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Here’s a video for a visual explanation of the same: https://youtu.be/dUkLYOPRYH4

I mentioned this story to coworkers who hadn't heard of it at dinner last night and figured I'd post it again. (surely, it's been posted many times over the years)

Always a fun read.

CollegeHumor, now Dropout, made a skit about this very question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWFLztKBrLY

The video doesn't really go into how speech synthesizers technically work, so the title is misleading, but it shows how a wide variety of vintage devices and games added some kind of voice system.

> My greatest achievement has been convincing Steve Klabnik to try out Jujutsu

I came across jj from a recent Bluesky post by Steve Klabnik who was talking about having to learn something with git. That seemed very odd to me. I then gathered that he (and many others in the comments) had been using jj exclusively for some time.

I haven't had time to give it a try, but I definitely will. Your achievement has ripple effects.

Came across this really cool demo of it at a basketball game: https://bsky.app/profile/lukeknox.bsky.social/post/3lhk3btpo...

(Submitted the TechCrunch article because it seemed more informative than the official site)

The left sidebar lets you make your own.

Supposedly, multiplying the counts of each attribute would give you the total.

6 skin tones

61 eyes

48 eyebrows

27 eyewear

69 noses

106 mouths

346 hair

16 accessories

(numbers obtained by selecting the list element, using $0.querySelectorAll('button').length in DevTools, so maybe not accurate, but seems like it is)

6*61*48*27*69*106*346*16 = 19,206,008,838,144

19 trillion options. Pretty good.

I just came across this concept on Reddit. Proprioception is the perception of where your own body is, how it moves, etc.

Extended proprioception is the extension of this concept to the tools you’re handling. (despite the absence of direct sensory receptors) A classic example is how you can develop a sense of where the car you’re driving is in space. You see that also with drones, surgical robots, excavators, cranes, etc.

“especially against nonviolent offenders”

Following the murder, I was thinking about how much non physical violence there is, that isn’t usually seen and judged as violence. Things like denying healthcare, shutting down companies and laying off people to benefit private equity investors, forcing people into bankruptcy, losing their homes, charging overdraft fees, etc.

The people behind that kind of violence can hide behind the layers of indirection.

No, I’m on macOS. I think my main issue was with videos that didn’t always play correctly. Can’t remember exactly but I think either on Reddit or Twitter, it was just not reliable.

I’ve used both for many years. I’ve stopped using qutebrowser because it has some limitations due to be a bit behind on the web engine, which leads to problems with some sites. I still think it’s brilliant.

I wouldn’t say they do the same thing exactly. Vimium is similar to a vim-mode in something like VS Code, while qutebrowser is more like Vim itself. The Vim “spirit” is built-in and is the expectation rather than a layer added on top. The qutebrowser UI, already minimalistic, is also very configurable and scriptable.

The flip side to me is that some of the experience will be nicer with Chrome, the same way VS Code can be nicer and easier to manage.

Link to the paper itself: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1501.pdf

I discovered the engine oil thing in the past two years.

In the US, I’ve always heard something like every 3 months or 3,000 to 5,000 miles. The cars even warn you in that timeframe.

In Europe, a mechanic was very confused when I talked about an oil change when one was done the prior year. He said it’s more every 2 years or 20,000 to 25,000 kilometers. Once again the cars were set up to warn at that distance.

I’d love to get to the bottom of it. Why such a difference? I can understand the garages wanting the extra business, but why would the car manufacturers go with it?

Previous announcement and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637996

Thought I'd share again since I needed it, found it and thought it was a perfectly simple and efficient tool. I liked that I could download the ePub directly instead of figuring out how to allow KTool to send files to my Kindle when I could do it easily myself.

ChatGPT and Wolfram Alpha confirmed to me that it's about 37 days, which is 888 hours, not 88 :)

Wolfram Alpha: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=400tb+at+1gbps ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/share/4ddd464a-dabd-4c12-9cc4-e8271a51a6...

(ChatGPT did a great job at breaking down the problem)

This story is told in the Netflix documentary “Lords of Scam”.

There’s also the fiction-based-on-a-true-story French movie Carbon from 2017.

I put this in a different comment but you can also have a single automation that toggles the setting for those apps on open and close. This way you have a single list of apps to maintain.

You can also have a Shortcut that toggles the setting when you open and close specific apps.

