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kfarr

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About kfarr

https://github.com/kfarr/

Maintainer of 3dstreet.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49196255

    The key here is to have a foreground layer that always responds to scroll and informs the background layer based on its position

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    Comment #49189308

    I have no stdout but I must log

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    Comment #49181858

    Best comment on this from 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46870575

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    Comment #49173778

    Intriguing. Like the computer instantiated a wheel and rolls off by itself, no humans needed?

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    Comment #49162921

    If a computer is a bicycle for the mind, perhaps LLMs are the cars for the mind…

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    Comment #49143770

    And government subsidies/handouts, over building / over capitalizing relative to market demand, natural resource (over) extraction, concentration of capital

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    Comment #49119576

    They measured really really well

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    Comment #49099576

    If, like me, you're more interested in the actual exploit instead of the meta narrative, here's a relevant excerpt for the initial intrusion: > Stage 1: reaching a launchpad by cha…

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    Comment #49042051

    > What if we made all advertising illegal? It's such a wild idea that I've never heard it in the public discourse. Local jurisdictions have restricted or even forbidden outdoor adv…

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    Comment #48983673

    Honestly same, I was less interested in the styling and just interested in the immediacy of response which is ironically missing in a lot of modern ui

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    Comment #48790545

    Agree, Costco succeeds at externalizing last mile costs by offloading it to suburbanites who view it as a sunk cost. Similar to uber/lyft drivers doing their own fleet management.

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    Comment #48768766

    Tell me about it, I maintain an open source project in the civil engineering space and it's ... detailed.

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    Comment #48680134

    Thanks, that's a much better example of what I was trying to explain. Again, I'm projecting humanity onto a machine, but it's not a big stretch to imagine that the interaction of a…

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    Comment #48632773

    Although it's a no no to anthropomorphize on HN, it's worth noting that some folks think humans are post-hoc rationalizers as well: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/2013/11/1…

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    Comment #48566029

    Just let go of the entire R&D team and then you have a 50% margin business. UPDATE: Also bad news, you need to let go of all of sales and marketing and G&A. And THEN it's a 50% mar…

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    Comment #48545453

    Classic... want to cast to the chromecast but I'm on the wifi

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    Comment #48447402

    Some of these are actually nice and appropriate to use in certain contexts. Also this issue is hilarious: https://github.com/vorpus/performativeUI/issues/2

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    Comment #48385341

    > ai virus from earlier today curious what this means...

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    Comment #48373278

    Nor the streaming service Net Flux

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    Comment #48245186

    Context: this is a demo of a deterministic layout calculation library https://github.com/cosmiciron/layoutmaster#dancing-text (not affiliated, I was just confused so saving you a c…

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    Comment #48009903

    I work on a platform 3dstreet.com that does “underdrawing” but in 3d space which image models also struggle with. Another company intangible.ai does this as well: low poly 3d then …

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    Comment #47982341

    VB6 was the original vibe coding! Drag a few GUI controls on a window panel, double click to write some basic code, boom

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    Comment #47938818

    I still don't understand why the official github pages action is on an account called "peaceiris" ?? peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3