comradesmith (u/comradesmith)

comradesmith commented on iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video] youtube.com/watch?v=hksVv... · Posted by u/walterbell

ramity · 15 days ago

35m ago edit: Apple uses many predictive systems for typing. My sentiment in pointing out just slide to type might be misguided as it does not exist in a vacuum. I'd love to see these tests redone with slide to type disabled. I'm leaving the original comment below for reference.

Slide to type. This "issue" is at most 6 years old for iOS users.

Turn off slide to type if you do not use it. Slide to type does key resizing logic. This is the direct cause of this issue. Please upvote this comment for visibility.

Please reply if you think I'm wrong. I see this get posted frequently enough I'm actually losing it.

Please refer to https://youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo?si=XD7AKa8gTl85_rJ6&t=72 (timestamp 1:12) to see that slide to type is enabled.

comradesmith · 14 days ago

Thanks, I’ll try this :)

comradesmith commented on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri reuters.com/world/us/rubi... · Posted by u/italophil

bjoli · 16 days ago

People like this makes me want to use Times New Roman more. Maybe not Butterick specifically (the website is fine), but all those people that make a blog and pick a font before even knowing what they even want to write. Most of the time people change the default my web browser has, they make things worse. For a font choice to be any kind of personal expression in my eyes, you first need everything else in place: content, layout, design.

To spite these people I force the use of Arial on the worst offenders. The list is now a couple of thousand websites long.

comradesmith · 15 days ago

You can’t separate layout and design from typeface selection.

But yes I agree content must come first. Typeface probably comes second!

comradesmith commented on Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera varlogsimon.leaflet.pub/3... · Posted by u/TimDotC

comradesmith · 23 days ago

Holy fuck they actually built Smart Pipe[1]

1: https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ?si=bSRE2lOqwwm1Q_D9

comradesmith commented on Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds bbc.com/news/articles/c23... · Posted by u/1659447091

flave · a month ago

Better to link the actual study rather than what a know-nothing hack has to say about it: https://mmd.iammonline.com/index.php/musmed/article/view/111...

Nothing against the BBC but the most thoughtful journalist has all the scientific knowledge of Tarot Reader’s cat.

Anyway, n=56 which is fine I guess but leaves loads of margin for error.

Personally, I had a cystoscope and at the time had fancy health insurance so went to a bling London hospital and the surgeon insisted I listened to music - saying exactly what this article said. It lowers cortisol after, makes you less restless during and improves patient reported outcomes.

You can look up what a cystoscope is, I elected to do it with a blocker rather than with a general anaesthetic. All I will say is that track Shadowboxin’ by GLA is now completely unlistenable for me!

comradesmith · a month ago

That is so incredibly rude of you. Science communication to the general public is valuable.

Let’s not forget that the author is a person too, just cause you don’t like it doesn’t mean you’ve got any place to talk down on them.

comradesmith commented on Basalt Woven Textile materialdistrict.com/mate... · Posted by u/rbanffy

kijin · a month ago

Vinalon is an organic polymer, like many other synthetic fibers we wear, but derived from coal instead of oil because North Korea has no oil.

The basalt fiber OP describes is not organic at all. It sounds more like asbestos actually.

comradesmith · a month ago

Yeah, but the vibes are the same as basalt textiles

comradesmith commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl

MarkLowenstein · a month ago

I always pick them up. Every penny buys enough pasta to keep you alive for another 15 minutes. So in case I ever go broke, I've staved off my eventual starvation by 15 minutes.

comradesmith · a month ago

I like this perspective :)

comradesmith commented on How I use every Claude Code feature blog.sshh.io/p/how-i-use-... · Posted by u/sshh12

synergy20 · 2 months ago

Just read it and the author say "do not use NEVER" in claude.md then in his sample claude.md there is NEVER the word, am I missing something?

comradesmith · 2 months ago

They said don’t __just__ use never, and explain that as meaning you should give an alternative with every “never” clause, which is what their example does :)

comradesmith commented on The profitable startup linear.app/now/the-profit... · Posted by u/doppp

masterzachary · 2 months ago

The boot strapped startups I've seen that have had this holier than thou attitude that they are somehow selecting the best engineers by only having a tiny team have always had the absolute worst tech, the worst engineering, the worst leadership and usually also the worst processes that I've ever encountered.

comradesmith · 2 months ago

Yeah, but they know how to make money

comradesmith commented on Affinity Studio now free affinity.studio/get-affin... · Posted by u/dagmx

tracerbulletx · 2 months ago

I doubt this is good, I'd expect minimal investment in the free version and ever increasing subscriptions. I WANT to pay for my software.

comradesmith · 2 months ago

The better they support the free side, the better the conversion rates will be. So I think the incentives align with both free and paying customers

comradesmith commented on Affinity Studio now free affinity.studio/get-affin... · Posted by u/dagmx

atoav · 2 months ago

Well this puts them on my blacklist. And I am an educator in precisely the artschool they would profit off catering to.

I refuse to teach my student tools that change the contract once you bought into them.

Adobe is on that list too.

The only major non-open source software that isn't is anything by Black Magic or Steam, both companies that have found healthy sustainable business models and jave acted reliable towards creaters and the open source community they relied on in their humbe beginnings.

comradesmith · 2 months ago

They didn’t change anything about the software you bought? It still functions like it did the day you bought it.