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dcreemer commented on How to Be Blind newyorker.com/culture/the... · Posted by u/bcraven

roygbiv2 · 2 years ago

My 18 month old has ushers, we're dealing with the hearing loss but I'm dreading the day when we have to tell him about his eyes. We've got a few years to go before that day, at a loss to when/how that's going to happen.

dcreemer · 2 years ago

I too have a child with Ushers (1F). We told him at age 10, though obviously it didn't really register until some years later. Please feel free to reach out to me.

dcreemer commented on PalmOS on Raspberry Pi pmig96.wordpress.com/2021... · Posted by u/Tijdreiziger

seanvk · 4 years ago

At Garmin, we ran PalmOS as a process on top of our RTOS. Fun times.

dcreemer · 4 years ago

I worked on that project from the Palm side. Visited Olathe a couple times too. That was one of the more fun integrations.

dcreemer commented on Apple Reports Second Quarter Results apple.com/newsroom/2021/0... · Posted by u/MaysonL

andrewmcwatters · 4 years ago

The only things that keep me from moving over to Apple's plan are being able to import my playlists and liked songs (thousands!) from Spotify, and Discover Weekly and Billboard Hot 100-esque type playlists.

Does Apple have equivalents of those features? Discover Weekly is incredible.

dcreemer · 4 years ago

I've used soundiiz.com for importing likes & playlists (though from different source and target services). Works well enough.

dcreemer commented on A device to restore vision to the blind is being prepared for clinical trials monash.edu/news/articles/... · Posted by u/letientai299

dcreemer · 5 years ago

not the first at all, but still a good step forward -- see the commercially available Argus II -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argus_retinal_prosthesis

* though it might be the first to work for those with optic nerve damage, or with this pathway

dcreemer commented on Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare? · Posted by u/zachrip

dcreemer · 5 years ago

I have an (adult) child with Usher Syndrome, and have lots of connections and resources that I'd be happy to share. There is a a decent amount of research going on right now. If you like, feel free to reach me at my username at gmail.

dcreemer commented on Fax on the beach: The audacious, visionary, calamitous iPad of the 90s inputmag.com/features/fax... · Posted by u/anarbadalov

dcreemer · 6 years ago

I worked there until very close to the end, and the collapse of GO/Eo provided me with a priceless instant network of friends at dozens of companies around the SF Bay Area.

I met my spouse and some of my best friends through GO/Eo, and to this day still greatly value the connections made there for my personal and professional networks. Silver linings.

dcreemer commented on Apple News No Longer Supports RSS mjtsai.com/blog/2019/12/2... · Posted by u/newscracker

modmans2nd · 6 years ago

Flipboard is better than any news app I’ve used

dcreemer · 6 years ago

and it supports RSS feeds -- paste the link into the search box

dcreemer commented on The Fifth Generation Computing Project scottlocklin.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/o_nate

dreamcompiler · 6 years ago

I worked at MCC too, but in the human interface group. It was a lot of fun using Symbolics machines all day (the ultimate brain-to-computer interface). Despite nothing much coming from my work at MCC, I still got to write Lisp and Prolog for pretty much my whole career, and MCC set me on that path. So I'll thank them for that.

dcreemer · 6 years ago

I'm also an MCC alum - I worked in the Software Technology Program. My code there had a surprisingly long life - transitioning to a spin out startup and then other companies. (See gIBIS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compendium_(software)#Histor... ). I too learned Lisp (and Emacs!) there - two tools that have stuck with me ever since. Many of us also started to learn Japanese there.

dcreemer commented on AWS gives open source the middle finger? techcrunch.com/2019/01/09... · Posted by u/uji

nemothekid · 7 years ago

>However, developers are technically savvy enough to distinguish between the real thing and a poor imitation. MongoDB will continue to outperform any impersonations in the market

This feels like a MongoDB sponsored post. How badly would you have to fuck up to be considered a poor imitation of MongoDB?

In any case I don't see how having their own hosted version of MongoDB is a middle finger to open source, but Aurora SQL/PostgresQL isn't. Is Cockroach a middle finger Postgres? I don't consider this any more a middle finger than the SSPL.

dcreemer · 7 years ago

> How badly would you have to fuck up to be considered a poor imitation of MongoDB?

I literally laughed out loud at this. Thanks for the humor.

dcreemer commented on Evaluation of five password managers medium.com/@QuantopianCyb... · Posted by u/jik

ben0x539 · 7 years ago

afaict, the 1password cli app is just a client for their API and has no offline mode, so if I can't reach 1password's servers, I can't access any of my secrets.

I believe the browser addons do not share this shortcoming, though.

dcreemer · 7 years ago

You are correct - that's the main reason I wrote the 1pass wrapper mentioned above. It mirrors the data locally (in a gpg-encrypeted cache).

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