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Wouldn't Google be doing this already as they own Chrome of course, which knows what you're looking at?
Re:Your phone is an entire computer on Sunday March 15, 2026 @03:15PM (#47390855)
thanks - I tried ViturePro when the came out, but felt like I was seeing monitors wearing blinders/through a slit, that wasn't quite big enough to see the whole screen.

Can you fully see the 3 monitors you're using there, And are you on mac or on windows? ie can you see kind of 1.5 monitors at a time, the middle one, and .5 of oneish?

Re:I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard on Sunday February 22, 2026 @09:20PM (#47117257)
If you have some to suggest, I'd love to hear it... TIA!
Re:Meta Ray-Ban Display on Friday September 19, 2025 @04:32PM (#45306199)
for sure - it is inevitable, if you live in modern society. This is a past tense discussion, as it's already happening, even as I type this msg in reddit of course. The only way out is to leave and live in the woods pretty much, but that doesn't stop it, it only delays the engagement.
Re:Meta Ray-Ban Display on Friday September 19, 2025 @01:26PM (#45304205)
Agree - basically tech that can see what people do, is creepy. and as you suggest - others can engage, but we don't control that.

Currently, it's somewhat obvious, but what happens when the tech is totally invisible?

That day is coming very soon, within a decade, max, and you have to imagine every thing you ever do, in any place - even in the dark, is recorded.

Arthur C Clarke, and Stephen Baxter wrote a book about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days

Well worth reading, imho, but it does explicitely ignore the concept of a higher presence, which is noteworthy

Re:Should More of Us Be Moving to Live Near Friends? on Sunday December 29, 2024 @04:55PM (#42543677)
Your commments are great, and made me lol, which is super rare - great insight, honestly... thanks

But if you've never had kids, you're missing out on so much. This is just my experience, and is how I "grew up" from 20-35. I didn't want kids, but now love them so much, and as 55 year old man, with a 21 and 20 year old that still live with me, I'm doing so well, and have been blessed by them being in my life, and my wife who wanted kids more than I did, lol.

I know you are probably aware of this, and it probably tears at you, in some way. I know it did for me. And your mission, if you choose to accept it is not to live life on your own terms, but on the terms of God (imho), your health, your wife, your kids (if you choose to have them), and ultimately in others, which once you perfect the previous, you will want to help others more than anyone else.

Not everyone has to have children of course, and in many ways it'd be easier if you didn't, but it sounds to me like your seeking new paths, and this is a life changer, imho, and something that every generation before you did, to have you, and bring YOU to life.

Good luck!

Re:7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 on Sunday December 08, 2024 @04:55PM (#42360958)
this sound interesting - do you have any more samples on how you win twitter arguments with this?
People have to be able to recognize that it is a QR code visually - these are too graphical to realize their true purpose, imho
can you share it?
Re:DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database on Sunday June 02, 2024 @08:21PM (#40558213)
it's turtles... all the way down?
200%. I listened to both, and don't think it was "her" enough.
Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces on Saturday May 11, 2024 @06:01PM (#40330906)
I use bees wax earplugs when I sleep, and they are 5x better than the standard foam earplugs, imho
Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces on Saturday May 11, 2024 @05:55PM (#40330879)
cool to hear - I have existing rooms that I replaced hollow core doors with solid core doors, but it didn't help much. I thought I would have to rip off gyprock to add better sound insulation, but maybe just adding another layer might help...

I assume it would only have to be on walls adjacent to other rooms, ie not exterior walls? And how did you really know this worked? Did you ever live in a room like that, or try this on someone who reported it helped back to you in some fashion? Thanks for the idea :D !

