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meitros··on We tried hard to make Devin work for us, But it didn't
There was an earlier hn post on this: I wonder how effective ai coders are at translating libraries from one language to another. It’s plausible that they could be good at this I think it’s useful: anything from porting c++ code to rust to porting ecosystem libraries to languages that aren’t java/python/typescript
meitros··on Our ping pong startup hit a $50M valuation in 5 years by tapping into automation
I suspect you could still find someone via the Pingpod slack, but another option would be to book a coach and play with them - they have multiple former olympians
meitros··on LA vegan restaurants are putting meat back on the menu
Manhattan seems to have more staying power for vegan places than LA - our double zero branch is still here and new vegan places like neat burger have been opening. Not sure why, though
meitros··on New York will plant trees using new tech to maximize foliage impact
I feel a little surprised there are no mention of allergies in that article, e.g. that hopefully they’re planting female trees which remove pollen rather than male trees which produce more
meitros··on Chrome Frequently Crashing on macOS
Do you have a lot of tabs open? The one time I ran into something similar was out of memory issues
meitros··on Too Many Schools Are Misdiagnosing Dyslexia
Not 100% on topic, but another thing that I think schools can be bad at diagnosing is ADHD: in many cases it’s actually anxiety that manifests as ADHD-like symptoms, and the treatment or medications would be different for each.

(Source: discussion with a child psychiatrist)

meitros··on Disabling iOS Personalized Ads tells kernel to kill daemon every 3 seconds
Is it every three seconds? Or every time a process is run, kill the daemon within 3 seconds? Or even, only if the daemon spawns kill it within 3 seconds. The latter two wouldn't be nearly as impactful as the first, and the sandbox message didn't seem clear enough for me to tell.
meitros··on [dead]
Editorialized title? Not seeing it anywhere on the page
meitros··on Ask HN: Is there a service to index and search Gmail?
Superhuman?
meitros··on Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024
Considering how much edge wants to gain back browser share, if they kept mv2 support the combination of supporting real ad blocking while still being a chromium browser is pretty appealing.
meitros··on Interesting Bugs Caught by ESLint's no-constant-binary-expression (2022)
My past experience with (maybe more limited versions of) this is when you’re developing something and you throw a ‘true ||’ in there as part of that, in can get annoying to have to outsmart your environment to get your code to compile. But surprised at how many issues this can catch - seems worth the occasional extra pain.
meitros··on Man returns to his family's Connecticut lot to discover $1.4M home being built
Is this what title insurance tries to solve (in the us)?
meitros··on Better code highlighting on the web: rehype-tree-sitter
I'm looking into client-side syntax highlighting as well at the moment and lezer popped up: https://lezer.codemirror.net/. It's directly based on tree-sitter but tailored to be more web friendly (and written by the same author as codemirror) - https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/lezer.html
meitros··on Uber Eats Canada Ran Production in a MacBook Air
It ran something that would cause Uber eats Canada to go down if it got disconnected, but not all of Uber eats production in one laptop (imo)
meitros··on Ask HN: React Native or Flutter for a new app in 2023?
React native imo. Expo is terrific and the library ecosystem, while it might feel like it’s one step down from web JavaScript, is still robust enough for what you need since there are more than enough people out there shipping rn apps.
meitros··on “Computer security 80% solved if we deprecate technology shown in this graphic”
I like those icons - wonder what he used to create that chart
meitros··on If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit three engineer-years to no-GIL CPython
And also in direct response to a comment from GvR, not something out of the blue
meitros··on I learned to walk properly – and changed my pace, posture and perspective
As someone who’s been quite interested in this type of work (Alexander technique/feldenkrais/etc. on the more education-for-performers side, or the various approaches used in personal training and physical therapy), Anatomy in Motion is great material for learning how to walk properly: https://findingcentre.co.uk/.

(Though find someone to teach you if you’re practically interested in improving your own walking.)

meitros··on Twitters contract with Google Cloud ended
Article is old, and apparently they started paying again https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-google-clo...
meitros··on Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]
An underrated choice of the original diablo is that it would only show you a subset of story quests and boss monsters in a single play-through. A few (like the butcher) would always show up, but for most others there'd be multiple options for which story quest would be in the game.

A lot of games since include every quest in every playthrough (or change it based on what choices you make), and games like the Witcher 3 nailed having really well written side quests that weren't just filler. But enough players are completionists that it can feel exhausting to play those, and if you're a completionist the game often becomes less challenging because you're earning extra experience/gold.

meitros··on Melange 1.0: Compile OCaml / ReasonML to JavaScript
Out of curiosity, what do you think the issues with js_of_ocaml were?
meitros··on Researchers craft a fully edible battery
It would probably be a billion times less powerful than a silicon chip (and only last a few days), but I wonder if one could make a potato into a cpu.
meitros··on Wing Commander IV
I remember the early previews of sc2 had the same type of interactive movie interaction as wc4 - being able to select a conversation option from either the top or bottom of the screen. They eventually scaled back a bit, but the wings of liberty campaign structure was definitely influenced by wc4
meitros··on After Dark Screensavers in CSS
This would be fun to add to a personal homepage (can use the Visibility API): start showing the screensaver when the user switches to another tab, and hide it/show the content again when they have a mousemove event on your site.
meitros··on A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life
Email is the scariest one - it can reset pretty much everything. Now I wish gmail could require a Face ID login anytime the phone was locked (balance between convenience and security.)
meitros··on More than half of YC startups don't have a dot com
I wonder if it would have been seen as a sign of prestige for startups if yc had become a domain provider for .yc
meitros··on GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
"for the sole purpose of video conferencing". They're still using slack for day-to-day...
meitros··on Ask HN: Burnt out from big tech. What's next?
I know self-driving cars have had a rough several years, but there are still some good companies out there where ML would be highly valued and the problems are more grounded.

(Cruise, for example - have a friend who works there)

meitros··on FDroid debating Aves Libre app TOS as reason for removal
So, do they run into problems with anything that uses JSON?

(JSON has a clause in their license: "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.")

meitros··on I'm already nostalgic for AI-generated Seinfeld
"This channel is temporarily unavailable due to a violation of Twitch's Community Guidelines or Terms of Service."

That's disappointing :(. I guess it was a blatant copyright violation, though.

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