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hiisukun

1,268 karma · joined September 26, 2016

Aussie pasta lover & amateur computer user.
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hiisukun··on Features lost across versions of macOS
I noticed this most recently when having selected "restart and update" for a system upgrade, and seeing the white apple on a black background with a progress bar, I bumped the play/pause key.

Sure enough, music.app launched in the background somehow and started playing!

hiisukun··on Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
Just in case others are curious:

  NOTE: Google Voice only works for personal Google Accounts in the US and Google Workspace accounts in select markets. Text messaging is not supported in all markets.
hiisukun··on Google CEO Sundar Pichai says its malfunctioning Gemini AI is 'unacceptable'
Just thought I'd chime in to say this is often called a 'vox pop'.
hiisukun··on John Locke's recipe for Pancakes (2021)
When my wife makes crepes, she mixes the recipe the night before in a jug. I don't know why (sorry!) but they turn out delicious and she swears this step is important. Lovely and thin, with a good consistency. I've also no idea if they are legit 'French crêpes'.

The recipe is:

- 1 cup of plain flour

- 1 large egg

- 1 1/3 cup milk (half milk half water usually too!)

- 2 tblspoons of melted butter

The first 3 are combined the night before and whizzed up, then left in the fridge. The melted butter you do on the morning of -- melt it in the pan then tip it into the other mixture and stir it a little. Having made it the night before is ideal if you're visiting a friend in the morning, too.

Your pan technique sounds identical to us : ) ... enjoy!

hiisukun··on Apple iPod Shuffle USB interface pinout
One of these is still currently in use in my household -- we've got a kid that likes music but is not yet old enough for any "smart device". Super portable, clips to the very over-ear headphones that it's plugged into!

I was never sure if I'd need to recreate make some cable for it, or if it's battery would fail first.

hiisukun··on YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix
I'm actually a little excited by the prospect of a large company (in this case Apple) having a battle with other big tech firms that might revolve around User-Agent, or at least the concept of identifying users and treating them differently based on the software/technology they are using to connect to your services.

I genuinely prefer the user experience of linux and firefox -- I'm not religiously opposed to Windows^, Chrome, MacOS, etc. I also don't generally complain when websites don't work well for me, or the experience isn't perfect, I know that kinda comes as a package deal.

But, I often know that package deal is unnecessary. Netflix might not want me to watch 4K because of requirements from copyright holders, or some website might not have tested on Firefox so they throw up an error page (even though standards are standards...). But if I lie about who I am sometimes things work perfectly -- and those are the moments when I feel the unfairness sitting just adjacent to me, resting it's hand on my arm.

In this case, I wonder how well Apple can make the web.spotify (and netflix etc) sites work on their hardware, and how much they will have to lie about who they are when they're connecting to those services. I'm absolutely confident that the hardware and software will be capable of correctly and capably displaying movies, playing music, etc. It's more a question of trust, truth, and power.

For me, in my little home on my little street, while I don't usually fight that battle I'm still aware of the potential injustice. But when the big dogs fight over it? I feel it's good for me, shining a light on these kinds of issue. Netflix doesn't want to spend money and put dev work in to making things work perfectly on Apple's headset? That makes perfect sense, no problem. But attempting to block it, if Apple has spent the time and money to make it work? That strikes me as unfair.

You might argue it's not a 100% clear cut issue - should platforms have some say in how their content is presented? - but I feel very comfortable disagreeing when a website says "must be viewed using ACME OS™", or even worse, "can be viewed everywhere except COMPETITOR OS™".

hiisukun··on Cars suck, man
For a lot of people, they replaced a 10 or 20 year old TV with a "smart" one. Then just a few years later, it didn't work properly -- apps not updated, UI slow or broken, logins failed, etc.

The TV was essentially fine, but the "smart" component had aged very poorly and made the whole thing less than satisfying.

You're talking about the great and convenient parts, but for many generations of smart tv those only last a short while.

hiisukun··on British Post Office Scandal
A similar, software based debt-recovery occurred in Australia from 2016-2020 [1]. The government of the day in 2015 figured they could recover ~$1.5B by automating some of the processes, since there were not enough people to investigate all the possible instances. The main issue was that the software scheme used averaging, which in some cases was not accurate.

