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New comment by sgarrity in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

sgarrity — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:25:33 +0000

I might print out this quote and put it on my wall! :-)

"Looks like its coded by someone who has never split firewood. "

New comment by sgarrity in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

sgarrity — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:05:57 +0000

I did! I thought I was funny! We'll, today was my turn to be an idiot on the internet.

New comment by sgarrity in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

sgarrity — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:55:04 +0000

One of these days I'm going to see an article here about how the sex worker characters in GTA 6 have unionized.

New comment by sgarrity in "Magnifica Humanitas"

sgarrity — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:44:52 +0000

Nice. Did you use AI? (I'm being half-sarcastic, and half wanting to confirm that this is an accurate reproduction of the text in the original)

New comment by sgarrity in "The Eternal Sloptember"

sgarrity — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:55:00 +0000

"When people see an artifact, they make assumptions about the process that was used to create it. Without even thinking about it, they assume the creator had a basically human state of mind. This assumption is no longer true."

I've been running into this experience with non-code artifacts, like slideshows and documents.

New comment by sgarrity in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

sgarrity — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:44:34 +0000

I'm not worried about my privacy. No one can read the dark text on that page anyhow.

New comment by sgarrity in "Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"

sgarrity — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:03:43 +0000

I agree (at least for now) that Claude Design doesn't directly compete with the core Figma tool. It does directly compete with Figma Make - which is also an LLM-powered tool that generates HTML/CSS/JS output (not a canvas of components, like Figma's core product).

I do think Figma will have a problem that people with think Claude Design competes with Figma directly.

I expect people in leadership positions aren't comparing "Claude Design vs. Figma", but area comparing "Me and my product manager using Claude Design vs. A designer using Figma."

New comment by sgarrity in "Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)"

sgarrity — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:08:42 +0000

My first guitar teacher told me that someday I'd start to notice that you can't get all strings perfectly in tune. At that point, he said, you'll know you're getting somewhere on the guitar.

New comment by sgarrity in "I baked a pie every day for a year"

sgarrity — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:31:22 +0000

I didn't even read the article, but the headline made me smile.

New comment by sgarrity in "Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition"

sgarrity — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 12:20:00 +0000

The biggest "TBD" I've ever seen (in the slide deck for the winning entry):

"(TBD ethics of voluntary euthanasia)"

New comment by sgarrity in "How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy"

sgarrity — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:22:13 +0000

Are there benevolent AI swarms?

New comment by sgarrity in "US tech tariff exemption may only be temporary, says Lutnick"

sgarrity — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:30:37 +0000

That was close. We almost had clarity on something for a minute.

New comment by sgarrity in "JSON parsers that can accept comments"

sgarrity — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:51:26 +0000

Imagine if he was though...

New comment by sgarrity in "In Praise of Buttons"

sgarrity — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:15:48 +0000

I have a dehumidifier that I'd like this author to redesign please.

New comment by sgarrity in "The EV transition trips over its own cord"

sgarrity — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 13:53:10 +0000

I imagine this varies regionally (I'm in Eastern Canada), but we keep running into limited availability issues.

I'd consider myself in the early(ish) part of the mass-market adoption curve. I'm not an early adopter (I don't have an EV yet), but I'm interested and keeping an eye on them.

We're ready to purchase an EV, but I'm not ready to pay to get on a waiting list for a vehicle I can't see or test-drive.

Until I can go to a few dealerships and see/drive the low/mid-priced EV models, it's going to be difficult to make the decision to spend $40,000 to $60,000.

New comment by sgarrity in "How Soap Works: The Science Behind Handwashing"

sgarrity — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 17:57:45 +0000

I remember a science radio program from years ago (might have been https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks) summing up an explanation of how soap works with the summary: "Soap makes water wetter."

It's obviously an over-simplification for the purposes of education, but it works, as it has stuck with me.

New comment by sgarrity in "How to run 50% faster without external energy (2020)"

sgarrity — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:10:55 +0000

If even one of those many mathematical formulas had been a YouTube video of a person running in super-space-boots...

New comment by sgarrity in "Counting Friday 13s"

sgarrity — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 13:53:31 +0000

This is like a super FizzBuzz test.

New comment by sgarrity in "The brain is not an onion with a tiny reptile inside (2020)"

sgarrity — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:54:20 +0000

I'm pretty sure mine is.

New comment by sgarrity in "Painful Lesson: Always 'Show and Tell' Your Product Before You Develop It"

sgarrity — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 19:51:13 +0000

The Blackberry movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_(film) includes a few examples of selling something without having anything real behind it.