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New comment by seanthemon in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

seanthemon — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:01:16 +0000

I think those are placeholders, lol

New comment by seanthemon in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

seanthemon — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:25:46 +0000

I and my wife have been fully remote for over a decade, absolutely love it and I can't understand the whole going to office thing or people pushing for it.

New comment by seanthemon in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

seanthemon — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:32:49 +0000

Modern democracy

New comment by seanthemon in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

seanthemon — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:58:54 +0000

they have AI, they don't need QA or tests, come on man, aren't you a 9999999x engineer?

New comment by seanthemon in "Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware"

seanthemon — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:35:15 +0000

A more mature version of this is "CRUMB" found on steam, it costs money but it's got a lot of great features.

New comment by seanthemon in "OpenAI acquires Sky.app"

seanthemon — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 07:17:30 +0000

A mobile OS most likely, or at least a complete cover over all of our applications, this is the only way for them to get more real training data.

New comment by seanthemon in "Talk Python in Production"

seanthemon — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:29:42 +0000

Hi Mike! If you spent 9 months writing this book by hand, couldn't you do the courtesy of commissioning an artist to make you a cover image by hand as you clearly see the value of doing things by hand and not stealing the hard work of all the artists who have worked tirelessly to make art by hand only for AI to steal that work and for you to prompt it in seconds.

Put more effort into respecting other art forms and you might not get this reception next time.

New comment by seanthemon in "Talk Python in Production"

seanthemon — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 07:48:54 +0000

but clearly he lapsed here and as a non-listener I immediately clicked out.

New comment by seanthemon in "Hand: open-source Robot Hand"

seanthemon — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:14:48 +0000

It's a well known fact that birds aren't real and you must be a target now.

New comment by seanthemon in "Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming"

seanthemon — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:54:09 +0000

Generally I agree, I use LLM to solve work problems faster but I work on my own personal projects by hand only using LLM to teach me concepts, give me direction or help with complex portions of code (learning rust)

New comment by seanthemon in "3D printable 6" f/5 compact travel telescope model"

seanthemon — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:40:02 +0000

Pla-cf is generally more brittle because of poor layer adhesion due to the fact that carbon fibre doesn't stick to carbon fibre. Pla also doesn't need the additional stiffness CF provides so it's just a gimmicky filament.

Petg is a better option.

New comment by seanthemon in "Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?"

seanthemon — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 22:48:33 +0000

They'll have protecto-drones and decoy drones following them until it's so expensive we go back to good ol' launching packages by trebuchet

New comment by seanthemon in "Dr John C. Clark, a scientist who disarmed atomic bombs twice"

seanthemon — Fri, 30 May 2025 02:39:27 +0000

Several countries used their men as guinea pigs for nuclear tests.

Most notably was a video I watched of British soldiers going through the same thing, the anecdote of seeing bones through your hand when you try to cover your eyes is haunting.

https://www.forcesnews.com/nuclear/britains-nuclear-bomb-gui...

New comment by seanthemon in "Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android"

seanthemon — Sat, 17 May 2025 21:10:48 +0000

There are perscription lenses, but not sure how well they work https://lensology.co.uk/xreal-air-2-ultra-lenses/

New comment by seanthemon in "A Reddit bot drove me insane"

seanthemon — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 20:47:12 +0000

I'm afraid bots HAVE gotten to the point where they could fool someone, you only need to fool one moderator and bots would have no problem just shotgunning into chats until one gets past the wall

New comment by seanthemon in "A Reddit bot drove me insane"

seanthemon — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 21:03:21 +0000

So one bot is invited by accident or on purpose that invites more and more bots and that channel is dead, it will be like running from zombies, one person is infected and boom the whole commune is smoked

New comment by seanthemon in "Ask HN: How do you have effective 1:1s with your manager?"

seanthemon — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:56:15 +0000

Honestly I feel like this is what I do, fill it with what they want to hear so I can progress versus actually discussing anything worthwhile because those things I bring uo at the time when it matters. 1-1 feels so pointless..

New comment by seanthemon in "“The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”"

seanthemon — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 23:08:17 +0000

My rule of thumb: if it has the name of the country, i expect the food to be at best sub-par i.e "Great Indian" (gave me wild food poisoning).

Second rule of thumb: if the milkshakes are good, the food will be good - almost never fails me.

New comment by seanthemon in "The Sims Game Design Documents (1997)"

seanthemon — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:01:01 +0000

I listen to this soundtrack while working, been doing it for years. Recently my wife started playing the remaster and now I feel my adrenaline spiking when I hear the music lol

New comment by seanthemon in "Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware"

seanthemon — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:15:28 +0000

There should be a quote for that