As in this story, despite people immediately claiming issue with some of the methods, it was pursued for years. And again, in several cases it tragically resulted in suicides.

In the end, after ~$1.8B of repayments and a royal commission, a couple of people resigned but there was - at least in my view - no significant repercussions for the decision makers and responsible parties at the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme

hiisukun··on How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment
There's another episode, called rain, that you might enjoy if you haven't seen it (and some of the sibling commenters might too). There's no dialog, and it's a beautiful balance of the frustration and wonder that comes with parenting.
hiisukun··on Hasbro lays off nearly 20% of its workers
As someone who enjoyed board games for a little while, while playing with a group of friends on and off, I will say I was taken aback by just how separate these two categories are:

* hasbro board games * enjoyable board games

In fact, I would say that hasbro, and especially monopoly, are responsible for a huge chunk of people thinking all board games are terrible. When I was younger, I never understood why they didn't use their large corporate resources to either purchase or create some better games.. But nowadays I realise they are more like a toy and branding company - it's just not how they work.

hiisukun··on Making noisy SVGs
In case anybody ends up on the 'logo' page and clicks away after looking at the default waves, try a few of the 'presets' on the bottom-rightmost dropdown. It's really cool how different tweaks to the parameters yield interesting designs (like scorpion vs balance vs spruce).

Great stuff.

hiisukun··on Is my toddler a stochastic parrot?
This is good advice but with a caveat: some of the muscle control required for particular signs is not able to be learned by children until they're a bit older.

For example, voluntary supination/pronation of the forearm is generally not something a 9month old can do. If you try and teach them a common sign for "enough/finished" (fist closed, thumb pointed out, then rotation of the forearm back and forth), or "done" and "more" in the parent link, they probably won't be able to do it properly. They can copy something close to that (thumb out and wobbling their hand around? good enough!) so you have to go with the flow.

There are quite a few signs like that actually, so try and think about how many muscles move together, and how controlled or complex that is. Simple stuff is good -- and doable.

hiisukun··on Steam Deck OLED
I think this is important to prevent fragmentation -- it's too early in the steam deck product cycle for games to only run on "Steam deck OLED" if there was 10% extra performance.
hiisukun··on Hidden manuals: gittutorial, giteveryday, gitglossary, gitworkflow
That's cool, I didn't know about any of those, despite having read the git man page a few times. I think my brain skips over / ignores whole sections of man pages. Something to do with the order they are written in, and the fact that I'm always after something halfway down. A lot of /<search> <n> <n> for me.

If, like I often am, you are just after examples for a command you've used many times but forgotten common flags for (-r or -R?!), the online resource:

  $ curl cheat.sh/grep.    # or replace grep with <command>
will work in your terminal, minimum of fuss. There's the option of self-hosting it (docker based) if you are regularly working in an offline/lab environment.
hiisukun··on Teen boys use AI to make fake nudes of classmates, sparking police probe
I have some experience with this in a previous job -- one of the commenters here is right: going back to before smart phones, there has always been cut & paste nudes/porn made by kids. From magazines, through jpgs, now even mkvs.

However, even back in the day there has been quite the spectrum of just how bad this kind of thing is: one image of a crush, who is 17 (technically underage), shared with a best friend? Inappropriate but not across the line of "law enforcement action" even if the crush's parent is very offended.

A google drive link with 100s of pornographic deepfakes, of a single person (or sometimes many students) from a school, many of them 12-16 years old, shared extensively across the internet? This is a proper serious problem. Kinda like the difference between throwing a rock at a bus vs detonating a bomb in a train station. Both are some amount of kinetic force, but the magnitude is wildly different.

I'm not pretending that physical violence is the same as making pornographic imagery, but my experience in that field (no jokes plz!) shows a much stronger link than many would like to admit, from one to the next. It's useful for teenagers to learn where these boundaries are in their particular society - life is often more pleasant when ~everyone agrees on the local standards of behaviour and they are (mostly) followed.

As for police action where I lived, it too followed a broad spectrum: on one end, there is arrest and court action which on occasion is definitely warranted (another pun, sorry). On the flipside, there's educating kids about the reality of the world they live in: If you share a nude, it might get shared again -- consider not including your face and your reproductive organs in the same picture. If someone generates a fake picture of you, it'll feel hurtful and you will be wronged, but what if they wrote something mean (and fake) about you? Eventually you will need to deal with the fact that some people are arses.

