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robertluteceon OpenLogi

I tried it for about a month, but I was having several issues whereby the scroll direction kept inverting, the thumb button not sticking to its program, and smartshift not triggering when scrolling. In the end I regrettably went back to logi options+.

robertluteceon Itadakimasu: A word you say to the food, not the cook

Here's another one:

https://xkcd.com/1053/

robertluteceon Commodore Releases Flip Phone

I'm perhaps misinterpreting your comment, but from the FAQ:

> Callback includes SMS, WhatsApp, [..]

> Callback includes Pure Maps, a popular Sailfish navigation app, and is compatible with several Android map, navigation, and transport apps, including Uber and Lyft.

robertluteceon The house is a work of art: Frank Lloyd Wright

Leaks are a given in any Wright house. Indeed, the architect has been notorious not only for his leaks but for his flippant dismissals of client complaints. He reportedly asserted that, “If the roof doesn’t leak, the architect hasn’t been creative enough.” His stock response to clients who complained of leaking roofs was, “That’s how you can tell it’s a roof.”

Wright’s late-in-life triumph, Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, celebrated by the AIA poll as “the best all-time work of American architecture,” lives up to its name with a plague of leaks; they have marred the windows and stone walls and deteriorated the structural concrete. To its original owner, Fallingwater was known as “Rising Mildew,” a “seven-bucket building.” It is indeed a gorgeous and influential house, but unlivable. For its leaks there can be no excuse.

—Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn

robertluteceon Models of European metro stations

I believe the floors have been pulled further apart to help with navigating around the model which would also steepen the escalators.

robertluteceon A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer

Reminded me of this “Navajo weaver inspired by video games”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrDZIyYSMfI

robertluteceon Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wotd/feed/rss2

robertluteceon A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image I used

I may be wrong, but I believe the distinction is between if I were to link to your post with one of your generated images which would get served as og:image and if I were to re-host your image to have it stand in as an "open-graph image" on my site linking to your post then what are the repercussions for me.

robertluteceon Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck

I've had Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day [1] feed on my RSS reader for a while and I think these are quite usable.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/calendar

robertluteceon I Deleted My Second Brain

people change, people grow

I myself threw out about 3000 notes last year

robertluteceon Show HN: F2 – Cross-Platform CLI Batch Renaming Tool

oh wow, this feels like https://github.com/stevearc/oil.nvim

robertluteceon Reports of Deno's Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

sure, but from 1 to 2 or from 1M to 2M

robertluteceon If nothing is curated, how do we find things

off topic, but I recently read Alfred Lansing's "Endurance" and felt that was in spirit like "The Martian" although I remember the latter more from the film than the book.

robertluteceon Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices?

Ran into this the other day trying to screenshot something in the background of a music video playing through Spotify's desktop app. I opened youtube, took the screenshot from the video there, and wondered why the protection was necessary.

robertluteceon Men overestimate women's preference for masculinity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-desirability_bias

robertluteceon Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editing

it reads like '(c:b)at|(d:h)og' and not 'c:(bat)|d:(hog)'

robertluteceon The Peppermills of Jens Quistgaard

having this in mind? https://weberworkshops.com/products/moulin-grinders

robertluteceon Australian Open resorts to animated caricatures to bypass broadcast restrictions

I believe this[1] 99% Invisible podcast episode talks about foley during sporting events.

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-sound-of-sports/

robertluteceon I've acquired a new superpower

it does work with glasses

robertluteceon Ghostty 1.0

I think it ambiguous. vim has vsplit ("Like |:split|, but split vertically.") that is "split right", however, wezterm has "Split Vertically (Top/Bottom). Split the current pane vertically into two panes, by spawning the default program into the bottom half"

robertluteceon Show HN: A simple web game to help learn chords and basic progressions

+1, even when I unplug everything beside my keyboard and remove any virtual devices, it stumbles onto "unknown input port" before my keyboard. I'd like to try it

robertluteceon Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with comprehension

“The modern idea of testing a reader’s ‘comprehension,’ as distinct from something else a reader may be doing, would have seemed an absurdity in 1790 or 1830 or 1860. What else was reading but comprehending?”

—Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

robertluteceon A different kind of keyboard (2021)

Google keyboard for iOS has a morse option

robertluteceon TikToker finds clue in Interstellar that changes meaning of whole movie

clips online also show two different shots [1][2], although the ships do seem to be identical to a fault.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5NPGC0jlRc&t=29s [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9pjBEnnh3A&t=107s

robertluteceon Why Doesn't Advice Work?

"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself."–Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

robertluteceon The case against caffeine

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. — Michael Pollan

robertluteceon If you could only have one programming book on bookshelf what would it be?

or a rare double feature

robertluteceon Words that deserve wider use

"With dictionaries, I spend a great deal more time looking up words I know than words I have never heard of—at least ninety-nine to one. The dictionary definitions of words you are trying to replace are far more likely to help you out than a scattershot wad from a thesaurus. If you use the dictionary after the thesaurus, the thesaurus will not hurt you."

John McPhee, Draft No. 4

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/29/draft-no-4

robertluteceon A BART seat-slashing gang that was part of an upholstery racket (2019)

the cobra effect

The British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

robertluteceon The Russian State Social University Is Developing a Social Rating System "We"

"Finnerty, Edward Francis Finnerty, Ph.D., one-time EC-002."

"There's a collector's item - a double-o-two number!" said Lasher. "I've known several single-o men, but never a double-o. I guess you're the highest classification I ever had friendly words with. If the Pope set up shop in this country, he'd be only one notch up - in the R-numbers of course. He'd be an R-001. I heard somewhere that the number was being held for him, over the objections of Episcopal bishops who want R-001 themselves. Delicate business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel)