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dengsauveon Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

The top down view of upcoming traffic complications ahead of a forward angled view of your surroundings seems incredibly practical to me.

I'm fortunate to not suffer motion sickness in general, but I showed this to my wife for 5 seconds and she was feeling motion sick.

Personally, I love it. It's fun, and I look forward to using it one day in lieu of exclusively top down or forward angled alone nav tools.

dengsauveon Claude Code for Infrastructure

I use Pulumi for work, and their AI solution (Pulumi Neo) works amazingly well in troubleshooting cloud issues. It's informed of the cloud state and recent changes right from their platform, which is pretty amazing. Compared to using Azure CoPilot for the same purposes, Pulumi Neo was faster in generating responses, and these responses were actionable and solved my issues. CoPilot was laughably useless comparably.

dengsauveon Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

Had a blast playing around w/prompts and listening to the various results.

I play piano, sax, guitar, and I can sing well enough. I'm garbage at songwriting and composing. I immediately see the value of using this tool to scaffold an idea out. I think being able to export lyrics and chord progressions would be an amazing paid feature to keep this as a freemium product.

dengsauveon I bought a cheap electric pickup truck from Alibaba (2021)

Pretty hilarious how negative the original article comments are, and it turned out after a year of use the author has nothing but positive things to say: https://electrek.co/2022/07/25/electric-mini-truck-how-its-h...

I think there's a large education gap surround EVs that needs to be filled. Hopefully more articles and experiments like this continue to appear. If you have an EV, consider spreading the word - good and bad. It's important to talk about all aspects to both bring more users into the EV fold, and address existing issues.

dengsauveon Temporal: Getting started with JavaScript's new date time API

I was equally disappointed to see this feature absent.

dengsauveon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2021)

  Location: Portland, OR
  Remote: Yes, not required
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Full Stack - Vue, Laravel and PHP, Angular, .NET core.
  Résumé/CV: https://resume.dennissauve.com
  Email: dengsauve@yahoo.com

dengsauveon USPS Awards Contract to Modernize Postal Delivery Vehicle Fleet

I don't understand why USPS would contract out designing a new vehicle instead of buying American SUVs built for Europe - all the amenities of a modern SUV, plenty of parts and mechanics to repair them, and they'll have been built by a real car company, not some "Tactical Vehicle Manufacturer". Best of all, they'll have that right-hand-drive that Postal workers love so much.

We can't even do something as simple as upgrading the post office vehicles without bringing in defense contractors. Give me a break. Put that money towards a company of peace, or at least the company that will cost USPS the least.

dengsauveon Prodoscore: The Bleak Future of Work

I recently took a sales pitch from Prodoscore, and I'm now concerned about a "global employment score" that might become a new barrier to employment.

dengsauveon Gmail having issues

We are seeing a lot of email bounced back, but otherwise usable.

dengsauveon Pianists for Alternatively Sized Keyboards

I don't think this is specifically to give anyone an advantage, more like how there are differently sized guitars/violins/cellos for differently sized people.

dengsauveon Pianists for Alternatively Sized Keyboards

The 3 suggested sizes are large (current standard) and two smaller keyboards.

I would like to humbly submit a 4th change. The large keyboard, but with narrower black keys. I have the hand size and range to play well on a large keyboard, but my biggest struggle has been my wide fingers being unable to fit between the black keys (only by a few millimeters).

I have large hands and I used to be able to play very well, but in college it began to get harder and harder to get my fingers between the keys.

dengsauveon Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020?

Love this, definitely have uses for it in the future.

dengsauveon Show HN: CLI plain-text notes & bookmarks with Git, sync, encryption, and more

This looks fantastic, just from a quick download and playing around for 5 minutes I know this is going to come in handy. I don't always have a note taker open, but I almost always have a terminal open.

dengsauveon Git Exercises

Thank you for posting this, when I cloned the repo initially from the site, configure.sh was not included.

dengsauveon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2020)

Location: Washington state, US

Remote: Either

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: VueJS, Angular, AWS, Laravel, Ruby,

Résumé/CV: https://resume.dennissauve.com

Email: dengsauve@yahoo.com

I'm a full stack developer that works well with clients and coworkers alike. Currently working as a developer, but there's no room for growth. Looking to relocate to anywhere on the West Coast (Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, etc.)

Interested in management positions in the future, and looking for a company where I can grow into management.

dengsauveon Little Things I Like to Do with Git (2017)

I dig it, definitely some commands mentioned here I found useful, and the --word-diff is so nice. Thanks for sharing.

dengsauveon Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?

I learned at my first web dev job that no one outside the dev/marketing sphere knows just how much of their visit to e-commerce sites is tracked.

From technologies like Hotjar that record your mouse movements on a given webpage, to simple IP address logging (who visited this page on our site, from what referrer, etc.), people really have no clue how closely their actions are being monitored.

However, as with lots of data analysis, their personal information alone means almost nothing. Their data in the aggregate of all visitors' data is valuable for analyzing conversion rates, if and how their banners are working, etc.

I can't speak to the ethics of this, nor do I care to. I don't believe it's right to track so much interaction without duly notifying the customer it's happening, but I have very little aside from a sense of common courtesy to back that belief up.

The experience has given me a new appreciation for JavaScript blocker extensions, which before I had believed are no longer really needed. It's also given me an insight as to the value of an e-commerce page over a physical store location.

For example: Say I go to my local Target. If I'm looking at cameras, and the sales person asks if I need any help, or whatever, and I say no, they go away, and the interaction is over.

But lets say I go to their website. Immediately, a personal session with this page is created for me, even though I don't know it. I'm tracked from the home page, to their electronics sections, to the Camera subsection. My movements in figuring out the search filters is being tracked, my mouse movements over the available products is tracked, all adding data to create a "heatmap" of that webpage.

Even if I don't buy a thing, I've given them little pieces of information to be used in analyzing their site. My visit will be considered a failure to their marketers, and the data surrounding my failure to buy will be used to retool their site in the hopes of getting people like me next time.

dengsauveon “May You Live in Interesting Times”

100% a quote by Harry Kim in Voyager

dengsauveon An Expensive Lesson About Office Politics

I guess I hadn't considered it from that perspective. I wasn't privy to anything happening above my pay-grade, outside of office chatter. I thought we had a pretty good shot of success, but you're right, there was no guarantee of success.