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wishinghand

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I take a while to reply to comments because Hacker News doesn't have notifications.

Trash Javascript programmer. Probably uses Electron.

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wishinghand··on Comics I Loved in 2023
The amount of polemic going up is probably because creators are worried with the way things are going that more people just wanting to sit back and not think about the world’s problems.
wishinghand··on Comics I Loved in 2023
That was a political statement by imagining a world where LGBT is a non-issue. It was like a TV show version of John Lennon’s “Imagine”.
wishinghand··on Making synthesized sounds more acoustic
Either gently press a key without the hammer striking the string, or play it as normal and wait for the string’s vibration to die out.
wishinghand··on Kirby 4
When I used to do small/medium client work, I used Kirby CMS (For context, Kirby is a flat file CMS). None of them needed the power or flexibility of MySQL or even SQLite, so it was perfect. PHP scripts can still filter the flat files to create collections of categories or tags, so they didn't miss anything since it's not a static site. No need to recompile if you wanted to add a tag to everything. PHP is even faster today but back then it was still fast enough for basic pages and blogging.

I highly recommend it even though it's not free because it's highly refined and actively developed year round because of their pricing model.

wishinghand··on Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
> Even including the time it takes to get to/from the airport and get through security, flying is faster.

I highly doubt that, since you have to board 20 minutes before take off, plus the time it takes to get through security, as well as getting to the airport which won't be in the city center.

The current airfare also doesn't include any sort of fee to ease the ecological impact of burning jet fuel.

wishinghand··on Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009)
When I was 8 I would sometimes watch a Disney VHS tape that had Donald Duck exploring stuff like this. The golden ratio, octaves of sound/music, pythagorean theorem etc. I loved it.
wishinghand··on Ways in which Tailwind CSS is a better choice than Twitter Bootstrap
This is just CSS classes with more steps.
wishinghand··on Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
Great project though it reminds me of my desire to see a node based flat file CMS like Kirby, preferably with Vue as the flavor of templating.
wishinghand··on Htmx in 100 Seconds [video]
Vue is also huge in China. Euronet is a big multi-national standardizing on Vue 3 w/the Composition API for all foreseeable frontends.
wishinghand··on UnsuckJS: Progressively enhance HTML with lightweight JavaScript libraries
In that case you need to have everything rendered server side and perhaps get creative with the usage of forms firing off events that can be intercepted by the server and then return a new page.

Certain things like Nav menu drop downs and folding text can’t be done with native CSS and HTML.

wishinghand··on Squad Solar City Car
You mention legal speed of ebikes but use mph- what country are you in? In the USA, it's 28mph.

Also, my ebike does fine for parcels/shopping, it has a rack. If it's hot I use more vehicle assist and less human power. I see cargo bikes for larger loads like children.

Ebikes may not be for everyone, but they're much better than you portray.

wishinghand··on Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE
I'm a bit of a n00b for QMK firmware based keyboards, but I think there is a function for flipping the mapping of each side so you can do stuff like that.
wishinghand··on ‘Luddite’ Teens
I've only dropped $200+ on footwear a few times because those pairs of shoes or boots have not yet worn out. And they're very comfy and look sharp.
wishinghand··on Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries
Sure dude.
wishinghand··on Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries
You're moving the goalposts here, but neither the person I'm replying to nor you are really providing anything compelling about how unfit these are for consumption.
wishinghand··on Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries
> You either love meat and won't touch these things with a 10 feet pole

I love meat and regularly buy these instead of hamburgers. While shopping for vegan Thanksgiving guests I saw some patties that imitate chicken. Going to try those out soon too.

wishinghand··on Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries
They're processed, but not soy. Mostly pea protein.
wishinghand··on Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator
How is the image processing being done? In broad strokes, what're you doing with the Python API?
wishinghand··on Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform
Cool. But do most others want that?
wishinghand··on 2/3 of kids bike to school in Assen because it was designed that way (2013)
> The city of Eau Claire needs to be built for the people who aren't in the city (even though most live in the city).

I think this is a fallacy. Why should the transportation infrastructure be built for those who don't live there? When cities are built for cars, then cars is what they get. But if they build for other modes, then those modes because much more preferable. The preference of these occasional visitors shouldn't be dictating the immense budgetary concerns of maintaining car infrastructures. There's no reason folks coming from outside the city can't park at a periphery (or even central) parking structure and then bus/walk/bike to their destination, if we take the original corollary that Eau Claire gets perfect bike infrastructure tomorrow.

I do appreciate the math you've done. Assuming it's all accurate, those are good points about density and temperature averages. However people can still walk and bike safely in that weather, extra buses can be scheduled during the winter months, and if the majority of the folks live in the city like you said, it's best to serve them with better pedestrian infrastructure due to the quality of life, safety, and money savings the population would receive.

wishinghand··on 2/3 of kids bike to school in Assen because it was designed that way (2013)
Considering the fact that northern European folks in bike oriented cities can do it, I'm sure the folks in Eau Claire can prove themselves just as tough.
wishinghand··on How to Get into Tabletop RPGs
Fiasco is kind of tough because there's no real conflict resolution like in more traditional RPGs. Even in something with complex dice rolls like Genesys, there's an outcome decided and you can use that to guide actions and outcomes. With Fiasco, it really just is improv scenes and you play up your relationships and goals.

I totally agree it can be fun with the right group, but the right group is either very open minded and comfortable with each other, or decent or better improv players.

wishinghand··on Programming on 34 Keys
I've always been of the opinion that 36 is too few, but this does a good job of converting me. I already do similar stuff with layers ie: one layer for a right hand numpad, another for home row arrows and some common programmer symbols.

One of these days I'll try out something other than QWERTY.

wishinghand··on Ask HN: Contractors, what is your hourly rate?
I think that's the idea by diving by 1000. The math is assuming that you won't work half the time.
wishinghand··on I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
Looks great, and it's a huge achievement to design something so sleek and alluring like this. Bravo on including an encoder. I would be interested in buying, but I can't ever go back to a staggered layout. Even straight but ortholinear boards are a strain. Something like the Keyboardio Atreus with an extra column on the sides would be ideal- small enough to travel with, enough keys to not need a huge amount of layers.
wishinghand··on Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing
This is a silly argument- a subjective situation vs an objective one. Can electric pressure washers output a stream of similar force to ICE washers? This can be quantified. While fake burgers don't taste exactly like hamburger, saying they taste like garbage is something without quantification.
wishinghand··on Vercel Build Output API: Infrastructure-as-Filesystem
I don't see a template for it, but can Vercel support a flat file CMS like Pico or Kirby? Something that writes to a text or markdown file?
wishinghand··on VanMoof’s team of ‘bike hunters’ appears to succeed where the city doesn’t
Sure he shitposts, but he also manipulates billions of dollars of stocks too.
wishinghand··on Vite 3.0
Can't keep up with what? There's a few Javascript frameworks, and React is the lion's share of job postings. There's a few build tools but most everyone uses Webpack. The unit testing tools work on frontend and backend, and mostly seem to center around Mocha or Jest.

There was a short lived explosion of frontend frameworks that grognards drag up like it's a relevant problem, but serving up HTML from a server side route has always been an option.

wishinghand··on Teams is killing my Mac every day
I'm on a Windows laptop and use Teams for work. It's not as bad as the OP but still impressively substandard. Often times I won't be able to join a call and it'll freeze the entire program. I'll use ctrl+alt+delete to clear it from Task Manager and restart it and it still can't connect. A full reboot is needed.
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