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by gyomu 9mo ago
Not a great example as multitouch in its modern incarnation was a niche academic technology, the most refined version of which was built by a 2 person startup that Apple quickly acquired. There was still a long way to go to make the tech as
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by gyomu 9mo ago
Tax filing is trivial in most countries with a functioning government, it’s only a Big Deal in the US due to Intuit bribing the government.
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by gyomu 9mo ago
The base feature set of a tool like Flash has been stable for well over a decade (maybe even two) now; why has no one spun up some agents and released an open source clone of Flash that runs on all major platforms for everyone to enjoy with
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by gyomu 9mo ago
This March 2025 post from Aral Balkan stuck with me: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114160190826192080 "Coding is like taking a lump of clay and slowly working it into the thing you want it to become. It is this pro
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Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game(rystorm.com)
1 points by gyomu 9mo ago|0 comments
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by gyomu 9mo ago
> As someone who had an interest in drawing as a child and have bought trackpads and tablets Buying digital drawing tools before you have the fundamentals nailed is a bad idea. For anyone reading this who wants to learn how to draw: look
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by gyomu 9mo ago
If what you're saying 1) is true and 2) does matter in the success of a business, then wouldn't anyone be able to displace an incumbent trivially by applying a bit of rigor? I think 1) holds (as my experience matches your cynicism
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by gyomu 9mo ago
> the only way to play 3ds games in the native experience, with 3d, which is impossible on any emulator You can get that with a headset; there's emulators for the Quest, or you can use Citra in SBS mode with a headset like the Visio
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by gyomu 9mo ago
> networking autonomous agents that have evolution ability They do not have evolution ability, as their architecture is fixed and they are incapable of changing it over time. “Skills” are a clever way to mitigate a limitation of the LLM&
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by gyomu 9mo ago
> Vendors of small utilities could be in trouble This is a mix of the “in the future, everyone will have a 3D printer at home and just 3D print random parts they need” and “anyone can trivially build Dropbox with rsync themselves” argume
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by gyomu 9mo ago
> any reason these old tools can't be used nowadays For Aperture specifically: - it doesn’t run on newer machines. Sure there are workarounds (run it in a VM, use a dedicated old computer, …) but those are clunky and people want thi
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by gyomu 9mo ago
They're both pointless filler, but because stock photos are from the real world, they don't suffer from "detail collapse" - sure, there's not much meaning to be found, but the detail stays coherent as you keep looki
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by gyomu 9mo ago
Haha, that's pretty clever. They get to sell $299 pedals, $20 plates, and upmarked "tokens" for their playground. Great example of selling shovels in a gold rush.
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by gyomu 9mo ago
You charge $10/mo but all your links for Documentation/Privacy/Terms/Support are blank.
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by gyomu 9mo ago
> Oddly only the French did understand the sentiment French culture is a rare culture where shop owners won't be afraid to tell off/talk back at customers that don't show a basic level of politeness. You, as a customer, ar
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by gyomu 9mo ago
Ironically enough, Carl Sagan on marijuana: "I find that most of the insights I achieve when high are into social issues, an area of creative scholarship very different from the one I am generally known for. I can remember one occasion
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by gyomu 9mo ago
I fully expect this article to drop off the front page due to flagging in 3…2…1… like every other US politics story that gets posted on this site. It’s for sure one of the biggest blind spots of this community, which should come as no surpr
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by gyomu 9mo ago
> Once upon a time, you could enjoy the works of a creative person at face value; mainly because you didn't know much of anything about their personal life. This is a strawman and absolutely not backed by historical evidence. Look i
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by gyomu 9mo ago
My personal bias is that anytime I see on a software company's website footer that they're a GmbH, I know it will be selling high quality, durable, reliable software ;) Congrats on your continued success!
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Ski map artist James Niehues, the 'Monet of the mountains' (2021)(adventure.com)
151 points by gyomu 9mo ago|24 comments
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by gyomu 9mo ago
Yes, I noticed this on OLED laptops. OTOH the OLED panels on Apple's iPad Pro series are outstanding, and I'm excited for them to come to MacBooks. Yet another example of Apple's hardware team taking its time to do things rig
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Wilsonic: Open-Source Musical Scale Explorer(wilsonic.co)
2 points by gyomu 9mo ago|0 comments
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by gyomu 9mo ago
> They insisted the app needed to be simpler, to cater first to incidental users who wanted a quick answer, to be a friction-less path to a feeling of contribution. I don’t believe that’s possible while also serving existing users who v
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by gyomu 9mo ago
One term for them is “explorable explanations” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorable_explanation https://explorabl.es/
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by gyomu 9mo ago
Also note the byline of his company stamp's on the invoice with the auctioned documents: "gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha" https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/35081740734601...
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by gyomu 10mo ago
Posts like this reminds me of the classic "Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People" [0]. The author loves vibe coding because... it lets them vibe code even more: "One of my early intense projects w
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by gyomu 10mo ago
> is it realistic these days to just expect software to write once and run forever? Yes, but you have to put a bit of effort to make it so. For example, if you write your software as a ROM for an early game console (SNES/GBA/et
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The Price of Software(bigzaphod.com)
4 points by gyomu 10mo ago|0 comments
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by gyomu 10mo ago
Perfection doesn't exist, but you can measure outcomes. For example, how quickly users are able to complete a certain task, or how many mistakes they make while trying to complete a certain task, etc. Based on the measurement of these
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by gyomu 10mo ago
> Apple has spent literal decades working on and refining their Human Interface Guidelines for different devices Things like “human interface guidelines” get written by nerds who dive deep into user studies to make graphs about how targe

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