Some combination of protecting victims (but also helping them grow a thick skin in this world), educating kids on what is appropriate so they can know there is some boundary where things move from 'funny' to 'wrong'. They usually already have a sense of 'private' vs 'public', though that distinction is a becoming lot blurrier/different for current young generations.

And nothing above has anything really to do with 'AI'.

hiisukun··on The fascist state of Paw Patrol (2021)
- Bluey - Sarah & Duck - Kiri & Lou - Hey Duggee - Numberblocks - Little J & Big Cuz

There's also a few classics in Australia like "Little Ted's Big Adventures" and "Big Ted's Adventures" and "Little Joey's Big Adventures" or similar, about a dozen episodes each looking at vehicles/sports/animals.

Play school is great once kids get to about 3 or 4 years old, lots of variety, language, things to learn, playing with physical objects in interesting ways.

If you want more of an American style but don't like Paw Patrol, you could try Blaze (a monster truck show that teaches counting and light physics) or Bat Wheels (just Batman themes cars, but it's higher quality than PP).

hiisukun··on Google moderates Google Collections items
Your comment made me a little curious about what this might include, and for me that same URL has only some lists of places I have saved in Google Maps (on Android).

They appear in the same categories but grouped as "collections", eg. "Want to go" and "Saved places", which are both default options and identified on the map by different icons.

hiisukun··on uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox
Is there any upside to mv3 in terms of ublock/adblocker usage detection?

I understand the significant security implications (whether or not you agree with mv3), but found myself wondering if the permissionless model might make it harder to detect a user adjusting the page at a different point in the request/response/draw cycle.

hiisukun··on There Is No Housing Crisis
I own the house I live in and would prefer its value did not increase! What do I benefit if my house is worth more? I pay higher rates (council -- ie. local government), have less options to move house (because other houses are just like mine, increasing in cost), and it makes me less mobile for work (because rents are likely to be up elsewhere to).

Owners who are using housing as an investment may want house prices to rise, but I don't. The shortfall between those two can be managed with tax, surely? I am no expert in this market, but owning one extra house would mean I assist with rental supply, owning two maybe moreso, but owning 5? 10? 100? Why is property tax not applied at a greater rate/value as the number of properties you own increases?

And of course, if there is money to be made investing in housing, institutional investors will capture that value readily, as they have done in Australia (and probably elsewhere I would imagine).

hiisukun··on The Sad Bastard Cookbook
Recommendation: Gado gado sauce from Indonesian (and some Malaysian) supermarket. Comes as a small square/rectangular brown block. Might be called gado gado salad dressing, bumbu kacang, sometimes sambel pecel. It's a block of pre-cooked peanut/satay style sauce that you add to some hot water, stir, and serve. Fragrant, hints of lime, good for unexpected vegan guests.

Delicious! Well worth having in the cupboard, keeps for a ~year. "Pedas" is spicy (ie. hot chilli), "tidak pedas" is not spicy, and "sedang" is medium (in that context anyway). Common export brands are Karangsari and Enak eco.

hiisukun··on Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
I'm not sure it covers all your features listed, but I use PhotoStructure [1] for the 'album' side of things. It's been mentioned a bit on HN, which is where I found it. Sharing is very open for me since I'm just sharing wholesale with family, but when I need to share specific images or albums to people, I usually do it via some other way that suits them -- so if they use messages, email, google drive, dropbox, or just want to download from a webpage (eg. caddy), I'll enable that.

I want an easier way to edit the comments on photos (as embedded metadata) that I haven't found yet. Any image browser where I can hit a convenient hotkey, type "Summer 2023 at the river with cousins X and Y" and move on would be great. If anyone has a suggestion I'm listening keenly! If this is built in to something on MacOS or a linux default desktop (like KDE or something I'm less familiar with), or is a small paid non-subscription app, I would buy it.

