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w_for_wumbo··on Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer
This is absolutely mind-blowing to me, is this using an API of any sort? I'd love to be able to take something like my City's archive of Black & White images and colorize them.
w_for_wumbo··on Apple Music and Mercedes-Benz bring immersive Spatial Audio to drivers
I've had the same complaint about Spotify search, sometimes nothing will be returned from my search, despite me having put in the name of the song I know exists on the platform.
w_for_wumbo··on Take a break
I think we've conflated hard work with results. Hard work is a symptom that we're doing something incorrectly. Either it's too challenging for us, or we're doing it the wrong way.

There seems to be too much value on hard work, and not enough on efficient progress, breaking things down into challenges that we're capable of achieving.

Hard work is never accomplished, it's only once we break them down into achievable tasks that we're ever able to tackle something initially deemed as hard.

w_for_wumbo··on Use Bookmarklets on Chrome on Android (2020)
This seems convenient, but now I worry scammers will use this as another way of getting people to run arbitrary JavaScript on the client's device. 'Instructions' on how to do {x}, but it's also siphoning cookies off to an undisclosed backend.
w_for_wumbo··on Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
Someone could have said the same around media players, there's Windows Media Player, Quicktime etc. Thankfully VLC didn't listen, and we have a marvel today to thank for it.
w_for_wumbo··on Design the next iPhone
If you click present, is that the Apple HQ in the reflection?
w_for_wumbo··on An odd discovery on Spotify
I listened to the playlist too and it's definitely the same song with small variations. Imagine finding dozens of threads where comments are all the same, but with very slight changes of words used in each comment.
w_for_wumbo··on I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message
Y'all are getting texts from political parties? That sounds like a nightmare
w_for_wumbo··on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
I made an NSFW website, which was a wrapper around a streaming site, allowing me to load and watch up to 16 streams at a time. I couldn't find any other website that did it, so I just threw a couple of Azure functions together in a way that costs less than a dollar a month.
w_for_wumbo··on Is human behavior just elaborate running and tumbling?
This seems like something Buddhism attempts to address (from my understanding) > Desire is like an never-ending thirst > No amount of success ever will quench it > Their solution - Remove desire.

The only way to get everything you'll ever want, is to want nothing.

w_for_wumbo··on An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
Came to the comments to ensure this had been posted!
w_for_wumbo··on Plant UML – Open-source UML Tool
Just discovered Plant UML recently, and I've quickly come to love it. Just today I pasted a JSON payload & watched as it generated a diagram from the example. I do find the default theme not terribly attactive, but that can be can be mitigated with a single import, this site has a great collection: https://bschwarz.github.io/puml-themes/
w_for_wumbo··on Text to Image Generation
I think it'd be neat to take an old text only terminal game, and just auto generate the pictures based off responses.
w_for_wumbo··on Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
I'm kinda surprised there isn't already a viral baiting tweet for this already.
w_for_wumbo··on How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
How many bets they'll leave it like this on the current version and fix it for the PS5 version, to show how dramatic of a change it is between consoles?
w_for_wumbo··on Commenting vs. Making
I understand how being scolded for doing the right thing would have felt, but I'd encourage you to find ways to influence the culture of allowing these types of development, instead of swapping to become an ally of those who scolded you in the first place.
w_for_wumbo··on I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
Tom Scott made a video about this last time this happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv0kZKC6GAM
w_for_wumbo··on 'Super Recognizers' Like Me
They didn't answer the question that I wanted to know, what about identical twins, can she distinguish between them?
w_for_wumbo··on We use too many damn modals (2018)
My biggest issue with modals, is that they never seem to be tested with mobile devices in mind. So when I'm on my phone, the ability to close it is often off the screen. The only choice is to leave the website at that point.
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