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iloveyouocean··on Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking
The 'tracking eyes' part is different, but once you have eye position data, the 'how the eyes interact with the interface' could be very similar.
iloveyouocean··on A Prototype Original iPod
There were quite a few programs that synced iTunes playlists to non-Apple phones. This supports your assertion that people were dependent on iTunes for library management, but not that there was lock-in to Apple hardware. I feel that it was the seamless ease of iTunes/iPod/iPhone that won, rather than a hard moat.
iloveyouocean··on Amiga Music Preservation
Buddha on a Bicycle, buddha1.far

I have been searching for this track for decades, but I fear it is lost forever. My favorite 'mod' track, created with the Farandole Composer software.

iloveyouocean··on Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19
My first, selfish question: When will the article that examines cognitive function in recovered people who were fully vaccinated before contracting COVID arrive?
iloveyouocean··on SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme
I completed the uBiome test in 2017. My insurance was billed $2535.02 and I subsequently owed $434.98, in addition to the uBiome test fee (I forget what that was). When I received the results I saw that there was no trace of the type of bacteria that was contained in my probiotic that I had been taking religiously for a long time.

Total scam from start to finish. Throw the book at them.

iloveyouocean··on Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
Robinhood is looking for a near term IPO. Who will take their stock public? Daddy told them to delist and they complied.
iloveyouocean··on Magic hat leaves behind a transformed craft beer industry in Vermont
The post title should be 'Magic Hat leaves behind a transformed craft beer industry in Vermont'. Magic Hat is the name of a company.
iloveyouocean··on California, Oregon and Washington announce western states pact
Waiting for the announcement of the formation of the 'Confederacy of Southern States' (I don't believe for a moment that Trump and the Republicans would hesitate to seize the opportunity and claim that it's simply 'parity'). In these times of hyper-partisanship, in the midst of a global pandemic, on the tip of a great recession or depression with untold economic hardship; I shudder at the potential for what politically aligned states banding together could lead to.

I hope I am overreacting, but my parameters for what I used to consider normal and possible have been shifted significantly and there seems to have formed a great open space of terrible possibility to be filled.

iloveyouocean··on Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
I have also used this exact mirror for about five years. And I agree that its great. And it will continue to be because the hot water inside will always be the same temp as the hot water outside, and thus no fogging. That really can't be improved on.
iloveyouocean··on Nebia (YC S15), a Shower Head Start-Up, Receives Funding from Tim Cook of Apple
Imagine the savings you would see by taking shorter showers, alternating days, and using a misting shower head.
iloveyouocean··on HIV flushed out by cancer drug
I wonder how the blood brain barrier is affected by the recent discovery of the linkage of the lymphatic system and the brain?
iloveyouocean··on What are your favourite sci-fi books?
A Fire Upon the Deep A Deepness in the Sky

both by Vernor Vinge

iloveyouocean··on YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video
Enqueue (available on Apple App Store) - simple, powerful interface, automatically finds/adds music to your library, support for many formats including FLAC
iloveyouocean··on By Making a Game Out of Rejection, a Man Conquers Fear
A master has lost more times than a novice has played.
iloveyouocean··on Unprecedented Level of Human Harm to Sea Life Is Forecast
Different time, different circumstances, but same human nature: how many buffalo, cod, otter . . . are there?
iloveyouocean··on Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63
Another addition to the painfully long list of tragic comedian deaths.
iloveyouocean··on Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
http://viddyjam.com

Pandora for music videos.

~40k/views

iloveyouocean··on My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player
Enqueue is fantastic.

Simple, efficient, plays a wide range of formats (including FLAC, APE), auto-scans music folders, etc.

iloveyouocean··on FDA Warning Letter to 23andMe
RE: Warfarin.

When you receive a Warfarin prescription, you begin very close monitoring that involves daily then weekly then monthly blood tests (for the rest of your life) to determine your dose and monitor the effect of the drug in your body. Someone choosing to take a lower dose because of 23andme results would be blatantly and intentionally disregarding the results of testing and the advice of their Drs. The 23andme result that you may be sensitive to Warfarin is something to mention at the outset of your treatment, and nothing more. Also, taking a lower than therapeutic dose of Warfarin would not cause an aneurysm, but would be more likely to cause a clot.

