I gave up trying to read the article when animations started happening when I scrolled. It's annoying and I have better things to do than waste time waiting for your animations to stutter and finish moving around when I'm trying to scan the article. Good luck with whatever you're trying to do.
Readit Newscoreyp_1 commented on A modern 35mm film scanner for home soke.engineering/... · Posted by u/QiuChuck
Have you ever explored the idea of shaped notes?
There's multiple different approaches with both 4-shape and 7-shape systems being common. But the point is that your color system seems largely correlated to it, and there has been research done on the shape note system.
coreyp_1 commented on Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf] exhibitdb.cmog.org/opacim... · Posted by u/speckx
I love the hand-drawn illustrations, but I really love the typography.
Does anyone know which fonts (or, probably more importantly, which modern-day equivalents) are used to get this feeling?
coreyp_1 commented on Ask HN: I have a CS degree but taught for 5 years– how can I get back into tech? · Posted by u/padzochambers
Advice: Just pick one thing and do it. (I promise I'm not being snarky.)
The stack doesn't matter. The problem itself doesn't really matter. The "sexiness" of the result doesn't matter. Just do it. Something... Anything! Working through the problem is the goal.
The result: You will learn things that you didn't know that you didn't know, and you will be able to transfer that to your next project.
Rinse and repeat. Then, all of the sudden you will have stories to tell and mistakes that you know you should avoid.
Your first project will be bad, and I mean UGLY! You will make all sorts of bad decisions. Don't use an AI agent to help you write it... you won't learn anything. Don't waste your "best" idea on your first project, either. You will forever be disappointed because you didn't do a good job on it.
If you want to bounce any ideas off us, then go ahead and post them. We could proffer ideas to you, but it really needs to be something that captures your attention. So what are you interested in? Low-level, web, graphics, games, tools, mobile, industry-specific, entertainment, edutainment... the possibilities are wide open!
Good luck and have fun!
coreyp_1 commented on AI is making us work more tawandamunongo.dev/posts/... · Posted by u/elcapithanos
it really is and its costing me about $100/day too
How? (Genuine question... I only pay for a handful of AI services, which is <$2/day.)
I'm not doubting you, btw... I've seen others here on HN also saying that they burn through money with AI, I guess I'm just missing something.
In fact, the geek in me absolutely wants to know what's going on, because you have probably found something that I would love to know about! :)
coreyp_1 commented on Show HN: I built a web framework in C github.com/ashtonjamesd/l... · Posted by u/ashtonjamesd
I'm wanting to do the same thing. I've also already written a language (in C) to generate HTML (a template language), so these two go hand-in-hand!
I'm genuinely surprised that copyright is being used to control the use of a "scale" in science, and that the legal threat was used to take down a paper criticizing it as "no more accurate than flipping a coin".
Wouldn't science be under the umbrella of fair use, and publishing papers be under the umbrella of educational use?
It's undoubtedly a money-grab, and it reminds me of the people who extorted restaurants, etc., for singing "Happy Birthday", until the courts ruled that the song was in the Public Domain already (and had been for a very, very long time).
coreyp_1 commented on FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections docs.fcc.gov/public/attac... · Posted by u/impish9208
Maybe I'm just old, but I remember the tv advertisements for the dubious 900 numbers (remember Miss Cleo?) that you could call, but you had to pay for the time.
Is there any law that says that I can't just get one of those for use as my personal number and then give that # out as my contact info?
The content is good, but the weird dither effect is giving me a horrible headache! I'm glad you created it (it's always good to see someone bring an idea to fruition!), and I hope that you continue to create cool things. But please, please, please turn off whatever effect you're using.
coreyp_1 commented on Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections reddit.com/r/law/comments... · Posted by u/llm_nerd
You know, everyone is jumping to conclusions here about the evils of whomever their political rival is.
However, this is a website, based on code. And based on my most recent experiences with AI, I think it's more plausible that someone:
A.) Copied a file into an AI prompt (or use an AI agent).
B.) Asked the AI to do something to the file (like adjust the layout of the page, alter CSS, optimize something, or whatever.
C.) Eyeballed the response and thought it looked good.
D.) Copied the file back (or just saved it, depending on the IDE).
E.) Caused the Internet to melt down.
I've had AI chats and agents that randomly change things unrelated to what I asked it to do.
It seems that people are so quick to jump to a conclusion that supports their bias. To be clear, I did not (and never have) voted for Trump, but I'm not going to entertain conspiracy theories about orange man bad when it was probably some dev thinking, "this AI thing is cool... look at what it can do!"