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jmercouris··on Making ASCII Art in Vim
You can use artist mode in Emacs as an equivalent. It's really great for box plots and diagrams.
jmercouris··on Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh
I didn't mean the throughput of the network, I meant the throughput of the calculations. Yes, the latency is the issue.
jmercouris··on Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh
I thought about this too, but the throughput over a network is incredibly slow. It’s not usable for interactive use.
jmercouris··on Stealing Is a Skill
Why did you do this?
jmercouris··on Show HN: Open Terminal – A Bloomberg Style App for Research
Many features appear broken for me on Firefox. I was unable to change the dates, and it was unclear to me as to how one would remove instruments from their comparison after they were added. I clicked "X selected", and then nothing happened.
jmercouris··on Software Engineering at the Tipping Point
Sounds exactly like my experience.
jmercouris··on Why is this site named Antipope?
What does AutoPope mean though? The author glosses over this implying it means to pontificate- however- I have not seen this definition anywhere.
jmercouris··on Heat pump sales rise across Europe
It doesn’t even make sense though, shouldn’t it be DÖCH?
jmercouris··on BYD rolls out EV batteries with 5-minute 'flash charging.' But there's a catch
It’s not clickbait, given enough power you can charge quickly.
jmercouris··on FDA says companies can claim "no artificial colors" if they use natural dyes
It makes sense, for example, if you use turmeric in a rice dish, would you say it is artificially colored? In a sense rice isn’t yellow, but it is a natural dye.
jmercouris··on Gen Z first generation since 1800's with lower cognitive performance
The article makes some interesting points about the correlation between computer usage in schools and test scores. What I would be interested in is the unmetered computer usage outside of schools. Are students with restricted access to so-called "brain-rot" social media outperforming those with it?
jmercouris··on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder
MV3 has made it significantly harder. Good luck blocking YouTube ads, for example.
jmercouris··on Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
Sure, in a sense, but “wiki” actually just means “quick”.
jmercouris··on Building a Toast Component
The information that the user did something "right" should be responsive next to where the user initiated the action- not in a random corner.
jmercouris··on Building a Toast Component
Toasts are a great way to lose information. They are a terrible design and should not be used. They distract the user, are not dense with information, and provide no value. If a message is important enough for the user to read, it should be a dialog box.
jmercouris··on I see a future in jj
After reading the article, the technical merits of `jj` are completely unclear.
jmercouris··on I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself
Good commit logs or comments may tell you why
jmercouris··on Show HN: I built a tool to solve window management once and for all
Cool idea, what model does it use to predict my next window?
jmercouris··on EU to ban carry-on baggage fees
Yes, in practice this increases price transparency. Imagine everything could be monetized. They could charge for access to the bathroom, or water. What is the minimum expectation of what is included in the price of a ticket?
jmercouris··on Silicon Valley wants to help me make a superbaby
Destroying future children in favor of other future children? Any decision we make does this. Every child is an XOR.
jmercouris··on Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s
I meant the whole design. The hub gear is no different than on any other bicycle and can be reliable.
jmercouris··on Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s
This design is unstable and expensive to produce with a complicated in wheel transmission. It is novel, but almost certainly more expensive and less reliable than existing designs.
jmercouris··on Show HN: Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua
Javascript is Lisp in C's clothes? On what basis? Also what does Lua have to do with Lisp? It has no Lisp syntax whatsoever.
jmercouris··on A glitch in an online survey replaced the word 'yes' with 'forks'
If you think you understand software, think again. We are building complex machines upon towers of sand!
jmercouris··on The benefits of learning in public
This idea is not related to avoiding commenting. The Author is suggesting you comment.
jmercouris··on I Automated My Computer Routine with macOS Folder Actions
Interesting way to apply concepts from the terminal to the GUI. Looking at this from my naieve perspective, it seems that all of this is doing is emulating the accessibility of the terminal. You have an easier way to run programs with per-determined args- something you could easily do with shell scripts.
jmercouris··on Show HN: Infinite Horizontal Array of Text Editors
What a very novel UI! I like it a lot! It makes a lot of sense for people to cascade files left to right, especially when people have more widescreen monitors.
jmercouris··on Falcon 9 Rocket Launch Scrubbed After Delta Air Flies into Restricted Airspace
Perhaps, but `burg` and `berg` have two different meanings in German as well, so perhaps that is where the noise comes from.
jmercouris··on I spent 18 years in the Linux console
Guile is not C, the stdlib is small and it can be adapted for any task. The difference using s-exp everywhere instead of an algol like language.
jmercouris··on It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor
Yes, they are only held as credible because they are convenient political tools. There is no concern for truth, only to prop up an ideology.
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