hypertexthero (u/hypertexthero)

hypertexthero commented on Kodak has no plans to cease, go out of business, or file for bankruptcy kodak.com/en/company/blog... · Posted by u/whicks

hypertexthero · 11 days ago

Anyone reading at Kodak, please consider making a camera that has:

1. 35mm-equivalent basic plastic lens, 6 megapixel sensor with big pixels, autofocus, center-weighted metering.

2. No screen to see photos. Only a tiny LCD for basic settings like remaining pictures and remaining battery power.

3. Pictures saved to replaceable built-in SD card, downloadable to computers via USB-C to USB-C connector.

4. Long battery life (one whole day of shooting). Powered by rechargeable AA batteries.

5. Splash proof.

6. Photo sensor that adds grain to blown highlights and lost shadows.

7. Less than $100.

8. Bonus: Open source firmware.

Basically a competitor to the Camp Snap, but better.

Thank you!

hypertexthero commented on Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn? · Posted by u/unsupp0rted

Joeboy · 19 days ago

I'll add that I spent decades not learning to set up a guitar properly or acquiring the tools to do so. It turns out it's not nearly as difficult or expensive as I feared. To be fair it's a lot easier now than when I started, with youtube tutorials etc.

In particular, I now own a string height gauge, which was very cheap and makes the action assessment more empirical.

hypertexthero · 19 days ago

A tuner, either built-in or stuck to the guitar is also very helpful.

Recommended to anyone starting to play.

If you stick with it eventually you learn to tune the instrument by ear.

hypertexthero commented on Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn? · Posted by u/unsupp0rted

hypertexthero · 20 days ago

When playing guitar, instead of gripping the neck tightly as if your hand was a vise, grip it lightly and pull the neck toward your body instead. Make sure the action of your guitar is not too high; if it is, get it adjusted.

Listening is more important than talking, but don’t automatically believe what you hear. Find out for yourself.

Observing animals and plants can teach one about humans and living in harmony with nature’s cycles.

Some people are not capable of feeling empathy. Learn to recognize them.

Your initial intuition is often wrong about numbers and statistics and many things, even if you are an expert. Double check. Triple check. Discuss with others you trust.

A little at a time goes a long way (understanding compound interest).

Certainty leads to insanity (regarding the “trade” of life).

References:

- The Creative Act by Rick Rubin

- The Listening Book: Discovering Your Own Music by W. A. Mathieu

- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

- The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti

- The Psychopath Code by Peter Hintjens

- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

- Fingers Pointing to the Moon by Jane English

hypertexthero commented on CARA – High precision robot dog using rope aaedmusa.com/projects/car... · Posted by u/hakonjdjohnsen

hypertexthero · a month ago

Amazing work, beautifully presented.

Geordi LaForge reminds me of Aaed.

hypertexthero commented on Ozzy Osbourne has died bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn0qq... · Posted by u/fantunes

hypertexthero · a month ago

Goodbye, Ozzy :(

Two of my favorite Sabbath songs:

Zeitgeist, 2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ofrYzMU6cw Planet Caravan, 1970 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm2N2nHqITY

hypertexthero commented on How to Firefox kau.sh/blog/how-to-firefo... · Posted by u/Vinnl

nuker · a month ago

- June 2024. Mozilla acquires Anonym, an ad metrics firm.

- July 2024. Mozilla adds Privacy-Preserving Attribution (PPA), feature is enabled by default. Developed in cooperation with Meta (Facebook).

- Feb 2025. Mozilla updates its Privacy FAQ and TOS. "does not sell data about you." becomes "... in the way that most people think about it".

hypertexthero · a month ago

Here’s how to disable PPA: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attr...

hypertexthero commented on AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening netflixtechblog.com/av1-s... · Posted by u/CharlesW

fidotron · 2 months ago

There are definite philosophical questions over the merits of adding noise, but the problem with their example here is their denoising process appears to excessively blur everything, so both it and the synthesized grain image look noticeably less sharp than the source. The grain itself also looks too much like basic noise, and not really grain like.

hypertexthero · 2 months ago

A film that explores this is Antonioni’s Blowup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowup

hypertexthero commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) · Posted by u/david927

hypertexthero · 2 months ago

Recording my first EP!

1st published song, Piano Place Hold in Am: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUOhb-wHdFQ

hypertexthero commented on Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system github.com/iamgio/quarkdo... · Posted by u/asicsp

TacticalCoder · 3 months ago

People may not know it but at some point in the nineties you'd enter a bookstore and 95%+ of all the books and magazines were typeset using QuarkXPress.

Then Adobe's InDesign showed up in 1999 and things began to change.

FWIW I both wrote and typeset books myself (for a traditional publisher): I did most of them using QuarkXPress but I managed to sneak one I made with LaTeX (it was a hard sell to the publisher / printing press guys who were only ever using QuarkXPress). Also I was forced to heavily modify LaTeX templates to match exactly the one the publisher was using with QuarkXPress.

So yup when I read "Quarkdown is a modern Markdown-based typetting system" the first thing I think about is QuarkXPress: great memories of MacOS (8? then 9?, pre OS X for sure) and my Sony Trinitron monitor.

hypertexthero · 3 months ago

QuarkXpress for typesetting, Photoshop for painting pixels, and Macromedia Freehand for turning scanned drawings into vector graphics.

Was still using these in the early 2000s. Good times.

https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/american-overseas-scho...