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New comment by heddhunter in "AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study"

heddhunter — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:14:12 +0000

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00220973.2012.74...

New comment by heddhunter in "Almost no skill required to cook a steak"

heddhunter — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:20:36 +0000

an analogy is like a garden shed: you try to eat it, it'll get stuck in your throat.

(with apologies to Mike from The Young Ones)

New comment by heddhunter in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

heddhunter — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:24:20 +0000

There were full-length NBA Lakers games in the Vision Pro headset earlier this year. I watched a few - super cool. They even had a separate announcer just for the immersive broadcast.

New comment by heddhunter in "Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg"

heddhunter — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:45:18 +0000

Most commercial DAWs come with such algorithms already. (eg Logic Pro has "ChromaGlow" which can emulate tape, tubes, etc. https://support.apple.com/guide/logicpro/chromaglow-controls...)

There's also a thriving 3rd party plugin market for similar effects.

New comment by heddhunter in "Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg"

heddhunter — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:40:56 +0000

This is my go to for making things sound "worse" :)

https://www.xlnaudio.com/products/addictive_fx/effect/rc-20_...

New comment by heddhunter in "Did they ghost you?"

heddhunter — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:43:09 +0000

Sorry you went through that. I've been on the other side of it. I had interviewed a bunch of people, found a good candidate, had an offer ready to go. It was pulled at the last second by higher ups who decided they needed the headcount more than my department did. It sucks for everybody.

New comment by heddhunter in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

heddhunter — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:05:12 +0000

Just another Monday in 2026.

New comment by heddhunter in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

heddhunter — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:03:33 +0000

Assuming you're not joking, that's the point of the podcast... hence the title "If Books Could Kill". They're reviewing bad and possibly dangerous books.

New comment by heddhunter in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

heddhunter — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:02:37 +0000

No, you were correct to avoid it.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-win-friends-and...

New comment by heddhunter in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

heddhunter — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:26:23 +0000

The weird thing is that setting used to be in the trackpad settings! I have no idea why they moved it. It's one of the first things I enable on every device I use.

New comment by heddhunter in "Code is run more than read"

heddhunter — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 17:30:54 +0000

the explanation is simple - the immutable law of resource allocation:

"good, fast, cheap: pick two"

New comment by heddhunter in "The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures"

heddhunter — Sun, 15 May 2022 01:19:22 +0000

lifestyle creep. living in the bay area, kid or two in private school, driving a tesla... $270k doesn't go that far.

New comment by heddhunter in "Apple user permabanned, loses $1.2K in App Store goods for legit gift card buys"

heddhunter — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 06:14:19 +0000

You can go to iCloud.com in any web browser.

New comment by heddhunter in " Rittenhouse lawyer claims iPad pinch-to-zoom uses AI to fake video footage"

heddhunter — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 17:55:56 +0000

"mainstream media" is code for "stuff i don't agree with"

New comment by heddhunter in "The Sorry State of Native App Typography Licensing"

heddhunter — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:34:49 +0000

I just went through this exact situation a few days ago. The designer of the app chose Avenir, which is included in iOS 6 but is not part of Android, so I reached out to Linotype to find out how to license it for an Android app. The responses were confusing and inexact (and slow - apparently they only have sales staff in Germany, and I'm in California, so the time difference means every go round takes a whole day). After 2-3 email exchanges I gave up trying to get a coherent answer and we're using a bundled-with-Android font. Oh well!