1) I dont see how 23andme results for Warfarin would in practice negatively effect a patients drug regime. 2) You seem to know very little about Warfarin and should take that into consideration when commenting on issues surrounding it.

iloveyouocean··on The $200K lesson I learned from getting shot
Beware the automatically played, LOUD advertisement.
iloveyouocean··on The De-evolution of My Laptop Battery
2012 Macbook Air: Cycles: 138 Health: 83%

Is this replacement worthy? What am I doing wrong?

iloveyouocean··on [dead]
Android apps/services down.
iloveyouocean··on Skeuocard
We implemented a form very similar to this about 7 years ago. (our form had light red borders around all the required fields that turned green when they had been filled, as well as some other differences). I was personally very enthusiastic about the beautiful design and thought that users would appreciate the skeuomorphism. Well, they didn't really care. If anyone was delighted by the design, it was offset by having to figure out how to use a new format of form. The form was also more difficult for us to maintain and test against different browsers. So, in the end we went back to a standard form type.
iloveyouocean··on Just Landed
Totally agree. When I first joined HN (2100+ days ago) there were posts nearly every day of the 'Show HN: My new startup/website/app/etc' type and the thoughtful feedback and comments were genuinely helpful and insightful. It wasn't uncommon for multiple people to actually take screenshots and rework design elements, provide thorough user interaction impressions and potential improvements, offer assistance in numerous ways (debugging, introductions, alpha/beta testing, etc.), and be generally supportive. HN truly seemed like a community of semi-collaborative or at least fully helpful hackers.

It saddens me that the most common response these days seems to be some version of 'Let me list all the reasons why this is crap.'

What happened?

iloveyouocean··on How much does it cost to be an audiophile?
"Nobody who feels that a $4,000 power cable is important has any semblance of sanity remaining."

This line of argument is one of the most common attacks against the 'irrational snake-oil' that audiophiles purchase. Yet, I have to disagree. Its not that I believe that a $4k power cord has any/significant technical advantage over a $4 power cord. You used the words 'feels' and 'important'. The feeling of listening to a $4k power cord is clearly internal and subjective as is the determination of its importance. If the listener 'feels' that the $4k cord makes a difference, makes the experience better, then it has value to them and I think that they certainly have the freedom to assign how much importance it has. If audio is your passion, then perhaps there is real value, if perhaps only symbolically, to devoting large sums of cash to it in tribute. In my experience, audiophiles aren't simply gullible rich guys mindlessly blowing money on $4k power cords. Many have very deep relationships with music and with their stereo equipment. This relationship is often complex and rich enough that spending large amounts of money on a new 'X' would almost be like purchasing your wife a gold bracelet. Almost.

iloveyouocean··on My key takeaways from Y Combinator’s Startup School 2012
I was there. And I can say that this would not be my summary of Startup School. This summary makes me question every other summary of events on HN. Not to say that the author didnt provide a good summary for himself, but instead I now realize how radically differently two people can perceive the same event, based on their experience.
iloveyouocean··on $50K bounty for practical robocall-killing technology.
So AT&T has the technology to bill each subscriber down to the bit of data used, but they can't detect when an entity is making 10s of thousands of calls . . . . ?
iloveyouocean··on Show HN: burn.fm - A new way to listen to music on Youtube
A similar project that I created a couple years ago:

http://viddyjam.com

The idea was to create a classic MTV meets Youtube meets Pandora.

iloveyouocean··on Vim: Buffers, Windows, and Tabs
I would recommend Buffergator instead. It has most of the same keybindings as Nerdtree (go = preview, etc.).

https://github.com/jeetsukumaran/vim-buffergator

iloveyouocean··on Google’s Chief Works to Trim a Bloated Ship
See also:'trimming sails' as it relates to sailboats.
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