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cnees··on iPhone Duo
As an average height woman with average hands, I want 1) an Apple + Levi's collaboration to put iPad Mini sized pockets in women's jeans 2) a phone slightly smaller than the SE so I can reach the furthest corner with my thumb
cnees··on Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal
I’ve known two people who experienced psychosis after quitting their meds. One was retired and rode it out, but the other quit his job and ended up being committed, totally upending his life.
cnees··on Building the Grace Cathedral experience
I used to live just down a (very steep) block. I'd pass it on my walk to and from Trader Joe's and often stop inside. I met friends on the steps, I walked the mazes, I went to events, and I explored the building and grounds. It's very nostalgic to revisit it again. I hope I get the chance to go back to SF before too long.
cnees··on How to earn a billion dollars
Another solid interpretation is that nobody gets a billion in wages. You have to own something that appreciates, and it appreciates because of the people who work for you, and you take disproportionately much of the benefit.
cnees··on How to earn a billion dollars
"It's impossible to earn a billion" means it's impossible to work hard enough to deserve to have a billion dollars in a world where so many people died for lack of money, not that it's impossible to get it without cheating.
cnees··on It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle
Figure 2 is beautiful!
cnees··on A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
It's about time. Google is doing so much to keep the web usable. They're the only ones with the teeth to back up standards for mobile web load time, max sender spam rates, leaving browser history alone, etc.
cnees··on The Xkcd thing, now interactive
Challenge: Rearrange the blocks into a stable configuration without losing any offscreen
cnees··on ai;dr
Re: unsettling Perhaps it could replace any characters that will go on to be deleted with astrisks.
cnees··on Children and Helical Time
This is the paragraph that grabbed my attention. I wasn't expecting to find something so human.

I remember coming to the realization during my more challenging school years that waiting all week for Saturday to come was literally wishing my life away. I didn't know what burnout was at the time, but an angel of a friend recognized it and helped me understand.

cnees··on Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time
I can't recommend enough ordering a $10 collapsible ball pen. My son understood even at age 2 that some toys needed to be played with in his play pen, and it means I can let him play with toys with hundreds of pieces and then scoop them all up at once.
cnees··on Colors of Growth
I'm 0% convinced. You can tell from a color palate whether some wallpaper was from the 70's or 80's, but that tells you nothing about the economic conditions and everything about what colors were in style.
cnees··on Don't push AI down our throats
Amazon's Price History feature certainly doesn't need to open their AI assistant, but in addition to be graph I came for, I get a little summary of the graph. I really hope they aren't using an LLM for that when all it's doing is telling me it's the lowest price in 30 days.
cnees··on Neopets.com changed my life (2019)
Neopets itself. Codepen and Khan Academy also let you share your HTML/CSS creations, and they add support for JS, but they don't have the game/pets elements that make coding petpages fun.
cnees··on Looking for Hidden Gems in Scientific Literature
OpenAlex has 240M. https://docs.openalex.org/api-entities/works

CORE has 431M. https://core.ac.uk/data

Crossref has 165M. https://www.crossref.org/blog/2025-public-data-file-now-avai...

These datasets are all biased towards work published in the digital age, but it's important to note that work is coming out much faster now than it used to.

cnees··on iPhone Pocket
On one hand, I want bigger pockets that fit my iPhone, and on the other hand, I want smaller iPhones that fit in one female-sized hand.
cnees··on iPhone Pocket
I'm still waiting for them to collaborate with Levi's to bring iPhone sized pockets to women's jeans.
cnees··on I hate screenshots of text
We use Slack and GitHub, so it's trivial to send formatted text or a file/line link and I basically never have to deal with screenshots of text. I guess this is just a nice reminder for me to be grateful.
cnees··on When is it better to think without words?
I've certainly noticed a bit of a pattern where programmers who can listen to podcasts or lyrics while they code (I can't; I rely too much on my verbal center for coding) can operate much faster and solve more complex problems than your average bear. They're rare, so I don't have enough data to feel certain, but I have a suspicion that sometimes they're forced into it by living in noisy environments where tuning out the words or thinking without them makes more sense.
cnees··on Jupyter Collaboration has a history slider
Probably related to today's massive AWS outage
cnees··on Show HN: Sober not Sorry – free iOS tracker to help you quit bad habits
Perfect! I like the percentage and daysweeks remaining features.
cnees··on Jupyter Collaboration has a history slider
Both collaboration and history are killer features. I'm going to have to try this out at work!
cnees··on Show HN: Sober not Sorry – free iOS tracker to help you quit bad habits
Days/weeks elapsed/remaining and approximate size. Some tell you info about pregnancy symptoms by week or month as well, but that's less important to me the second time around.
cnees··on Show HN: Sober not Sorry – free iOS tracker to help you quit bad habits
I gave up on finding a pregnancy tracker with no sign in, let alone no ads, so I guess this is what I'm using now!
cnees··on A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Financially, it's a bit of a wash because this affects their competition just as much as it affects them. Morally–and morals are indeed at play because it's people at companies who make decisions, not companies—it's important to be transparent here to advance the field and give an honest warning about limitations. Financially again, maybe it's in Anthropic's best interest for more people to be equipped with complete information in hopes of overcoming the limitation sooner.
cnees··on The US has a new most powerful laser hitting 2 petawatts
A previous press release lists some research applications and potential practical developments. https://news.engin.umich.edu/2019/09/most-powerful-laser-in-...
cnees··on The US has a new most powerful laser hitting 2 petawatts
In femtoseconds!
cnees··on ZEUS – A new two-petawatt laser facility at the University of Michigan
I got a tour of the lab during construction. As a software engineer, what I found most incredible about the project was how well they stuck to their delivery proposal and timeline over the course of five years of development.
cnees··on Storytelling lessons I learned from Steve Jobs (2022)
Agreed. I was in eighth grade and even I knew Apple was making an ApplePhone.
cnees··on How to avoid losing items? Holding pens
Why would holding a pen stop me from losing things? Seems like I'd just end up losing the pen too. Ooooooh, a holding pen.
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