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Comment #49173380
> It’s a disciplined practice of observation, experimentation, critique, revision, and aesthetic judgment that serves to develop creative ideas I wonder where an increasing share o…
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Comment #49167437
Thank you for putting into words how a lot of AI prose makes me feel. 'Persistent mic drops' is the most accurate way I have seen it described and I would even argue the 'this-not-…
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Comment #49065717
Thanks for letting me know, maybe I need to get back into it. I always enjoyed the speed with which I could prototype new ideas and even get them installed on a phone or tablet.
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Comment #49062308
This reminds me of LiveCode[1] (aka Revolution and MetaCard) which I’ve used quite a bit about a decade ago. Was also inspired by HyperCard. Just checked their site again and it se…
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Comment #48970063
It wouldn't if you own the full chain, i.e. have knowledge of both the on-device salt and hash AND the server salt and hash. However, in the scenario of using a third party like Te…
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Comment #48969779
Nice writeup and I really like the minimal aesthetic of your site! On unique users: I wonder if there is a way to set this up to work similar to TelemetryDeck's double-hashing anon…
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Comment #48618894
We are giving our dog Fluralaner/Bravecto[1] against ticks which paralyzes and kills them when they bite, drastically reducing potential exposure to Lyme disease. Unfortunately not…
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Comment #48532520
Nicely done! Would be interesting to sort by upvotes and/or comment count as well.
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Comment #48255384
This is exactly what I am working on for my city (Berlin). Right now it gives you sun/shade times for outside areas of cafes and restaurants as well as heatmaps for public parks an…
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Comment #46918556
While the author explicitly wanted Claude to be in the creative lead here, I recently also thought about how LLMs could mirror their coding abilities in music production workflows,…
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Comment #46853366
And, to add to that, how to know when to slow down. Also, having worked at a big company myself, I think the question shifts towards "how to get fast" without compromising security…
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Comment #46571216
Do you maybe have sceeenshots of this? Would love to see some more ways of compacting and visualizing this data in a digestible way.
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Comment #46452600
They may not understand it but they may very well be able to reproduce aspects of feedback and comments on similar pieces of software. I agree that the approach shouldn’t be done u…
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Comment #46387523
Looks like a really nice project! Would love the ability to „subscribe“ to a place or area and get a mail or notification once there is a new book added for that location. Another …
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Comment #46264637
Working on updating my Your-Age-in-Days app[1] for iOS 26. The main motivation was to have the days I've lived always available on the lock screen with a more native feel than the …
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Comment #46261796
Does this happen at a specific time of day (e.g., start/end of shift) or randomly? The quickest way would be to wear ANC headphones during the most noisy times. Then, if possible a…
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Comment #46261742
Quick heads-up: I clicked through several links on your blog and website (Integrations, Guide, API) and they don’t seem to go anywhere specific yet, or just link back to the top of…
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Comment #46244038
Are you referring to the outside seating polygons? Wouldn’t these stereo images still have a lot of noise (trees, cars, trucks, smaller non-building structures) obstructing the tar…
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Comment #46237907
I have circled back to using the apps that are already on my phone, especially the Apple Reminders app which I am currently trying out as my main notes and ideas system. I have pla…
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Comment #46229006
Currently building something like this for my city. One major challenge I've come across so far is that most APIs will give you coordinates for an address of a place within a build…
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Comment #46225002
It’s likely a mix of availability bias and pattern-seeking/apophenia: a few recent outages stand out and the rise of LLMs in recent years is also ever present. This increases the c…
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Comment #46202802
This seems to be the article's author's own language Bauble[1], "a toy for composing signed distance functions in a high-level language (Janet), compiling them to GLSL, and renderi…
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Comment #46191206
While the article makes several implicit references to studies, it doesn’t actually cite any. After some quick research I found what seems to be the "6 A.M. to eat old rice" study[…
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Comment #45932734
At least in Germany you can get Nobite sprays in drug stores. This (German) security sheet[1] lists 2% Permethrin as an ingredient. [1] https://nobite.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/0…
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Comment #44519951
Intrigued by the World Tension Index (you can enable it in the settings under the Experimental tab) which currently reads Mild/24°: > The world is simmering gently, marked by activ…