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Post by nicbou »

mistursinistur wrote: post #309

I'm building wooden benches for bus and light rail stops in my neighborhood. Lots of riders are elderly and find themselves sitting on the curb, feet in the gutter, as they wait for transit. Studies suggest that perceived wait time increases by 30%+ when riders are forced to stand while they wait. There's no cheaper way to shave several minutes off of perceived trip time, for every trip. Inspired by https://www.latim…

I love this.

I've been through so many places where it's nearly impossible to find a place to sit for free. You just walk and walk and walk, until you're ready to spend 4-6$ to sit inside a business.

Benches have no economic value. You just sit there for free - you loiter - for as long as you want with no expectation of buying anything. Yet they provide undeniable value to their users.

I've made a habit of mapping benches on Open Street Map. Have you considered adding yours there, or updating the bus stops accordingly? StreetComplete lets you do it easily.

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Post by titoasty »

bagels wrote: post #353
titoasty wrote: post #56

I launched a stupid game last week: Let It Slide. (if you like Altf4/getting over it/painful games) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1778910/Let_It_Slide/ It was my first entirely finished project: gameplay, 2d elements, sounds, musics (but not 3d). I'm just proud I finished this project, having a tendency to get bored extremely easily and only motivated by new stuffs (oh a bird!)

The aesthetic is very reminiscent of Lovely Planet. Looks fun!

Thanks! Oh yes it's cute, this is the kind of aesthetic I aimed for, to counterbalance the pain of playing with cuteness. When I read this, I realize I'm a monster.

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Post by mattsahr »

ArcMex wrote: post #459

Current projects - App that documents all the steps to successfully get married - App to organize my video game collection They are personal projects so I don't care if they succeed.

- App to catalog the conflicts between the prior two projects

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Post by titoasty »

viceroyalbean wrote: post #319
titoasty wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NL? Sorry I'm uneducated :) Yeah no Mac version because I don't have a Mac to compile and try it.. :'( (maybe a Linux version coming later)

I believe they're referring to the streamer/youtuber Northernlion

Ooh yes, Northern lion could definitely rage on this. I should shoot him an email..

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Post by sgb_QQ »

https://savingtool.co.uk

It's specific to a UK audience but I made a tool that, at least in my mind, is better than the existing tax calculators for UK workers, and goes a bit further with letting the user forecast potential wealth building, using a very popular approach (index funds using ISA wrappers).

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Post by Yanu-3452 »

can16358p wrote: post #478
byecancer21 wrote: post #236

I am taking down the corrupt top judge of a leading Western nation, for fun. A first instance judge had committed a serious criminal offense. Her husband, a wealthy and influential lawyer then bribed the presiding appeals court judge. So I made the assumption he would also influence the ensuing constitutional court case. The case had been accepted by the court and assigned a case number. I waited for a month then cau…

What did I just read?

I'm not qualified to say this, so this isn't a diagnosis, but the post strikes me as similar in tone to the postings of a paranoid schizophrenic who regularly used to post on a forum I visited.

Completely convinced they're on the verge of uncovering something that will "change history" yet very difficult to follow the detail of what they're saying.

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Post by byecancer21 »

thom wrote: post #508
byecancer21 wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are many more fun details to the whole story. For example the judge had taken the case files to her house to keep them hidden there, in one panel decision a singular judge voted twice because he could only find one other judge willing to go along, the way I obtained certain info from court staffers was by showing up in person walking in crutches which I actually didn't need, some legal filings had appropriate c…

Chess endgames?!

https://de.wickepedia.org/File:20210328-rittweger.cover.reda...

The resolution some months later:

https://de.wickepedia.org/File:20211014-lsg-wicke-cover.pdf

The court was unable to print pages due to a css media selector preventing this, so the - presumably bribed - judge had them printed at the nearby law offices of the influential husband. This showed up in log files with his IP address, and can likely be proven as the color printouts of screenshots have forensic features connecting them with his printer.

Since this leaves little doubt about an inappropriate connection to the case and possible bribery, which the prosecutor's office has a legal duty to investigate, this was considered the game over moment.

Somewhat bizarrely, the judge then claimed she felt threatened by this chess game. However, the queen actually remains standing at the end of the game.

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Post by operator-name »

kebsup wrote: post #453

I'm working on a gif making website: https://gifmemes.io . My plans for the future are implementation of wasm ffmpeg and supporting videos also. I wouldn't say i don't care about the success, but my friends and I use it enough to keep me motivated.

I remeber this being posted on HN but I could never find it again, so that's for posting it! Are you planning on enabling exports in webp/mp4?

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Post by spyke112 »

I have a couple of projects I enjoy working on:

Nanosite[0] Static site generator using Pug as a template language, and supporting translations. I have a couple of sites in production on Netlify and Cloudflare Pages, and it's a breeze to use.

Spatium[1] Time tracking tool for my freelance business. I use it in a Git repo and have CI hooked up to generate artificates, timesheets for the customers in html, csv, pdf, excel and json. The data is stored in a rather simple json based database[2] I created, you should really don't do that, but it had to be easy to handle merge conflicts in the data.

[0] https://gitlab.com/lvq-consult/nanosite [1] https://gitlab.com/lvq-consult/spatium/spatium-cli [2] https://gitlab.com/lvq-consult/spatium/spatium-db

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