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pockybum522··on Search the Web With a Phone Call Using This New Arc Search Feature
...Not the onion?
pockybum522··on An Animated QR Code of Bad Apple
What I wouldn't give for a mobile>mobile or desktop/laptop>mobile cross platform file transfer that only required camera permissions at 2mbit/sec or similar speeds.

All of the non-internet ios > android file transfer options I've seen are very clunky.

This is really neat.

pockybum522··on It’s an age of marvels
As an American, I agree with you. Most things we call chocolate are painfully and literally disgustingly sweet. We have plenty of good chocolate too. However, anything darker than about 40% gets called "dark chocolate" in America, which is just stupid, so even that isn't a sure sign that it's not loaded with sugar.

Most grocery stores will have a few dozen chocolate bars in their candy aisle that actually say a percentage on them. Not only does this tell you what's not sugared to death, but companies that do this tend to make higher quality chocolate anyways. Anything 70% and higher tends to be tasty.

pockybum522··on Show HN: I created an app for you to be a more unpredictable romantic partner
I'd love to try it but it says it's not available in my country (United States)
pockybum522··on Apple's New iPad Ad, "Crush": Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?
Were any of those objects real?
pockybum522··on Benchmarking latency across common wireless links for microcontrollers
That sounds good if you're an Aussie. I'm honestly confused why there's still so few options, but I guess most radically new standards got a comparatively slow start.
pockybum522··on RSS is still pretty great
07-01-2013, never forget.
pockybum522··on Benchmarking latency across common wireless links for microcontrollers
Once there's decent embedded HaLow options, I would love to see analysis of this level on it.
pockybum522··on Benchmarking latency across common wireless links for microcontrollers
This is one of the most thorough and well laid out analysis of useful hobbyist and low level research options out there. I'll be referencing this for years, thank you very much. Clearly a lot of effort has been put into this.
pockybum522··on Days Since Incident (2022)
Why does category 5 hurricane not also constitute a category 2 hurricane. Seems silly to differentiate by what level they end up at when a cat 5 has also, by definition, made it to cat 2 at some point.

Other than that, this is fun.

pockybum522··on How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days
This feels like every health insurance endeavor I have ever attempted.

In any other industry, this would be called "fraud."

pockybum522··on Experts clash over report suggesting fluoride can affect brain development
I believe they mean the naturally occurring fluoride in tea:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4808922/

pockybum522··on Print off a QR code for guests to join your WiFi network
If you're actually concerned about your data, find an offline QR generator. Encoding a WiFi network is just adding some extra plaintext to a normal QR code.

One explanation is here:

https://pocketables.com/2022/01/how-to-format-that-wifi-qr-c...

pockybum522··on Don't Talk to People Like They're Chatbots
FTA: “Draft a 250-word paragraph in my typical writing style, detailing three examples to support the following point and cite your sources.” Not even the most detached corporate CEO would likely talk this way to their assistant, but it’s common with chatbots.

I don't believe this man's ever actually seen CEO interact with an employee. Bosses talk like this to their subordinates all the time. Humans are plenty capable of being rude independently of learning it from talking to chatbots. Especially where employment is concerned.

pockybum522··on So you think you know C? (2016)
Programmers annoyed with the 'quiz' might really enjoy this book on that site, which is an excellent read.

https://wordsandbuttons.online/SYTYKC.pdf

pockybum522··on Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth still so unreliable?
It's not. I use bluetooth headphones, use it to listen to music in the car, and use it for several of my mice. I do not suffer disconnects, choppy audio, or much else.

Interesting that you complain about windows. I use the headphones almost exclusively with Win10 computers. You may find a well-reviewed (I've had good luck with TP-Link USB adapters) bluetooth adapter connected to your Windows PC and disabling whatever crappy builtin it has might do wonders for you. Worst case you're out $12.

Most of my issues are when pairing, and even that is not frequent, and can almost always be solved by having the computer/phone "forget" the peripheral and then turning the peripheral device off and back on. Absolute worst case I'll reboot both and then it's always fine.

However, I will say that all of my devices I use were manufactured in the last two to three years, so that may help.

pockybum522··on A Modern Web for Hacker News – Open-Source and Seeking Feedback
On a 4k screen at 150% DPI scaling on Windows, in FireFox, I can see 30 items without scrolling on the current layout for https://news.ycombinator.com/

On this proposed format, I can see ten.

I believe the existing page is definitely more dense than it needs to be, but I don't think migrating to so much whitespace that it's 30% of the information that it was is a good ratio. I think I'd be happy with anything over 20 readable headlines (without scrolling) on a new format.

pockybum522··on Show HN: Airdraw
Okay that's really fun. Awesome interface. Works on latest FF on Win 10.
pockybum522··on Visualizing fighting game mechanics (2020)
As far as a visualization and alternate means of teaching, at least at a getting started level, this is awesome.

As someone who has picked up many fighting games and been immediately overwhelmed by having no clue what's going on or even where to start, I just mash buttons. Even just seeing what's possible, how to access it, and basics of how it works is really neat.

I guarantee you if someone was trying to teach me a fighting game and had this handy, it would go about twice as well as them saying "push these buttons to do this" which is the usual means.

I love alternate visualizations and unorthodox teaching aids. This ticks all those boxes.

pockybum522··on Show HN: Spiderdash
Extremely impressively polished, no framework is not an easy way to make that. Very fun!

I don't know if you're looking for feedback but I found the spider doing something other than what I wanted when I tapped more often than I expected. I think me practicing more might fix that.

The control instructions might bear repeating to help with that.

Really fun game! Really cool how well touch worked in browser on my phone.

pockybum522··on Show HN: Sherlock – AI that chats with your friends about their gift wishes
Nothing like letting your friends know that you care about them but only in a materialistic consumerist sense.

"Hi I want to know what you want for a gift but I don't actually care enough about you to talk to you about it myself."

pockybum522··on Problems on the Galaxy Store
15 minutes is such a strange period. "Hey sorry if this is a complex app you might get through most of setting it up. Good luck"
pockybum522··on Advent of Code 2023 Day 2: Cube Conundrum
The flavor text is always great. I loved yesterday's "the sky. Where did you think snow comes from?"
pockybum522··on Who makes the most reliable new cars?
Started during the pandemic? My friend, I think you just might not remember how terribly people drove pre-pandemic as well.
pockybum522··on Vore: A minimal, no-bullshit web-based RSS/atom feed reader
Why on earth would you name a project that?
pockybum522··on Windows 11 is amazing, I left Linux
Boy it didn't take much scrolling there for the comments to get inane.

"the Micro$oft haters would have you belive that opensource is a wonderful garden of altruistic developers all helping out with each other's code for free.

Well if anyone thinks that I suggest they go and look at how many billions the companies like Debian and Redhat are worth. Nobody is working for free and it's simply do you pay for the ownership and get free support or do you get product for free and pay for support."

Yep. Those sure are the only two options when you use Linux. /s

pockybum522··on Cooler screens
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one that came to the comments to try and figure out if this was dystopian fiction or not. As usual, reality continues to disappoint with the answer.
pockybum522··on Cory Doctorow's Vision for a Just Tech Revolution
This is much the same sentiment as the book. Though your concept of "we" relies on an educated public. I fear it may be a bit late for that.
pockybum522··on Ask HN: Why has no one replaced Ticketmaster?
No chance of that, they're based in America
pockybum522··on The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing
Unfortunately, that doesn't work. If Reddit is any indication, the moral of the story is they can get away with it because there's a million idiots all ready to take your place.
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