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bythreads··on Yggdrasil Network
6lowpan was also a pretty nice attempt at overcoming some of the deficiencies - i think that operated on both lvl 2 and 3
bythreads··on Control iPhone with the movement of your eyes
It works by tracking reflective spots on your eyes (glare) i would guess, try some light you can tolerate?
bythreads··on Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen
You're super wrong. Pro here working with this stuff for decades.

There was a brief moment in time where freehand was just a better and faster drawing tool than illustrator (which is whats is shown here) but from there on psp, ill & indesign have pretty much killed all competition out there.

The formats they use are sigularly stupid and arcane for legacy reasons, they are all mem hogs and inefficient to the extreme - but nothing beats that unholy trifecta and it is used it or die.

Now to get the point: generative fill is one of the absolute killer features of psp - in an instant it does what could take multiple hours to do previously with 5-10 sec of watching a loader.

There are many mor gamechangers and this really looks like another

bythreads··on Starbase: SQLite on the Edge
May I just say; hell yeah on the brand identity! - finally someone has the guts to actually have an identity instead og pastel based standard b2b shit.

Last time I saw that was zendesk with their Buddha's and weird tonal audio devices.

Edited for corrected semi-colon because I'm haunted by a grammar-nazi.

bythreads··on A different kind of keyboard (2021)
Author's entry on Delaunay triangulation is pretty rad :

https://ianthehenry.com/posts/delaunay/

bythreads··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)
Posting for an Outstanding Friend

Location: Denmark, Northern Europe

Remote: Yes, open to hybrid

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite, Premiere, Aftereffects, Audition, HTML, some Javascript, Hindeburg, PAAS editing tools, Avid, Protools, Remote management, Team mangement, Producing and Directing, Audio editing and Transcribing, World wide Production, World Wide team management and procurements, fixer, general technologist and organiser.

Résumé/CV: Award-winning Director, Producer, and Documentarian with a Degree in Anthropology

Hi, I am Katrine. I am a creative Producer, Director, and Anthropologist with a passion for crafting visual and audio stories in new and innovative ways. My storytelling approach is personal, emotional, and objective. I aim to explore and reflect both subjective experiences and universal themes of human life, shaping them into engaging narratives that impact the world.

Latest Job: humanizing medical conditions through video and audio storytelling for Novo Nordisk. Producing for Al Jazeera, BBC, and Belgian National Television.

Skills:

- Advanced production and management skills (e.g., organized COP15 and a political event for the Canadian Prime Minister in Africa). - Proficient with all editing and audio production tools. - Experienced Videographer, Cinematographer, and professional-level audio mastering/recording. - Specialized in TV and radio software. - Skilled with professional-level camera equipment and have a full suite of pro-level gear available (Sony FX).

CV & work samples available here: https://fairfemmes.dk/

Email: katrine.weber@gmail.com

bythreads··on Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
agree enums in typescript are the devil
bythreads··on Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
That's not entirely true. `z.string()` in Zod offers more than just type safety akin to TypeScript. TypeScript provides compile-time type checking, while Zod adds runtime validation and parsing.

For those unfamiliar:

`z.string()` effectively converts `mySchema` into a functional schema capable of parsing and validation.

For example:

`mySchema.parse("some data")` returns successfully.

`mySchema.parse(321)` throws an exception.

I've used it in places where you need runtime validation and in process verification - it works pretty well for that and you can extract the types from it via :

const A = z.string(); type A = z.infer<typeof A>; // string

Meaning if you define your types in zod first, and infer their types from that you get compile and runtime type checking.

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It a bit of an overkill for nimble and fast code bases though - but works wonders for situations where in process proofing needs to be done, and in all honesty it isn't that big of a task to do this.

bythreads··on CSS Classes Considered Harmful
Just use web components, and use trie attributes instead.
bythreads··on Design a GraphQL Schema So Good, It'll Make REST APIs Cry
I apprecciate the article, my own experiences have been dismall. GraphQL seems like a boon but in my experiences ends up being slow, overly complicated and extremely hard to read.

May be me though

bythreads··on How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy?
Half baked for sure, but : I thought given the ultra precise location and clocks, combined with the laser coms you could build a large array, or a inferometer with a baseline the size of the leo orbit.

