Hacker News: bassdigit

New comment by bassdigit in "Psion 5mx Emulator"

bassdigit — Wed, 22 May 2024 18:07:23 +0000

The physical keyboard is king! For a long time I was looking for a modern alternative.

The 'GPD P2 Max' comes close and for me hits the sweet spot of offering a small size while not deviating too much from a comfortable typing experience, but it has a fan and I wish the battery lasted longer.

New comment by bassdigit in "Pluckable Strings"

bassdigit — Wed, 22 May 2024 17:09:01 +0000

further idea: let strings resonate with the overtones of other strings being played

also: support different materials like steel/nylon/gut

New comment by bassdigit in "Tiny World Map"

bassdigit — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:11:12 +0000

edit: OP apparently [fixed it](https://github.com/tinyworldmap/tiny-world-map/issues/6)

6 places now, so it's [accurate to 11cm](https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/8650/measuring-accur...)

New comment by bassdigit in "Tiny World Map"

bassdigit — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 08:02:45 +0000

I wonder if it could be even smaller when they wouldn't store all coordinates with 10 decimal places, at least for the label positions.

New comment by bassdigit in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

bassdigit — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:51:19 +0000

Hilarious that these outputs, depicting black founding fathers, popes, warriors, etc., overturn the narrative that history was full of white oppression.

New comment by bassdigit in "Adding type safety to object IDs in TypeScript"

bassdigit — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 08:45:51 +0000

nice!

New comment by bassdigit in "The glEnd() of Zelda: Automatic 3Dification of NES Games (2016)"

bassdigit — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 10:25:49 +0000

OP doesn't owe you an excuse for offering content for free through a technology you disapprove of.

New comment by bassdigit in "Show HN: A JavaScript function that looks and behaves like a pipe operator"

bassdigit — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 14:24:25 +0000

Still not hard: In that case, instead of msg use sendMsg AND/OR in the second statement use { status, msg: resultMsg }, or just result and later result.msg.

New comment by bassdigit in "Show HN: A JavaScript function that looks and behaves like a pipe operator"

bassdigit — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:50:41 +0000

Not hard: msg can be derived from the parameter name of the send() function and status is a fixed attribute of the result.

New comment by bassdigit in "Epicycle Clock"

bassdigit — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 09:13:13 +0000

Not quite, the "0" of the minute hand is always aligned with the direction of the hour hand, so it points >down< at 6:00 unlike an ordinary clock.

New comment by bassdigit in "Faceless clock makes you think twice about how it works"

bassdigit — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:01:50 +0000

This year, Cartier took the idea to the next level with the "Masse Mystérieuse": An absolutely gorgeous watch with insane mechanics where the movement is the rotor.

[1] https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-watches-and-wondrously...

New comment by bassdigit in "Problems with AI-based monitoring startups (2018)"

bassdigit — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 08:22:23 +0000

Look, three paragraphs beginning with "Look," give the article a rather condescending tone.

New comment by bassdigit in "Show HN: Pdf.js Express – PDF annotation, e-signatures, and form filling"

bassdigit — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 09:28:01 +0000

> Website design is poor. You could definitely do with a designer to make it look nicer.

Really, in what way? In my view it's clean and simple.

> You either need to make it cheap, like $200/yr, or much more expensive. Right now you are in no mans land.

Another unsubstantiated statement. How much market research have you done on PDF libraries?

Pricing is a sensitive topic and many factors play a role in it. Too many to be assessed by an armchair expert.

> Don't worry about it not being open source; that's fine.

Where did OP express any worries about it not being open source?

New comment by bassdigit in "Show HN: iOS Login Page"

bassdigit — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 19:35:50 +0000

You are right, I found more on this:

https://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/10_1/bernardin...

New comment by bassdigit in "Listen to the moment the guns fell silent ending World War I"

bassdigit — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 21:38:12 +0000

Birds sing seconds after ear-blasting gun shots. Really?

New comment by bassdigit in "The Top Idea in Your Mind (2010)"

bassdigit — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:54:11 +0000

"So avoid disputes if you want to get real work done."

There is an exception: When a dispute forces you to view a topic from a different angle, like in rubber duck debugging.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

New comment by bassdigit in "Show HN: iOS Login Page"

bassdigit — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 20:34:00 +0000

After thinking about it more, maybe I am wrong and there is a use case for these animations:

Small children like to look at moving things.

So it depends on the target audience. Toys or educational Apps are different from the business / financial context implied in your demo.

New comment by bassdigit in "Show HN: iOS Login Page"

bassdigit — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 18:57:11 +0000

Am I the only one who finds subtle animations much more pleasant?

I think there is a reason why it's dark when the stage set of a theatre is being changed between scenes, but with user interfaces somehow any rearrangement must be a distracting visual gimmick these days.

Edit: Seriously, why do you need a hard change to a blue background only to then move a white cloud up across nearly the complete height of the screen?

https://github.com/realpaliy/ios-login/raw/master/art/finalA...

New comment by bassdigit in "My favourite Git commit (2019)"

bassdigit — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 01:43:20 +0000

Not sure how to feel about being author of the most upvoted and also the least upvoted comment.

New comment by bassdigit in "My favourite Git commit (2019)"

bassdigit — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 00:45:57 +0000

The commit message succeeds in justifying the effort but lacks an in-depth understanding of the related mechanics. I can imagine the developer felt bad about 'only' committing a one character change at the end of the day and wrote the message to make up for it. Because of this un-economic outcome, he hesitated to dig deeper.

There is no reason to feel bad.

The cultural issue is bad management that still evaluates developers by lines of code / commit activity.