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brandonhorst··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
This is not true, running your code on your phone with Xcode has always been free.
brandonhorst··on Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy
AirPods Pro :)
brandonhorst··on Just use a button
This is incorrect. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
brandonhorst··on Just let me select text
While I agree with you in general, keep in mind that there are plenty of languages where seeing the characters doesn't give you any info about how to type them. No copy-paste means you'd need to rely on OCR.
brandonhorst··on Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...
brandonhorst··on The gem Apple discontinued: the 11-inch MacBook Air (2019)
Everyone is lying to you. Assuming you're talking about the iOS Simulator, the MacBook Air will do you just fine.
brandonhorst··on Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes
I really love this. A book was recommended to me that I'm not going to have time to read, but this UI is an amazing way to figure out the main ideas and dive deeper into the interesting ones.

No idea if the things it's telling me are true or not, but that doesn't matter quite as much in this case.

brandonhorst··on Show HN: Term Typer – Learn a language by typing
I wonder how well this approach would work with handwriting and Hanzi/Kanji. Don't focus too much on learning, just write the characters and learn the meanings over and over again.
brandonhorst··on Show HN: A user-friendly UI for viewing and editing Markdown files
If you don't want the automation stuff, it's perfectly usable for free.
brandonhorst··on Ace of Aces: Why you should do maths as a game designer
I to remember having the exact same thought with the original Pokemon games. I could never wrap my head around how the battles could handle randomness.
brandonhorst··on GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates
It answers this in the 3rd sentence of the page.

"As with all our APIs, data sent in and out of the fine-tuning API is owned by the customer and is not used by OpenAI, or any other organization, to train other models."

brandonhorst··on AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs
It's nice that we named it so forward-thinking. Not a necessarily Completely Automated Public Turing test to Keep Computers Out.
brandonhorst··on ‘Hot Ones’ Was a Slow Burn All Along
I'll advocate for Lex Friedman (https://lexfriedman.com) and say that you're actually talking about Lex Fridman. :)
brandonhorst··on Ask HN: Are things getting more convenient but less satisfying?
This is a false dichotomy. There is value in the normal social interactions of a workplace even if they don't become lifetime friends. Seeing people during the day, small talk, having relationships come and go - these are healthy and enjoyable things even if they never get deeper.
brandonhorst··on Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
You can do exactly this with BetterTouchTool. You can also set it up with Hammerspoon.
brandonhorst··on My macOS keyboard shortcuts
This is an easy fix: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39972335/how-do-i-press-...
brandonhorst··on What I learned from running a concierge search engine
The problem is that this then becomes a cache invalidation problem. Many of the examples presented will be outdated in 1 year, and completely wrong in 5. How can you know which answers need to turnover and when?
brandonhorst··on Please don't ask founders existential questions
> It is almost certain that if someone is smart enough to build a search engine while living off of ramen, they also know more about what Google is capable of.

I'm not sure this is a given. Tons of brilliant developers (myself included) build complex products without having ever considered the market, or just assuming that users will come out of the woodwork if it's technically awesome enough.

Seems to me that if a founder doesn't have immediate answers to some of these "existential questions", that's a red flag right there.

brandonhorst··on Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4
It's all based off the CoL in county of your primary residence. Has nothing to do with the proximity to an office.
brandonhorst··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
I wrote and maintain Lacona, a Mac productivity App (https://lacona.app). The majority of my revenue comes from being a part of the Setapp subscription service.
brandonhorst··on Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (2015)
It would work fine as long as everyone consuming the shopping list has a reasonable idea what normal things your shopping lists. Things like "kili sike loje" (red round fruit) are ambiguous but are no doubt close enough to jog your memory enough to work.

The toughest part that comes to mind would be particular spices. You would probably need to start borrowing words to distinguish between things like thyme and rosemary ("namako Tin", "namako Loseli")

brandonhorst··on T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked
Google Fi and Google Voice are not the same thing - Fi has no such built-in protection.
brandonhorst··on We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship
Off topic, but looking through the comments, so many people seem to believe that any multi-family housing is noisy. That has literally never been my experience despite living exclusively in multi-family housing for the past 15 years. Sometimes I can hear my neighbor's kid when they're directly outside my front door. That's it.

Have the folks who think that apartments are noisy just never lived in apartment? Or is my experience the skewed one?

brandonhorst··on We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship
Very interesting discussion about exactly that misconception in this interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxykI30fS54
brandonhorst··on Concrete: The material that's 'too vast to imagine'
Since moving to Boston I have only lived in multi-family wooden houses, and this just isn't true, at least with modern-ish insulation. I can occasionally hear my upstairs neighbor's dog when she gets excited, and precisely nothing else.
brandonhorst··on They're Made Out of Meat (1991)
That's not how that works. Traveling 100 light years will take >100 years for the folks on the ship no matter how fast it's going.
brandonhorst··on New things in Android 11
"App Suggestions" doesn't mean ads for Apps that you don't have, it means suggestions to quick-launch apps you already have installed.

Android already does this at the top of the applications list, just not directly on the home screen.

brandonhorst··on Show HN: Lacona – Search and natural language commands for Mac
It's definitely a trade-off. I am betting that for some users, the discoverability and simplicity of typing natural language wins out over syntax that needs to be learned - but it's not for everyone.

It does support fuzzy matching, so you could always type "rmt" in place of "remind me to" and so forth.

brandonhorst··on Show HN: Lacona – Search and natural language commands for Mac
In addition to supporting search, it supports natural-language commands.

You can use it like Spotlight (type to search), but then you have options beyond just opening - you can move files, or complete reminders, or create events. Or you can use it closer to Siri (but with a keyboard), and type in a natural-language command.

brandonhorst··on Show HN: Lacona – Search and natural language commands for Mac
That's the goal I want it to fill! It's powerful and 95% of the features are completely free, I'd encourage you to give it a shot.
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