I love these ideas, though feel I would prefer designs that (may) sacrifice some utility for aesthetics. That isn't a knock on the magnificent effort here, but just my own preference. It's likely the emojis that I'm not thrilled about, but I can also appreciate the reason for using them.
Readit Newsandrew-dc commented on The DIY Multideck diymultideck.mauri.app/ma... · Posted by u/vlugorilla
andrew-dc commented on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back spectrum.ieee.org/touchsc... · Posted by u/pseudolus
The worst of both worlds is Touch Buttons. No screen, just a touch-sensitive surface that's divided into areas that activate upon any kind of skin contact, whether intentional or not.
I always see my dishwasher having some bizarre setting active because of accidental contact with a touch button.
I hate these and hope they are heading out also. Our hands and fingers are built to receive touch feedback, and these specific kind of buttons negate all of that.
andrew-dc commented on Octopuses seen hunting together with fish nbcnews.com/science/scien... · Posted by u/ceejayoz
Audio found? https://youtu.be/sAoiwGjBmZs
andrew-dc commented on Artificial intelligence is losing hype economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/bx376
I find LLM's great for:
- Getting over the blank canvas hurdle, this is great for kick starting a small project and even if the code isn't amazing, it gets my brain to the "start writing code and thinking about algo/data-structures/interesting-problem" rather than being held up at the "Where to begin?" Metaphorically where to place my first stroke, this helps somewhat.
- Sometimes LLM has helped when stuck on issues but this is hit and miss, more specifically it will often show a solution that jogs my brain and gets me there, "oh yeah of course" however I've noticed I'm more in than state when tired and need sleep, so the LLM might let me push a bit longer making up for tired brain. However this is more harmful to be honest without the LLM I go to sleep and then magically like brains do solve 4 hours of issues in 20 minutes after waking up.
So LLM might be helping in ways that actually indicate you should sleep as brain is slooooowwwwing down
Yes, this. I was skeptical and disgusted at a lot of what was being done or promised by using LLMs, but this was because I initially saw a lot of wholesale: "Make thing for me," being hyped or discussed.
In practice, I have found them to be good tools for getting going or un-stuck, and use them more like an inspiration engine, or brain kick-starter.
andrew-dc commented on The Rise and Fall of Preview pxlnv.com/linklog/preview... · Posted by u/robenkleene
I dunno, Preview seems entirely fine to me. I use it constantly.
The entire description of the "fall" described in the link is:
> Since those heady days, Preview has been relatively neglected. Revision of both the Quartz PDF engine and its API brought a spate of bugs that only abated with macOS Sierra. Preview has adopted an uncommon model for PDF annotations that doesn’t work well with other PDF products. Then, in macOS Ventura, Apple removed all support for EPS and PostScript conversion, most probably as a result of ongoing security concerns, and their progressive disuse.
I haven't noticed bugs, annotations seem fine, and EPS/Postscript conversion isn't really about Preview at all.
Sure Preview hasn't been gaining tons of features, but it's a pretty mature app that arguably doesn't really need much else.
Same experience here.
Preview, if anything, always felt like the simplest true to Apple: 'it just works' kind of PDF/file viewer.
I am not sure what new features it needs, other than some general improvement to the markup tools.
andrew-dc commented on Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative) usebruno.com/... · Posted by u/ulrischa
So I guess we're talking about ... now? sorryNotSorry
andrew-dc commented on Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/LinuxBender
There is another important angle to all of this that I have discovered:
I began writing/journaling several years ago by hand and have off and on kept up the habit. For me personally, the experience is enjoyable and therapeutic, given my day job is 100% on a computer. (I'm also an illustrator (focus on traditional, rather than digital) so I naturally nerd out on pens, paints, ink, paper, etc. Illustrating with analog tools also has a similar effect as writing.) I have found that I very easily enter flow state writing, for whatever reason.
More importantly, I recently felt inspired (HT to the late Humphrey Carpenter's excellent biography of Tolkien, who wrote to his kids a ton) not just to write for myself, but to write to my sons. This has given my writing even a greater purpose, as I want to give my thoughts (I'm not some profound thinker or such rubbish) and encouragement to my boys when I may not be around (not just in death, but even not near them). I want them to hear and remember the goofiness, and some of the things that went unsaid, or may have been missed, to apologize for my own failings, to really know how much I love and am proud of them. And I want them to not feel alone and discouraged in this world. That sort of stuff. I don't believer there would be anything wrong with typing things to them, however It feels like actually holding a thing that my dad held, and seeing his lines, scribbles, ramblings, bad spelling and stuff...but meant for me...would be really meaningful.
andrew-dc commented on After 14 years in the industry, I still find programming difficult piglei.com/articles/en-pr... · Posted by u/piglei
Merely responding to the headline, but I've always held that if I reach the point I am no longer learning/challenged (here, maybe that means literally everything is easy), then it's time to consider moving on to something else.
Goodlord, or you could just stand relaxed and undefended while a prize boxer sends pile drivers into your gut.
andrew-dc commented on James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus webbtelescope.org/content... · Posted by u/gmays