lawkwok

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by lawkwok 10mo ago
I hate the new system preferences. I miss how the old one had handcrafted icons and just felt more compact. I understand the new design scales better but I agree that the search is broken. Also it’s not responsive and feels like a web app.
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by lawkwok 1y ago
My iPhone 13 mini (5.4" display) is 141g and it's immediately noticeable how much lighter it feels than a pro phone. I can imagine the effect being more exaggerated given the larger but thin profile of the 17.
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by lawkwok 2y ago
I don't know if my iOS app is using GPT-4o, but asking it to translate to Cantonese gives you gibberish. It gave me the correct characters, but the Jyutping was completely unrelated. Funny thing is that the model pronounced the incorre
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by lawkwok 3y ago
I think cars only look good relative to other cars. But as an object themselves, they don’t add to the landscape. Look at all the concept renderings of future apartments or idyllic European countryside’s. There’s always only a few cars or o
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by lawkwok 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. I really enjoyed the read and the concise decision-making and legal terms used.
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by lawkwok 3y ago
That metric is like the megapixel wars of cameras. Just something to chase so the newer model can be “better”. It does nothing except validate your purchase when you rev it obnoxiously. To continue your thought, what are some things that ne
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by lawkwok 3y ago
Isn’t it really expensive to live there? Also, while Dubai is flashy, I wouldn’t really consider it a first tier city in terms of actual living. The urban planning is not human scale at all and they just defaulted to highways and skyscraper
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Apple Provides Further Clarity on Why It Abandoned Plan to Detect CSAM(macrumors.com)
1 points by lawkwok 3y ago|1 comments
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by lawkwok 3y ago
Genuine question, as someone who got exhausted and is out of the industry for the foreseeable future. How do you stay competitive or job hop when every post is looking for the latest web framework?
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by lawkwok 3y ago
Here’s a podcast that talks about how Dollorama (and Walmart) is changing city design. https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-strong-towns-podca...
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by lawkwok 3y ago
What were the prevailing theories at the time?
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by lawkwok 3y ago
I hope it humbles whoever builds the next platform. Nothing lasts forever no matter how entrenched it is in the zeitgeist. Once something gets big enough, it becomes impossible to moderate and eventually it will fall out of fashion and lose
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by lawkwok 3y ago
It will be very sad. It's been a pleasant era for Reddit-fu.
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by lawkwok 3y ago
I visited Boise and i realized that about myself too. I prefer all the amenities and infrastructure of a walkable city that is not too crowded.
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by lawkwok 3y ago
I’ve seen a few websites recently with a pleasant newsletter experience. The signup field is a few paragraphs down the article and as you scroll to it, the article dims (but is still readable) and highlights the newsletter section. As you k
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by lawkwok 3y ago
And even if someone replies to you specifically, the only way you would know is noticing your karma increased on the top right of the page.
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by lawkwok 3y ago
It almost feels like a pretty PHP in the way you can mix HTML and template code inline.
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by lawkwok 4y ago
For prosperity: https://github.com/lawkwok101/weigh-my-luggage-js
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by lawkwok 4y ago
Thank you! I haven’t seen anyone make something like this before (I’m guessing it’s because the calculating formula is simple), but I think the extra features and simply having a GUI does provide value. I usually don’t know know what to bui
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by lawkwok 4y ago
It’s funny to think there was a time when using JS vs JQuery was the biggest division among devs. Now just using JS is considered the baseline and React is the new framework that people jump to when it isn’t always necessary.
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by lawkwok 4y ago
App: This tool clearly shows you which bags are overweight and which bags have room. It also shows messages telling you how to rearrange your bags. Backstory: I recently needed to move and bring several suitcases. I like the trick of weighi
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Show HN: Weigh My Luggage – Just bring a bathroom scale(weighmyluggage.netlify.app)
3 points by lawkwok 4y ago|4 comments
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by lawkwok 4y ago
Curiosity is probably a better word. There’s no way to get around without a car here so it’s just not the norm. So when someone is walking in the middle of the highway or down a dark road you naturally wonder why. If I grew up somewhere wit
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by lawkwok 4y ago
Unfortunately, city design alters people's perceptions of where it is acceptable to walk. I moved from walkable Vancouver to car-centric Mississippi, and I already look at people with suspicion when they are walking on the road in the
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by lawkwok 4y ago
I hate that this is a self-perpetuating fear. The more people fear, the less people walk on the streets, which makes the neighbourhood appear less safe and vibrant.
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by lawkwok 4y ago
Sorry you had to go through that. I am having a hard time thinking of a way how someone could walk their child to the bathroom wrong. Could you share some more details if you are comfortable?
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by lawkwok 4y ago
The "Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out." demystifies so much of machine learning and chatbots. It's so cool to see how simple python code can be leveraged into something so amazing.
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by lawkwok 4y ago
One culture shock while in South Korea is that people who brush their teeth after every meal in the office. Teachers would even walk around the hallway with a tooth brush in their mouth.
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by lawkwok 4y ago
I’ve always liked Apple’s implementation because the slider has a temporal state. Airplane mode used to take a a couple seconds to enable so the toggle felt “stickier” to toggle. When you tapped on the toggle, the round button elongated an
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by lawkwok 4y ago
Often what we want is some familiar texture and substantial mouthfeel of meat. Just adding tiny slices of meat to remind you it’s there or substituting it with “meatier” veggies like mushrooms or cabbage can do the trick.

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