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by s1mon 21d ago
I hope this works out. It seems helpful but we can’t even get a lot of web sites to format their user/password fields or address fields to work correctly with password managers and autofill. This has to be more complicated than that.
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by s1mon 1mo ago
I get some useful industry news, and info about what colleagues are up to there. There's a lot of noise - and that noise is getting more and more cringe - but there's a certain amount of signal that makes it worth it.
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by s1mon 1mo ago
Any workspace, real or virtual, descends into messy chaos without someone actively organizing or cleaning things up. It's bad enough by yourself, but the minute it's shared with others, it will devolve quickly. Think about any sha
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by s1mon 1mo ago
Why not just use Google Docs? The history is recorded. There are even plug ins which will play it back so you can see it.
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by s1mon 1mo ago
It's always entertaining to try to understand these things from first principles. Color and skin color in particular are very complex things to measure and model. It's not just a physical quantity, it's also a matter of human
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by s1mon 2mo ago
Yep. On mobile it was basically impossible to read. 2/3 of the page was covered in ads and pop ups. I figure if they don’t care about the readers’ experience then I don’t care to try to read their content.
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by s1mon 2mo ago
One key turning point in my life was approaching Red Whittaker, the head of the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon. I knew who he was and had met him briefly before, but this was pretty much a “cold call” even if happened to be in per
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by s1mon 2mo ago
He also wasn't bald when he started selling books. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-25-the-m...
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by s1mon 2mo ago
No price. Ouch. If you have to ask, you can't afford it? "Teenage Engineering isn’t quoting a price publicly, instead directing interested parties to email the company directly." https://hiconsumption.com/tech
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by s1mon 2mo ago
Onshape is free in the browser as long as you are not doing commercial work. It’s a professional system from the founders of Solidworks that competes with all the top CAD tools.
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by s1mon 3mo ago
Somehow I assumed that you were linking to this one: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by s1mon 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Motion_Picture_and_...
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by s1mon 4mo ago
I'm old enough and lucky enough to have had my first computing experiences (1978-80) be on a teletype in our elementary school which was connected to a minicomputer that the town owned. The connection was an acoustically coupled modem&
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by s1mon 5mo ago
I've had this bookmarked for a while. Fantastic resource. It's been on HN dozens of times since 2017. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14191577
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by s1mon 5mo ago
I'm very used to tools which keep track of connections to documents based on internal IDs, not folder structure. It seems primitive to be so brittle. It seems even more stupid that it was so hard to get Codex to fix this for me. I mana
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by s1mon 5mo ago
I've been using the Codex app for a while (a few months) for a few types of coding projects, and then slowly using it for random organizational/productivity things with local folders on my Mac. Most of that has been successful and
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by s1mon 5mo ago
So is it going to be cool again to wear Allbirds, in an ironic way? Or do I need to burn mine?
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by s1mon 5mo ago
https://www.pandafold.app works but https://pandafold.app does not.
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by s1mon 6mo ago
This is an amazing deep dive into color difference measurements and how sensitive the math is. The idea that we really need to save characters - bytes - in CSS when we have so many web sites chewing through 49 MB with the enshitification of
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by s1mon 6mo ago
I've been using Codex (GPT-5.4 extra high) to code custom FeatureScript in Onshape (3D mechanical CAD software). It's challenging to get it to do TDD that involves any visual reasoning. At the moment I've got tooling through
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by s1mon 6mo ago
Yes. Sarcasm. I have a pair of the first generation AirPods Max. They leave dents in my scalp if I wear them for any real amount of time. I've been an Apple person since the 1980s. This is one of the most disappointing Apple products f
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by s1mon 6mo ago
Might as well be 3862 grams considering how much they hurt to wear for any length of time. I was also hoping this update would improve the ergonomics, but no. Still too heavy and no mention of any improvements to the headband.
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by s1mon 6mo ago
Yep. As much as the rest of it resonated with LLM coding experiences I'm having, the NFT thing is unfortunate.
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by s1mon 6mo ago
This reminds me of the articles I occasionally see in the local newspaper about a restaurant that is closing down. So often it’s one that I’ve never heard of before that. To me, that’s the number one issue. If your likely customer base (or
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by s1mon 7mo ago
I'd really love to see the prompt(s) you used with Claude. The way the article was written I mistakenly thought you would expand upon that in a footnote or sidebar.
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by s1mon 7mo ago
Yep. Came to say the same thing. I'd only used Codex in VSCode and in the Codex app, and at least those have the same history, but my understanding is that the cloud and CLI versions have this hierarchy of 'visibility' [0]. P
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by s1mon 7mo ago
Many have predicted the singularity, and I found this to be a useful take. I do note that Hans Moravec predicted in 1988's "Mind Children" that "computers suitable for humanlike robots will appear in the 2020s", whi
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by s1mon 8mo ago
I would also argue that even people who I like a lot and have known for many years can be very different "people" online than in person. It's sometimes shocking the dichotomy. I try to remind myself and others to ignore some
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by s1mon 8mo ago
As someone who's been doing mechanical product engineering for 30+ years, doing this as a first project is way more than jumping off the deep end. Impressive.
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by s1mon 8mo ago
All? Yes, there's a lot of garbage and outright dangerous, malicious stuff out there, but there's also moving art. It may take a while to drown out the stupid and evil stuff, but there are examples that amaze me: https:/&#x2

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