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Jonovono commented on He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over   washingtonpost.com/lifest... · Posted by u/wallflower
JKCalhoun · 4 days ago
“99.99 percent of the people I’ve met have been the very best in humanity,” he said. “The world is a much kinder, nicer place than it often seems.”

I wish everyone could experience this, internalize this. Sometime in my 20's or 30's I cast off any fears that I had about people and the world in general. And it was like a huge weight was left behind.

I started to believe that it was paying too much attention to the news (especially cable news when it became a thing) that had come to shackle me with fear. Getting out in the world, traveling, making yourself vulnerable even (and nixing cable) were all things that made me start to love the world and people more. (My kids know me as the Pollyanna of the family.)

I suppose I am armchair psychologizing now, but I often see fear behind a lot of people's behavior (and even some friend's) and I feel sorry for them: I see them missing out on a lot of life experiences.

Jonovono · 4 days ago
Ironic coming from him being a dead beat dad whose son hates him
Jonovono commented on Don't know what to wear? Design your outfit with gen AI and then shop it   apps.apple.com/us/app/see... · Posted by u/Jonovono
Jonovono · 8 days ago
Not sure if there will be much interest for this here. But i've been building this because I never know what to wear, and shopping sites don't really help. I may find a shirt I like but then I still have to figure out what to wear with it that would look like.

So I made this where a have outfits generated that should follow basic fashion rules and color theory. You say where you are going, weather and other details and it will generate an outfit that you can then swipe on like Tinder to refine it. Once you are happy with the outfit, you can shop the complete look!

I've done a bunch of optimizations to get outfit generation to be ~3s (sometimes slower as i'm trying different models).

Anyways, thought i'd share this here as i'd love feedback if anyone else has this problem. For myself, it's made some outfits that I really like!

Jonovono commented on Show HN: Encore – Type-safe back end framework that generates infra from code   github.com/encoredev/enco... · Posted by u/andout_
Jonovono · a month ago
Yea really surprised encore isn’t more known and popular. Between it and convex they are the best things right now in building backends.
Jonovono commented on Refashion: Reconfigurable Garments via Modular Design   arxiv.org/abs/2510.11941... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
graypegg · a month ago
What a neat idea! I see this as a sort of... clothing gridfinity. [0] Basically a few interfaces to implement and anything unspec'd is fair game to be creative with for your own use/small scale production, and everything still mostly clicks. It's neat to imagine a "more serious" version of this, where we have an "ikea for fashion" or something, but that might be difficult; the patchy-look is going to limit things to a particular style and it won't have mass-appeal, but that can also be a positive! Ex:

> P6 was particularly excited about using the system’s constraints to explore visual patterns such as patchwork and cutout.

Would be cool if people could jump into making their own clothes with out requiring the up front expensive of needles/thread/sewing machine. Just buy the material you need and go!

[0] https://gridfinity.xyz/catalog/

Jonovono · a month ago
I love the picture painted of an ikea for fashion. I’m working on an idea where instead of searching for individual garments you first create the outfit (using gen ai) and then shop the complete look (I basically reverse search the pieces of the generated outfit to find similar items)

But it would be so cool if you could like print the fabric pieces and send them and the person assembles their created outfit.

This definitely got me thinking

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/dress-better-w-make-my-outfit/...

Jonovono commented on Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls his company the first to be 'completely anti-woke'   businessinsider.com/palan... · Posted by u/zzzeek
zzzeek · a month ago
I dont even know what "anti-wokeness" means. For me, "woke" means when I, as someone who has lived in NYC / LI his whole life, learned that all the highways were built in such a way as to intentionally exclude poor and especially Black people from participating in society: https://transalt.org/blog/repeal-robert-moses and about LI's nasty history of redlining that prevented Black communities from gaining generational wealth: https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/segregation-real-es...

Despite growing up in these places, I had no idea about any of this - Black people, to me as a youngster, just seemed to be these people who all seemed to live in other neighborhoods and were seen in 1970's Long Island as people to be wary of. "Woke" to me meant, holy shit look how badly these people have been treated, no wonder things are this way.

So then WTF is "anti-woke"? is it the claim that none of that documented, well known systemic racism for decade after decade, after 300 years of slavery, actually matters and the real reason for racial disparities is genetics or something? I mean what else could that mean ?

Jonovono · a month ago
Woke is more the opposite of what you point out.

This is a better example: https://www.reddit.com/r/UBC/comments/197gid8/segregated_bla...

It’s weaponizing people emotions and instinct to want to “be a good person” to push policies that are actually harmful to the people they claim to care about.

All this to say I still think Karp is corny.

Jonovono commented on Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time   agwa.name/blog/post/googl... · Posted by u/agwa
Jonovono · a month ago
I submitted my app to App Store Connect for Apple and Google Play Store. After a few reviews on Apple my app was approved after a week or so. On Google, I got a couple rejections. I addressed the concerns resubmitted. Got another rejection without much detail, but changed a couple things and submitted again. App suspended... without any explanation why.
Jonovono commented on How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise   nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/reaperducer
gmoore · 2 months ago
If you want to dig deeper on this - check out https://www.wheresyoured.at/
Jonovono · 2 months ago
His podcast Better Offline is a treat too.
Jonovono commented on The history of cataract surgery   asimov.press/p/cataracts... · Posted by u/mailyk
pantulis · 2 months ago
You will risk it, eventually. Cataracts appear and get worse to the point of you becoming blind.
Jonovono · 2 months ago
I suppose in that case, possibly. I more mean for people that are doing it for cosmetic reasons (not to wear contacts)
Jonovono commented on The history of cataract surgery   asimov.press/p/cataracts... · Posted by u/mailyk
everdrive · 2 months ago
95% success rate is actually a bit lower than I realized, and is somewhat scary.
Jonovono · 2 months ago
And the ones that have a bad time, have a really bad time, to the point of suicide in cases. Not sure if I would risk it if I didn't have 20/15 vision tbh

u/Jonovono

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