Aside: does anyone know why AI landing pages prefer the color purple?
probably because they're using tailwind and indigo is the default for a lot of examples.
Readit Newspiptastic commented on Show HN: Sophomore at UMich, built an app with my dad workjourney.ai/... · Posted by u/kalanigrowney
piptastic commented on Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF? · Posted by u/hhthrowaway1230
chrome --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf https://example.com
same:
google-chrome --headless --disable-gpu --no-pdf-header-footer --hide-scrollbars --print-to-pdf-margins="0,0,0,0" --print-to-pdf --window-size=1280,720 https://example.com
ended up using headless chrome specifically to make sure javascript things rendered properly
piptastic commented on Robots move Shanghai city block [video] youtube.com/watch?v=7ZccC... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
This is incredible -- serious question -- has anything of this scale been done in the US or Europe? Do we even have the technology?
not quite the same scale area wise, but interesting nonetheless
https://www.archdaily.com/973183/the-building-that-moved-how...
As for your actual question, I'm pretty sure we (US, Europe, humans in general) could do quite a bit more than we do now if we had a reason to do so. (or were 100% sure about the results)
not sure i buy this is a trend yet, the article talks about 3 cases:
1 - vehicle wasn't involved and was about to be towed for footage as the article implies (owner came by and gave them footage during tow process)
2 - tesla was towed along with 2 other vehicles from a shootout in the parking lot (probably the cars were shot or had other evidence on them)
3 - the crime happened inside the tesla (was going to be towed regardless)
piptastic commented on Live NASA telescope feed for today's solar eclipse [video] youtube.com/watch?v=J5j95... · Posted by u/revicon
Thanks for clarifying
Estimates suggest that total solar eclipses could cease to occur in about 600 million years from now, give or take, depending on the precise nature of lunar recession and changes in Earth's rotation. This timeframe is long enough that many other changes on Earth and in the solar system will also occur, making the cessation of total solar eclipses just one of many transformations.
piptastic commented on Ask HN: 40yo adult learning to drive what is different vs. learning young? · Posted by u/ynlefevre
I have a friend from southeast Asia who learned to drive as an adult in the US. He learned on a friend's car, receiving instruction from that friend. Here's some notes:
Having an instructor is nice, but a patient friend who you trust will also work.
The throttle is more sensitive than you'll expect at first. Automatic cars roll forward slowly unless you hold the brake. Old cars have less sensitive brake pedals - that's normal, not a sign of anything being worn out/broken.
Be confident. You will make mistakes, but you'll make fewer mistakes if you don't let mistakes get to your head.
When waiting to make a left turn, creep forward into the intersection. It will feel weird at first, but it makes traffic flow much more smoothly.
Take turns in counterclockwise order at stop signs. If people are going in clockwise order for some reason, do that instead. Just go with the flow. If you aren't sure when your turn is, wait for an awkward pause. The awkward pause means it's your turn (probably).
Use cruise control on highways. Nobody likes Lead Foot McGee and his magic fast-downhill-slow-uphill band.
Use your mirrors, and use your turn signals. This should go without saying, but I have to say it.
You're in New York. That's a hard place to learn to drive. But, if you become a good driver in New York, you'll be able to drive competently just about anywhere in North America.
When at a 4 way stop, the order is who arrived at the stop first (until there are none remaining). If two or more vehicles arrive at the same time, the vehicle on the right should go first.
So when you get to the stop, just look at everyone there and know that when the last one there is gone it's your turn.
piptastic commented on Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit tailwindui.com/templates/... · Posted by u/accounter8or
Yes. I don’t want a refund. There’s enough value there. I just want them to add the alpine code to the copy paste code.
Yes, agreed. I used them earlier and the examples on the page use alpine, but the "copy code" doesn't have it. It's actually easier to just inspect/view source and take what they did from the examples than try to write your own.
piptastic commented on Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ techcrunch.com/2023/07/24... · Posted by u/pallas_athena
As opposed to Bezos and Jobs and Cook and Ellisson and Zuckerberg every other CEO, which doesn't have "people to run it"?
I think the major difference there is, those people are all running one company. So while they also had/have other people to run it, they were/are much more significantly involved.
piptastic commented on GNU nano is my editor of choice (2021) ariadne.space/2021/08/13/... · Posted by u/Tomte
piptastic commented on Hetzner subsea fibre cut outage status.hetzner.com/incide... · Posted by u/cain
How the hell do you fuse the ends of a massive cable like this at the bottom of the sea?!
This has pretty good information on it, and a couple videos: