anderber (u/anderber)

anderber commented on How we built Bluey’s world itsnicethat.com/features/... · Posted by u/skrebbel

rkomorn · 24 days ago

Yeah. I think for me it's just the tone. Then again, I'm also deeply put off by the "everything is fast and loud" tone of a bunch of more adult-oriented content (eg: Adventure Time, Phineas and Ferb, or Rick and Morty are all unwatchable to me).

anderber · 23 days ago

There are some real laugh-out-loud moment in Peppa Pig (like at the fair, where everyone was telling Mommy Pig that girls aren't good at said game and she in her anger absolutely demolishes it). However, I find those moments coming up less in Bluey. I almost always laugh at how Grandpa Pig says "metal detector", too.

I think if I didn't have kids, I would like Bluey better. Likewise, I would be able to watch it without any discrimination.

anderber commented on How we built Bluey’s world itsnicethat.com/features/... · Posted by u/skrebbel

the_af · 24 days ago

Bluey is great, agreed.

I'd say Bluey is a better Peppa Pig. Now, hear me out -- it's surprising how many gags meant for grownups are there in Peppa Pig (e.g. "one must become one with the mud" is not humor for kids), but the art is... well, it's intentionally flat and boring. But Bluey has a lot of the same kind of humor, with visually appealing characters and world.

anderber · 24 days ago

Peppa Pig is in general funnier than Bluey. Visually, I also agree, Bluey is far superior. I just can't help, as a parent, the feeling of inferiority as there's no way two working parents have the energy and patience to make everything a game with their kids. That's the main crux of why I prefer Peppa.

anderber commented on Codestral 25.08 mistral.ai/news/codestral... · Posted by u/tosh

tosh · a month ago

anyone has experience how Codestral compares to other models?

anderber · a month ago

I found Mistral's agentic coding models to be fast and good, but not always accurate. I think the reason for that is that most IDEs aren't properly setup to use their models. But I haven't tried this new Codestral version.

anderber commented on Saying Bye to Glitch pketh.org/bye-glitch.html... · Posted by u/Tomte

anderber · 3 months ago

Glitch brought me back to the web when it was more fun and goofy. The design gave it the opportunity to not be so serious and play around with it. I wish more of the web was like Glitch and Kinopio.

anderber commented on Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor zed.dev/blog/fastest-ai-c... · Posted by u/vquemener

erk__ · 4 months ago

Is it possible to shut the AI things off? As in properly hide all the buttons and stuff that relates to it?

anderber · 4 months ago

Yes, you can. Just edit your settings: { "features": { "edit_prediction_provider": "none" } }

anderber commented on "Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay": Blue Cross Approved Surgeries Then Refused to Pay propublica.org/article/bl... · Posted by u/ceejayoz

anderber · 5 months ago

I love how ProPublica does so many hard-hitting investigative reporting. One of my go-to regular donations.

anderber commented on "Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay": Blue Cross Approved Surgeries Then Refused to Pay propublica.org/article/bl... · Posted by u/ceejayoz

HumblyTossed · 5 months ago

Because people are desperate for something to change. The status quo is literally killing people.

I'm not saying I agree with their voting decision, but I can, in part, understand their frustration.

anderber · 5 months ago

You can never doubt that things can get a lot worse, no matter how bad they currently are. This is what we're finding out now.

anderber commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) · Posted by u/david927

anderber · 5 months ago

I've always wanted workout tracking apps to take into respect how to track gymnastic rings, but no luck. So I decided to build my own: https://gravitygainsapp.com/

anderber commented on U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat theatlantic.com/politics/... · Posted by u/_tk_

joshuamerrill · 5 months ago

I began my career in a classified environment working on government satellite programs.

In my first week on the job, I was told, explicitly, that if I shared Classified or Controlled Unclassified information over unapproved channels, I would be reprimanded—likely fired, or less likely, prosecuted.

It was also made clear that safeguarding the nation's secrets from the carelessness of others was my responsibility, too.

It is mind-boggling that 18 people were on this thread, and none of them ever suggested that this discussion would be better served in a SCIF. To say nothing of SecDef starting the thread on Signal in the first place.

How many other such threads are active at the highest levels of government right now?

Does Chinese intelligence know?

I'm not suggesting punishment, or even prosecution, for the people involved. But the idea that this breach can occur with no accountability, consequences, or operational changes is unacceptable.

anderber · 5 months ago

Also, Steve Witkoff was in Moscow during the Signal text chain.

anderber commented on The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil washingtonpost.com/world/... · Posted by u/benbreen

WalterBright · 5 months ago

The Wrights looked into marine screws, and were astonished to discover they were all designed by trial and error.

The Wrights made a breakthrough in realizing that a propellor was a rotating wing, and developed the first theory of propellors enabling them to build one that was 90% efficient. This is as opposed to the flat bladed screws used by other experimenters which were 50% efficient.

This means a near doubling of power for the same weight of engine and drive train.

The Wrights could not find an existing engine with the desired power/weight, and the engine makers refused to design/build one. Hence they hired a machinist to help design/build a custom engine, with double the power/weight ration of existing engines. The Wrights developed the very first practical aviation gas engine.

This was an enormous factor in creating a successful airplane.

P.S. Fun fact: Santos Dumont was a rather tiny man. In the movie "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" they created several flying replicas of early machines, including Dumont's "Demoiselle". But the Demoiselle wouldn't fly, it just ran around the field nailed to the ground. Finally, the engineers realized that Dumont was a tiny man, and located a tiny pilot, and then the Demoiselle flew delightfully. So, Dumont had his own peculiar advantage in power/weight.

anderber · 5 months ago

Santos Dumont was 5'4", which althogh small, not out of the real of "normal" I don't think. Jules Verne was one inch taller. He was fairly skinny too, so the weight could have been a factor. I did find a video of it, fun to see as the Demoiselle is my favorite early flyer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNWPpKEZzxg