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jborichevskiyon Tell the speakers that you liked their talks

In my experience this goes for more than just talks - can be helpful at events and regular meetings too

Great writing. Felt like it could be a Black Mirror episode

jborichevskiyon Hello, me. It's been a while

Backfilling it with content from other sites is such a good idea, I'm stealing that for when friends say it's been a bunch of time since they published

jborichevskiyon Shade Map

Definitely one of my favorites too! In my experience though it's best used at the location you're expecting the sunset, tricky to see when a specific point elsewhere will have their sunset (it may have changed though, I should check this)

jborichevskiyon Shade Map

I've wanted something like this - in Boulder the foothills cast a shadow on the town considerably earlier than sunset provided by weather apps. So in theory, this should be possible to figure out when a park will actually see a sunset. Nice work!

jborichevskiyon The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade

It's a little unclear; they make you select a carrier, but buried in the fine print is:

"For iPhone only: In order to lease an iPhone, you must select an eligible carrier (but you cannot use a prepaid carrier plan). A leased iPhone is always unlocked, so you can switch carriers at any time, subject to your carrier’s terms."

So it... is unlocked? I am also on US Mobile and don't want to leave it

jborichevskiyon Mozilla: The state of open source AI

Normally I'd agree, but the rest of the sentence does actually discuss open models and their use cases.

jborichevskiyon How to read more books

I'd wondered if something like this existed, wanted it on my last roadtrip. Thanks!

jborichevskiyon How little exercise can you get away with?

I'm moving to a new place and my office will have an exposed I-beam and I'm stoked. The healthiest points of my life seem to correlate with industrial architecture that I can hang on directly or with rings!

jborichevskiyon Show HN: Mail Memories – A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail

This place can get a little snarky but congrats on shipping!

jborichevskiyon Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

It helps, doesn't completely cure it for me but makes looking at google maps / iMessage more bearable. Not reading essays yet though.

jborichevskiyon Cursor Camp

I got taken back to Club Penguin as well. Especially clicking into the cave or treehouse and getting transported into a little side pocket of the map. Amazing work!

jborichevskiyon No Terms. No Conditions

Thanks! Basecamp's and Github's were a few of the open source ones I came across

jborichevskiyon No Terms. No Conditions

I know this is mostly parody, but I'm curious if anyone has good starter templates for something that covers the general stuff and doesn't require a lawyer to customize

jborichevskiyon Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website

It's possible, but then wouldn't retailers who don't force their customers to crawl through an LLM maze eat their lunch? Natural economics at play would still happen I think

jborichevskiyon Does that use a lot of energy?

Amazing stuff, have you written up a blog post? I could see a video being a fun format for this as well. Might help people develop the intuition for watts/power consumption in a different way

jborichevskiyon Tensions between The Pentagon and AI giant Anthropic reach a boiling point

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/s/0LYM6OmqXD

This led me down a bit of a rabbit hole but, yikes

jborichevskiyon Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)

I personally haven't noticed that. I am also primarily coding & writing rather than image editing or such so am less sensitive to things like that fwiw.

jborichevskiyon Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)

Appreciate the suggestion!

jborichevskiyon Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)

Appreciate the feedback and notes here- I would love to revisit the methodology and use a separate physical brightness meter to normalize for that. To my best memory I made sure both devices were at max stock brightness for each photo.

jborichevskiyon Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)

Thank you!

jborichevskiyon Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)

Not to my knowledge, I think Samsung was one of their manufacturers for a while, but they do have patents on nano texture which differs somewhat apparently from traditional matte screens. I'd love to understand more of the differences and more about their manufacturing process though.

jborichevskiyon Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)

Yes, the HDR boost is awesome as well, combined with nano texture it feels like overkill, but I love it.

jborichevskiyon Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)

Author here, I published this a few months back but have been continuing to use it on a daily basis - everything I wrote stands

Feel free to ask any other questions!

jborichevskiyon Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app

Makes sense. If you enable the Debug menu (Shift+CMD+D), there is an option for "Always-On Microphone". Might be worth a try to remove that latency.

jborichevskiyon Training my smartwatch to track intelligence

I'll also add in getting a standalone sensor (I went with Aranet) gave me insights into this was well, as a non smart watch wearer

jborichevskiyon Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app

Curious if you were using AirPods or other Bluetooth headphones for this?

If so, there should be "keep microphone on" or similar setting in the config that may help with this, alternatively, I set my microphone to my MacBook mic so that my headphones aren't involved at all and there is much less latency on activation

jborichevskiyon Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app

Big Handy fan!

jborichevskiyon Sun Position Calculator

Relatedly, has anyone seen tooling or approaches to calculate shadows behind particular hills and mountains, depending on the season and time of day? The sunset calculation for Boulder Colorado is quite inaccurate as we are in the foothills with mountains to the west. I've been pondering how to calculate this precisely.