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New comment by AriedK in "Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)"

AriedK — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:21:46 +0000

The power savings are minor btweeen LED and low presssure sodium lamps. The LED streetlights emit light along the full spectrum, the sodium lamps only at 589 nm. The LEDs are more controllable so smart dimming ( when there are no cars) is a perceived advantage.

New comment by AriedK in "The pleasures of poor product design"

AriedK — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:57:16 +0000

This gets quite close to chindogu, the Japanese art of designing objects that kind of serve a very niche purpose, but then without being useful. https://www.tofugu.com/japan/chindogu-japanese-inventions/

New comment by AriedK in "I have a GPS bike computer"

AriedK — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:50:34 +0000

Here in the Netherlands we’ve got ‘fietsknooppunten’. Numbered junctions with proper bike paths linking them up, and clear signage pointing you to your next number. https://www.fietsknoop.nl/planner Just remembering, or writing down a couple of numbers gets you a long way. As a backup I have OsmAndMaps for pre-loading gpx files to my phone.

New comment by AriedK in "The patterns of elites who conceal their assets offshore"

AriedK — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:14:32 +0000

There’s a fun documentary that explores this concept:

The Town That Took On The Tax Man https://youtu.be/ipV_GU7YaQg

It’s about a Welsh town that set out to do just this. Recommended watch.

New comment by AriedK in "Series of posts on HTTP status codes (2018)"

AriedK — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:42:12 +0000

I read the url as: ever t-pot, as a reference to 418. Turns out it's the author's actual name.

New comment by AriedK in "Precious Plastic is in trouble"

AriedK — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:43:45 +0000

That's a bit of a cynical take in my opinion. For a community focused initiative, I'd say they deserve a bit more slack in terms of expectations of professionality, scale and sustainability. They now leave it up to the community to decide to pursue that or abandon altogether. Fair thing to do I'd say.

Also: the original forums aren't suddenly deleted: https://davehakkens.nl/community/forums/index.html He explains the process of migrating into 'One Army': https://davehakkens.nl/index.html

New comment by AriedK in "Cuss: Map of profane words to a rating of sureness"

AriedK — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:59:53 +0000

Helpful tool for car makers.

Would have probably saved them from the Mitsibishi Pajero, Ford Pinto, Mazda Laputa

Downside is, it doesn’t analyze phonetics afaict. The hebrew Volkswagen Beetle (Hipushit) would have passed as fine.

New comment by AriedK in "The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus I (2021)"

AriedK — Tue, 27 May 2025 18:16:20 +0000

Ah yes, Vulfmon! Jack Stratton seems to love his Fugues.

In case you haven't already: check out Vulfpeck /// Bach Vision Test; a really nice visualization of Contrapunctus IX a 4 alla duodecima.

https://youtu.be/vJfiOuDdetg?si=GF1mbszFHOky2QVd

New comment by AriedK in "Google is burying the web alive"

AriedK — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:27:12 +0000

So how long do we have until companies can pay to be in the system prompt to be recommended for certain queries?

New comment by AriedK in "Show HN: Whippy Term - GUI terminal for embedded development (Linux and Windows)"

AriedK — Wed, 07 May 2025 07:33:04 +0000

This is neat. The send buffers and live display give it a nice edge over something like Tera Term. One nitpick: I couldn't find the option to disable autoscroll on incoming serial streams. Like 'Auto scroll only in bottom line' in Tera Term. Thanks!

New comment by AriedK in "Slugs on a Cube: An Interactive Animation"

AriedK — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 09:31:33 +0000

That’s a fun coincidence. I was at a museum recently that featured work of Sema Bekirovic. One of her works was that of 3 snails crawling over a grid cube so from then on they were the artists. https://www.semabekirovic.nl/grid/

New comment by AriedK in "More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD"

AriedK — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 21:35:20 +0000

At first glance you may have a point. Thing is they’re often recruited with very promising job titles and descriptions, training on mild cases. Once they fully realize what they got themselves into the damage has been done. If they’re unlucky, quitting also means losing their house. This may help empathize a bit with their side of this argument.

New comment by AriedK in "Unlocking the power of time-series data with multimodal models"

AriedK — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 21:27:55 +0000

They mention using a IMU dataset that is collected using an APDM Opal. https://www.apdm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Opal-Publica... This publication mentions a paper on p. 5839 (p 13 of the pdf) where a single sensor on the waist (as used in the Google research) would lead to an f1 score of 0.77 if I did my math correctly. In other words, pretty close to a >1 shot plot analysis of gpt4o and gemini pro1.5.

I would also be interested how the llm's would hold up to the free-fall interrupt that's built in to some consumer grade IMU's (BMA253 for instance), anyone here with experience in this usecase?

New comment by AriedK in "Three hundred words you can spell on a calculator [pdf]"

AriedK — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 08:38:18 +0000

They could add an appendix with word math like 707 + 707 = 1414

New comment by AriedK in "A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018)"

AriedK — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:18:17 +0000

Yeah these ‘predictors’ only make sense if they can give a countdown at a constant rate. The idea is nice but often they countdown at say 1dot/sonly to have the last 5 dots disappear in the last second so they miss their purpose. on the other hand, a consequence on predictable ones is that people will start cycling on the last 2 dots or so instead of waiting for the green light.

New comment by AriedK in "'Shoe doping' changed marathon times in ways we still don't understand"

AriedK — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 12:22:06 +0000

I’m curious how this will find acceptance, regulation or rejection. Acceptance like the clap skate in speed skating (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clap_skate) or if they will be regulated like the swim suits in competitive swimming (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-technology_swimwear)

New comment by AriedK in "Smart Goose Deterrent System"

AriedK — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:07:03 +0000

I had a similar issue with geese on a patch of grass in front of the house where the kids played. Flocks of geese in the 10s would ruin it in half a day.

I found a 532nm green laser to be extremely effective. Let the dot approach them and shine near their feet for best effect. (Of course avoid the eyes and keep the laser power down so the reflection doesn’t harm them either!). It took some time to get into the flocks psyche. You had to get the entire group distress level to a certain level before they would take off and leave.

The next step I got to was building a turret for the pointer. Goose detection image recognition was underway to make the system autonomous but I haven’t been able to finish it and have moved in the mean time so it’s not likely I’ll finish it.

If anyone else wants to have a go at it let me know.

New comment by AriedK in "I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock"

AriedK — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:52:10 +0000

On the finishing: “Of course because I 3D Printed it with a PLA filamanet, it's not as shiny and glossy compared to actuall electronic devices. People use acetone and various solutions to make it shiny.”

The acetone (vapour) approach only works on ABS and is pretty nasty. For PLA your best bet is sanding. You could add some putty to make it a bit easier and get better results. You will then also need to paint it. All in all if the print quality is good enough best stick with that.

New comment by AriedK in "A Stock Prius just drove across America averaging 93.158 MPG"

AriedK — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:43:25 +0000

Exactly. My prius gen2 gets me 4.2l/100km (56 mpg) on regular rides. How manages to stretch it to 93 is quite an achievement.

New comment by AriedK in "Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code"

AriedK — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 17:37:07 +0000

Was looking for that too. The only way I found out was installing it, create a call graph, and the first click took me to a payment page. $19,95/month iirc I too would prefer to have this information upfront.

Also, not being able to click past the first layer in the free version is a bit too limited in my opinion.

Sounds promising, but having to fill out my payment details for a trial version is a a hard no for me.