Hacker News: climech

New comment by climech in "Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99"

climech — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 13:30:23 +0000

Good points made, but the attitude is absolutely repulsive.

New comment by climech in "Why Not Mars"

climech — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 05:24:58 +0000

Apologies if I'm reading this wrong, but between this question, and casually comparing a possible origin of life on Earth to a venereal disease, it just all strikes me as very misanthropic.

My answer would be -- it's important if we deem it important, whether that's rational or not. If we start from the premise that life is good, that humans in particular are the most interesting thing out there as far as we can see, then it isn't totally bizarre that we should wish for the show to continue, extend it as far as we can. In that view, being bound to the fate of our home planet seems like an arbitrary restriction.

New comment by climech in "A Wordle clone in 50 lines of Bash"

climech — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 20:47:35 +0000

Pro tip: if you're using Solarized, change to another color scheme before running it.

New comment by climech in "Show HN: I made a movie recommendation app based on your mood"

climech — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 15:05:44 +0000

It's interesting to see how different people deal with different feelings. Personally, when I'm feeling sad, I want to stay with the feeling -- not wallow in it, but let it "flow", so it eventually gets out of my system. Movies can be quite cathartic that way.

New comment by climech in "Show HN: I made a movie recommendation app based on your mood"

climech — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 14:59:57 +0000

I chose "idyllic", expecting titles like Kiki's Delivery Service, but all the recommendations were either fighting or sports-related movies (Raging Bull, Southpaw, Rocky, etc). Sometimes there's also an issue where the same page loads inside the video frame.

Good idea, just needs a little more polish.

New comment by climech in "Whatever Happened to UI Affordances?"

climech — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 14:28:42 +0000

The "shake to undo" feature is actually very old, I remember discovering it around 2010. It works in all text fields system-wide, not just in the Notes app!

Starship SN15 Flight Test Recap

climech — Thu, 13 May 2021 20:32:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CZTLogln34

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27147036

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by climech in "Gravity is a double copy of other forces"

climech — Sun, 09 May 2021 14:24:57 +0000

Veritasium made a cool video about this some months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRr1kaXKBsU

New comment by climech in "Show HN: Grit – a multitree-based personal task manager"

climech — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 20:28:53 +0000

Thanks! Please open an issue on github if have an account there. System information would be particularly helpful.

New comment by climech in "Show HN: Grit – a multitree-based personal task manager"

climech — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 20:16:14 +0000

Yes, it's sorted by name in natural order. I haven't decided yet which would work best as default (this vs insertion order) -- feedback is welcome. This works well for numbered book chapters, something I personally find useful. In any case, the defaults will be configurable -- when I implement config :)

(Another thing on the TODO list is adding an optional priority score for each task, and sorting those on top of the list in all tree views.)

New comment by climech in "Show HN: Grit – a multitree-based personal task manager"

climech — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 19:20:17 +0000

Without it, the structure allowed the user to create a graph like this:

    [x] Task
     ├──[x] Sub-task (1)
     │   ├──[x] Sub-sub-task (2)
     │   └──[x] Sub-sub-task
     ├──[x] Sub-task (3)
     │   ├──[x] Sub-sub-task (2)
     │   └──[x] Sub-sub-task
     └──[x] Sub-task

by creating a link from (3) to (2). The tree command would actually omit the second occurrence of (2), since the algorithm visited each node just once.

New comment by climech in "Show HN: Grit – a multitree-based personal task manager"

climech — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 19:01:22 +0000

>prevents diamond shapes

Pretty much this, unless I'm missing something. An earlier version of the program actually used DAGs, but I found it a little underconstrained. I got pretty excited when I discovered multitrees, as it seemed to be exactly what I needed the whole time.

New comment by climech in "Show HN: Grit – a multitree-based personal task manager"

climech — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 18:55:22 +0000

Just SQLite - two tables, one for the nodes, one for edges + some fancy constraints and queries. I was tempted to make a custom binary format, but that's a big task, and it seems to work fine as it is.

As for the syncing, that would be really nice, but I haven't come up with an elegant way to do it yet. Suggestions welcome, if anyone has ideas!

Show HN: Grit – a multitree-based personal task manager

climech — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 16:54:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/climech/grit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26673221

Points: 255

# Comments: 45

Show HN: tfw – a simple personal journal inspired by pass

climech — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 03:42:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/climech/tfw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26631057

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by climech in "Live feed of Starship SN10 flight test [video]"

climech — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 23:30:36 +0000

Historic milestone for spaceflight, I don't know what to say. Very exciting times.

New comment by climech in "Actually Portable Executable"

climech — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:13:20 +0000

I appreciate the good intentions, but confusing Greek readers doesn't seem to me like a good way to honor the cultural impact of Greece.

New comment by climech in "Show HN: Khan-dl – Khan Academy Course Downloader"

climech — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 20:35:09 +0000

Absolutely. Personally, I am forever grateful to Sal for helping me overcome my fear of math in my late teens. I started from 1+1=2 and eventually got to Calculus and Linear Algebra (using KA and other resources). I particularly liked the randomized exercises on the site, and how it tracked your progress over time. It became kind of an obsession -- I thought, if I can learn math, I can do anything. I believe Sal's style of teaching had a lot to do with it.

There are tons of other people like me, and it makes me sad seeing such bitterness about a person who obviously brought a lot of good into the world.

Show HN: Programmer's Typing Practice

climech — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 23:59:47 +0000

Article URL: https://climech.github.io/typing-practice/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26128286

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by climech in "SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"

climech — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 18:51:53 +0000

I believe something like this would work (excuse the comments normally not allowed in JSON):

    {
      paths: [
        {
          points: [
            [10, 10],  // 0
            [90, 10],  // 1
            [90, 90],  // 2
            [10, 90]   // 3
          ],
          lines: [
            [0, 1, 2, 3, 0]  // connect point 0 to 1 to 2 to (...)
          ],
          curves: {
            0: [5, 15, 15, 5]  // bezier control points for point 0 (x1, y1, x2, y2)
          }
        }
      ]
    }

The downside (other than the bloat) would be when writing the code by hand, you'd have to keep track of the indices in the `points` array.