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New comment by bayofpigs in "Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough"

bayofpigs — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 19:50:41 +0000

Love Pomodoro timers so much had AI make an web app to link them together. You can customize and use it here: https://1recipe.com.

New comment by bayofpigs in "DB48X: High Performance Scientific Calculator, Reinvented"

bayofpigs — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:20:16 +0000

Same. Love calculators and used to flirt with the idea of buying an old HP graphing but the app scratches that itch. Once you learn RPN it just feels so natural.

New comment by bayofpigs in "The wealthy are cutting the line at the airport, Disney World and ski resorts"

bayofpigs — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:42:09 +0000

Have always felt conflicted about these policies. Real life works this way but somehow seeing people escorted to the front of the line violates the rules of having a line.

New comment by bayofpigs in "How the Mac didn’t bring programming to the people"

bayofpigs — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 21:16:30 +0000

The article doesn't mention it but there was also Newton Script. Was a language for the Newton that looked like javascript with sharable top-level PDA objects for contacts, notes, handwriting, etc.

New comment by bayofpigs in "ChatGPT-Linux-Assistant"

bayofpigs — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 15:29:48 +0000

User: I can't access the outside network from this terminal?

ChaptGPT: Sure! I'll open that port for you...

New comment by bayofpigs in "Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention in conversation"

bayofpigs — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 21:38:12 +0000

Same. Though I prefer a gentle nudge for confirmation that they're finished speaking.

New comment by bayofpigs in "Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research"

bayofpigs — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:22:14 +0000

Shopping yesterday and was shocked to see a single head of cauliflower for $7.99/each.

New comment by bayofpigs in "Ask HN: Anyone tried development using an Oculus?"

bayofpigs — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 14:01:14 +0000

Haha, no. Half Life Alyx, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, Thrill of the Fight, Beat Saber, Audica, Dance Central VR, Fallout 4 VR, Superhot VR, and so many more.

New comment by bayofpigs in "Google CEO tells employees productivity and focus must improve"

bayofpigs — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 01:48:56 +0000

Also failing to provide reasonable customer support for their successful projects worsens my trust in future projects.

New comment by bayofpigs in "Ask HN: What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers?"

bayofpigs — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:39:36 +0000

Curious what course you took and if you have time, a summary of the most valuable skills you learned?

New comment by bayofpigs in "Dell deletes Latitude CPU Throttling issue after link is posted here"

bayofpigs — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 16:58:15 +0000

Dell was the first pc retailer to earn my personal ban after showing their shady business practices followed quickly by Newegg a few months later. Life has been better ever since.

New comment by bayofpigs in "Kinesis Advantage 360"

bayofpigs — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 18:05:36 +0000

Been using the Advantage for decades. Splitting the two sides is a terrific idea. Always wanted to mount a split keyboard to the sides of a zero-gravity chair so will try it out with this.

Two features I wished they would offer: 1. A nub-mouse like the Thinkpad 2. A touchpad in the center of the keyboard (not needed for the split)

New comment by bayofpigs in "Ask HN: I can program, but have nothing to show for it. Where do I go from here?"

bayofpigs — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 21:16:28 +0000

The first job is the hardest, nothing to be ashamed about. Maybe start by observing what skills are in high demand in your area and fill that need. I started by taking lots of small contracts that were 'beneath' my skills like html websites, simple javascript apps, etc. Not proud but even took a $300 contract to do someones homework, lol. Good luck.

New comment by bayofpigs in "Magic Leap trying to sell for $10B"

bayofpigs — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 03:58:04 +0000

I thought where you were going with this is that since smartphones are so ubiquitous any sort of AR system should utilize the phone for its primary processing. A headset is needed though for AR, it just has to be much smaller and lighter before they become mainstream.

New comment by bayofpigs in "Firefox Reality"

bayofpigs — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:03:44 +0000

Yes, note to the Mozilla team: Nobody uses Viveport except new users who are tricked. Publish on Steam if you want to reach Vive users.

New comment by bayofpigs in "Staging That Scene from ‘Eyes Wide Shut’"

bayofpigs — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 04:26:43 +0000

Have watched the scene a few times but never picked up on that but it's very insightful to his reaction.. thank you for the comment!

New comment by bayofpigs in "Ask HN: What was the Internet like before corporations got their hands on it?"

bayofpigs — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 20:09:02 +0000

This really captures many of the differences. I'll just add that though we have more content creators today the motivation is what's really changed so much.

Back then it was harder to share your own content, either by learning HTML or hosting your own server and no real monetary rewards for doing so, and no social status indicators except for maybe 'hit counters'. Because of this it was passion for the topic that motivated people to share with far less focus on how it looked or the way it was presented.

Now with advertising, upvoting and platform biases people are more judgemental while reading others work. The motivation to create traffic and increase social outreach changed the nature of sharing itself.

New comment by bayofpigs in "Why buying a house today is so much harder than in 1950"

bayofpigs — Sun, 20 May 2018 07:13:07 +0000

Yeah the article starts with "To understand just how unaffordable owning a home can be in American cities today, look at the case of a teacher in San Francisco seeking his or her first house."

You could just as easily write how now is the most affordable time to buy real estate and use Mississippi as your model.

“Numbers never lie, after all: they simply tell different stories depending on the math of the tellers.” ― Luis Alberto Urrea

New comment by bayofpigs in "The truth about Apple's engineering [video]"

bayofpigs — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 08:00:43 +0000

Same with my 2007 MBP. They did eventually replace the motherboard based on the recall but afterwords the DVD player didn't read consistently (but didn't notice till months later) and one of the speakers went out. Also stopped using it for heavy video applications in fear it would happen again.

New comment by bayofpigs in "EA removes Battlefront 2 refund option as gamers mass-cancel pre-orders"

bayofpigs — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:30:14 +0000

People say this but look at the online passesEA started then finally got rid up due to overwhelming negative feedback.

Absolutely boycott publishers you feel are harming the industry. It takes time but it does work. Besides, there's so many wonderful games you're not missing anything and you're helping to make the industry better.