I have no idea which engine, but the minified source has this in it

https://www.balanc3dgame.com/assets/index-53e87cdf.js

* react-dom.production.min.js * react-jsx-runtime.production.min.js * react-reconciler-constants.production.min.js * react-reconciler.production.min.js * react.production.min.js * scheduler.production.min.js * use-sync-external-store-shim.production.min.js * use-sync-external-store-shim/with-selector.production.min.js

Re:Show HN: Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game on Thursday April 18, 2024 @07:07PM (#40081693)
hey... wondering why you haven't posted this to the Godot reddit? I went looking for this again, and thought I read it there, but didn't find it until I went to steam and looked at my wishlist, then searched for it on the web :D

https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/

where was the site hosted? Is it available online for us to checkout ?
Re:The darker side of being a doctor on Monday April 15, 2024 @09:31PM (#40047521)
That was very funny - I laughed out loud :D
Re:The design philosophy of Great Tables on Sunday April 07, 2024 @05:29PM (#39964111)
The best thing anyone can do with tables is make it so people use tables Not "divs" - tables, can be parsed, and exported to other data formats easily, and are easy to recognize, without visualization.

Many websites build tables out of div's, and they may look like tables, but they are hard to manipulate/export data from.

If a table is on a website, I feel it should be easy to export it as csv, at the least, to "free the data" :D

but your body is more resilient when you're young - you will learn this eventually, but hopefully not :D, in that you are healthy forever !
Never tried using it, but this github repo shows rive + godot4 in some fashion

https://github.com/kibble-cabal/godot-rive

Re:DuckDB as the New jq on Sunday March 24, 2024 @09:33AM (#39807119)
I do the same thing all the time, lol

but have in the last year or so, tried to start writing things that will be read/used by other people in python or java

why? because most people don't have a clue how bash scripts work, but can read/debug python and java with ease, and both can be run as shell scripts too

the mac has sqlite installed by default as well, so there's a powerful combo available on every mac

but I totally do what you're doing all the time, and it is my default go to if I have to get something done fast :D

but can you add a reminder with Siri ?
Re:A world from a sheet of paper – Tadashi Tokieda on Friday March 15, 2024 @08:48PM (#39722268)
unexpected, but incredible !
Re:I turned my ThinkPad into a programmable USB device on Saturday February 24, 2024 @06:07PM (#39495969)
do you have a link to the cable you use, and what's your python script? Thanks!
Re:Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired on Friday February 23, 2024 @06:27PM (#39487465)
the data is the problem here - no one knows what the truth is
Re:Django 5.0 Is Released on Monday December 04, 2023 @07:30PM (#38525409)
where do you tend to run stuff in production? and if you were a startup - any preferences?
Re:Django 5.0 Is Released on Monday December 04, 2023 @07:29PM (#38525399)
nice... thanks!
Re:Software Disenchantment on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @09:55PM (#38020781)
You are 200% correct. But - what are you going to do about it?

Communicating it was step 1

Now what do you expect to happen?

You can wait for others to step up, and help you make your vision happen, but the call is this - have a goal, fight for it, but make no mistake - you will always be chosing between your family, and your goal, and yourself - this is the true conflict of every moment.

RALEMOI - Read - and loved every moment of it!

Point being, you are living your OWN life, and in the end, you will want to be satisfied with what you did, and to a much lesser extent, who you feel you are now.

I'd say kudos, god speed, etc, but I personally believe, God bless, and I thank you for your work!

Re:Ruffle: Flash Player Emulator on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @09:30PM (#38020634)
And browser extensions are better? I find so many people install browser extensions, not caring about the permissions, or even know if they're doing it, lol... way way more than they should. At least a company like Adobe that is well known, and would somewhat care about privacy/being hacked/etc, would be in the public eye.

The real argument Steve Jobs should've forced was make it work for mobile.

But that wasn't what he wanted - Flash was "free content/games", so he attacked it on one front, but won two. Sadly, Adobe didn't quite listen to the public, and he was charismatic and forceful, and won.

Since Flash has been banished, so many artists and developers have wanted something that fit that middle ground as much as Flash did. Me too :D

Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips on Monday July 10, 2023 @09:42PM (#36675481)
Chrome broke this recently, for shortcuts that have no substitution. The ominibox history takes over.

For example, I used to be able to just type, "yt" and go to youtube, but now Ominbox history replaces it with my most recent history item that has "yt" in it

shortcut: "yt", goes to youtube https://www.youtube.com/

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