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New comment by qubyte in "Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math"

qubyte — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:24:45 +0000

This is really interesting to me. It could imply that an ugly theorem is less valuable. What if a theorem is ugly but useful vs a beautiful but esoteric one?

New comment by qubyte in "Show HN: I made a split keyboard for large palms"

qubyte — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 16:46:28 +0000

Yup, I can reach all three keys in each thumb cluster without a stretch. It's actually only a slight movement because my digits are quite long. My middle and ring fingers rest on the columns which are shifted up.

New comment by qubyte in "Show HN: I made a split keyboard for large palms"

qubyte — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 14:44:18 +0000

I designed my own for similar reasons, and it's interesting to see a somewhat similar position for the thumb keys. I optimised for hand/wrist position with minimal movement. However, I messed up the column stagger (off by one). Here's the writeup:

https://qubyte.codes/blog/why-did-i-create-a-keyboard

New comment by qubyte in "Hokusai's 'Great Wave' features on new Japanese banknotes (2019)"

qubyte — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:13:08 +0000

I stopped by the Mokuhankan shop when I was in the area last year. David Bull was carving a block on the left as I came in, so I didn't see him at first (my eyes were drawn to the prints, which are arranged into bins like records on the right).

I was wearing an old trade shirt which had a Kurzgesagt sort of look to it. When I bought a print to the till it was in his eyeshot and caught his interest, so he came over for a chat! He's such a nice guy. He asked me what I do, and the next thing I know we're talking about tech stuff, and how he builds his site and shop. A true renaissance man.

New comment by qubyte in "On Migraine Scintillating Scotomas"

qubyte — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 10:04:38 +0000

Yeah, I get that too. Fortunately the floaters are per eye, so I can eliminate them as a migraine thing using a sequence of winks. This looks in no way peculiar to people around me.

New comment by qubyte in "On Migraine Scintillating Scotomas"

qubyte — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 02:32:03 +0000

The general shape is the same as in these pictures for me, and it expands in the typical way and direction, but for me it's like shards of broken glass strobing various colours. When I first got migraines I didn't even realise I was seeing them. The first sign something was wrong was when I was watch the TV and suddenly it was hard to understand what the actors were saying. When I focussed, I realised that it was because I couldn't see their mouths!

Unfortunately, nearly two decades on, smaller weird visual artefacts are now just daily life and I seem to be very sensitive to glare (and I break into a cold sweat pretty often because that's how an aura looks when it starts). I only get a few migraines a year, but they seem to have rearranged the furniture in my brain a bit.

New comment by qubyte in "Homebrew Website Club"

qubyte — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 08:04:05 +0000

I used to be a regular in-person attendee here in Brighton pre-pandemic. My site is statically generated with some IndieWeb enhancements (webmentions in and out, micropub, posse, etc.) I mostly use it as a hidden log of my study sessions and for notes. A few times a year I'll write something longer form.

https://qubyte.codes/

New comment by qubyte in "The Sad Bastard Cookbook"

qubyte — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 18:19:47 +0000

Yup, it’s definitely best when the rice has cooled and dried a bit, but take care to avoid food poisoning! You only make _that_ mistake once…

New comment by qubyte in "The Sad Bastard Cookbook"

qubyte — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 18:17:46 +0000

Luckily we had an excellent fume hood. Kimchi was far from the smelliest thing cooked on those hobs!

New comment by qubyte in "The Sad Bastard Cookbook"

qubyte — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 09:37:33 +0000

Do some rice in a rice cooker. When that’s done, slap a good helping of kimchi in a hot frying pan (no need for oil). Let it sizzle for about thirty seconds, then crack an egg in and muddle it up some. When it’s nearly done add the rice. Add a bit of sesame oil at the end if you feel fancy. Eat.

I got through a kilo of kimchi a week this way when I was a depressed 20-something living in a share-house abroad.

New comment by qubyte in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

qubyte — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:26:47 +0000

https://qubyte.codes

Going since late 2015. I post long form (/blog) and short form (/notes), mostly on programming, maths, (bad) generative art experiments, notes as I learn Japanese, and of course about the blog itself since I spend more time on the custom static site generator than I do on writing actual posts.

New comment by qubyte in "Elephants may be domesticating themselves"

qubyte — Tue, 23 May 2023 18:51:24 +0000

I think you’d struggle to convince an elephant to get into the trebuchet though.

New comment by qubyte in ".zip is now available as a TLD"

qubyte — Fri, 12 May 2023 15:35:49 +0000

Someone already snapped up torment(dot)nexus.

New comment by qubyte in "JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser"

qubyte — Wed, 03 May 2023 11:55:12 +0000

I did a write up of how I use import maps to avoid bundling JS on my static site and cache modules more effectively. I mostly use JS for little experiments and generative art and such, so I have a number of utility modules. These get hashed and the names of each resolved in the import map. Original modules are kept for browsers without import map support (without the immutable cache header).

There are a few gotchas. The browser won't use the import map to result an entry point in a script tag for example. Content security policy is a painful one too for static sites like mine (the import map counts as a script, so you have to hash the map and put that in the CSP header).

https://qubyte.codes/blog/progressively-enhanced-caching-of-...

New comment by qubyte in "Star Trek LCARS Interface"

qubyte — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 10:36:20 +0000

With all the shiny floors and glare, at least they’ve found a cure for migraine.

New comment by qubyte in "Why You’re Angry at Netflix"

qubyte — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 09:02:23 +0000

I'm mostly angry at Netflix because most of the kids content on there is absolutely dire. A lot of it is low grade CG with no dialogue to make it cheap to produce and put out in any region. I find myself having to ban the worst of it.

New comment by qubyte in "Modern SPAs without bundlers, CDNs, or Node.js"

qubyte — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 10:04:34 +0000

While Safari doesn’t support importmap, it’s possible (and not too hard) to use them as a progressive enhancement so that it’ll still work, and safari users will get the benefit with 16.4. I did a writeup: https://qubyte.codes/blog/progressively-enhanced-caching-of-...

New comment by qubyte in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

qubyte — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 09:34:16 +0000

https://qubyte.codes/

It’s built with my own static site generator (my favourite thing to tinker with). I author posts in my own flavour of markdown. Page templates are good ol’ handlebars. It’s built with indieweb ideals in mind with micropub and webmentions implemented using netlify build plugins and functions.

New comment by qubyte in "Webmention (2017)"

qubyte — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 20:40:29 +0000

My personal static site has a custom implementation of dispatch and receipt of Webmentions using netlify functions. I’m sure there are many more folk quietly coming up with their own ways to do it as well.

New comment by qubyte in "Greg Bear has died"

qubyte — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 12:10:44 +0000

Same. Eon blew my mind when I first read it, coming from coffee-table sci-fi (which I still love too). Eon is my favourite of his books.