Scan the inside of your fridge — list all the dishes you could make.
Jokes on the app - we store leftover spaghetti in reused yogurt containers.
Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
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#142I subscribed to the free trial for the Play store app, tried it a bit, and now I'd like to cancel my subscription. I found a "Manage subscriptions" link in the app, and it points to the Play Store app. I can't find an "unsubscribe" button there. If I try o uninstall the app I'm explicitly told "Your active subscriptions will not be canceled". I spent ten minutes looking for this, and I'm a web developer. How on earth…
Realistically you shouldn’t be allowed to unsub without first posting your impressions on HN
Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
#143https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693560 Barely a year ago. I thought it was maybe 5 years ago. Time itself must be accelerating. I need an app that can scan my hard drives, connectome and biochemistry > bleep bloop > tell me what I can still do with my life.
That’s not hard. Metabolize sugars until cellular and genetic damage is so severe you stop metabolizing sugars and decompose.
Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very cool idea, but what I'd need way more often: Now what I want is something that will scan a pile of socks and tell me how to put them together to have a perfect match. https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/socks-pile-texture-pict... Or better yet, tell my robot how to do it.
Very cool idea, but what I'd need way more often: Now what I want is something that will scan a pile of stocks and tell me how to put them together to have a perfect portfolio. https://www.tradingview.com/heatmap/stock/ Or better yet, tell my robot how to do it.
What meme is this from?
Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
#145Very cool. Now what I want is something that will scan a pile of rocks and tell me how to put them together to build a wall with minimal space between them. https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/stone-wall-texture-pict... Or better yet, tell my robot how to do it.
Build bridges, not walls
Good fences make good neighbors.
Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
#146I just tested it on my kids lego clone bricks; there are like 800 of them but they are almost exclusively basic shapes (1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 and 1x4) in red/black/blue/green/yellow/gray. This is a picture of the box: https://static-v3.e-jumbo.gr/uploads/resources/137879/201611... ; you'll see they are exactly like legos. The app identified 400 pieces (of the 800) and unfortunately the resulting ideas were not poss…
So are they trying to upsell you by showing what could be built if you just bought a couple rare pieces?
No, not really, my understanding is that they are not related with Lego. The problem is that the app mis-identifies a lot of my pieces.
Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is an easy problem to solve, find the socks you like and then buy 20 pairs of the same socks and get rid of the old ones.
Not so fast. Sock magic: I've only bought black socks over the last 5 year, and still I can't seem to find ones anymore that exactly match in both fitting and color (they all seem to have degraded in different color tones)
As far as I'm concerned, the point of a sock monoculture is never to think about matching: as soon as a sock requires any special attention, I simply throw it out.
Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
#148I just tested it on my kids lego clone bricks; there are like 800 of them but they are almost exclusively basic shapes (1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 and 1x4) in red/black/blue/green/yellow/gray. This is a picture of the box: https://static-v3.e-jumbo.gr/uploads/resources/137879/201611... ; you'll see they are exactly like legos. The app identified 400 pieces (of the 800) and unfortunately the resulting ideas were not poss…
Wild to comment that someone’s app for identifying legos doesn’t identify not legos.
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#149To be honest, what I love about legos is the free play aspect. When I play with my kids, (now 8 and 10), I find that the key thing is not what pieces we have (admittedly, we have a lot of pieces), or instructions, but developing some theme or challenge. The theme could be ‘space’ or ‘under water’ or ‘I’m going to build the taller possible leg structure’ or ‘I’m going to build a vehicle that can be blown across the fl…
My preference towards free-play, and opinion against guided-play (following manuals) used to be similar to yours. But my sister made me realize how much that my earlier guided-play was essential to develop my fundamental building skills that allowed my later free-play to thrive. My sister inherited my Lego box but with no manuals, so she only ever knew free-play, and she describe her experience with Lego growing up a…
Well put.
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