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miniatureape
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Comment #46992707
I had a take on this same thing a number of years ago. Much simpler, but the idea was just to see it at a glance. https://miniatureape.github.io/sprezzatura/
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Comment #44826559
Is this the problem that Claude sub agents are supposed to be solving? They say they’re are for preserving and managing context and I’ve been wondering if they help with the “too m…
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Comment #43894091
Reminds me of the account of the macrobians by Herodotus: > and after this [the Persian spies] saw last of all their receptacles of dead bodies, which are said to be made of crysta…
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Comment #43063194
Perhaps an even more fitting Housman poem: https://poets.org/poem/loveliest-trees
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Comment #40988157
I think my perfect phone would be if Apple chopped an inch or an inch and a half off the bottom of the iPhone 12 mini and ran a slightly improved watchOS on it.
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Comment #39548710
A made a little “secret knock” authentication demo. Shave and a haircut is obviously the secret knock used in the demo https://miniatureape.github.io/prohibition/ (Nb: I’m sure thi…
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Comment #39414006
I would really love a control-f for the real world. Imagine you have a list of wines you want to try, or used books you’re hoping to buy. In the store you open your phone and scan …
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Comment #39084959
The building in that show is the Holmdel location. Murray Hill is a different campus.
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Comment #30803822
I would try to identify an ecosystem where he could start building on his own: Custom Shopify functionality, Wordpress plugins etc. he can try to find small customers with simple n…
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Comment #30454475
What is the best way to help people in Ukraine? Are there charities or organizations that I can donate to?
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Comment #30106956
I think this is a really cool idea and something I have personally wanted (or at least thought I wanted) for a long time. In fact I wrote about a similar idea in 2013.[1] To me, th…
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Comment #30071776
I think the point of the fence is to move the impulse from yourself (If I can't see the reason there must not be one) to the greater context (Someone had a reason for this at some …
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Comment #29789041
I’ve been considering getting an Apple Watch with cell service, so I can just leave my phone in a drawer most of the day but still be a answer 2fa pushes and be in touch in case of…
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Comment #29503353
I have a 7th generation as well. I had an issue with screen flicker, but I sent it back and the fixed it promptly (for free) and its been fine since. Otherwise, its been very good.…
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Comment #29430718
I want this, but instead of fairy tales I want the sounds of a really boring, never-ending baseball game without ads.
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Comment #29028024
What will people be watching to see the effect? Is there any data published that would show an increase in freight behind moved because of this change?
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Comment #28472287
https://theconversation.com/heres-how-many-times-you-actuall... Links to two studies which place the number of times you must reuse a cotton bag between 130-7100 times.
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Comment #26218236
If not a webpage I would be happy with it displaying a bitmap. Let me put in a URL and poll it with the dimensions as query param. I will handle the render and serve back whatever …
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Comment #26179648
I've really enjoyed the In Defense of Plants podcast and blog as a way of learning more about plants and ecology. https://www.indefenseofplants.com/podcast
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Comment #25407098
I would like if you could just set a url pattern that sent over some device specific id and the resolution as parameters and it would poll it on some configurable frequency.