Could be used for whole sky surveys, transient detections, wide angle monitoring, and high res imaging (granted this last one might require more operational finesse than a 5 dollar webcam c ould give you since you'd need fractional wavelength accuracy (right?). A radio antenna pointing outwards would in all honesty probably be better.

But 42.000 x X mega pixels in orbit pointing outwards at least will give you some nice big piles of data to play woth - and the downlink is baned in

bythreads··on How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy?
I always thought spacex should stick a 5 dollar webcam to each sattelite pointing upwards and create the worlds largest telescope to just shut everybody up
bythreads··on Show HN: I made a new sensor out of 3D printer filament for my PhD
Congrats and if I may; your blog post should be how ph.d's are done - readable, understandable and devoid of techno mumbling.
bythreads··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
That seems like a very very political site judging from the other articles - also seems ai generated half of it - sure this holds up?
bythreads··on Retired teacher's pension stopped as provider refuses to believe she is not dead
Just shows how generally unfathomable weird it is that most of the world does not have a uuid for a person assigned at birth - like the nordics do
bythreads··on Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters?
all your skills are moot if you don't know how to sell. Don't make the common mistake of "iterating in the basement" and when you need to goto market you flop around, spend too much time on a website and kinda expect things to "just happen".

I would not start ANYTHING before you figure out if you like this part of it, otherwise its just a "expensive hobby".

To figure this out, find something on Alibaba that costs a nickel that you think has some value, buy 10.000 units of it - figure out the shipping and import rigamarole and try selling it however you think works best.

if you like that experience and find it fun, and can "hack" it - return to your toaster.

bythreads··on PHP 8.1.25
Php/fi !!! ;)
bythreads··on McDonalds is giving free French fries in return for waiving the right to sue
Also all the bs with "if you use our site you automatically agree with our terms" is a lawsuit waiting to happen - the law is clear - the user must give clear and unequivocal consent - and it is also not ok to "agree with x, y and z by clicking here" that would require informed consent on x y and z seperately.

(Edit: eu for context)

bythreads··on McDonalds is giving free French fries in return for waiving the right to sue
Yes, all should - if you cannot with 100% surety tell what a user said yes to the contract is void. I've successfully litigated against 4 companies that did not.

90% of companies just have a Boolean in a db.

bythreads··on Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off
Show me those numbers!.

adjusting for cost of Living, healthcare, insurance, childrearing costs (free education) and taxes i betcha that statement is factually wrong

bythreads··on Show HN: I built a virtual tabletop for playing Dungeons and Dragons
Same here, As i grew older the "theater sports" of it became infinitely more interesting - to such a degree that the dices are only used for randomness these days.

We sometime play "dogma" scenarios where you are: a geriatric near 1st lvl , a 12 year old 1st lvl thief etc. but i'm getting old so these days its a social happening and not an all out drinking slugfest

bythreads··on 2023 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Claudia Goldin
I'm pumped! She's cool - congrats to her!
bythreads··on Show HN: I made a all-in-one web app to help me with my freelance admin tasks
Make it free, recoup on bridging invoices at 2%
bythreads··on I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
What?, no - not really. Perhaps in fmcg specialty shops you'd get some creds - but as in tech you're primariæy judged on past projects not past x
bythreads··on GPT Excel
Man i just want to be able to use js instead of excels crappy meta dsl
bythreads··on How to parent more predictably (2018)
Danish: https://via-ritzau-dk.translate.goog/pressemeddelelse/nordis...
bythreads··on How to parent more predictably (2018)
Out of curiosity: is that legal in your neck of the woods?, its a punishable offense over here.
bythreads··on Launch HN: Electric Air (YC W23) – Heat pump sold directly to homeowners
From a country where these are super normal: The air inside gets bone dry due to the hx and humidity of outdoors vs indoors.

Its super unhealthy, but a good design avoids this by using either an entalpic(moisture permeable) hx or a rotor hx (humidity is controllable)

If you really want to be different do this, not just a fancy cover and an api...

bythreads··on It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness
Reads like ai
bythreads··on Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile
Coming from a european perspective this is just completely balls to the walls nuts. Reminds me if that Danish mother who was arrested in N.Y. For leaving her kids sleeping in a tram outside a cafe window (with her on the other side)

You guys (as a general completely unfounded generalization) live and breathe fear.

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