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While thinking of some solution I slid many of the dots around; afterwards I needed to redistribute them more evenly to try another solution; having a simple "reset" is useful.

I find having the word "komorebi" to be a conceptual gain. I can more-readily notice this beautiful occurrence because I have this easy-to-grasp concept in my mind.

ps - the existence of this word does not prevent authors from using more words to describe the situation ;)

Perfect Days is in my top 10 movies of all times - a must watch for everyone.

ps - I learned the beautiful word / concept komorebi from the film: "dappled, shimmering light and shadow created when sunlight filters through the leaves of trees"

I would love a reset button so as to return to the state I found the puzzle in when I just loaded the page.

Full PDF https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/aleks.kissinger/PQP.pdf

Related HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50181175

> most software nowadays completely ignores the standards of the system it runs on

Good, sticking to design conventions of the OS may not be a good fit for the specific software (e.g. think about a video editor). And even in more-tame cases, people have different aesthetic preferences (e.g. a minimalist text editor).

My software, a video browser / organizer, looks better than anything I've come across (for my preferences). For example, sticking to OS conventions would have required more padding around everything, decreasing functionality - https://videohubapp.com

Halloween is National DeFlock Day -- just spreading the good meme ;)

Vibe coding can yield us Tauri apps that end up being like 3mb rather than 130mb for a "Hello World" app.

For a joke version of this: https://x.com/bookazoid_/status/2107771851229610331/photo/1

A keypad that uses 11 squares packing

Try steel manning the argument - the practice of rebuilding an opposing view into its strongest, most logical form before responding to it.

There is literally concerns over mirror life being developed. The point is that if a system that has high reasoning capacity to solve logistical and mathematical problems, it may be able to come up with a mechanism you, puny-to-it-human, may not be able to predict. It may use technology not yet known to humans (one that it has designed itself), or may use already known technology, but figure out how to scale it up enough to cause earth-wide disaster for humans.

I visited the Shimano Bicycle Museum two years ago and it was a delight. Their new museum is even better than the one they had about a decade ago (smaller building inside the large Daisen Park nearby).

When I purchased the ticket I was offered an English version of the history of bikes presentation in the main hall. I politely declined, but was later politely approached with a piece of paper handwritten with a time the English version would play. I attended and was so glad I did. It was a beautifully presented showcase of bikes across history (with individual bikes in the room being thoughtfully-timely lit up as the video described them).

Really worth going. And I super love Japan and the way I've been treated wherever I went. I've been to Japan about a dozen times now over the last 20 years - it's my favorite place to be.

It's my duty again to point out the popular request of including a 4DWW tag in the description to communicate community interest in the Four Day Work Week

Four characters more in the description is all we ask <bowing>

The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality by Andy Clark

So far read about 20%, seems like a lovely theory tying together a lot about how the mind works.

I wonder what fraction of Flock cameras will be destroyed during National DeFlock Day (Halloween).

Loved the The speed-up loop section. Smart move!

Resort to Photoshop / editor at that point. I still prefer that over printing, writing, and then scanning.

I was stuck unable to fill out a PDF I-864 for immigration because the required fields were non-editable. And opening the PDF in a PDF editor or Photoshop would require a password that was not available. So I had to create a PDF-to-JPG-to-PDF pipeline:

https://github.com/whyboris/PDF-to-JPG-to-PDF

Porting over Video Hub App - my 8.5 year old app from Electron to Tauri

https://videohubapp.com/ - an application that lets you browse, search, organize, etc the videos you have on your computer, external hard drives, or network drives.

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

TIL: En Croissant https://encroissant.org/

twitter.new --> redirects to --> tweet.app

Deeply frustrating - I felt like Mozilla was gaslighting me -- I spent 3 minutes double-checking that even after updating Firefox minutes ago the option is still not visible to me.

Making an announcement when fewer than 40% of your customers will see the feature fees like (unintentional) gaslighting.

LiteStep forever in our hearts ♥

Please normalize 4DWW - Four Day Work Week

Whoever posts this monthly, please include the tag in your description. Employers need to know this is an in-demand feature we want. I for one will not be taking any non-4DWW jobs.

I posted this 15 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314380

Glad to see HN visitors finally see it on the front page :)

You can refer to JPEG XL as its file extension `jxl` pronounced "jixel" ;)

TIL: wuffs - Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely

https://github.com/google/wuffs