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by genmon 2y ago
thanks for sharing! I also run https://www.aboutfeeds.com which is a simple "explainer" for those new to RSS the limitation of feed styling is that it requires custom http headers: Content-Type: application/xm
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by genmon 3y ago
It's gone full circle. People here are commenting that the multiplayer cursors are user hostile. tbh I agree... I need to build an off switch, or at least a volume dial... Meanwhile folks on the blog have discovered the cursor chat Eas
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by genmon 3y ago
that is exactly it! when you spend time on the web, there is zero way to know that the site you're on is being mobbed right now. it's so socially impoverished I know that multiplayer cursors aren't the best way to show that,
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by genmon 3y ago
Author here Good find! That's a slightly older version that I'm moving. Here's a better version, complete with instructions on how to embed it in your own site https://github.com/genmon/interconnected-cur
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by genmon 3y ago
I love that project! And also that they did so well.
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by genmon 3y ago
Blog author here. Here's the Markdown. https://interconnected.org/home/2024/02/15/galactic-compass.... Sorry for all the noise! It's kinda fun with 2 or 3 simultaneous readers. With 500... well
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by genmon 3y ago
(Blog author here) I mean, I'm making a clock that tells the time with rhyming couplets haha* -- I'll do my best to get it into Best Buy, and work on the mirror next! But you are absolutely right. We should be having way more fun
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by genmon 3y ago
Blog author here The multiplayer cursors are an experiment in ambient togetherness on the web... ...and what I'm learning is that ambient togetherness really doesn't scale to 500 simultaneous readers! Please use Reader Mode for ca
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by genmon 3y ago
That's it exactly. You need the lat/long, time+date, and device orientation in order to float the arrow
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by genmon 3y ago
I can't see the Milky Way here in London. I would love love love a pic of the Galactic Compass app pointing at the Milky Way hanging in the sky! I'm not sure whether it would be possible to balance the camera exposure to take a pi
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by genmon 3y ago
I built up the intuition 10 years before the 2021 post -- it's a while back so my memory is fuzzy. But once you've got the ecliptic, you're most of the way there: you can visualise where the Earth is in its orbit based on the
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by genmon 3y ago
Hm okay, thank you that’s a good observation. I need to find someone more familiar than I am with combining quaternions and reference frames to lend a hand!
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by genmon 3y ago
That’s so kind! I love the web, it has been very good to me. The web of people making and sharing is out there and thriving! For whoever was lamenting the loss, the best way to find that scene is to start making and sharing yourself, you so
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by genmon 3y ago
I feel like there is a knack to using ChatGPT for bigger tasks and it is non-obvious to most folks. That’s why I wanted to share. The problem is the hype around AI which is supposed to be all-powerful. So people ask it to do too much, and t
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by genmon 3y ago
Haha thank you. Couple Easter eggs… open two browser windows to the same URL (on interconnected.org) so you can see cursors. Then… - select text — text highlights are shared in real-time - type “/“ — there’s built-in cursor chat! Both
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by genmon 3y ago
Good guess! I can only find deviceHeading as is a projection of the north vector onto the long axis of the device. When the phone is orthogonal to north, that becomes unreliable. What I really need is the north vector, real-time updated, re
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by genmon 3y ago
So kind, thank you! The reason for the phone being flat is perhaps a limitation in iOS or perhaps a limitation of mine — I don’t know which! Basically you can access deviceHeading which is a projection of the north vector onto the long axis
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Show HN: Galactic Compass – an app that points to the galactic center(interconnected.org)
175 points by genmon 3y ago|60 comments
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by genmon 3y ago
you're saying that dinosaurs were a zero interest rate phenomenon? ok ok flippant but maybe not entirely flippant... I'm used to conceiving of fitness as in fitness for a niche. But I hadn't grasped the idea of "meta-fit
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by genmon 3y ago
Some of Egan's shorts are the most haunting explorations of what it means to be human that I've read -- maybe try those. But yes, Egan's philosophy is that sci-fi can be about the human story OR about the science. Both are va
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by genmon 3y ago
Learnings is fine. It’s a fairly typical business-speak word, I hear it a bunch.
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Multiplayer Drum Machine(partycore.labs.partykit.dev)
2 points by genmon 3y ago|0 comments
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The subjective experience of different programming languages(interconnected.org)
6 points by genmon 3y ago|1 comments
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by genmon 3y ago
I guess the distinction comes from the type of underlying 'no'. These cases in the UK are a decided response to no-type-3: "we actually can’t do that". Whereas Meta disallowing news links in Canada (another enough-is-eno
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by genmon 3y ago
I wouldn't agree that Disney is in a slump at all -- and it's possibly their lack of slump that makes it easier to level shots at Pixar. Frozen (2013) just gets in your decade window. Then there's Moana (2016) and Encanto (20
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by genmon 3y ago
Working Copy on iOS does this _brilliantly._ > The features you unlock are permanently available and any other pro features added the next 12 months after purchase are also permanently available. After one year new pro features introduce
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by genmon 4y ago
This looks both high utility and well thought-through. Scraping to JSON is how my unofficial BBC “In Our Time” site works (discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35073603 ) so I’ve used this approach before. The
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by genmon 4y ago
The general rule is: be minimally liberal in what I receive :) A parse error kicks off a recovery process where, in theory, we could run any number of rules. In practice the only problems are unescaped quotes in strings, or mismatched quote
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by genmon 4y ago
I extract the main content div, which includes various other divs and assorted HTML cruft from 25 years of content management systems. Then convert that to Markdown, which GPT groks happily, and it preserves the right balance of discarding
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by genmon 4y ago
Shared in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35073824

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