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It does strike me as cruel too, to be denied freedom like that. It also seems like the sibling comments are misunderstanding your last sentence, it's not about the "you" in that sentence having self imposed limitations, it's you being literally imprisoned by an external source without any way to get out. So asking "why are you a prisoner inside" doesn't make any sense.

Exactly that.

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

#212

That its impossible to find an oil can with a zerk fitting. I need one for my bridgeport that uses zerks for oil and not grease.

I gave up on that years ago. You can find guns that work but they're rare and crazy expensive. You can make an oil gun from a grease gun that works but that bitch will oil the machine and you and the floor and the wall.

I just swapped the fittings to get rid of the zerk nipples for something I could use with a standard oil fitting.

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#215
Learned some turn around licks from Freddie King's side tracked, and played them over and over on a blues backing track.

I've been playing guitar for a long time, but rhythm wise, it took time to click. I'm much better at feeling the pulse, and starting and ending licks at the right time in the bar.

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

#216

Learned some turn around licks from Freddie King's side tracked, and played them over and over on a blues backing track. I've been playing guitar for a long time, but rhythm wise, it took time to click. I'm much better at feeling the pulse, and starting and ending licks at the right time in the bar.

Never expected to see Freddie King mentioned on HN! What a great performer.

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

#217
Where and how Cursor store all its workspaces, chats, prompts, thoughts, context, completions, tool calls, searches, schemas, and images:

"Cursor Mirror" Anthropic Skill and Python Sister Script:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629604

cursor-mirror skill: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/tree/main/skills/cursor-...

cursor_mirror.py script: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/cursor-...

DATA-SCHEMAS.yml schema map: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/cursor-...

PR-CURSOR-MIRROR-GENESIS.md pr description: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/designs/PR-CUR...

cursor-chat-reflection.md session log: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/examples/adven...

I-BEAM-CHARACTER.yml a spirit familiar embodying Cursor's soul: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/cursor-...

IMAGE-GALLERY.md analysis of images dropped into Cursor chats, their context, and meaning: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/cursor-...

>Note: This gallery contains descriptions, analysis, and context — not the actual images. The images live in Cursor's workspace cache. The point: cursor-mirror can find them, the Read tool can see them, and I-Beam can narrate their significance within the conversation where they appeared. Image archaeology!

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

#218
I am working on layouting library(inspired by the concepts behind Clay). There are two modes in which these things operate - immediate mode where you recreate everything anew for every frame, or retained mode where you create everything only once and then mutate the existing state for every frame and render only the differences.

HTML DOM uses retained model as it would be unimaginable to completely throw out the entire DOM and rebuild it anew with every frame. But React, Vue and other libraries use immediate mode to communicate with HTML DOM. They might internally have retained mode, but in the end they only perform mutations based on their internal differences.

So the whole web ui is layer upon layer of immediate, retained and hybrid modes all talking to each other. Now imagine how much wasted resources all of this layering implies :)

Another interesting fact is that when you have opacity or translucency in web ui, the browser render the background elements off canvas and uses it as background for the element with the opacity in order to avoid issues with various elements seeping through in many unexpected ways.

tl;dr this topic has been thoroughly discussed in here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYFBOIr6n_s

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

#219
Finished "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Hemmingway

Wow, so powerful. So real. I can see why it won the accolades at the time and why it stays. The ending. You could see it a mile away, but it was so hurtful still.

Would love to see another adaptation made of it, especially nowadays. Maybe a really long movie, 2 parts?

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

#220

That someone created a new country recently called Verdis, with a population of about 400. I was planning a hostile takeover, figuring how hard could it be with these guys, until I found out Croatia already did that.

How hard could it be to take over Croatia? You should follow your dreams.
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