simonbw

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by simonbw 8d ago
I can just imagine the conversation when they came up with that: Boss: we need to transmit 1 bit of information indicating pressure loss from a spinning rotor blade to the main body of the helicopter. The blade spins too fast for electronic
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by simonbw 8d ago
> is so elegant it’s still being used today I think it's the "so elegant" part that's wrong. It's not still being used today because it's so elegant. It's still being used today because the old helicopt
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by simonbw 16d ago
The puzzle pages also give pretty strong AI vibes to me. I think it just reminds me what I've gotten from Claude when I let it decide on design. Some of the specifics that come to mind: - the use of emojis instead of icons - the text c
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by simonbw 17d ago
Does anyone have more context on how this would be used? Is this like an alternative to using a midi keyboard to control synths? Is the appeal of it that it is small and meant to be played one handed while your other hand does something els
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by simonbw 3mo ago
They've had a preview version of this available as ts-go for a while now, and I've been really happy using it on my projects. I just installed it and changed "tsc" to "tsgo" in a couple places and it just worke
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by simonbw 3mo ago
I did not understand why all the commentary in the game was about giant peanuts until I read your comment. Thank you!
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by simonbw 3mo ago
You could do some sort of adaptive quality where you spend time incrementally improving fidelity until your frame budget is up. In practice I think that might be trickier than it sounds, but I feel like theoretically there's something
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by simonbw 4mo ago
You might be right. I think the other thing is that there are a ton of free things for me to watch on various streaming platforms.
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by simonbw 4mo ago
People are saying that you can buy movies online, but I think they're missing the key point of putting lots of movies on massive discounts and promoting the movies that are currently discounted. Like sure you can buy basically any movi
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by simonbw 4mo ago
It seems like they know I have an iPhone with dark mode enabled, that I speak English, and that I'm in the USA (but wrong city wrong state). I am kinda unimpressed, I'm pretty sure they can get a lot more info than that.
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by simonbw 4mo ago
There is actually one tool I've dealt with that works nicely with hand-crafted SVG's: https://boxy-svg.com/
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by simonbw 4mo ago
In most real-world use of the term, a paradox isn't something that's impossible, it's just something that intuitively seems wrong when you first think about it. "I got a Prius so now I am spending more money on gas"
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by simonbw 4mo ago
There's plenty of non-critical code that I would trust non-technical people with good AI tooling to touch. As long as their access is segregated from the actual critical stuff. But let them write marketing pages or help and documentati
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by simonbw 5mo ago
> I realized my predilection for verbosity was actually a symptom of my own insecurity, emotionalism, and indecisiveness. Ok, Mr. Milchick.
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by simonbw 5mo ago
I've been thinking of just using sandpaper stuck to a block of wood, though I imagine that might be slower. Heck, a little part of me is tempted to try the smallest radius round-over router bit I have in a trim router, but the odds of
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by simonbw 5mo ago
I have thought about filing/sanding my MacBook forever and getting a case to solve the problem never even occurred to me. I feel a little silly now because it does seem obvious, but also to me just filing it down sounds like less work
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by simonbw 5mo ago
I've been meaning to do this forever and think this game me the push I've needed to do it tonight when I get home. Probably not as rounded as OP, but it's reassuring to know I could go that rounded and it wouldn't fall
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by simonbw 6mo ago
The first sentence of this page says it: > Sycamore is a next gen Rust *web* UI library powered by fine-grained reactivity.
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by simonbw 6mo ago
Yeah if you're serializing and deserializing data across the JS-WASM boundary (or actually between web workers in general whether they're WASM or not) the data marshaling costs can add up. There is a way of sharing memory across t
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by simonbw 6mo ago
I mean, if the North Korean employees are doing good work, the companies employing them aren't exactly incentivized to find out that they're really North Koreans, cuz then they have an obligation to fire their actually productive
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by simonbw 6mo ago
The point is that there are legit American citizens who are in on the con. They have real SSNs and an actual presence in the US. They run proxy servers out of their house to make it seem like that's where their web traffic is coming fr
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by simonbw 6mo ago
I actually don't think her reasoning has to do with other people at all. I think it's that given she wants to make an image of a poorly designed object, she knows she could either do it herself, or she could do something that take
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by simonbw 7mo ago
Surely the easiest way is something like a PayPal/venmo link, no? I know a lot more people who use those than crypto.
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by simonbw 7mo ago
Are your frontend builds actually so slow that you're not seeing them live? I've gotten used to most frontend builds being single digit seconds or less for what feels like a decade now.
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by simonbw 7mo ago
Ok, obviously unethical to do it, but this sounds like you've got the power to create some sci-fi shared dreaming device, where you can read people's brainwaves and send signals to other people's masks based on those signals.
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by simonbw 8mo ago
Yes it is. I've really oijed those convention at places I've worked. It probably wouldn't be too hard to instruct AI's to use this format too.
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by simonbw 8mo ago
It seems harder to justify telling someone to fuck off for doing literally the exact same thing you're currently doing.
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by simonbw 8mo ago
I second this! I switched to mint recently. They are offering unlimited data including hotspot for $15/mo for up to a year if you prepay. I think then it goes to their standard rate which is $30/mo for unlimited, or $15/mo fo
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by simonbw 10mo ago
I tried it for the first time the other day after having heard how much better it's gotten recently, and it made me really wonder how bad was the UX _before_ all these recent improvements. I don't want to bash on it too hard, beca
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by simonbw 11mo ago
I actually thought the backup cam was required by law now. I wonder how they get around that. EDIT: Ah, it's not sold for the US market, so that's how.

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