angiolillo

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by angiolillo 8mo ago
> you can easily share a read-only version of, say, your work calendar with your personal account so that you can have them combined in the morning. If only it was that easy! I'm not allowed to share content to or from my work calen
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
> Why in the world would you use a non-deterministic system for something so banal but important? I wouldn't. As mentioned above, this (using an LLM) doesn't look like a suitable solution for me, just pointing out that I unders
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
> Cataloguing your fridge requires taking pictures of everything you add and remove which seems... tedious. Just remember what you have? I agree that removing items and taking pictures takes more effort than it saves, but I would use a s
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
Even if we assume a developer is actually 10x more productive with AI, if you triple their workload by having them build 3 native apps now you're only 3.33x more productive.
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by angiolillo 9mo ago
I find Garmin's sleep tracking "accurate" in that it typically matches how I feel the next day, but that also makes it not terribly useful because I don't really need a gadget to tell me when I feel tired. Mostly I wear
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by angiolillo 9mo ago
> Surely eating animal protein on a regular basis is better than having to take a variety of unregulated supplements to stay within a healthy range of essential vitamins and minerals? By "variety" you mean B12 & omega 3? Or
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by angiolillo 10mo ago
In addition to the github readme, there is an article with some photos and descriptions of the Folk Computer project: https://spikeartmagazine.com/articles/essay-emily-dickinson-... Others have drawn the same connectio
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by angiolillo 10mo ago
Completely agree on both counts. We do usability testing, including with keyboard-focused advanced users. But usability testing with blind users presents some unique challenges. A past org I worked at ran some usability studies with blind u
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by angiolillo 10mo ago
> Why not just optimize for removing the gesture entirely? The microphone has to be better on a full size watch on your wrist vs the tiny ring further away on your finger. Agreed, let the ring just be a button that can trigger recording
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by angiolillo 10mo ago
> There are thousands of blind people on the net. Can't you hire one of them to test for you? Testing is a professional skill -- not all blind people are good at accessibility testing, just as not all sighted people are good at GUI
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by angiolillo 10mo ago
For many of the families I know it's less about the quality of movies than the cost and effort of going to the movies. Going to the movies costs an extra hour for the round-trip to the theater, ~$40 for adult tickets, ~$60 for the kids
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by angiolillo 10mo ago
> I definitely think the average congressperson is more qualified to do that kind of work My sense is that people who advocate for sortition find it attractive not because they believe that the average citizen is more intelligent or bett
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by angiolillo 10mo ago
That was also my interpretation and why I made the point that democratic processes have evolved to account for a changing polity. The US government could not be managed by Athenian sortition any more than it could be by Athenian direct demo
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by angiolillo 10mo ago
Sure and when the US was founded the majority of residents were similarly not allowed to vote because voting was restricted voting to a minority of property-owning white males over the age of 21. Democracy has evolved from its Athenian orig
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by angiolillo 10mo ago
For reference, this is referred to as "sortition", and at least the Athenians felt that it was more democratic than elections. The randomization machines they used for picking winners (kleroterion) are quite ingenious. In modern t
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by angiolillo 10mo ago
> LoRa as implemented by the chips used in affordable Meshtastic devices is really more suited to operating many small disjoint mesh networks on separate channels My impression was that many of the folks who wanted a big shared mesh migr
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by angiolillo 10mo ago
> but those citations are ultimately irrelevant in the grand scheme of things It depends on your goal. Is it enough to know that your work is excellent, or do you also want it to be used by others? I've worked with researchers who h
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by angiolillo 10mo ago
> This was all common knowledge. It has been for a long time. Many years ago my advisor passed on an observation (edit: originally from Hamming's 1987 "You and Your Research"): faculty who generally kept their office door
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by angiolillo 10mo ago
Reminds me of a pair of papers from 25 years ago: Olson & Olson's "Distance Matters" [1] and Teasley, Covi, Krishnan, and Olson's "How Does Radical Collocation Help a Team Succeed? [2]. If I recall correctly the
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by angiolillo 10mo ago
> better radio silicon that can survey a wide swath of available spectrum (based on country limits) and pick channel(s) appropriate to the use optimized for battery life, distance, and/or bandwidth That would certainly be helpful, b
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by angiolillo 10mo ago
I have a few LoRa radios running Meshtastic and they're fun to play with, but I wouldn't rely on them in a critical situation. It's too easy to accidentally configure a node incorrectly and cause problems for nearby nodes. Pe
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by angiolillo 11mo ago
I'm still not sure how that makes them "maybe even tastier" when you raise them yourself? > If I didn't eat them they wouldn't exist. Does that mean that if I bring something into existence that anything I choose
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by angiolillo 11mo ago
By "tastier" do you mean more physically pleasurable because you could ensure the animal's good health, ethically preferable because you could ensure a (mostly) good life, emotionally enjoyable because you can fondly remember
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by angiolillo 11mo ago
That's certainly the approach our translation team prefers! Assembling a grammatically-correct statement from multiple discrete tokens is hard in languages with grammatical gender, complex pluralization rules, word ordering, etc. And t
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by angiolillo 11mo ago
> Providing a real CVE is a contribution, not a burden. Isn't a real CVE (like any bug report) both a contribution and a burden?
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by angiolillo 11mo ago
If you're curious about the rules for various languages, I find https://cldr.unicode.org/index/cldr-spec/plural-rules to be a helpful refence.
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by angiolillo 11mo ago
Fair enough, and honestly I agree with you that supporting the n==1 case is the bare minimum of care I'd expect from an application developer. Though if you support languages other than English even the decision to simplify pluralizati
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by angiolillo 11mo ago
Totally: users can absolutely tell the difference and details and polish absolutely matter, but so does shipping the product. As a UX designer I'm always happy to have more time/money to spend on usability testing and refining eve
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by angiolillo 11mo ago
It's a tradeoff. I love projects where I can "sweat the details" and refine not just wording but typography, padding, visual alignment, layout, edge cases, colors, workflow, etc. And where the back-end, QA, doc teams are simi
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by angiolillo 11mo ago
> Collective action that is effective is hard to pull off in a million homes a million times around the country. True, but it is significantly easier for a single motivated individual to pull it off in their own community than for them t

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