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pockybum522··on How to save a life without knowing CPR
I was taught "point at someone and tell them 'you, specifically, call 911'" but I like touch a lot better. Makes more sense for getting someone to actually do it.
pockybum522··on Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise
Magic, got it.

(I am floored that this works. This is amazing.)

pockybum522··on Leaving Linux
Weird. I see a lot of my friends disenchanted like this, but a lot of the reason I'm not is Linux and more importantly, open source projects in general. The more of an effort I make to learn the open source alternative to whatever adobe or what have you I used to use, the more I enjoy computing.

Are they quirky? As hell. But by and large, are they enshittifying like the big box software? No, most of them are getting better, and rapidly.

Personally, I find there's nothing like actually looking forward to a software update like I did in 2005 and expecting new, useful, features and then actually getting them in an update to restore my sense of computing whimsy.

Obviously do what works for you. This is just not my experience.

pockybum522··on ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol
Looks like an extremely cool concept, but I'm wary about how many bugs I'd run into trying to use it if the code has had as little effort put into it as the website.

I think I'll keep just making up basic sketches when I need to work with one of these protocols - it's also nice that if I do that, when I see it work, I know I can expand functionality from there into what I need.

pockybum522··on Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
There is a big difference between intellisense and LLMs. I've never used intellisense to input something I wasn't already looking for/about to type out. It just saved me remembering the exact wording and/or keystrokes.
pockybum522··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
Damn. But hopefully they improve on that. I would absolutely be considering one if this wasn't the case
pockybum522··on AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region
Inventing Snow Crash. Neat.
pockybum522··on LibreCAD in the Browser
Hmmm. I select "line > 2 points" and attempt to draw a line. I see nothing when I move my mouse over the canvas or click.

In a default native install, I get a crosshair and grid dots, and when I select "line > 2 points" I can click on the canvas twice and I get a line between those locations.

Edit: All tools appear to be broken and clicking on the canvas after selecting a tool doesn't draw anything.

Google Chrome Version 150.0.7871.46 (Official Build) (64-bit)

I also tried in an incognito tab in case it was an extension or cache issue, still nothing.

pockybum522··on Half-Baked Product
Small ones, too!
pockybum522··on Half-Baked Product
Agreed, I have no experience with VC anything, but I was still nodding along the whole time as I was reading.
pockybum522··on Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs
This is extremely useful and cool. I dream of having visualizations like this for anything I buy that has specifications.
pockybum522··on Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs
Kind of crazy to me that anyone would block an entire TLD. This timeline is bizarre. How often and with what services do you find zip blocked? Genuinely curious
pockybum522··on Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs
Yeah. It was so obvious to me I didn't think about it until I read the comments. Makes sense that it would trip some people up, though.
pockybum522··on Everything Is BOM: Bill of Materials Encyclopedia
What is the point of this? Apparently a minivan can be built using 170 parts.

At that level of abstraction, this is useless.

pockybum522··on Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
https://computer.rip/

One of my favorites.

pockybum522··on Where is the AI jobs crisis?
It's really funny that the first thing in the article is a graph showing a long downward trend with a tiny, brief uptick circled at the end and then the entire article appears to be written about that.
pockybum522··on Boats crash/break and can kill their passengers when falling certain distances
Oh dang, they fixed it? Nice!
pockybum522··on Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow
The browser extension "DeArrow" is well worth a look.
pockybum522··on Red Robin Died by Spreadsheet. Don't Make the Same Mistake
I'm getting browser not supported for the latest version of opera on Android.
pockybum522··on Something Big Is Happening
Every once in a while, I try LLMs just to see how improvement is going.

Yesterday I had to explain to Opus what the color white is and what "bottom right" means after it declared problems fixed, repeatedly, that a literal preschooler would have been able to tell were absolutely unchanged from the original problem description.

I am still waiting for this world of redundant programmers I've been hearing about for years.

pockybum522··on Why is it legal and ok when big corp. straight tries to scam a user?
Because we made society wrong.
pockybum522··on NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew
What a strange take. Does this also apply to every soldier in the armed forces? Seems your criteria is equally applicable there.

The relevant people that can do the research and write future policies based on the data obviously will have the information. Not sure what good you think that you personally having it can do.

pockybum522··on The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves
I'm so confused. I've resin printed DnD minis for everyone in several of the campaigns I've played in. They all love them. Yes, there were gloves. Yes, there was alcohol baths, but I just dropped them in the automatic washer and walked away for ten minutes.

The entire manual involvement for me from hitting go on the printer to handing out their minis to my friends, ready to be painted, I would estimate at just over five minutes per mini. This includes removing supports. This reads like it was written in 2010, not 2025.

pockybum522··on Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
I get what you're saying in this comment. And separate from that concept I'm adding on: "Going to?"
pockybum522··on The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign
Context is important when telling a story. I say the title is fair.
pockybum522··on The cost of interrupted work (2023)
Do you happen to know if that one is hiring for anything at the moment? Left to solve problems at that pace, I'm pretty sure I could do some great things for them.
pockybum522··on Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery
I designed the wedding ring for my wife, so I had a specific ring in mind to see how well it would do. I used the prompt:

A titanium ring with wavy rails on the sides, incorporating flowers in the middle of the band, where the wavy rails move farthest away from each other. The flowers should be a lily, sunflower, and then a spot for a gem, followed by a lily, sunflower, and then a spot for a gem and then a sunflower. The flowers should be evenly spaced around the whole band.

And it got the basics right, looked good, but it put the gem settings between the flowers, where the wavy rails were closest together. I tried several attempts at putting prompts in the "How should we modify this?" box such as "No, the gem settings should be where the flowers are, but every other flower" and "Don't put the gem settings at the points where the wavy edges are closest together" and it just failed hilariously. No matter how I phrased it, it kept putting the gem settings where the rails were closest together. After three (or it might have been four) attempts I gave up.

I could have explained the entire ring to a jeweler in a short paragraph, and any issues with it could be fixed in a sentence or two. I'm not sure why I need a frustrating middleman. And don't feel bad, this applies to nearly everything I use built on LLMs.

It's a cute toy, but boy are LLMs not remotely ready for production anything. I didn't even bother to give it the other aspects of the ring because if it can't get one of the most basic things in four tries of exceedingly clear language, then why would I keep going?

pockybum522··on Show HN: I built Hispi, an app to design custom jewellery
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pockybum522··on Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions (2024)
If you want to be sure that a USB to SATA adapter will work with anything, get the style that has the power on a completely separate cable that plugs into the wall.
pockybum522··on Show HN: Entropy – Sharing screen is scary in SaaS age
https://youtu.be/acKYYwcxpGk here's a citation for that being possible, in case anyone's interested. Also has some of the methods posted on github from what I remember.
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