This sounds particularly useful to me. As a shut-in. Not a vampire.
Readit Newsmeshaneian commented on Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling sitinshade.com... · Posted by u/Amithv
There is a much larger market for this tech - parents. Today's world is so crowded, kids or parents can be separated by less than 20 feet and devolve into panic. Give them each a way to know they're safe and can be found. You're already awesome, wish more people could share like you have, magnificent designs!
meshaneian commented on Terrible real estate agent photographs terriblerealestateagentph... · Posted by u/thunderbong
And it got sold! I happen to remember this
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64389615
I suppose leading with a picture of it actually on fire is better than a post or pre fire photo.
How did they not say "fire sale"??
> would a 20-years-exp industrial lathe engineer/specialist know what to do with a zip?
Are you kidding? That guy has to convert his files to binary, put them on a USB drive, carry them to SunOS server, plug them in, and type something in a command line to send the binary over Serial to his CNC machine.
Industrial equipment isn't EOL at 30 years, it's "lightly used." You'd be floored at how much "ancient" tech knowledge is required to operate it.
And this is why https://www.floppydisk.com/ is still doing well.
meshaneian commented on Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining · Posted by u/newZWhoDis
On Android with tmo if I go near a home depot my phone will hop on their wiri and get a little R next to the wifi signal icon. This R doesn't go away even after I go home and get on my home wifi. Can only get rid of it by rebooting the phone.
R for reboot /s
"Rewrite it" is almost always the wrong answer, although it can be an overpowering instinct.
Personally, through decades of experience, I've learned that when this impulse hits me, I need to consciously remind myself of these truths:
1) The engineer(s) that wrote the offensive code were almost certainly not idiots. The code is probably that way for a reason, even if that reason isn't obvious to me.
2) If I embark on rewriting it "correctly", the odds are very good that I will learn why the code was as it was in the first place, and my rewrite will undoubtedly have my own style, but will not likely avoid whatever issue it was that made me think it should be rewritten.
"The engineer(s) that wrote the offensive code were almost certainly not idiots."
Bold statement, but closer to accurate than the first impression.
Don't some map makers put ghost towns or roads that don't actually exist in their own maps as a sort of fingerprinting method? Unless you actually visit that particular spot, one might not know and inadvertently copy the proprietary map data,
> kgeist 8 hours ago
> Reminds me of "trap streets" on maps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
> Gosh, I don't know, how about literally all of the problems that 2FA solves in the first place?
Well, it isn't solving this one. Option to opt out would be nice.
> aren't capable of keeping track of a physical device for more than N weeks?
Bit ignorant of you. They could be just plainly stolen by someone else. A piece of rag working as a tent doesn't exactly have best physical security...
> I'm not unsympathetic to the problems of the homeless ant the burdens 2FA entails, but I'm also not willing to ignore the huge problems the 2FA solves, and realizing there will often be a tradeoff between making it very difficult to hack into accounts and making it easy for people with mental and other problems access their accounts.
It's not either or.
Also they're frequently arrested, and if their "belongings" are unsafe (biologically contaminated, disgusting) they'll be discarded or ignored by police, if the person hasn't seen the police coming and thrown their belongings aside in the hopes of coming back for them later. Sad all around.
meshaneian commented on Turns are better than radians computerenhance.com/p/tur... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
TIL that the uncanny valley can apply to mathematics.
meshaneian commented on Take more screenshots alexwlchan.net/2022/07/sc... · Posted by u/goranmoomin
I've gotten mixed reactions whenever I share this, but when I program I like to record my screen with OBS.
* It's a mental hack to keep me accountable, especially now working from home. If I'm in an office anyone can look over and see whether or not I'm working. It started as an attempt to mimic this feeling at home, even though I'll be the only one to ever see the recordings.
* It allows me to go back and see how I worked in the past. I have a few videos of myself working from 2015 which I think is pretty neat just because of how different my workflow was back then compared to now. I'm not using the same tools or even on the same operating system.
* I'm working on video games which is what makes this very useful for me. If something visually interesting happens, or if there's graphical bug of some kind, I can go back and breakdown exactly what happened. I've stepped through videos frame by frame in the past to debug, it's been surprisingly helpful.
* It allows me to go back and see my progress. I can know what I was working on a given day, see how far I've progressed, it's just generally a good motivator. You can of course do this with git, but if you're working on something visual it can be nice to see it in motion rather than a textual diff.
How do you setup OBS to keep the recording sizes tolerable?
I've used this before on engineering grade machines, but it doesn't do so well on "everything is in the cloud so you can use a word processor quality" laptop, any advice?