bigiain

31 ms·

571.
by bigiain 1y ago
The calendar event scheduling problem is hard too. If I'm in Sydney and I accept a 4pm meeting in 3 weeks time, say 4pm July 15 2025 in San Francisco, how should my calendar store that event's datetime and how does my calendar rea
572.
by bigiain 1y ago
RachelByTheBay wrote about doing that here: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/01/09/lag/ That was probably at Move Fast And Break Things Corp, instead of We Used To Be Do No Evil Inc.
573.
by bigiain 1y ago
I would like to apply to join your circles. :sigh:
574.
by bigiain 1y ago
I would welcome an opportunity to walk away from the entire tech industry with a guaranteed-for-life income, allowing me to pursue dreams without them needing to be financially viable. Setting up as a high end timber boat builder without ev
575.
by bigiain 1y ago
Just in case anyone else late to this discussion is curious: https://www.gregegan.net/INCANDESCENCE/00/Crocodile.html
576.
by bigiain 1y ago
And it delivers.
577.
by bigiain 1y ago
One important lesson I remember from high school woodworking class ~45 years ago - when using a set square, make your markings twice with the square flipped over in the opposite direction, so if the square isn't accurate you'll g
578.
by bigiain 1y ago
[flagged]
579.
by bigiain 1y ago
The "old wisdom" on comp/lang.perl.misc, when new people asked what was the best IDE to Perl programming, was "Unix". You get both editors to choose from, vi _and_ emacs! All the man pages you could possibly want _a
580.
by bigiain 1y ago
20 years before UML/Java it was "4th Generation Languages" that were going to bring "Application Development Without Programmers" to businesses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_p
581.
by bigiain 1y ago
Also in Australia, and yeah feedin tariffs are a thing, but during midday "off peak" times when solar has excess energy, they're down around 1-2% of the retail cost of electricity and that's been going down for years. An
582.
by bigiain 1y ago
For this use case - internet resiliency - I suspect the availability of un-flashed LoRa boards will be approximately zero in situations where it's needed. I agree that building an offline capable tool chain would be a good idea (perhap
583.
by bigiain 1y ago
Yep. And we should all strive to be that sort of person.
584.
by bigiain 1y ago
Yep. Either you radically gatekeep your community to ensure it only allows people discussing topics you find interesting and watch it die as newbies get turned away while stalwarts leave for whatever reason, or you welcome "new blood&q
585.
by bigiain 1y ago
I'm not sure the right term isn't just "becoming popular". More people almost always results in more discussions of things that don't interest me, and almost always results in discussions where it's clear some
586.
by bigiain 1y ago
I don't think it's enshittification in the sense that Doctorow coined the word. I don't see YCombinator as having gone down a path of "create something to attract users, then they degrade that to for their "business
587.
by bigiain 1y ago
Dunno why this is getting downvoted. It's a fair and important question. I've never been to Tennessee, but I spent a week in Atlanta once 15 or 20 years back, and as an Australian the segregation and underlying racism really surpr
588.
by bigiain 1y ago
Several of my cheapest cars (and quite a few of my cheapest motorcycles) have cost me less than my most expensive phones.
589.
by bigiain 1y ago
>> And in a totally unreltaed query today, I got the following response: >That's a great question, Found the LLM who's training corpus includes transcripts of every motivational speaker and TED talk Q&A ever...
590.
by bigiain 1y ago
This is why I keep reading the comments here. Deep deep greybeard wisdom from the founding fathers of modern computing.
591.
by bigiain 1y ago
Another possible suggestion. Maybe choose random points that are within a set radius of points chosen along the borders? So perhaps choose first a random selection of points on the border, then choose random points within a circle (or perha
592.
by bigiain 1y ago
Crows are smart, and seem to for relationship with "friendly" humans, and are "trainable". I wonder how long it'd take to befriend a few crows, and teach them there's valuable stuff in delivery drones?
593.
by bigiain 1y ago
I was so hoping this was going to emulate aliens/trolling-farmers mowing a simplified version of the image into a field. BRB, registering cropcircleimage.io
594.
by bigiain 1y ago
> I would love my phone to know I’m in Church for a wedding or at a play and not have to remember to switch. I kinda have the opposite problem. I turn my phone to silent because I'm at a restaurant or cinema or whatever, then 3 or 4
595.
by bigiain 1y ago
> Some of the finest engineers I know work at Meta, "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." - Jeff Hammerbacher
596.
by bigiain 1y ago
As an Australian, "Root for your friends" has a hilariously alternate meaning.
597.
by bigiain 1y ago
> getting the info from an SEO spam blog post that played Chinese whispers with already wrong info from ten other blogs. Didn't you just perfectly describe the ChatGPT training set?
598.
by bigiain 1y ago
I think it's a combination of both scale and people's expectations. As the size of your music library goes up, the UX changes. The original iPod UX was (at least for me) genuinely awesome. It became less awesome as iPods got 40, 6
599.
by bigiain 1y ago
Wireless charging means I rarely (perhaps even never for my current phone) plug it in with a cable. It wouldn't be a huge deal if I needed to to sync music, but it's certainly friction to my adopting apps that require that.
600.
by bigiain 1y ago
> I believe (more likely, chatgpt believes) Possibly the most depressing thing I've read all week... :sigh:

More ›