Reminds me of the old days of StumbleUpon.
I've been using the "surprise me..." feature on https://wiby.org as a sort of small-web/indie-web StumbleUpon lately.
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Wrote a simple typescript client [1] for the whole api (not just search), a while back.
Used it to write a simple plugin for Obsidian, to send a selection to the fastGPT of Kagi.
This is really cool. It's little things like this that keep me coming back to HN. I can't justify the cost of Kagi yet based on my current use, but I'm glad that people are out there building things like this. Thanks for your contribution and for making Obsidian and Kagi that much better!
sricks3 commented on Why so many families are "drowning in toys" vox.com/money/382217/too-... · Posted by u/gmays
pretty much the only toys i get for my kids to get are lego compatible bricks. with those it doesn't make a difference if you have 1 or 10 kg of them. just add to the pile.
no books in my house because we are moving to often. but i grew up in a library. my dad probably has 10-15m worth of bookshelves. from my granddad we inherited 3 or 4 times as much. but they were both collectors, curating their collections with care. still, sorting through those books to figure out whats valuable is a lifetime occupation. and i can see how a lot of books can be overwhelming if you are not into that.
a year ago i heard about someone passing away leaving behind a house with a collection of 75000 books. the cost to sort through them would be higher than the value of the collection, so instead it all goes to a landfill because i a not even sure it can be recycled or the cost of getting it recycled was to much too.
There are a few types of toys that my wife and I are still ok with getting and Lego is one of them. She's started using the phrase "more really is more" to describe the category. Basically, it's systems where you build something and the more you have, the more things you can do: Lego, Brio, Magna-Tiles, Hot Wheels track, etc. Even things like Pokemon cards (if your kid actually plays the game) can fall into this. You do have to be careful not to end up with too many of these systems, especially really similar ones.
We're also still ok with getting books. We have a few too many for our shelf space, but at their current ages, our kids are aging out of books about as quickly as they receive new ones. I just need to do a better job of giving away the old ones more regularly.
sricks3 commented on Why so many families are "drowning in toys" vox.com/money/382217/too-... · Posted by u/gmays
> The article is clearly not written by a parent because it barely touches on Buy Nothing Groups on Facebook.
The author very clearly indicates they have children. I don't think the author wants to make it an article about themselves.
Keep in mind: Toys just show up from well-meaning people. There's a lot of social momentum around gifting; I started dreading Christmas because it means a bunch of toys my kids won't play with.
And, not only am I drowning in toys, I'm drowning in books too.
Yes! I've run out of ways to tell MY parents not to get toys for my kids for Christmas/birthdays. I can ask directly for no physical things; I can suggest tickets to shows or evens, memberships to museums or zoos, etc; I can point out every time they come over that there's not enough space for the things we already have; I can tell them what sorts of clothes the kids could use instead. They're still going to get each kid a "showstopper" (toy workbench, Big Wheel, something physically large) plus several cheap plastic trinkets... plus the clothes.
And that's just my parents. I can politely talk to them about not getting physical things for my kids, but then there's all of the extended family that loves to get them big, cheap plastic stuff, too. I know they're trying to be generous and don't really understand the fallout, but I'm starting to reconsider the whole "it's the thought that counts" idea.
I need to do a better job of helping the kids periodically go through and give stuff away, but 1) try explaining to a 3-year-old why giving away your toys is a good thing, and 2) the influx of new things always seems to outstrip the rate at which I can find time to get rid of stuff.
sricks3 commented on Show HN: A color picker for named web colors arantius.github.io/web-co... · Posted by u/arantius
Funny to me that how #FF0000 is named Red, #0000FF is named Blue, but #00FF00 is Lime. Maybe it was supposed to be RLB. Although Green is the canonical name for that color range, what we actually refer as Green in daily life is close to #008000.
