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kiernan··on Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at?
Could it write a deterministic constraint solving program that at least gives it a head start at narrowing down options?
kiernan··on We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12
My theory is they saw capacity would have issues during weekday working hours due to last minute frenzy of usage, so would rather it happen on a weekend if it has to happen.
kiernan··on Writing a good Claude.md
Could try asking for a seahorse emoji in addition…
kiernan··on Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse
I like to have it both ways. Given the options available so far I've preferred to have bookmarks shared between both and mainly keep tabs / working context separate.

The best I've managed so far is to run separate instances of Firefox with the same Sync Account which appear as separate 'devices'. Nightly with a different icon and theme makes it obvious which is which.

This way if I come across something interesting I want dig into further on my own time, I can bookmark it as well as 'Send Tab To Device -> Home' or 'Phone' depending on where I want to be and what environment I want to have available when I see it later (e.g. read only, or hands on).

Yes, I may be hoarding a lot of tabs but that's a separate issue...

kiernan··on A sunscreen scandal shocking Australia
It’s a kind of product that makes completely opaque barrier. Often used in the most high-risk spots like on and either side of your nose.
kiernan··on Building the mouse Logitech won't make
I miss the blue coloured model which had rumble/vibration feedback, just before everything moved to wireless which wouldn’t have had good enough battery tech at the time to continue it. Today, if they can fit them into tiny Nintendo controllers, surely it could be done well again…
kiernan··on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
“One hop further” sounds like an unbounded loose end… could you tighten this up further somehow? Pre-allocate a larger, more worthwhile portion to do a round trip or something else more verifiable?
kiernan··on Blackmagic Debuts $30K 3D Camera for Capturing Video for Vision Pro
Which formats or types of devices would give you the best ability to attempt to future-proof the capture of (relatively low short-term value) home videos of random family moments?
kiernan··on “Technical” Skills
Have they been in your trenches, and lived to tell the tale?
kiernan··on Airlines eye crueler ways of making passengers miserable
Seats should automatically recline after take-off, and automatically raise during meals and landing. No manual recline control.
kiernan··on Ask HN: Best things in your bash_profile/aliases?
A colleague did a similar thing, except set it to whisper the time quietly at lengthy but random intervals.

It took the victim so long to figure out what was causing it, that it made it so much funnier.

kiernan··on El Capitan and Homebrew
Wouldn't that mean any other users would be unable to use (or maybe just install or upgrade) homebrew stuff?
kiernan··on Eye movements 'change scenes' during dreams
It sounds very similar to a 'Saccade' [1]. Something your eyes do all the time when waking whenever they move. From your mind's perspective it seems to cut off the old signal from wherever yours eyes were previously facing/absorbing, wipes the slate clean and starts building up mental imagery and models based on the new input feed.

I think this might be getting at what they mean by 'change of scene', but it's probably not possible to prove exactly what's happening since it's subjective.

As an experiment you can do yourself to highlight this effect, go to you bathroom and look into the mirror with your face almost touching it, staring at the point between your eyes.

Try not to move your eyes at all and relax them, even if it feels like they might be moving off-target. Eventually your whole 'view' should subtly change, maybe blur and come into and out of seeming focus as your brain tries to interpret the noisy input it's getting (since nothing should be changing, the only difference in the input is noise) and may refocus your mental imagery/minds eye at showing you what it thinks you're looking at.

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

kiernan··on BPMN 2.0 rendering toolkit and web modeler
Has anyone evaluated or started a new project incorporating a BPM process/execution engine recently?

With so many super old tools available, it seems like it could be hard to tell which projects have kept up with modern expectations for ease of configuration and use. That and digging past all the buzzword marketing talk aimed at non-technicals.

kiernan··on Show HN: InstaDocker – Run any Docker container on the cloud instantly
What are people planning on using this for? Testing their own containers, or more testing things that rely on the services provided by existing published containers?
kiernan··on Toggle CSS bookmarklet
Is there a way to remove the styles but apply some others instead which highlight the borders and natural layout of the elements?

Kind of like if you turned off styles and used the inspect feature of your browser but with all it's mouse-over highlights and guidelines turned on at once.

kiernan··on Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds
realization
kiernan··on Projects the Hard Way – Coding Projects for Early Coders
Just needs someone to step up and one day it might be listed here: http://learncodethehardway.org
kiernan··on How to Start a Startup, Lecture 7: How to Build Products Users Love, Part I
Definitely my favourite talk so far, thanks Kevin.
kiernan··on Sense – Wake up when it's right for you
I'd like to see either an add-on which is a lamp bright enough to gradually wake you up with blue light, or for it to be able to work with things like LIFX or Phillips Hue to do the same.
kiernan··on Why Node is becoming the go-to technology in Enterprise
Where did you get the idea it was the first time? Their point is it's a pretty risky day for any deployment.
kiernan··on Show HN: Phaser – Trello for software development, with Vim built in
It wasn't clear to me what the 'I prefer vim' option in the signup form is for. Does it control a setting or is it just a survey?
kiernan··on Are passwords stored in memory safe?
I think this is worrying more about things like database passwords and API keys used by your application.
kiernan··on Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.
Perhaps you could ask this after the user has created their first entry? If they ignore it they can setup an account/syncing later via settings.
kiernan··on Nitrous.io brings its browser-based app development environment into public beta
I've been using this for a while and have really been enjoying it. Also handy being able to choose between a few geographical locations, to reduce latency which is always really bad from Australia to elsewhere.
kiernan··on A flask/angularJs app to help you find project names
Works pretty well compared to some similar ones I've tried, nice one!
kiernan··on Ask HN: Resources for Learning CSS
Almost forgot http://www.w3schools.com/css/
kiernan··on Ask HN: Resources for Learning CSS
http://learnlayout.com for positioning/layout
kiernan··on How to make your API better than the REST
Nice summary of a few good practices.
kiernan··on Setting up Sublime Text 2
I do most of my editing on remote machines (both at work and at home) and haven't really been able to find a setup that works smoothly for this.

Is everyone else developing everything on their local machines?

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