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Re:AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions on Thursday August 21, 2025 @06:04PM (#44978652)
You are absolutely right
AGENTS.md fine but I hope the pattern sticks around. Another way is to use the README.md with different sections for humans or agents. As agent content windows expand to being able to load all the context in a repo, it will not matter much.
Re:Ergo S-1 – An open-source ergonomic wireless keyboard on Friday January 03, 2025 @10:30AM (#42586466)
The original design for the concave ergonomic keyboard dates back to the 70s. Their original designs have many more keys. https://www.maltron.com/maltron-history.html
Re:Ergo S-1 – An open-source ergonomic wireless keyboard on Friday January 03, 2025 @10:08AM (#42586272)
Another open source concave keyboard design is the dactyl and dactyl-manuform.
There is another book by the same author but it seems out of print https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/faculty_books/459/

Similar title: A brief course in modern math for programmers

Re:Learning to Touch Type Again on Thursday July 13, 2023 @09:56AM (#36709226)
I am learning a new layout that does not have xcv in the same place but I fix this by using a layer that keeps the same positions for xcv when holding down cmd/ctrl
Re:Ask HN: Help with Meta on Friday December 16, 2022 @10:20PM (#34024149)
https://www.modelmayhem.com/ Might also be an alternative.

I only used it to find camera folks in the past when I was in film/documentary work but I know it’s mainly a modeling site. Haven’t kept up with the industry since 2015 so not sure if still relevant.

Re:The Dactyl Keyboard on Sunday October 09, 2022 @12:22AM (#33138252)
There are so many forks in so many languages. Many folks interested in these types of keyboards hang out at https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/
I love all the new health monitoring startups.

I recently tried documenting my glucose using one of the many startups using electronic patches that measure glucose every few minutes.

What is the likelihood that a similar electronic patch would become available for inflammation in the industry?

Re:Ask HN: What helped you sleep better? on Sunday August 07, 2022 @03:25PM (#32379052)
This is what I do:

Zero caffeinated drinks. See a sleep doctor at least once a year.

Night routine: Ear plugs. Night eye mask. Mouth guard. zzzquil If I do not feel sleepy by designates sleep time. I budget 9h for sleep.

Re:Memory Safety for SerenityOS on Friday May 20, 2022 @02:22AM (#31443983)
HolyC++
How long will it take for your brain to start considering this text representation as regular text block?
Re:Kids don't need tools for kids on Monday March 14, 2022 @09:28AM (#30672165)
Ah cool. I will check it out. Thanks!
Re:Kids don't need tools for kids on Monday March 14, 2022 @09:20AM (#30672088)
I hope to teach my kids programming so I started with the older on learning algebra. I have been using the tablet app called dragonbox algebra (which is amazing!). The issue I am facing now is that my kid knows visually/mechanically what to do in the app but they don’t understand why they have to do some things. We have been moving to the whiteboard so they have to translate swipes and taps to regular algebra notation. They literary think in terms of the app. What has helped a lot is to do a problem on the app then do the same problem on the board. Their eyes light up when they see the connection.

I think I will have the same translation dilema if I start with scratch. At some point we will need to get writing textual based code but I am not confident that I can get my kids exited about programming without graphical tools like scratch/dragonbox.

In classroom setting most teachers could not teach the textual form of programming but something like scratch allows kids to explore and build the vocabulary to be able to translate to a textual representation.

Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team on Monday February 21, 2022 @12:25PM (#30418246)
Perhaps this was the straw that broke the camels back? Remember that Chris was influential in getting Google to invest in Swift for Tensorflow. I am hopeful for Chris’ new start up https://www.modular.ai
Minority Report?
Call it Nik or Niko for Nikolas
Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:22PM (#17137261)
Twitter will respond with deprecation for Blocking in favor of a new feature. Ignore. which will only be available for celebrities.
Re:Tell HN: I just wanted to say: thank you, Hacker News on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @07:02PM (#16643262)
Can you provide a link to this program? Is it on campus or online? Thanks
Re:In Search Of The Red Cross' $500M In Haiti Relief (2015) on Sunday September 24, 2017 @09:21PM (#15327447)
"The point is that the concern we should have is not just about the $500,000,000 donated for Haiti for which the good hearted donors received just six $400 shacks. The concern is about billions of donated dollars intended to help people all over the world. The Haiti data demonstrates that for each billion donated to the Red Cross we get a total of 12 each $400 shacks which we wouldn't put our lawn mower in.

The greatest mystery for me is why the major media outlets keep advising well intended Americans to give to the Red Cross. If any of us operated like the Red Cross has for years the media would be screaming for our prosecution as it should. Why not the Red Cross? And worse, why do they encourage hard working and generous Americans to give to an organization about whom there is public knowledge of extreme abuse of billions of donated dollars ?!" - Hotes Foundation

Reference:

https://hotesfoundation.org/500-million-for-6-shacks-in-hait...

https://hotesfoundation.org/red-cross-haiti-relief-scandal/

Re:Udacity spins out its self-driving car business as Voyage on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @08:09PM (#14046862)
Udacity's founder also helped google's self driving car project so I don't think Uber would make the same mistake.
I'd love TypeScript Support.
Re:PhotoScan by Google on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @08:38PM (#12963884)
We need more technical details here. Anybody familiar with this? This is so awesome. I've been putting off scanning my baby pictures. Perfect timing since most people go home for the holidays.
Re:Ghost in the Shell Official Trailer on Monday November 14, 2016 @01:38AM (#12947945)
This trailer is not that good which makes me feel like the movie is low budget. Too bad. The went too dark and over futuristic. The whole point of the original was that even though people choose to be cyborgs, they still want to be human. The city was still Asian looking. Lots it's lost by making this futuristic. Major never looked Asian to me. Even Lucy looked better than this.

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