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pidge commented on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android   ios-countdown.win/... · Posted by u/ozzyphantom
mzmzmzm · a month ago
I recently switched to iPhone for network reasons, and some UI/UX things are really shocking. There is no way to toggle location services without going into settings. The alarms are tricky to set and don't have niceties like telling you the time until your morning alarm. There is no clipboard history. They want you to use swipe gestures so much, the touch targets to exit fullscreen media are barely functional. If you use browser extensions and a browser other than Safari, to change their settings you don't open the app that bundles the extension; you don't look in the menus of your browser or Safari; you dig several layers into Safari's app preferences to find the extension's settings. After such praise, there are so many rough edges I can't believe iOS users just put up with.
pidge · a month ago
I’m curious and suffering from a failure of imagination—why toggle location services regularly?
pidge commented on Data centers in space makes no sense   civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
grim_io · a month ago
I don't quite believe this.

Is it really better than just using solar panels to run a heat pump?

pidge · a month ago
> Our core innovation is a radiative cooling material that we’ve combined with a panel system to improve the efficiency of any vapor-compression based cooling system

A heat pump is a “ vapor-compression based cooling system” so that tech is an addition-to not an instead-of.

Whether it’s better probably depends on how expensive the additional efficiency is in practice.

> SkyCool’s Panels save 2x – 3x as much energy as a solar panel generates given the same area.

So if you’re area constrained maybe.

pidge commented on PCB Edge USB C Connector Library   github.com/AnasMalas/pcb-... · Posted by u/walterbell
exmadscientist · 5 months ago
They're fine for one guy using them on the bench but they are a nightmare for mass production. The 50-mil pitch is annoying to make work with a bed-of-nails fixture, the clips are fundamentally incompatible with production lines, either robot or human, the parts are expensive, and the cycle life is not there.

I have had one too many arguments with firmware people who think these things are sufficient for production that I am just done with them by now. There are other ways to do it.

pidge · 5 months ago
Out of curiosity what are the other ways?
pidge commented on Fidget   mattkeeter.com/projects/f... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
peppertree · a year ago
Here is a thought experiment. What if 3D printers support implicit representation natively. Resin printers are basically physical marching cube machines. FSM would need an algorithm for following contours but should be doable.
pidge · a year ago
Relatedly, here’s a slicer built around Fidget https://github.com/Wulfsta/WeekendSlicer/tree/main
pidge commented on Analyzing multi-gigabyte JSON files locally   thenybble.de/posts/json-a... · Posted by u/bubblehack3r
zeitlupe · 3 years ago
Spark is my favorite tool to deal with jsons. It can read as many jsons – in any format located in any even nested folder structure – as you want, offers parallelization, and is great to flatten structs. I've never run into memory issues (or never ran out of workarounds) so far.
pidge · 3 years ago
Yeah, given that everything is now multi-core, it makes sense to use a natively parallel tool for anything compute-bound. And Spark will happily run locally and (unlike previous big data paradigms) doesn’t require excessive mental contortions.

Of course while you’re at it, you should probably just convert all your JSON into Parquet to speed up successive queries…

pidge commented on Inkbase: Programmable Ink   inkandswitch.com/inkbase/... · Posted by u/infinite8s
abdullahkhalids · 3 years ago
> Most of our examples were built entirely on the iPad, using Inkbase’s interface. Sketchy math was not. Much of the code that runs it ... was written on a laptop.

> Building larger, more technical software systems in Inkbase becomes extremely difficult for many reasons, from the poor ergonomics of typing with an on-screen keyboard

Nobody has really solved the ergonomics problem of being able to type on a keyboard and also sketch, and have the entire system be portable and friction free.

pidge · 3 years ago
How about speech to text instead?

Whiteboard use in real life is a combination of speech and sketching.

pidge commented on Quirky computing books   github.com/fogus/thunks/b... · Posted by u/llvm
westoncb · 4 years ago
That looks like a pretty cool book.

It is not the one I used though: the entire book was Alice in Wonderland themed.

pidge · 4 years ago
Following the numbered citation, I think this is the table of contents from a different book, originally published in Finnish by Jaak Henno, which would have an English title something like “It is simple with Prolog!”. He also seems to have published some of the content separately under the title “Prolog and Olympic Gods”.

http://staff.ttu.ee/~jaak.henno/publicat.htm

u/pidge

KarmaCake day515January 16, 2012View Original