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by peterkos 1y ago
Someone did it! https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/115159295473019599
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by peterkos 1y ago
This reminds me of those videos where the bar staff try blind pouring a shot, and it's wild how good some people are. Would love to see a similar competition, re: can the most senior store members be accurate to 1° :)
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Searey LSX(kitplanes.com)
3 points by peterkos 1y ago|1 comments
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by peterkos 1y ago
I'm imagining a spectrum between "has to be slow" and "needlessly slow", with a middle slider for that one razor where things take as much time as you give them. Intentionality is a big theme in math research (so i&
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by peterkos 1y ago
"Users experiencing issues connecting to Slack and unable to load threads" - https://slack-status.com/2025-05/7b32241eb41a54aa
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by peterkos 2y ago
After reading this, I am now of the belief that software is, actually, a good thing. And that programming can be enjoyable. Seriously, this does such a good job of capturing the feeling of MAGIC that code is capable of -- both in its proces
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A Swift Kick in the LSP(peterkos.me)
3 points by peterkos 2y ago|0 comments
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Quiver: A Modern Commutative Diagram Editor(github.com)
336 points by peterkos 2y ago|35 comments
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by peterkos 2y ago
What is the benefit of this over something like Pkl[0]? Pkl compiles down to JSON, YAML, etc., but the language itself is user-friendly. This way you get best of both worlds: readable and editable for humans, and parsable for computers. [0]
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by peterkos 2y ago
That's a pretty egregious mistake for a designer to make -- and that's not even mentioning the lack of accessibility. WebAIM's contrast checker says it's a 1:1 contrast ratio! If someone is releasing a model that claims
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by peterkos 2y ago
> It may not sound like much, but this was a lot of work. I spent days just thinking about this problem, trying to understand what is happening now and how to improve it. I find these kinds of problems the most fun and the most education
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by peterkos 2y ago
Cabinette[0], a macOS app for musicians/producers to manage their music catalog. My WIP folder has about 75 songs, ranging from electronic/orchestral/piano, and I wanted something with dedicated filtering, tracking progress o
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by peterkos 2y ago
I'm reminded of a time that an intern took down us-east1 on AWS, by modifying a configuration file they shouldn't have had access to. Amazon (somehow) did the correct thing and didn't fire them -- instead, they used the exper
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by peterkos 2y ago
I like thinking of CS theory as "math, with more hand-waving". Or, I can't remember where I read it, but something about CS being the mathematics of asymptotes.
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Move fast, don't break your API (2014)(amberonrails.com)
1 points by peterkos 2y ago|0 comments
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by peterkos 2y ago
The first image on the marketing page is an AI-generated picture of a person staring back. At best it's unsettling, and at worst it makes me wonder how authentic of a user experience the app can offer. Above-the-fold, first landing pag
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by peterkos 2y ago
This looks a lot like Swift. To me, that's a good thing :)
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by peterkos 2y ago
According to the article/filing, she wasn't given specific reasons for the demotion, treated discriminatorily, and given a PiP that was unattainably difficult. One would assume that choosing to file litigation against Amazon would
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Halo 2 .ass Error(halopedia.org)
3 points by peterkos 3y ago|0 comments
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by peterkos 3y ago
I like the alternative this implies of dreaming in 2D :p What’s your use case? I’d imagine the macOS display extending is wildly cool.
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by peterkos 3y ago
I think it more targets the “apple enthusiast”, or at least the “tech enthusiast”, who is used to paying a $$$ premium (at the cost of polish) to be the First at a new thing. Every company does it but Apple has a strong pattern of “v1 is se
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Bring Back the iDog, You Cowards(gizmodo.com.au)
1 points by peterkos 3y ago|0 comments
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by peterkos 3y ago
These models aren't actually doing any musical comparison -- they are trained on audio, and from audio, piece apart with a "note" and a "melody" and an "instrument" are from the labelled training data. No
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by peterkos 4y ago
also, common capitalization mixups: "ID vs. Id", "snapshot vs. snapShot", "username vs. userName"
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Hg Init: A Mercurial Tutorial(hginit.github.io)
4 points by peterkos 4y ago|0 comments
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Reflection in Rust with Dwarf(github.com)
2 points by peterkos 4y ago|0 comments
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by peterkos 4y ago
A little manual, but music21[0] can do the analysis! [0]: http://web.mit.edu/music21/
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by peterkos 4y ago
They used to have this in Seattle (Car2Go (Merc), and ShareNow (BMW)) but they had a messy back-and-forth acquisition, shutdown, then apparent resurgence?
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by peterkos 4y ago
I recognize that it could be a helpful and rigorous experience in sales, but most car people I've gone to across dealerships have tried to guilt trip and lie to me to get me to spend more money than I have. As a student paying full i
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by peterkos 4y ago
No source control? There's "it works" and then there's "they got lucky enough to not implode yet".

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