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Cool, I’ll give it a try! OCR for printed stuff, device sync and character voices (for fiction) would be killer.

I see no declaration that this is a machine generated site, but the aesthetic is a dead giveaway. The language on the “how it works” page is unmistakably LLM output. As a total nov…

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”

Lex Fridman had Cronin on his podcast, quite an interesting discussion.

For further reading, “The Design of Everyday Things” by Don Norman is a great source for a comprehensive look at this subject. I believe it’s probably still required reading for UI…

Professional product photographer here, primarily jewelry. Can confirm, pixel shift is a thing of pure beauty in this application, at least on the Hasselblad medium format system o…

A survey about how motivated the users felt? I am not convinced by this data. Surely we can do better.

Having just last night gone back and forth with multiple screenshots and careful explanations to guide someone through importing a picture from email to the ios photos app… maybe I…

As the defacto I.T. support man for family and friends of varied skill levels… sometimes it’s really daunting trying to get them to do things that seem very intuitive to the techni…

Correct, none. I use Pihole for blocking. But the bigger point I think is that security conscious users are hesitant to employ extensions in general, even if some folks are ok with…

I love the idea of browser extensions but they don’t appear to be worth the security/privacy risk for my use cases. I wonder how many others are like me and too paranoid to risk ex…

This project shows how to make a small view screen that uses light to perform the logical operations needed to decrypt the unbreakable One-Time-Pad cypher. The video presents a lit…

I was about to sit and gripe that the only shortcoming for me in BBedit compared to vscode is built in ssh combined with python venv… but once I started to type that I realized BBe…

The same way you stop people from using a hammer maliciously?

Great idea! Also terrifying :) Given how often I accidentally commit the wrong text in vscode, I shudder to think of the damage I could do with this on my shell, hah! What safety m…

Their catalog is also brilliant. Often companies seem to struggle balancing marketing desires (“HEY CHECK OUT THIS THING!!”) with serving users what they’re looking for efficiently…

Subspace(“continuum”)… top down spaceships pew pew. Elegant physics, high skill ceiling. Multiplayer only, so many hours spent in 40+ player arenas in Chaos Zone. That game was rea…

“At lago we…” Hmmm… as a forced user of Lago’s product at work, I’m sorry but I stopped reading at that point. Terrible software, terrible support, enjoy your ORM hellscape I’ve fl…

I was hoping for some domain-specific insight there. Instead, that was a thin article without much more than a blanket assertion. Could have copy/replaced “accountant” with pretty …

This was my solution. It feels like overkill at times but I never have to worry about packaging messes anymore. That being said I can understand the desire to solve it on the metal…

An informative nitpick, thank you.

I try generally not to be the vindictive type… but Lego being SUCH HAWKS and sticklers when it comes to brand protection, I can’t help but root for them getting skewered for this. …

Nice! I also got hooked on the lander thing, really quick to pick up and good replay value! Your autopilot handles a gentle landing well. If I get the lander going sideways at any …

Unexpected overwrites of system tools are the problem I’ve faced. Not sure how common that really is but once can be enough to leave a bad taste!