Funny to me that how... #00FF00 is Lime... what we actually refer as Green in daily life is close to #008000
sricks3 commented on A Drum Machine with Congenital Heart Disease heartbeatdrummachine.com/... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
I have a bicuspid aortic valve (on top of other stuff that was repaired when I was younger), I could hear my heartbeat until I was 28 when I went on a beta-blocker that decreased the sound levels and is supposed to reduce wear on the valve.
I know I'll need my valve replaced at some point, I hope they gave you a good long term postop prognosis, I know the tech keeps getting better every year.
Yeah, I'm 34, and they gave me an On-X valve which seems to be the most current tech in use on the mechanical valve market. The most urgent need was actually to remodel my ascending aorta (complications caused by the BAV), and their hope was actually to re-implant my own valve after rebuilding the aortic root. However, when they got me opened up and saw the valve, the decision was made that it was too far gone and would have needed replacing soon anyway. I knew going into the surgery that it was about a 50/50 chance.
The ticking sound really isn't that bad. After a couple of days I was able to ignore it. Other people can hear it in quiet environments, but it seems like most people don't notice it. I do occasionally move to turn off my turn signal while driving only to realize I'm hearing my valve, not the car.
sricks3 commented on A Drum Machine with Congenital Heart Disease heartbeatdrummachine.com/... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
If you don't mind me asking, how old are you and what prompted you to replace it? Just curious how long one can go with the bicuspid valve. While living with it, how did it affect your life?
I'm 34. I never experienced any symptoms as far as I was aware although they include things like fatigue, so was that my BAV or just the fact that I've just had a long, active day? My cardiologist noticed at my last annual exam that some of the factors they track had crossed concerning enough thresholds to make me a surgery candidate.
As for how long one can go, I was diagnosed at 6 months old, but I've read stories of people in their 60s or 70s when they're first diagnosed. It's a very common condition; about 1% of the population have it, and I personally know a few other people who've been diagnosed. It also seems to vary pretty substantially in its severity; it seems lots of people could have minor cases and not know until later in life. I was told at various times that I'd need surgery by the time I was 14 or 26, so I consider 34 a win in my scenario.
sricks3 commented on A Drum Machine with Congenital Heart Disease heartbeatdrummachine.com/... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
I'm a little over 2 months post-op after replacing my bicuspid aortic valve (more common and not as serious as what these four kids have). Growing up, I always enjoyed seeing the EKG printouts and listening to (and watching) the echocardiogram. I was never very good at hearing my murmur through a stethoscope, so the sounds of the echo were super exciting.
My new mechanical valve ticks audibly, and as a musician I was a little worried about how it might affect my sense of rhythm or tempo. Fortunately, I've gotten pretty good at ignoring it, especially when there's lots of other sound, but I can pretty much always hear it.
The sequences shown have BPMs associated with them. I wonder if the product engineers adjusted the EKG results to line up to a particular BPM or just selected portions where the patient's heart rate was pretty steady. I also wonder if there will be any ability to change the BPM on the drum machine. Either way, this is a fun project.
Edit: wording
sricks3 commented on Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore (2018) theatlantic.com/entertain... · Posted by u/janandonly
>>No wonder they're talking about rebooting the whole thing.
I am pretty sure to most fans the current era is the "reboot", and they would prefer them to go back to just before Capaldi era, start from their and pretend Capaldi/Whitiker era shows where another universe.
To me, the show's nature completely changed when Stephen Moffat took over. I really enjoyed the Ponds' story arc, but it felt like Moffat had just thrown out all of the other characters and stories that I'd grown to love before the 11th Doctor showed up. The monster-of-the-week show with the occasional through-line had become (for better or worse) a show about a multi-episode, multi-season plot. It was almost a new, different show with the same basic premise.
And then Clara came along. It's kind of like how Capaldi and Whittaker went; Jenna Coleman seems like a pretty good actress given a vacuous role. Even the character started out as an interesting twist with lots of potential for good story telling, but it seemed like Moffat couldn't quite figure out what he wanted to do with her but couldn't let her go, either. I don't remember exactly how long she was the primary companion, but it felt like an eternity (and I guess in canon, it sort of was).