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by awhitty 2mo ago
This is awesome. I've been working on a similar concept based on the Escape Velocity series and love the space trader genre in general. I'm curious how you've thought about the faction organization structures as well as infor
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by awhitty 3mo ago
Exactly - it's just a tool. So, trying to make the argument that someone's work is less-than because they used a cheaper/more amateur tool versus the tool the well-funded professionals are using _is_ elitist. You recognize th
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by awhitty 3mo ago
This analogy makes no sense to me and honestly skews pretty elitist in vibe. iPhone is regularly used in professional videography now. Like, 28 Years Later was shot on iPhone. Indie filmmakers have been using iPhone to break into the indust
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by awhitty 5mo ago
"I am white labeling a cloud"
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by awhitty 8mo ago
Recently read through The Power of Limits and deepened my appreciation for the golden ratio. https://www.shambhala.com/the-power-of-limits-1203.html
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by awhitty 2y ago
I found this archive while researching a book titled Six Hundred Receipts Worth Their Weight in Gold [0]. My first thought was that the book itself could be a great resource for anyone working on a crafting mechanic for a video game - it co
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EUVS Vintage Cocktail Books(euvs-vintage-cocktail-books.cld.bz)
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by awhitty 2y ago
Huh, I wonder if anyone's tried to validate this approach again now that we have LIGO (and presumably more precise equipment?). I know very little about the physics involved here, but the articles I found about Weber bars don't ci
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by awhitty 3y ago
The creator of this app, Nick Kallen, has a nice YouTube channel where he talks about some of the behind-the-scenes work on the project. I think his video comparing geometry kernels [0] was posted to HN a while back, but it's worth a w
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by awhitty 3y ago
An extremely tangential personal anecdote - I learned about WebTV while writing essays for my college applications more than ten years ago. I had stumbled on this memorial site[0] for an engineer at WebTV named Jos who passed well before hi
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by awhitty 3y ago
I came here curious if anyone would point this out. I was surprised to see the post describing UTC + lat/lng as a common practice in APIs without discussing this quirk. E.g. to your point, China's border with Bhutan is politically
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by awhitty 3y ago
I’ve been using shadcn’s UI library lately and have been loving it. It’s distributed as a CLI that you use to vendor in pre-baked implementations of Radix UI components using Tailwind. Once they’re in your repo, you customize them as you wa
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by awhitty 3y ago
I once mentioned Desmos to a college friend who was teaching high school math. This was the first and one of the only times I’ve seen someone express true glee about a software product. They literally shouted, “I love Desmos!” at the dinner
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by awhitty 3y ago
I draw a line at trying to compare property damage and homicide as if they stem from the same “mechanism”. There’s no analogy to be made there. The striking workers didn’t kill anyone, and it’s insidious to float “how would the author feel
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by awhitty 3y ago
Doctors… don’t murder folks (I mean, yes, this has happened, but not as a strategy of a strike). It’s a nonsense hypothetical created to make striking sound absurd. I’ve already described in general terms how striking in health care works.
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by awhitty 3y ago
Depends on the nature of the relationship with the workers. If I’m employing them directly, I doubt there would be reason for a strike - what are they striking against? I don’t have a construction company. They’re either doing the work as c
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by awhitty 3y ago
No, it certainly does not describe the mechanism. One is inconveniencing a business and one is murder. Please don’t get confused on this.
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by awhitty 3y ago
Wonder how the author here would feel about surgeons going on strike scheduled intentionally after beginning open heart surgery on a loved one? This is a silly comparison. Concrete trucks don’t have beating hearts - they’re just pro
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by awhitty 3y ago
Looks great! I like the idea of focusing on highlighted regions at a time. I spent some time exploring similar form factors for learning the fretboard, focusing intervals and shapes more than the notes themselves (link below) - I implemente
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by awhitty 3y ago
I appreciate that! I'll have to keep an eye out for it. I definitely agree with that perspective - I don't think it matters much how we organize the bits and pieces of the system if we don't have a shared value for life beyon
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by awhitty 3y ago
And here I am burning tokens on my GPT prompts with please-and-thank-yous in 2023 haha
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by awhitty 3y ago
Haha, I have to assume so, but honestly I didn't spend much time in the chicken coop because I thought it smelled bad. I'm not sure where the eggs went, also. And yea, on reflection, it probably wasn't, like, above-board to h
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by awhitty 3y ago
Ah, they didn't have us apologize to plants - only to thank 'em. It wasn't a guilty thing we did, but it was a lesson to appreciate that they were growing and that we could enjoy them. I'm surprised you didn't stop
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by awhitty 3y ago
I went to a small Montessori school on the Rio Grande while I was growing up, and among the other "new age"-y things going on at the school, we would spend half a day every week in permaculture class. We spent that class doing thi
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by awhitty 3y ago
1. Understood! Yes, I agree about messing up the DOM, and I'm sure you've seen some egregious cases haha. asChild definitely enables some less deliberate choices when composing bits and pieces together and assumes some good habits
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by awhitty 3y ago
Oho! So excited about this. I’ve used a hybrid of Radix UI and React Aria on previous projects. Radix had a much nicer DX out of the box with pre-wired components, but my team was always apprehensive about the long-term support for Radix po
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by awhitty 3y ago
I had a similar pleasant experience with a Wooting 60HE keyboard I purchased recently. Updated my keyboard’s firmware and settings right in Chrome! So much nicer than downloading icky gaming peripheral software. I’ve been told a lot of that
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by awhitty 3y ago
Hey, I spent some spare time noodling on a specialized tool for fretboard flashcards a few months back. I haven’t built decks for learning modes yet, but I’d be curious to hear what sort of format you’d find useful and I’m happy to give it
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by awhitty 4y ago
I 100% agree, and I've only visited NYC a couple times. Each time I visit, I try to eat at least one slice of pizza and one bagel every day. The thing that blows me away is how generally good they are, no matter where I buy them. Of co
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by awhitty 4y ago
Looks like other commenters identified it as Blood Music, but this sounded a bit like “Steve Fever” by Greg Egan [0] to me. Similar themes! Great gateway drug to other Egan stories. [0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2007&

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