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Re:Why our website looks like an operating system on Friday September 12, 2025 @03:27AM (#45219595)
Yeah. I found pictures of feet before I found their products.

I guess they assume visitors usually arrive at the home page rather than a blog post. A quick note/link in the blog post might be helpful for those of us stumbling around.

I use KATWARN because the local refinary, usually downwind of where I live, is required to announce if there is an incident (within 48 hours, probably).
If done correctly!

I was unlucky and it was extremely painful. It also resulted in a very minor permanent facial droop.

Re:45% of people have 20 browser tabs open at a time on Monday July 10, 2023 @04:24PM (#36672436)
My tabs are a convenientish curated list. It is wasteful and I hate it. At worst (best?) I've taken to sending a tab to another device as a way of dismissing it for later.

I hope someone jumps on the language model hype and makes an extension that summarizes what I have read, seen, and done on the web. Perhaps with a choice screenshot or two.

I don't need a tree of pages, a spreadsheet, or a pie chart of time wasted on hn. I spent my time here on purpose, show me or tell me why. Remind me of the topics so I can close the tab and come back to it easily when needed.

Have a bunch of them that release at regular intervals and float up to the surface.

Where it is and what is wrong would be a good start.

Re:Notes on Vision Pro on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @08:09AM (#36225794)
I think it's weird because the example they used of the birthday is trying too hard to be family-friendly and social.

The HoloLens had some great examples of highlighting where to hit a mechanism to make it work. I have no idea if it was any good in reality.

That doesn't work for Apple, at least not for advertising.

I think it would have been neat to have shown a sports person/dancer/musician looking through the eyes of their instructor to correct their posture, etc. Or at least show them reviewing the recording together.

Re:Notes on Vision Pro on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @07:55AM (#36225685)
I'm hoping for more of a Dennou Coil future myself.
"pulling guns on ordinary people is pretty chilling: That just doesn't happen now."

"Ordinary" people seems like an important criteria here. The police still shoot people and raided the ABC not that long ago.

Re:How I wrote my own Smart Home software on Monday June 05, 2023 @02:38AM (#36193150)
The risk is real and reasonable if one is willing to rationalise it as a hobby / learning / playing with hardware and a trivial amount of soldering.

In my case I wanted to play with sensors and the pico w. A pi with a sprinkling of c#, Nats, and influxdb connects, controls Ikea stuff, and reports all the things.

Micropython on the pico is not my favourite part of the process but it might have been faster for me than just writing in c.

"How a coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama"

With some maps of Cretaceous sediments, fertile Black Belt Prairie soil, farm size 1997, slave population 1860, black population 2010, and Election Results.

A little bit about the soils from a different link:

"The Black Belt is the only region in Alabama with extensive regions of alkaline soils (soil pH> 7.0). Early settlers discovered these clayey soils held more nutrients and were generally more productive than the sandier Coastal Plain soils. For this reason, many of the large, antebellum cotton plantations were located in the Black Belt region of Alabama and Mississippi. Black Belt soil color is dark because of the humus, or decomposed organic matter, that often coats the clay particles. However, severe erosion due to intensive farming practices removed much of the dark, rich topsoil."

https://www.aces.edu/blog/topics/healthy-soils/alabama-soils...

Link to the article.

Are parents spending less time with their kids? https://ourworldindata.org/parents-time-with-kids

Re:How the lemon was invented on Friday May 26, 2023 @01:35PM (#36087282)
I believe "just adjust the dosing to suit" is the tricky part.

One source wisely suggests asking your doctor.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-preventi...

Another has big words that needs a bit more time to digest.

Grapefruit juice–drug interactions https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1...

Re:Windows 11 in Svelte on Thursday May 11, 2023 @04:05AM (#35899229)
It was pretty buggy when it came out with the release version of win95 and it didn't even have the ability to automatically search the web for things I wasn't looking for. We're just in a bad start menu decade at the moment.

Surely adding a shortcuts on the desktop obliviates the need to use it. All of my programs add one automatically so it's super easy.

Re:Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN on Friday May 05, 2023 @11:54AM (#35830958)
Yes and no in my experience. The past year I have had some trouble but the Linux clients seem to be good again. Win11 is getting worse for me unfortunately.
Re:Junk Drawer Phone as a Music Streaming Server on Saturday April 29, 2023 @02:56AM (#35750686)
Or 17.5€ at 0.4€/kWh for me.
Re:Show HN: Learn German with Short Stories on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @02:47PM (#35718246)
Mord mit Aussicht
Re:Finetuning Large Language Models on Saturday April 22, 2023 @01:04PM (#35668632)
For me because at least 3.5 fails to translate sometimes and examples can indicate formality.
It's high enough that I don't bother side loading my various, helpful to me, toy apps to my partner's phone.

The inconvenience is small but real.

Re:Daves Old Computers – Dunfield 6809 Portable on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:04AM (#35651338)
Quite a collection and contains my first pc. It was hard to use before I could read.

http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/pc/index.htm#xt

http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/index.htm

Re:Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:54AM (#35651289)
Imho probably unlucky. At least on Windows it is way more stable than a few years ago.

Then again it can be hard to tell. E.g. The converse is true for me for LibreOffice which used to be fine but crashes within a minute or two every time.

Works nicely with zerotier to simplify testing it out.
Re:What are the most common tinnitus frequencies? (2015) on Friday April 14, 2023 @09:20AM (#35569301)
An example graph that highlights the degradation over the decades.

https://www.cochlea.eu/en/pathology/presbycusis

"Air conditioning functions can not be operated by voice control"
I looked up the stat's for crime in my city yesterday.

The police department had a big pdf basically filled with tables. Other formats were not immediately obvious or available.

Asking it to convert it to a spreadsheet would be neat.

Asking it to extract just the locations of interest would be better.

Re:Reading thermometer temperatures over time from a video on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:00AM (#35465119)
That seems like fun but a lot of work. Perhaps pick a different general purpose OCR?

I've found PaddleOCR to work really well for non-tesseract friendly text. Throwing the results back at chatGPT for formatting / extraction solves mucking about with detection cropping or processing etc.

I had a quick look but not with my kid yet.

The story I chose didn't include the interests I entered.

I like length and pace of each section.

The story had the same generic style that a simple prompt such as tell me a children's story with a few themes and a problem/goal. Perhaps try to give the stories a bit more character.

Consider removing A/B and use the option directly as the text for the button. Keep it simple.

Nice work.

I want at least a week. Every day means that a charger of some sort is needed for weekends away etc which suddenly is more stuff to manage.

One can dream. I wear a solar eco drive that is coming up on ten years with the original battery. Not exactly comparable but the middle ground is unimpressive.

Re:Judge Decides Against Internet Archive on Saturday March 25, 2023 @04:14AM (#35300540)
For my five year old, we have been rate limited on overdrive reading Pete the Cat and Franklin books. Partly because the selection is woeful (about 20 English books) compared to IA's thousands in that category.

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