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New comment by notimpotent in "Areal, Are.na's new typeface"

notimpotent — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:34:39 +0000

"To find early versions of Arial, the Dinamo team had to work with computer technology archivists to get access to some of the first personal computers and operating systems. In the end they found a tool that allowed them to boot up Windows 2000 on their own laptops"

I hope this "technology archivist" charged them appropriately for this monumental task. /s

New comment by notimpotent in "Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels"

notimpotent — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:10:38 +0000

The idea is that you download the source, review, and then build it yourself.

New comment by notimpotent in "LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers"

notimpotent — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:08:16 +0000

If you're interested in that, check out the guys over at pixellab.ai

They have an Aesprite plugin that generates pretty nice looking sprites from your prompts.

New comment by notimpotent in "Why C#?"

notimpotent — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:42:36 +0000

Agreed. This is the first resource that I've come across that so succinctly encompasses the language. Well worth the read to any dev looking to evaluate the language.

Of course the (good) problem with C# is that it's moving so fast, articles like these can quickly become out of date.

New comment by notimpotent in "Guide to mechanical keyboards"

notimpotent — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 16:10:32 +0000

I recently picked up the G915 and share the same frustrations. And it's too bad too because the keyboard itself is the best-feeling, lowest wrong-key-pressed keyboard I've ever used.

I'm desperately looking for the same keyboard without the G keys.

New comment by notimpotent in "How we engineer feedback at Figma with eng crits"

notimpotent — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:30:01 +0000

Every tool that I use that doesn't have AI embedded just feels clunky. Any repetitive or predictive task that I have to do should have the option of being automated.

New comment by notimpotent in "Sora: Creating video from text"

notimpotent — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:45:20 +0000

But doesn't this technology give you the same edge?

You can deliver more content, faster, cheaper.

New comment by notimpotent in "Ventoy"

notimpotent — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:31:08 +0000

I've used similar tools like imageUSB and Rufus in the past. But it looks like Ventoy is better in every aspect. Excellent!

New comment by notimpotent in "My Failure Resume"

notimpotent — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:15:30 +0000

I don't understand this - have you been (unsuccessfully) looking for a job since 2013?

If you've had jobs in between these applications, why are you applying for so many new jobs every year?

New comment by notimpotent in "Clipboard: Cut, copy, and paste anything, anywhere, all from the terminal"

notimpotent — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 16:17:11 +0000

I discovered this just the other day and could not believe it had been there all along!

New comment by notimpotent in "Tinder users are using ChatGPT to message matches"

notimpotent — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 21:43:40 +0000

And what does one do when you meet in person and no longer have the witty AI to carry your conversation?

New comment by notimpotent in "Perfluorocubane is (as you would expect) weird"

notimpotent — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 16:45:52 +0000

I love how excited the author is about this post. It sounds like some promising discoveries are in the works.

Of course I have no idea what any of this means. Maybe somebody could share a layman's explanation? What would be the benefit of "hold a free electron in the middle of that cube"?

New comment by notimpotent in "I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard"

notimpotent — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 11:52:28 +0000

Agree 100%. I actually tried to go without a numpad on a new keyboard. Couldn't make it a week before I returned it. Up to that point I didn't realize how much I used it on a daily basis.

I can't help but think how inefficient a programmer would be using the standard number keys. Reminds me of my dad hunting and pecking with his index finger.

New comment by notimpotent in "DALL-E 2 has a secret language"

notimpotent — Tue, 31 May 2022 20:06:56 +0000

My first thought upon reading this: what if DALL-E (or a similar AI) uncovers some kind of hidden universal language that is somehow more "optimal" than any existing language?

i.e. anything can be completely described in a more succinct manner than any current spoken language.

Or maybe some kind of universal language that naturally occurs and any semi-intelligence life can understand it.

Fun stuff!

New comment by notimpotent in "I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues"

notimpotent — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:18:42 +0000

Your Side Projects link to Github in the first sentence is 404.

New comment by notimpotent in "The CRPG Book Project: Three Years Later"

notimpotent — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:00:33 +0000

If this interests you, you'll love the CRPG Addict [0]. The guy is well on his way through his mission to play, and document, every CRPG ever made. Always a fun read.

[0] https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/

New comment by notimpotent in "Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people"

notimpotent — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:48:01 +0000

Agreed. I find the various subreddits related to things I'm interested in to be a great resource and occasionally, great entertainment.

New comment by notimpotent in "How far could a spaceship go if we never ran out of thrust? (2020)"

notimpotent — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:21:11 +0000

Sorry for my ignorance, but if photons do not have mass, how do them impacting the solar panel have any effect on the ship's velocity?

New comment by notimpotent in "Things I learned while developing a billing system"

notimpotent — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 21:31:06 +0000

First time learning that weekend days vary by country. I looked up [1] some of the more curious ones.

Brunei weekends are Friday and Sunday. Those poor folks work Mon-Thurs, and then go back to work Saturday!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek_and_weekend

New comment by notimpotent in "98.css"

notimpotent — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 19:41:56 +0000

Well that would explain it.