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New comment by choxi in "The UI future is colourful and dimensional"

choxi — Tue, 27 May 2025 02:36:35 +0000

There are some other interesting dynamics in UX that aren't just cyclical trends:

- Natural language interfaces. You can now communicate with your computer with language, voice or text. There are some situations where this is an improvement, but others where it's not. It'll be interesting to see how interfaces are designed to combine the best of both worlds.

- Adaptive interfaces. The UI/UX of the last period of computing is largely a solved problem. There are standard UX solutions for most types of problems. It's also become significantly easier to build these interfaces, and LLMs are pretty good at writing basic declarative UIs. I think the bar will be raised such that users expect their interfaces to adapt to them, instead of a one-size-fits-all solution.

- Immersive interfaces. This might be similar to "dimensional" but more about the actual UX instead of just how 3D the buttons and icons are. I think using 3 dimensions is a natural solution for expressing higher information density. VR and AR will eventually catch on in some form.

New comment by choxi in "RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI"

choxi — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 03:08:50 +0000

Matz said he designed Ruby to optimize for developer happiness, it’s just a core principle of the language since it was created

New comment by choxi in "Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects"

choxi — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:02:12 +0000

Is this AGI?

New comment by choxi in "Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard"

choxi — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:25:12 +0000

I’ll know Apple is really in trouble when people stop complaining about each new product announcement

New comment by choxi in "AI-designed chips are so weird that 'humans cannot understand them'"

choxi — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 21:35:42 +0000

Maybe we’re all just in someone’s evolutionary chip designer

New comment by choxi in "But good sir, what is electricity?"

choxi — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:55:02 +0000

It’s weird in semiconductor physics too because the electrons flow uphill through voltage potentials

New comment by choxi in "Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts"

choxi — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 01:59:31 +0000

But why don’t they? Does anyone know what all these administrators do?

I’ve heard the theory that more regulation leads to more admin needs but I don’t think higher education has been increasingly regulated for decades.

New comment by choxi in "Why Ruby on Rails still matters"

choxi — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:27:33 +0000

If you just want React+Rails, the rails generator command comes with a bunch of options to set that up for you, including setting up and configuring: React/Vue/etc, a bundler like vite, typescript, tailwind.

It looks like inertia has additional features though.

New comment by choxi in "What situations in classical physics are non-deterministic?"

choxi — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:36:48 +0000

Aren’t those examples deterministic? That’s the most interesting aspect of chaotic systems to me, they’re deterministic but still not predictable

New comment by choxi in "iOS indie app development looks like"

choxi — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:59:23 +0000

I like SwiftUI, reactive frameworks just make sense to me for UIs. It also interfaces with UIKit in a pretty nice way so you don’t have to commit to one or the other. I’m a newer iOS dev though, I’ve heard many complaints from more experienced devs.

New comment by choxi in "WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)"

choxi — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:46:30 +0000

What do you mean? I thought the US dollar was fixed to gold between WWII and 1971:

> On 15 August 1971, the United States ended the convertibility of the US dollar to gold, effectively bringing the Bretton Woods system to an end and rendering the dollar a fiat currency

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

New comment by choxi in "Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why?"

choxi — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 15:40:17 +0000

Has anyone looked at competitor companies and compared the ones with WFH and the ones without it? I’m curious what that data looks like

New comment by choxi in "I Got a Sleep Study in My 30s. It Probably Saved My Life"

choxi — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 18:14:52 +0000

I developed sleep apnea from poor posture and was able to fix it by correcting my posture. Developing a hunch or anterior pelvic tilt is especially a risk for desk workers and makes breathing harder, a little bit of yoga or posture correction exercises can save you a lot of trouble.

New comment by choxi in "Safe Superintelligence Inc."

choxi — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:22:51 +0000

based on the naming conventions established by OpenAI and StabilityAI, this may be the most dangerous AI company yet

New comment by choxi in "Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers"

choxi — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 20:23:36 +0000

Claude does bullet lists a lot too, I think people just like bullet lists over blobs of text

New comment by choxi in "Why everyone is heading back to the Moon"

choxi — Tue, 14 May 2024 22:52:36 +0000

> The prospects for such an enterprise have been enhanced by the relatively recent discovery that the moon harbors water in the form of ice, which could be used not only for drinking and irrigating crops but also for producing oxygen and making rocket fuel for future flights.

That’s really the reason?

New comment by choxi in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)"

choxi — Wed, 01 May 2024 17:34:15 +0000

Location: Chicago

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby/Rails, TypeScript/React/Node, Go, AWS/Terraform

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/choxi/

Email: roshan dot choxi at gmail

Hi, I'm Roshan and I'm a software engineer with 13 years of experience building creative solutions and solving scaling problems at fast growing startups. I've started my own company, worked with the Heroku founders on Xeroc PARC-style research projects, and most recently left a YC company (PopSQL) when we were acquired. I'm looking for early or middle stage startups working on interesting and ambitious problems!

New comment by choxi in "How Stability AI’s founder tanked his billion-dollar startup"

choxi — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 10:50:45 +0000

Oh apologies, thanks for clarifying

New comment by choxi in "How Stability AI’s founder tanked his billion-dollar startup"

choxi — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 20:17:09 +0000

Wasn’t Emad working at a hedge fund before this? I’m surprised the article glosses over the fact that he had 0 experience in the tech industry before starting one of the most ambitious tech projects ever

New comment by choxi in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

choxi — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:48:29 +0000

Or Google or Amazon, how are those not way more blatant antitrust targets?