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New comment by ohitsdom in "Pre-record your demos"

ohitsdom — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 02:08:25 +0000

I'm not 100% sure, but I think this tool just types the commands. So it avoids typos and you can just focus on what you're saying as you type nonsense. Sounds like it actually does run your pre-written commands. From the readme:

> What's more, It's a Live is actually running the commands you're typing, so you have full interoperability with other programs.

New comment by ohitsdom in "CDC File Transfer"

ohitsdom — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:23:37 +0000

The readme very nicely contrasts the approach with rsync.

New comment by ohitsdom in "Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others"

ohitsdom — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:51:45 +0000

This happened for me, yellow/gold flashy lines around my fish. Maybe you missed it?

New comment by ohitsdom in "Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket"

ohitsdom — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 02:22:22 +0000

Thank you for posting this. DC-X was ground-breaking. Masten also had Xombie in 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FcUEjwDkk

New comment by ohitsdom in "FlutterFlash - Ship your next Flutter app, at lightning speed"

ohitsdom — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:21:00 +0000

Can't speak to the technical details, but if you're looking for feedback- some of the wording on this page feels off.

The specific "8 hrs" is strange, why not just say hours/days saved? It'll be different depending on level of experience anyway.

I'd also change "I have done it for you" to something like "FlutterFlash sets up all of these features, so you can focus on what matters..."

New comment by ohitsdom in "A 4-track tape recorder made me fall in love with music again"

ohitsdom — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 03:48:45 +0000

"No computer needed" really does a lot for the creative process, imo. It's a big reason why Teenage Engineering's OP-1 is so successful, despite its very high price.

New comment by ohitsdom in "The web’s most important decision"

ohitsdom — Mon, 01 May 2023 15:23:29 +0000

Look at the current internet landscape- most users interact, find, and share content through the walled gardens of social networks. I don't think "decentralized open and free" networks are at all inevitable. To me those characteristics are shrinking, not growing.

New comment by ohitsdom in "SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas"

ohitsdom — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 15:18:48 +0000

This isn't what the commentators are referring to when they talk about "the flip".

Rockets traditionally have some type of separation mechanism to separate stage 1 and stage 2. This is usually some type of pyro charge or an actual pneumatic pusher. SpaceX wants to avoid this complexity with Starship and instead "throw" off stage 2 (Starship) by doing a flip with the booster. I don't believe it's been done before for stage separation, but this is also how they deploy Starlink satellites. [0]

Obviously, something went wrong in stage separation today so Booster+Starship just continually flipped. We don't know exactly what the true flip will look like.

[0]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1630394434847227909?lang...

New comment by ohitsdom in "Tell HN: DigitalOcean is doing layoffs"

ohitsdom — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:18:07 +0000

Any word on compensation offered?

New comment by ohitsdom in "Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar regolith simulants"

ohitsdom — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 18:49:49 +0000

> preparing for a full orbital test

Rocket delays are inevitable. But since you mentioned New Glenn's perpetual delays, let's also be fair and note that Starship's orbital test has been teased by Elon for quite awhile now [0]. I happen to think an April/May launch is possible, but we'll see. And also good to note that this is still very much a "pathfinder" vehicle, in SpaceX's style of iterative design & test. So not at all the same as whenever New Glenn's first launch will be.

[0] https://twitter.com/ESGhound/status/1622680306342891536

New comment by ohitsdom in "Show HN: A version control system based on rsync"

ohitsdom — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:26:04 +0000

"no dev I've worked with ever kicked up a fuss when they switched"

Wow. I don't think your experience is the common one. I've been on teams switching to git, and there was always much fussing. Even if the benefits of switching were clear and it was worth it, doesn't mean there won't be pain along the way.

New comment by ohitsdom in "Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s?"

ohitsdom — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 15:16:57 +0000

I used TherapyDen to find the only therapist I saw (so I'm no expert). But lots of therapists there have videos so you get a sense of who they are and what they focus on. I did enjoy the therapist I ended up seeing for a year.

https://www.therapyden.com/

New comment by ohitsdom in "The Webb Space Telescope’s profound data challenges"

ohitsdom — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 19:57:46 +0000

There is a decent amateur community for receiving satellite transmissions. I'm not super knowledgable on it, but 2 resources that may interest you:

Scott Tilley, who gained a lot of recognition in the past year in analyzing radio signals to see how Russia was using satellites in Ukraine: https://twitter.com/coastal8049

An amateur group revived 2-way communications on an abandoned satellite: https://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/isee-3-reboot-project/#:~:t....

New comment by ohitsdom in "Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people"

ohitsdom — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 14:25:20 +0000

I hear this argument a lot and people use examples like BET and black churches. But take a step back and look at what led to black-specific things. MTV hardly played black artists. White churches excluded and actively attacked black Christians.

White has been the default in America for a long time. Seems like that's slowly starting to change but until it does, there's going to be a need for things specifically targeted at minority groups.

New comment by ohitsdom in "Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?"

ohitsdom — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 23:30:58 +0000

I built my site with Vuepress, and it auto-deploys to Netlify once merged to master. PRs also have preview builds, and their builds are fast. Very easy setup, and free.

Details here: https://fotijr.com/blog/2020/how-its-made/

New comment by ohitsdom in "Launch HN: Stoke (YC W21) – Low cost, on-demand delivery to and from space"

ohitsdom — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:24:17 +0000

SNC's Dream Chaser is the only active vehicle I can think of that can fly on any rocket. But Dream Chaser is more like a 3rd stage than a 2nd stage, so it's not a direct comp.

New comment by ohitsdom in "Launch HN: Stoke (YC W21) – Low cost, on-demand delivery to and from space"

ohitsdom — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:00:40 +0000

I applied to a catch-all job opening on their site when they first came out of stealth mode. Somehow I got an interview with Andy. I read some of his research papers before the interview [0] in case there was something I could reference in the interview. It was pretty clear that wasn't feasible (I'm still laughing at my hubris for even thinking this was a possibility), but it was still fun trying to understand such technical concepts!

I didn't know they are YC-backed! I saw them getting some strong recommendations from former Blue Origin colleagues. Clearly they are building a very talented team; I'm eager to see what they are working on. I have tons of questions (first stage choice, fuel, secret sauce, etc) but seems like they are keeping things under wraps pretty tightly. But if they can somehow deliver on 2nd stage reuse at a smaller scale than Starship, then I can't wait to see the advanced technology & techniques they use to get there.

[0]: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Andrew...

New comment by ohitsdom in "The Pretty JSON Revolution"

ohitsdom — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:09:36 +0000

I was interested in this link just for its take on comments, bummed to see that skipped over.

New comment by ohitsdom in "Ask HN: Why are e-ink note-taking devices so expensive compared to iPads?"

ohitsdom — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 18:59:20 +0000

I would have loved to buy something more capable, but instead I settled for this cheap LCD writing display as a mini-whiteboard. I don't even know how to describe this technology but it gets the job done at $20.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QL11LWF

New comment by ohitsdom in "Vuejs rejects close to 75% of outside contributions"

ohitsdom — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:02:31 +0000

Vue 3 included a re-write in Typescript. The Vue team was very vocal in the benefits TS would bring, including making it easier for outsiders to contribute.