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New comment by ifellover in "CornHub"

ifellover — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 06:35:25 +0000

That was in 2016…? My goodness.

New comment by ifellover in "-2000 Lines of code (2004)"

ifellover — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 05:49:02 +0000

I’m a hobby programmer and lucky enough to script a lot of things at work. I consider myself fairly adept at some parts of programming, but comments like these make it so clear to me that I have an absolutely massive universe of unknowns that I’m not sure I have enough of a lifetime left to learn about.

New comment by ifellover in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

ifellover — Mon, 26 May 2025 05:59:39 +0000

Is it dead? According to the stats there’s a 25 hour gap :( great idea btw!

New comment by ifellover in "Getting AI to write good SQL"

ifellover — Sat, 17 May 2025 05:30:24 +0000

Absolutely agree. I really pushed it last week with a screenshot of a very abstract visualisation that we’d done in a Miro board of which we couldn’t find a library that did exactly what we wanted, so we turned to Gemini.

Essentially we were hoping to tie that to data inputs and have a system to regularly output the visualisation but with dynamic values. I bet my colleague it would one shot it: it did.

What I’ve also found is that even a sloppy prompt still somehow is reading my mind on what to do, even though I’ve expressed myself poorly.

Inversely, I’ve really found myself rejecting suggestions from ChatGPT, even o4-mini-high. It’s just doing so much random crap I didn’t ask and the code is… let’s say not as “Gemini” as I’d prefer.

New comment by ifellover in "The Llama 4 herd"

ifellover — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 07:37:34 +0000

Your comment inspired me to seek out some research on the topic of transgender identity and brain structure. Pretty fascinating stuff, but hard for a layman like me to absorb.

Seems to be quite a lot of studies finding notable differences in brain “readings” (for want of a better word, sorry not a scientist) between transgender people and others sharing their biological sex.

The first study I read highlights the findings of many studies that the insula of transgender individuals is very different to cisgender individuals, with the insula being “associated with body and self-perception.” [0]

Gosh our brains are truly something else and are not so easily categorised! Now if only I could find a way to learn all this stuff a little bit faster…

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-020-0666-3

A collection of many other studies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_gender_incongruenc...

New comment by ifellover in "Coffea stenophylla: A forgotten bean that could save coffee from extinction"

ifellover — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:20:32 +0000

Huh. As an avid home coffee roaster, this is interesting to learn. I find that decaf also really struggles to “crack” when roasting, and emits way less smoke. I guess that’s because there’s perhaps nothing left to really crack anymore?

New comment by ifellover in "Testing the latest AI tools for prototyping and building simple websites"

ifellover — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 06:05:10 +0000

I enjoyed your website far too much. I’m gonna go permanently cancel our retros.

New comment by ifellover in "Show HN: Physical Pomodoro Timer with ESP32 and e-paper screen"

ifellover — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 12:03:51 +0000

I love this! I’ve been playing around with browser extensions to achieve this, and it always seems to get lost in the clutter of my busy workspace. A physical timer for this is a brilliant idea.

Another thing I’ve been contemplating is a “do not disturb” signpost on my desk when in focus time; might be that this timer could also double as that.