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New comment by ozbonus in "How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants"

ozbonus — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:09:01 +0000

Google Maps stopped being a reliable way to find good restaurants a long time ago. Any time in my city when I see a place with a high rating and suspiciously large number of reviews, searching for "five stars" in the reviews inevitably finds customers helpfully mentioning that they got free food in exchange. I've even seen places advertise the bribe openly on Maps. It would be trivial to detect this and punish offenders, but Google chooses not to.

I've been mulling over starting a boutique social network focused on location reviews with real life friends exclusively.

New comment by ozbonus in "How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants"

ozbonus — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:58:20 +0000

I think Netflix realized that reducing ratings to a simple thumbs up/down was a bad idea after all. A while back they introduced the ability to give double thumbs up which, if you can treat non-rating as a kind of rating, means they're using a four point scale: thumbs down, no rating, thumbs up, double thumbs up.

New comment by ozbonus in "The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn"

ozbonus — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:04:26 +0000

Most of the Final Fantasy games have been like that, which is why I've (most of the time) been a fan since since FF4/2. I can't remember how many times I've been turned off by a game when it starts with the protagonist being woken up by his mom, followed by endless wandering around town.

New comment by ozbonus in "The End of Handwriting"

ozbonus — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:05:24 +0000

That's exactly the kind of study routine that's proven to lead to mastery of the material (understanding, not just memorizing). Starting from there and with a few tweaks you've got yourself a Zettelkasten.

New comment by ozbonus in "Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context"

ozbonus — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:17:08 +0000

Mess o youxwh to yt h!

New comment by ozbonus in "Unauthorized experiment on r/changemyview involving AI-generated comments"

ozbonus — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 04:59:26 +0000

In the back of mind I knew it wasn't so, but I had been holding onto the belief that surely I could discern between human and bot, and that bots weren't a real issue where I spent my time anyway. But no. We're at a point where any anonymous public comment is possibly an impersonation. And eventually that "possibly" will have to replaced with "most likely".

I don't know what the solution is or if there even is one.

New comment by ozbonus in "Annotated Unix Magic Poster"

ozbonus — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 15:44:10 +0000

There are two more paintings in this series: Unix Views and Unix Feuds. High quality scans of all three are available on the internet archive.

New comment by ozbonus in "YouTube, when the walls fell [video]"

ozbonus — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 04:33:55 +0000

He says in the video that YouTube is the only exception to the exclusivity clause, meaning the couldn't also publish to Float Plane or other similar platforms.

New comment by ozbonus in "Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026"

ozbonus — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 04:31:16 +0000

I use their products daily both professionally and personally, mostly Designer and Publisher. Coming from someone who also used to use Adobe products, the affinity suite meets my needs almost perfectly. There are some times when I sorely miss a feature, like bitmap tracing and proper vector brushes in Designer and variable spread sizes in Publisher. That said, if you're going to pay for software, they're 100% worth the price.

New comment by ozbonus in "The benefits of learning in public"

ozbonus — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:03:21 +0000

I think this is good use for microblogging platforms like Mastodon and the others, to which you can link to from within your blog. If you've written a lot of mini-posts[1] that fit a theme you can edit them together into larger blog post eventually. If you have complete control over your website you could even feature some of your most recent or popular mini-posts on your front page.

[1] I don't know what the best term is to describe theses kinds of posts that distinguishes them from long form blog posts. What do people do on Mastodon--toot? I'm just going with mini-post for now.

New comment by ozbonus in "Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help"

ozbonus — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:32:02 +0000

I've been trying every state of the art OCR solution on my students' handwritten essays for fifteen years and have yet to find anything even close to acceptable.

Show HN: Mathy Card Game is a fast-paced arithmetic game

ozbonus — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:10:38 +0000

I created a card game to practice oral arithmetic with my young ESL students, mostly between the ages of 8 and 16. They've been enjoying it very much so I thought it might be worth sharing. It easy to make your own deck and a game is usually finished in about 10 minutes.

If there's any feedback, I'd be happy to hear it. I've never been able to play test with adults or native speakers, so that would be really interesting to hear about.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41107650

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New comment by ozbonus in "Tiny beauty: how I make scientific art from behind the microscope"

ozbonus — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 03:18:13 +0000

If you like this you might also like the YouTube channel Journey to the Microcosmos: https://youtube.com/@journeytomicro?si=FWOd1qA3CbG2Yb_V

New comment by ozbonus in "Using two keyboards at once for pain relief"

ozbonus — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 04:54:20 +0000

Mistel is a Taiwanese company and their keyboards (at least the ones I've seen and bought) are made in Taiwan.

New comment by ozbonus in "YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99"

ozbonus — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 03:38:27 +0000

This was the first time I've watched live broadcast US TV since leaving the country ten years ago. Are there any shows on, or is every channel besides PBS just advertisements all day?

New comment by ozbonus in "GuiLite: Small, cute GUI effects you can reuse"

ozbonus — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 20:58:55 +0000

Try zooming in on something outside of the table and then scrolling to it. Worked for me with the same setup.