Hacker News: dailyanchovy

New comment by dailyanchovy in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

dailyanchovy — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:45:44 +0000

Yes, and “genuine question” or “am i missing something?”

New comment by dailyanchovy in "Show HN: Re-Implementing the macOS Spatial Finder"

dailyanchovy — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:36:28 +0000

Oh that’s not a limitation, it was a choice. You can remove that restriction by changing the appropriate line to scan ~ instead of ~/Documents.

New comment by dailyanchovy in "Show HN: Re-Implementing the macOS Spatial Finder"

dailyanchovy — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 17:59:19 +0000

I see. While making this I found that if you hide the Finder sidebar and toolbar (both are options in the menu), then your scenario plays out. In a way it’s nicer than the video on my github.

New comment by dailyanchovy in "Show HN: Re-Implementing the macOS Spatial Finder"

dailyanchovy — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 17:52:26 +0000

You can just choose not to use this. Nothing bad about having the choice, so no need to be negative.

New comment by dailyanchovy in "Show HN: Re-Implementing the macOS Spatial Finder"

dailyanchovy — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:14:08 +0000

Ah yes, that may be an issue. But that is solved by not installing the "window_title_changed" hook, so that the scripts only take effect when new Finder windows are opened. In that case, windows never move around. All the points you mentioned are issues with the default behaviour of Finder (e.g. when opening a new Finder window as is, you cannot predict where it will open and so it may block other elements).

Show HN: Re-Implementing the macOS Spatial Finder

dailyanchovy — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:58:38 +0000

Modern macOS versions open folders in seemingly random positions and sizes. This set of scripts restores the behaviour known to classic macOS, where:

- folders remember where they were on the screen

- folders remember how big they were

This enables you to utilise the brain's superb spatial memory for file management.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443441

Points: 75

# Comments: 37

New comment by dailyanchovy in "NASA finds multi-billion-year-old 'coral' on Mars"

dailyanchovy — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 15:02:05 +0000

* coral shaped rock

New comment by dailyanchovy in "Enforced Amnesia as Way to Mitigate Risk of Silent Suffering in the Conscious AI"

dailyanchovy — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 14:17:17 +0000

Math books are only static on your size scale

New comment by dailyanchovy in "A one line code change inside iOS made me waste 5 minutes"

dailyanchovy — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 19:55:51 +0000

What a spectacularly poor take, it's clearly a joke. Where's my $0.50?

Mitsuharu Yamamoto Mac OS Emacs 29.1 merged to work branch

dailyanchovy — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 21:09:56 +0000

Article URL: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/commits/eb887b91b8aca00ba894db136ac22a0a91c8c5c1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36991976

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by dailyanchovy in "Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated by Modeling a Film Camera in Blender [video]"

dailyanchovy — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 19:16:56 +0000

The amount of effort this must have taken is obscene. The creator made a physically accurate pin-hole camera and film inside Blender. I hadn't realised that this is even possible with existing off-the-shelf renderers, let alone open source software. What a blast to watch also.

That is, the fact that the whole package (Blender + the author's work) emulates a physical camera inside an existing renderer is amazing to me.

Feynman’s Epilogue

dailyanchovy — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 10:00:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_22.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32993391

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dailyanchovy in "I patched my Slack client to keep “oops” messages others delete"

dailyanchovy — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 06:00:08 +0000

While at my previous work, my manager deleted a message in such a way that it would make the conversation appear hostile from my part.

We were already not in good terms, and it was a small company so there was little to be done. But having seen the message and knowing the intention, and not being able to prove it felt horrible.

I since left (after discussing with the boss).

New comment by dailyanchovy in "Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness? (2015)"

dailyanchovy — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:50:27 +0000

That sounds like false reasoning, take a computer for example. You can have a computer emulate itself perfectly (a finger touching itself by that analogy).

New comment by dailyanchovy in "Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures (2013)"

dailyanchovy — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:10:56 +0000

Ahh, thanks for the reassurance!

New comment by dailyanchovy in "Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures (2013)"

dailyanchovy — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 09:57:52 +0000

So in the last illustration with all three concepts in a row, why does the monad change the wrapped 2 to a 3 that gets shoved into the function? What makes the 2 turn into a 3?

New comment by dailyanchovy in "Show HN: MPLG – Matplotlib GUI, design plots visually and export as Python code"

dailyanchovy — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 17:40:11 +0000

This is encouraging! Don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any feedback: max@riverspirit.nl

New comment by dailyanchovy in "Show HN: MPLG – Matplotlib GUI, design plots visually and export as Python code"

dailyanchovy — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 08:14:36 +0000

I very likely will. But that's just another thing to worry about and for my sanity I am deferring it. This is being developed alongside my study and two other jobs.

New comment by dailyanchovy in "Show HN: MPLG – Matplotlib GUI, design plots visually and export as Python code"

dailyanchovy — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 07:46:36 +0000

Should be fixed now!

New comment by dailyanchovy in "Show HN: MPLG – Matplotlib GUI, design plots visually and export as Python code"

dailyanchovy — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 07:46:02 +0000

This looks very sophisticated, much more complex than MPLG. Very impressive! I also wonder why I didn't come across Veusz while doing market research.

A main goal of MPLG is to KISS so that users would open it up for the first time and they will be able to quickly jot down a plot design. This way they won't feel overwhelmed when needing to quickly create another plot sometime in the future, and be compelled to use MPLG.

Matplotlib is indeed very slow. But if you ever decide to write a matplotlib version of your package, get in touch, I'll explain how I designed MPLG and what you might want to avoid!