reverse the whole question: why do mobile browsers force every website change their layout/fonts/etc instead of just rendering sites so that they would be readable by default?

(also I don't understand why people read webpages with their mobile phones... if you're in your home/office you have a computer, if you're outside how about you enjoy looking at something else than the internet?)

Nope, not using, I'm not even using command history or bash completion. The only way to actually learn what you are doing is by doing it yourself - but that's just me, I don't judge others for doing differently.

At least in Finland and Sweden those highways-as-emergency-airfields are always in use, no need to prep the area or remove dividers in any way. They are mostly used by the army for practicing, basically the police will just close the road so the army can practice, and when the army is done the road is opened again.

https://moottori.fi/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Kesabaana23-T...

If you are running uBlock Origin (and why wouldn't you?) edit your "My filters" and add these lines to the end:

  ! Hacker News dark mode
  news.ycombinator.com##html:style(filter:invert(100%) hue-rotate(180deg))
  news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: white)

You probably want to fix the page title:

  <title>Document</title>

It's not even about tracking, sessions are perfectly cromulent under GDPR without popups. It's only if you start tracking users without any other purpose than marketing/spamming when GDPR steps in and demands you ask the user for a permission.

Unfortuantely over 99% of websites just want to sell your data because they see it as "free" extra income.

What does being ~50 years old have to do with anything? I'm 50 and I'm the one who designs and implements those login screens, password managers, authentication databases etc etc...

The actual question is why haven't we solved authention in a way that would work for most people? Passwords suck. Webauth sucks. Two-factor sucks more than you can ever imagine. There isn't a way to authenticate that wouldn't suck for normal people (apart from password-less one-time sessions but those don't solve most auth problems).

That said, what's wrong with the time-tested way of Post-IT notes? No, it's not secure but it's one of the only ways that actually works with normal non-autistic people. Or like @ggm said above, a paper with login codes attached to their fridge with magnets. It just f*cking works.

Offtopic but lately I've been building a "new" physical C64 which is nearly done - SD2IEC + Epyx Fastload for fast disc emulation and Kung Fu Flash for near instant .prg loading. Related to the discussion I think KFF is faster to load a .prg than my Windows is loading an .exe - not that I would ever do actual work on a C64 with or without KFF.

I think your requirements are quite contradictory; my old Commodore 64 had a lean operating system or basically no operating system at all. Yet it took me nearly half an hour to load a single 40 kilobyte game from tape (only to see it didn't work so I had to try loading it again).

What I'm saying is you're not after a lean operating system - you're after fast I/O and that you can get with money. Also the lag you mention is not about operating systems, it's about apps. My "ls" startup is pretty fast:

  $ time ls
  Desktop  Documents  Downloads  Music  Pictures  Videos  bin  code

  real    0m0.006s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     0m0.000s

You can already run Hit & Run on modern computers - I'm playing it here on an ultrawide monitor full-screen with 5120x2160 resolution. All you need is to download "Lucas' Simpsons Hit & Run Mod Launcher" and enable a couple of compatibility checkboxes and off you go.

https://modbakery.donutteam.com/release/lucas-mod-launcher

Encode your game state to the URL itself and tell the user to bookmark that URL. User can then use browser sync, email or whatever to sync the bookmark to another computer to continue where they left off. No services, no tokens, no sharing data to some random company or person.

Not in Finland, there's some noise before the movie starts and during ads but pretty much everyone turns off their phones (or puts them into airplane mode) when the actual movie starts.

I wonder how long until Threads comes to Europe, especially now that EU and US have agreed on data sharing (EU personal data can be kept in US).

Works for me using that exact same search param site:ycombinator.com