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New comment by joeevans1000 in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

joeevans1000 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:42:59 +0000

I struggled with the same annoyances for years. Then I installed TotalSpaces... but I think that stopped working. Liquid Ass destroyed my iphone and apple watch and I was able, thank god, to stop it from infecting my MacBook. At the cost of the newest updates.

Apple. You suck.

New comment by joeevans1000 in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

joeevans1000 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:40:54 +0000

THANK YOU!!!!

New comment by joeevans1000 in "Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft"

joeevans1000 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:20:28 +0000

Just a suggestion: have an example obj object, or several, loaded up. It will sound nuts to you, but I probably won't find one and will just unload the app when I need space.

New comment by joeevans1000 in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

joeevans1000 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:39:55 +0000

Well... I didn't know about them until now. Looks like a cool product, actually. Might have to try them out. What's that old saying?

New comment by joeevans1000 in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

joeevans1000 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:13:09 +0000

The whole 'software craftsmanship' thing was hilarious from the get-go. Software is not furniture, where the best examples will stand the test of time. It all ends up, good or bad, in a figurative landfill. But if it is a thing, AI is going to soon be a ten armed very skilled octopus. If you weren't having fun all this time, well, the joke's on you. Might as well use the new tools to start having fun now.

New comment by joeevans1000 in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

joeevans1000 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:09:46 +0000

Good software, bad software, and working software.

New comment by joeevans1000 in "GPT-5.4"

joeevans1000 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:27:58 +0000

I switched to Claude and it's so much better. If you haven't tried Claude... try it. You'll be amazed at the improvement.

New comment by joeevans1000 in "MacBook Neo"

joeevans1000 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:50:55 +0000

Apple's Chromebook.

New comment by joeevans1000 in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

joeevans1000 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:26:22 +0000

Please help this noob of sorts. My experience of local models has been abysmal for AI chat compared to hosted models. What is Apple offering, in plain terms, to me?

New comment by joeevans1000 in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

joeevans1000 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:44:46 +0000

Persona is the same company oftentimes used for the "show your ID to get in the bar and also we'll data harvest you... and share your data with various people if asked". Go ahead and google search on them for more insight.

New comment by joeevans1000 in "Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons"

joeevans1000 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:34:31 +0000

We wish for hardware intefaces. Not screen/hardware interfaces.

New comment by joeevans1000 in "Tell HN: Happy New Year"

joeevans1000 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:30:28 +0000

Way to go, and well done. Just two months to get to a year. Alcohol is pushed everywhere now so what you've done isn't easy.

New comment by joeevans1000 in "Please just try HTMX"

joeevans1000 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:42:12 +0000

Weird, Safari reloads the page on the demo button clicks and Chrome does not.

UPDATE: the second visit to the page on Safari didn't have the issue. It's interesting to note that some people might have that effect though... reloads on Safari occasionally for whatever reason. Or it could be something rare on my end.

New comment by joeevans1000 in "Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's"

joeevans1000 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 05:16:36 +0000

You won't be downvoted by me. He wrote a fun book (Kitchen Confidential, which I enjoyed) and it was downhill from there. He detailed some of his sketchy ethics in that book and it was refreshing.

Essentially, he seemed to me to be a bit of a &*$% and people liked that, confusing it for something admirable and for authenticity. He's till celebrated, especially by CNN, who paid a fortune for his show and then lost out on the chance for future episodes... now they peddle his old content on their landing page. Probably to try to recoup their probable losses.

You're not missing anything.

New comment by joeevans1000 in "The programmers who live in Flatland"

joeevans1000 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:19:05 +0000

Agreed. And this is the real miss of much of the Clojure community. There is a handful of amazing people in there pulling 90% of the weight of bringing noobs in to the language. And the rest don't even seem to notice their efforts. Little awards and grants here and there, yes. But the majority don't even care if the language has wider adoption or not. It works for them and that's enough. But many of the successful projects are toy or side project ones. A large number have comically minimal UIs... sub useful in today's world. Quite a few Clojure programmers use 2D languages in their day jobs, only bringing Clojure in for small parts if at all. All of this is a top down vibe. The core team has never meaningfully addressed the terrible error messages the language spits out because they are able to decode the problem themselves. Empathy or concern for noobs or wanting to grow the language seems a far priority for them. The same for the cryptic documentation, seemingly written for themselves at best. Very talented people, mind you... just not concerned with the things that would have caused adoption of their entirely unadopted language (percentagewise).

New comment by joeevans1000 in "The programmers who live in Flatland"

joeevans1000 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:08:16 +0000

I use both approaches. One thing is that Clojure code bases are comically hard for anyone to mentally parse if they didn't write it. At least the bulk of programmers... like you'll find on an actual team. Great to write, sure, but not useful in terms of onboarding new team members. Clojure programmers are typically great thinkers. And veterans. But if you are actually trying to build a company, then beware. Your handful of expensive brilliant programmers will build something that you can't bring people in to expand or maintain. Also watch out for the fact that the companies making the awesome tools that COULD be used by noobs often keep them closed source (Datomic and, I think here, Rama). They intend for you to hire them as consultants and pay licenses. Which is all fine... except the 2D languages have real open source libraries with huge adoption and ecosystems.

New comment by joeevans1000 in "The programmers who live in Flatland"

joeevans1000 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:17:21 +0000

Hmmm... this might be a way:

"You can get in touch with us at consult@redplanetlabs.com to schedule a free consultation to talk about your application and/or pair program on it. Rama is free for production clusters for up to two nodes and can be downloaded at this page."

New comment by joeevans1000 in "The programmers who live in Flatland"

joeevans1000 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:14:29 +0000

This is too high level, but I found this:

https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2025/04/22/how-gd-netcetera-u...

New comment by joeevans1000 in "The programmers who live in Flatland"

joeevans1000 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:00:54 +0000

Ditto.

New comment by joeevans1000 in "AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem"

joeevans1000 — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 18:58:32 +0000

I've wanted to try AirPods for my dad as hearing aids, but haven't done so because he would have to have the iPhone on hand. He's too old and blind to operate an iPhone. Can anyone here tell me how to take this awesome repo and make a hearing aid possibility for him with a simpler interface?