alanbernstein

7 ms·

61.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
The behavior I'm imagining is: someone sends me a link to a song, provided by their music service of choice, which I can't use. I click the link, then my OS tries to open that resource in my preferred music player. I haven't
62.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
Couldn't we have a music:// protocol or something, to be opened by the OS's preferred music app? Anything like that already exist?
63.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
Carmack's swim lane was exceptionally wide. My understanding was that this sort of criticism was actually his main job duty.
64.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
Video games?
65.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
I completely relate - but I listened to this one, alone, in full. Technology has produced many things you might call a miracle, but this one stands out.
66.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
I have never understood "post scarcity" to mean the end of ALL scarcity, which is essentially impossible by definition. Relative to 500 years ago, we have already nearly achieved post-scarcity for a few types of items, like basic
67.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
This site's claim is that it is important to Africa for other regions to normalize using projections other than Mercator.
68.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
The colors and the sliders are both a bit extraneous to the point of the visualization, they're supposed to help but they kind of obscure the point. For the northern landmasses, Greenland for example, the smaller outline is the equal-e
69.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
The claim is about open hardware, not 3d printing in general. And the claimed problem is that the clever cost reduction is Chinese state subsidies.
70.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
So you have a charging shed?
71.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
Generally I'm all for this, but newcomers to this stuff should be aware that DIYing 120v outlet or switch hardware can be a fire risk.
72.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
For that range of mass values, the surface gravity would be relatively close to that of earth, even lower at 90x.
73.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
What "current and neat future technologies" do you suggest using for this approach?
74.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
I hypothesize that the car cigarette lighter port is the only truly standard, widely-used connector remaining. Wall outlets, just for 120V in the US, have at least three variants. 3.5mm audio plugs have at least four variants.
75.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
Have you tried the moonlander, or similar style thumb pads with articulated or more exaggerated angle? Seems to me that the thumb action should be at about 90 degrees to the finger action. I have a fancy keyboard to help with wrist issues,
76.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
Yes, as requested by the comment I replied to. Acknowledging the existence of a thing is not equivalent to condoning it.
77.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
Whatever theme/packages I use in Emacs have been highlighting NOTE, TODO, FIXME in comments for at least the last 10 years, so that's what I use.
78.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
Never heard of it before this, but it looks nice. Some tools are better ergonomic than sharp?
79.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
The "falsiness distribution" by itself is not capable of answering this kind of question. Imagine a politician who speaks just one statement, a "pants on fire" lie. They immediately reach the top liar spot. The distribut
80.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
Details you found using a tester? I label some USB cables, but without a tester there is a limit to how much I know about them.
81.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
Just try to imagine what you would have thought about this technology if you saw it with no warning, 10 years ago. Would "a few tens of thousands of lines of code" still seem small?
82.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
It seems that "vibe X" just means "using LLMs" now, regardless of what the original intent of the term was.
83.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
The "one letter danger" section is hilarious, but did you try to find any examples with a one-vowel difference?
84.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
Cool, but how does it work if you have multiple windows in one app? I used hammerspoon for something similar, but it worked on the window title. So, I could add custom titles to my chrome/iterm/code windows, and switch by pressing
85.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
Not THAT kind of boom
86.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
Humanoid robotics
87.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
https://oxtweekend.com/
88.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
I agree with the sentiment in theory, but the time pressures of adult life make this difficult. > What I cannot create, I do not understand I suspect Mr Feynman would have phrased this a bit differently if he had first-hand experience wi
89.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
A cochlea doesn't really spatially disperse the frequencies, though, right? Rather, the isolated frequencies are extremely localized within the coil, and the hearing receptors are each located at the one point where they need to be. Th
90.
by alanbernstein 1y ago
I'm amazed that worked for even one shot. Presumably gp was referring to cornershot or something similar, which seems like a much more reasonable approach.

More ›