I just did it and it’s very simple:

- in the Shortcuts app, go to Automations

- add a new one and pick “App” as the trigger

- choose the apps you want color in and pick “run immediately” and on open and close

- on the next screen pick “new blank automation”

- in the new shortcut add “Set Color Filters” and set to toggle

You can also make different automations for open and close, but toggle works as long as you toggle the effects manually. But in this case you can just toggle it back manually.

Ah that’s a great point! Yes, I was really talking about the presentation aspect only. And indeed how to get to experiment with it in the cheapest way.

I now realize the term I was looking for was “desktop environment”. Somehow it completely skipped my mind.

I do the same. It's what prompted the question: it's annoying that all these links include some tracking, and it feels (to me) that there can't possibly be enough money to be made to make that annoyance worthwhile. Evidently I'm wrong, but I don't really understand the scale at which it becomes valuable.

I’m in the same place.

I feel like most of the replies to your comment talk about the technical aspect of it.

What’s stopping me is that I don’t have a mental model of the management of the passkeys for the whole lifecycle of my account. Can I use it cross platform? Can I allow someone else to use the same account? What happens if I lose or don’t have access to my phone or laptop? What if I die, can my spouse log in my accounts?

With username/password, it’s very clear what I need. I could write it on paper and give it to someone and it’d work. I feel more at risk of losing access to my accounts if I were to switch to passkeys, because I don’t fully grasp their long term lifecycle.

In my experience (as a long-time Vim and Vimium user), the keyboard shortcut support in Todoist was not good enough. It does cover most areas of the product, but I remember it not _feeling_ great. As if it was built first for mouse-use, with keyboard shortcuts added to it.

I tested Godspeed for 10-15 minutes, and I'm very impressed by what they built. There's a massive difference in how it feels to me.

Beyond that, I can't tell yet. Todoist certainly has an advantage in depth of the product, but for the keyboard-driven approach only, Godspeed is top notch.

If an admin passes along, it would be worthwhile to change the title to "Cisco closes acquisition of Splunk".

He has a video on his channel where he explains that he’s making these videos alone after having started to learn Blender a few years ago. And that’s why he has so few videos.

I definitely see what you mean: it’d look bad from a big production, but it looks unbelievable to me from one person. I can’t quite comprehend it really.

I agree that the algorithm is weird.

To start with, it feels like 30% of the videos are videos I’ve already watched.

The rest tends to be a very naive list of things related to the last ten videos I’ve watched including many that were recommended before that I didn’t watch and never will. Often I pull down to refresh and it alternates between two lists and that’s it.

I know recommendations are a complex problem but the results seem very far off from what I’d expect.

According to the story, it all happened in the same afternoon and she was able to get the money on the spot, albeit going to a different floor.

To me it’s like magic tricks/illusions.

As if David Copperfield had an idea to make the Statue of Liberty disappear. He has a plan he thinks will work, but it doesn’t. So instead, the audience is made entirely of stooges. And we’re made to believe that they’re all random people.

Or it works, and he can actually put random people for whom the illusion will work!

Either way it only really works on TV if you believe that the live audience is real. If it’s a fake audience, anyone can do it, and it’s not interesting. (there are many well known magicians who use stooges and/or camera tricks all the time)

I feel the same here. The very reason people liked the video was the process he presented, not just the result. So lying about it is lame.

And I think it's unfortunate because he could have posted almost the same video with just saying "and… it didn't quite work! So I edited my real yarn logos and threads to get the final clip" and it would still be a cool result.

Fair. I had to edit the title for length, and am not sure how to make it more explicit while staying under the limit.

It's not about not being able to imagine the need or not. It's from seeing people driving their cars at highly dangerous speeds all the time (easily 20mph faster than most people who are already driving 10-15mph over the limit). If it were only dangerous to the driver, it'd be one thing but they put others in danger. There are countless stories of speeding drivers killing bystanders.

No one has ever a need to drive at 120+mph.

Interesting idea. I think most people will hate it and there are many technological reasons for it to be problematic.

Can it be abused too? Say I have an old car without that limit, harass or attack someone then speed up by only going 15 over the limit? What about emergencies? What about motorbikes in that law?

A ton of unintended consequences to consider.

However, I don’t think any car needs to be able to go over certain speeds, and that could be a place to start. Would the limit be 90, 100mph?

Maybe get a way to unlock on a race track, but beyond that, some advertised top speeds are absurd.