[1] https://photostructure.com/

hiisukun··on Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine
Just a casual +1 on this request, and thanks for the great website. I would also request a "I am not sure" option for the which muscles to train at the start.
hiisukun··on Learning needs to be effortful to be effective
I agree with most of everything you have said. That is common in many places, but exceptions are also regular enough to give good hope, and moreso in the post-graduate arena from what I have seen. Most of the people I know in this field work on or with theories that are more socio- than neuro-, but the balance is different at each institution.

Fortunately I see some very high quality and rigorous research techniques applied (with much less handwaving away of neuroscience) among my friends, but I don't need to look far for contrast. I don't work directly in this area, but am present for the pub discussions as it were.

However, I would say that statistical sophistication often seems to rely on the happenstance of cross-domain expertise. People only have so much time, knowledge, etc -- just the usual faults of humanity and organisations.

hiisukun··on Learning needs to be effortful to be effective
Hah -- nope, although the other person replying to you is a funny example, and it's true for at least one university near me. It was more of an indirect comment about forgetting to search for fields of expertise outside your own, despite potential proximity.
hiisukun··on Threads, an Instagram app
How silly of me! I guess I was hoping for both, somehow. A kind of fever dream where adding site:threads.fediverse.instagram.com to searches works for finding useful human generated content..
hiisukun··on Learning needs to be effortful to be effective
There is a field of education, that studies teaching and learning! In fact many of you who attended university and studied at a "school of computer science" would have been in a building next to a "school of education".

This post is interesting, but it reads like a layperson (from a teaching point of view) coming up with some fairly good theories of learning (of which there are quite a few) and discussing how applying them makes concrete differences in knowledge acquisition.

If I was to make a guess, I'd say that the 'effortful' component the author discusses is most aligned with something commonly called the "transformation" stage of learning -- where the student takes things they have heard, seen, or experienced and attempts to transform some part of the world using them. A silly but apt example would be watching a youtube video on solving a rubik's cube, then having to transform the state of a real rubik's cube using your new knowledge.

This idea, and related ones, continue to be discussed at length by those who develop curriculum for educational institutions, and at a more meta-level, those who develop lessons for students who will later write a curriculum! I see a few links in sibling comments to Aviation learning, Youtube, PBS, but not to documents produced by any university on theory of learning. Perhaps they need to better link their work for smart hn readers to find.

hiisukun··on Threads, an Instagram app
Maybe I missed something, but what's the equivalent of subreddits on Threads? I can see how I might discover posts from users that I follow or like -- but I actually don't ever do that on reddit. I just occasionally visit subreddits of topics that interest me, and that's a loose collection of users/content based on geography or interest or otherwise.

I feel like hashtags (where you can put them on any message you want) aren't quite the same thing, but maybe that's just because it makes cross-posting more of a blended experience, where I can't tell if replies are linked to the #localcitynearme or the #coffee tag. Their example post about the coffee shop is a great example -- I might be interested in the discussion if it was near me, in which case comments of other coffee shops around the corner might be fantastic. But if I was reading the post because I follow that user for their singing in a jazz band that I listen to, and I live in a different country, it's just total noise that I wouldn't want to read.

I've only viewed the 'web app store' page and not the real app store page, maybe there are more details there.

hiisukun··on Asus Zenfone 10
I couldn't see any information other than 'Android 13' on the page -- how long do Asus tend to support their devices for? Sibling comments about LineageOS do give me some hope that if I buy this for a family member that tends to keep their phones for 5-10 years, it might actually be able to go the distance.

Am I the only one who feels that a device this powerful and expensive lasting 2-3years (or less!) is crazy? Especially when it's a 'software' limitation.

hiisukun··on Nintendo reportedly issues DMCA takedown for Switch homebrew projects
Thankyou - that links to a great resource and looks like a fun project.
hiisukun··on 27-year-old pays $0 to live in a ‘luxury tiny home’–how she built it for $35,000
When I saw the wooden frame construction, I remembered I find it interesting that wood is so affordable in the US. Here in Australia, it's very expensive and often simply unavailable! I have an old door that is made of Western red cedar, and the price to get it repaired was "$noquote - materials unavail" from two different places.

It's not just the price of property that has grown, with younger generations looking to spend more for a smaller house, with a larger deposity and lengthier loan term -- the actual house they are buying is made of very different things. Some are improved (modern double glazing!) but many are just cheap and lack artistic style.

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