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Just on principle, I'd have liked to see it on the market for more than 49 days! It pains me as an engineer to think of the effort to bring a hardware device to market for such a minuscule run.

>At least the AI is showing up what’s inaccurate and most comments get it wrong.

And we know AI is right, how?

Many folks don't like these AI comments because we're all awash in AI, all day every day. The search results, blogs, news, ads, everything is seriously tilting AI, and it can be dull. I could easily ask ChatGPT or Claude the same thing you did. But a definitely human-written comment, warts and errors and all, can be more interesting.

TiVo OTA was great. Our unit eventually croaked, and we've gone full old-school: use the antenna, and what is on is on. Sure, we do have streaming services too, but for specific hours during the day, it's just OTA.

For me, the introspection and meeting (us) where we're at:

>But the market has spoken! Users prefer Litestream.

>Yeah, we didn’t like those movies much either.

>Klaus, Bernd, Jürgen and Horst were talking about antennas, relays, and Windows XP!

I was last active on HAM bands about 15 years ago, but that sounds about right. And the weather.

They follow with:

"But, seriously: you can throw a dart at a wall to pick one of these... In practice, it mostly matters that you use a real secure password hash, and not as much which one you use.

Zed lets you pay for AI, and I’m a happy customer. Their agent feature works well with Claude models IMO and the full integration and editor experience is excellent.

Yes, and it is very tiresome advice to see continually, especially when given to newcomers whose first instinct is to build a solid, useful app or service, and they're being steered away from that. The number of times I've read that one should put up landing pages, spend time socializing them, and only if there are enough signups to actually build something is rather depressing.

These folks are obviously playing a different game than I'm used to. But in my ~30 years at it, I can confidently say that taking the time to build what I feel are good apps, well-crafted, has provided immense satisfaction (I can at least look at a collection of apps, not landing pages), and has always developed or honed my skills, which has opened many doors. The marketing-first approach just sounds painful for someone who, like me, wants to be building things.

> Thankfully, the leading spaced repetition software, Anki, has incorporated FSRS as its default scheduling algorithm since version 23.10, released in 2023-11

I've used Anki for a long time and apply updates, but I don't closely track changes. Based on the above, I figured I'd be using FSRS, but I'm not. All of my decks have that setting turned off. Fair enough (no silent updates to existing data), but even when I create a new deck, I have to turn the FSRS setting on manually. I found the same even with a whole new profile. What aspect of this is "default"? Is there a global setting I'm missing?

I'm glad it's available, though, without any plugins!

Over my many years I've found that mental pivots that have lasted came at completely unpredictable times. I'd hear or read something like one of these, it would resonate and get me thinking "Hmm, yeah, I should stop that", and it stuck. Presumably my brain was primed to receive the advice at that time.

re: Go, I did wonder if there was any connection to Russ leaving (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41132669)

I love seeing this. I used these tools during my computer-formative years. Now, at 51 with a whole computer career under my belt, I've been thinking a lot about those days. Nostalgia will bias things positively, of course, but I'm look back fondly on how, at least for personal projects, I just did stuff.

At that time, I had no background in "real" CS or best practices. I didn't have the internet advising this way or that, and my only resource was a book or two from B. Dalton. I didn't even really think about good or bad code... merely: does it do the thing I want it to. I just made my programs however I wanted and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Lately, I've wanted to get back to that mode, at least a bit. It is really tough to set aside all of the rigor and analysis I'm accustomed to and just bang something out. Ugly, buggy, happy path only, but at least they exist. Things like Cursor et al. have come along at the right time...

Doesn't Apple require this too? (https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/manage-co...)

Excellent timing, as I was just looking at some apps to help get back into after 20 years away. I’ve noticed that a number of them, including yours, do include microphone input. That’s great since I only have an upright, but I wondered how well it actually works, especially with more complex drills, or if I should look at getting an affordable midi keyboard for the app-supported practice sessions?

Just building (and supporting features like LSP)

I suspect the usable number is much lower and would be just those satellites mostly opposite the Earth but with some signal reaching the moon? I recall the beam width of GPS antennas being like 30 deg (?), so almost all of the signal is directed at Earth.

I really liked the show "Humans" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humans_(TV_series)). I feel like we're catching up to that timeline.

I’ve been able to view these type of pictures forever. But I’ll credit the article with today being the first time I’ve actually taken them myself, put them side by side in my notes app, and been pretty impressed with how simple it was to get a neat effect.

Just tried it, and it works well! I didn't realize the potential of this technique until I saw just how many dupes there were of certain types of files, especially in node_modules. It wasn't uncommon to see it replace 50 copies of some js file with one, and that was just in a specific subdirectory.

I see it is "pre-release" and sort of low GH stars (== usage?), so I'm curious about the stability since this type of tool is relatively scary if buggy.

I'm talking about something like electrical or mechanical engineering.

For some areas, yes. But for studies that have a meaning lab/shop component, the university setting is quite practice.

I write small utility apps that are often used by friends, families, the teams my kids are on, etc. None of them are overly complicated or aiming for award-winning polish. While I personally like installed apps, many people seem to prefer a link they can click. To accommodate that, I've been leaning towards Flutter as an acceptable compromise. The installed app has some better characteristics regarding device integration and storage, but I've been pleasantly surprised at how well the web versions work. When run on phone it’s hard to tell (visually) that it’s not the app. (UX is laggier though.)

I’ve found it faster and much better able to merge concurrent edits vs last write wins that is more typical on eg iCloud.

A form that is particularly annoying to me is where official-sounding accounts are posting about plausible scientific advances or discoveries. Just yesterday, I saw some "James Webb Space Telescope" account gushing about new photos that dropped. They were beautiful, though obviously a little too nice, and of course NASA/JPL had released no such photos.

I can't put my finger on why this bugs me--and my wife thinks I'm being a pedantic when I comment that they're fake ("it's a nice picture, they like it, let them be")--but I think it has to do with the targeting of folks that absolutely would like that photo to be real.

I didn't use it pre-SolarWinds, but even now it seems OK? Hope it stays that way.

It’s a reasonable question, and one I had myself. Of course the UX is different, but that is self evident and we don’t need to be pedantic. What’s not obvious is whether this is wrapping the existing RandomPage API, filtering it, doing some sort of prediction/recommendation, etc.

As a very specific example, I can go to a bank with my W-2s and credit history and get a mortgage. That’s a complex and valuable decades-long relationship they’re facilitating.

>Unless we're including distribution when we say "creating".

I think it has to be included given how much traffic I see from mobile devs I follow about getting stuck in some review blackhole, running afoul of a TOS or payment rule, etc. Getting the app built is in your control, but getting it to end users has a big dependency on others, potentially. The idea of being able to push code to a server you control and deliver instant updates is appealing.

The biggest nuisance aspect for me is when it is trying to do things that the LSP can do 100% correctly. Almost surely it is my tooling setup and the LLM is squashing LSP stuff. Seeing Copilot (or even Cursor) suggesting methods or parameters that don't exist is really annoying. Just stand down and let the LSP answer those basic questions, TYVM.

I’ve never understood how John Gruber presents himself as a connoisseur of fine UX and typography, and then for decades publishes a bland, often difficult-to-read site.