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There is a PDF and a PNG in the docs/ folder (https://github.com/polarsys/b612/tree/master/docs), too.

asciimoon 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

Cmd+f, "vim", Cmd+w

Update: jokes aside, this is a great read. Adding vim keybindings would violate the principles of this project.

asciimoon Magic the Gathering content creator pleas YouTube to stop scammer bot deluge

The YouTube API has `list`, `setModerationStatus`, and `markAsSpam` endoints. Could a service automatically moderate comments using its own heuristics?

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/comments

asciimoon Magic the Gathering content creator pleas YouTube to stop scammer bot deluge

Yet YouTube will shut down entire channels if there's a whiff of copyright infringement.

asciimoon Magic the Gathering content creator pleas YouTube to stop scammer bot deluge

Charge an inbox entry fee. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20181023-people-pay-20-...

asciimoon NFT the DP

TIL that NFT would have been different if Trump had won.

asciimoon NFT the DP

The Interplanetary File System is a decentralized solution.

https://docs.ipfs.io/how-to/mint-nfts-with-ipfs/#mint-an-nft...

asciimoon Red seaweed supplementation reduces enteric methane by over 80% in beef steers

"I can keep eating steak because Science is about to solve that problem..."

asciimoon Red seaweed supplementation reduces enteric methane by over 80% in beef steers

> You may be surprised to learn that cattle herd size has remained relatively stable over time.

Absolutely surprised. Do you have science to back up this claim? ... That goes back more more than a couple decades?

asciimoon A 10-second video clip sold for $6.6M

DRM isn't a good analogy, because no one is prohibited from experiencing most NFTs. You can't legally watch a DRM protected movie or listen to a DRM protected audio file if you didn't buy the privilege. But you can look at NFT GIFs, JPGs, movies all you want without paying a penny.

Though the DRM analogy may work in applications that interact with NFTs. For example, games with unique items. The application would limit the full experience of a tokenized object to the owner alone. For example, only n00b5lay3r may equip the Golden Sword of Evisceration, because it's in their wallet.

asciimoon A 10-second video clip sold for $6.6M

NFTs remain fully accessible to everyone, unlike DRM assets and invite-only apps. The difference is that a human can pull out their wallet and prove that they have a high level of status linked to the NFT. This is even better than famous paintings, baseball cards, or Cabbage Patch kids because everyone can have the exact same experience with the thing as the "owner. Though, without the dizzying ego high.

asciimoon How bad is your Spotify?

I got 0%!

asciimoon Eat butterflies with me?

> I was hired as an assassin. You don’t bring in a 37-year-old woman to review John Updike in the year of our Lord 2019 unless you’re hoping to see blood on the ceiling.

I'm hooked already.

asciimoon South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes

This is the first thing I thought about when I saw the Sassy Michael Cain. This is the only thing I remember from The Trip.

asciimoon HomePod Mini

I agree with this "innovation is dead" sentiment. Apple used to be pioneers and futurists. Now they focus on retaining their well-defined market. This almost makes sense, except they have such a tremendous amount of cash they can afford to take risks.

asciimoon Trapped in his body for 12 years, a man breaks free (2015)

Many people can be great in wheelchairs, too :) https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27554754

asciimoon A researcher on how to live a happy life

So if you ask people if they’d be happier living in California or the Midwest, most people say California. Actually the regions have comparable life satisfaction, but people say California because they think of the weather and fail to take account of other things, such as the fact that California is full of tedious hippies.

The author does not cite research about about how "tedious hippies" make people sad, nor demographic evidence that California is "full of" them.

asciimoon Circle of Competence: Avoid Ambiguity Traps

Yeah, that knocked me off balance, too. But it's a thing, if antiquated: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/man-...

asciimoon Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

I think that Pandora's recommendation results are far superior to Spotify's, thanks to the Music Genome Project. I think Spotify does some basic "A likes X and B likes X, so if A likes Y, B will like Y" processing. My ideal-new music-discovery workflow gets the best of both worlds: find stuff on Pandora, and use the results to create playlists on Spotify.

asciimoon What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture, part 2

One inherent inefficiency about mega farms is that most of the soy (not sure how much of the corn, but a lot) goes to feed animals. Eventually, we "harvest" 10% of the input energy as calories. So these systems will never be more than 10% efficient in terms of human sustenance, no matter what technology is thrown at them.

Soy use in Brazil: https://globalforestatlas.yale.edu/amazon/land-use/soy

Trophic levels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level#Biomass_transfer...

asciimoon Twilio’s Dutch rival MessageBird plans an IPO

I remember when MessageBird was giving away free tacos across the street from Twilio's Signal conference. Left me feeling that their brand is tacky and desperate. On the other hand, I learned that there was an alternative to Twilio. And got free tacos.

asciimoon A $35 keyboard for children transformed me into a novelist

I like this idea. Like having a grub boot option for GhostWriter (https://www.linux.com/news/ghostwriter-linux-distro-writers/) or something similar.

asciimoon Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?

I like that his book is hands-on right from the start, and immediately defuses one's fear of electricity with exercises such as touching a battery to your tongue, blowing a fuse, and burning out an LED.

asciimoon Transcribed police scanners in real-time

* For entertainment purposes only.

asciimoon Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach

Delaying the spread also buys time to develop therapies and vaccines.

asciimoon Tour of My Roof

I'm going to guess a Boston suburb. Or Philly. I dunno, maybe Queens.

asciimoon My Famicase Exhibition 2020

Thanks for the greatly needed context.

asciimoon Age Reduction Breakthrough?

> A couple of years ago, my now 43 year old partner was mistaken for her teenage doppelganger and asked to the high school prom by three different boys while walking home from work.

Pretty sure I saw this movie in the 80s.

asciimoon Goat2Meeting

This is genius. Farm animal sanctuaries educate consumers about the cruelty of animal agriculture while providing a compassionate home for rescued farm animals to live out their lives. People tour the sanctuaries and meet animals that they would never otherwise meet, and learn that they're at least as interesting and lovable as the dogs and cats we would never consider eating.

These nonprofit organizations are expert in caring for animals, so it's surprising to see such a tech savvy response to the pandemic. The pandemic has shut public access to sanctuaries, but this idea means potentially more people can now meet these animals. Another great story about human creativity and adaptability in the face of crisis.

asciimoon Show HN: Live Stand-Up Comedy from Home

All this may be historically true. But entertainment has been evolving since the birth of the internet, and some entertainers will evolve with it. Yes, this is a poor substitute for conventional stage stand-up. But surely the core of a talented "funny person" can be adapted to this new format.

There's an interesting phenomenon with late night hosts doing their monologues from home. They're really bad at it (at least they were for the first couple of weeks). They're writing the same type of material they wrote in their televised audience shows; same type of language, same topics, same timing. It was really awkward. A common critique was, "My 16 year old daughter does better youtube than _______" (e.g., Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers). So maybe this is the dawn of of a new era, and the big TV stars will either adapt or fade away.