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New comment by shoelessone in "Googlebook"

shoelessone — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:53:17 +0000

I am not anti-AI, but if I am going to use AI I far prefer to have control over how I engage with it. Having a piece of hardware to focused on Google's own AI flavor being built in is a big negative to me. Not that I would totally write off this new Googlebook (despite disliking the name), but I can't really see a situation where I'd ever prefer this over an Apple Neo for example.

New comment by shoelessone in "Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)"

shoelessone — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:25:58 +0000

I appreciate the idea, but as others have mentioned it seems like for something like this to be useful it really needs to be well thought out and tolerant to extreme spikes in traffic.

I might be wrong here but it looked like the responses from the server are chunked, which I _think_ precludes the use of a highly optimized cache response e.g. from a CDN. Assuming that's true (very open to correction of course!) I wonder why this would be.

New comment by shoelessone in "Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit"

shoelessone — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:10:37 +0000

There are a lot of similarities. You must either have a great memory for fonts, or eat a lot of butter alternative spread, either way good eye!

New comment by shoelessone in "Google Antigravity"

shoelessone — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:52:01 +0000

I really don't know why I struggle so much with this stuff. I believe these models / agents / whatever write code that is often at least as good as the code I write, and they are super helpful tools, but it just feels like it takes away so much of the joy that is programming to me. I'm not saying it's "right" of me to feel this way, but for me the struggle, and the figuring things out by testing, identifying patterns, or looking deeper into a library's implementation (etc) is part of the challenge that makes programming and software construction fun.

New comment by shoelessone in "No Socials November"

shoelessone — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:21:56 +0000

I came here to ask if there is some way of fixing this. I'm guessing not.

Youtube lately seems particularly bad in terms of showing lots of "shorts" all over when I have zero interest in watching them, but also suggested videos seem somehow aggressively chosen. I'm not sure how to describe that, but that's what it feels like to me.

New comment by shoelessone in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

shoelessone — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:58:27 +0000

I don't see how this is an issue. To me, this does seem at least confusing, but possibly dangerous.

If you have internal auth testing domains at the same place as user generated content, what's to stop somebody thinking a user-generated page isn't a legit page when it asked you to login or something?

To me this seems like a reasonable flag.

New comment by shoelessone in "Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy"

shoelessone — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:17:28 +0000

I relate to this. Also, I am not the best person in the world, but recently this hit the point where I decided because of these very same thoughts + nudging from my much better partner to donate to NPR, to cancel Netflix and move that money to NPR. Now no more Netflix, which is sort of a relief in ways, and I have to be more intentional about what I download / consume.

New comment by shoelessone in "$30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener (2024)"

shoelessone — Mon, 19 May 2025 00:07:09 +0000

Same. Replacing all of my light switches with an app I have to use anytime I want to turn the lights on or off is indeed a huge step backwards IMHO.

Replacing all of the light switches with smart switches and monition sensors and things like this, plus automated schedules, to the point that you never need to switch any switches at all or think about lights, that is nice IMHO.

New comment by shoelessone in "I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search"

shoelessone — Wed, 14 May 2025 03:52:56 +0000

I agree on all points.

The project was well made, but my read on it was that they wanted to be shown something interesting. Even if it wasn't as well made of polished, I got the impression they would have preferred something "fun" or imaginative.

New comment by shoelessone in "Espressif's ESP32-C5 Is Now in Mass Production"

shoelessone — Thu, 01 May 2025 05:33:46 +0000

Thanks for the link, but yeah as the other poster mentioned, this is for a dev board. I'd be interested in buying the module (which is somewhere between the bare IC and the dev board). Here is an example from their store of an ESP32-S3 module: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006334720108.html?pdp_np...

New comment by shoelessone in "Espressif's ESP32-C5 Is Now in Mass Production"

shoelessone — Thu, 01 May 2025 05:30:08 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to explain!

So your original comment / request was regarding USB specifically then?

I ask because I'd have guessed (possibly incorrectly!) that implement HID via GATT (BLE) you'd be able to support anything the BLE hardware revision could implement?

Perhaps the disconnect for me is that it's unclear when there is some special hardware that exists within the ESP32 itself (I think I2C, I2S, etc would be examples of this) vs something you are just implementing by manipulating the IO pins. Perhaps HID is one of those things?

New comment by shoelessone in "Espressif's ESP32-C5 Is Now in Mass Production"

shoelessone — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:57:19 +0000

Any guesses as to when a hobbyist might be able to buy the module without the dev board? Their aliexpress store didn't have them as far as I can tell, I assume they are prioritizing dev boards for the moment unless you're a big enough company to actually talk directly with Espressif.

New comment by shoelessone in "Espressif's ESP32-C5 Is Now in Mass Production"

shoelessone — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:46:43 +0000

Any chance you could explain this to somebody who is just learning about HID and has run this example: https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tree/master/examples/pe... ? "non-boot protocol" I'm guessing is the key here? I don't have a super deep understanding of HID or what the "boot-protocol" refers to.

New comment by shoelessone in "Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank"

shoelessone — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 01:07:57 +0000

A bit similar for me, I grew up in the Midwest and spent a lot of time wandering around CompUSA and Circuit City / Best Buy when I was a kid. When I was old enough and had some reason to go out West, Fry's was one of the top things on my list of things to go see, it felt like a pilgrimage of sorts.

New comment by shoelessone in "Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option"

shoelessone — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 01:37:46 +0000

I completely agree. I find magic links much more of a hassle than a password.

New comment by shoelessone in "Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive"

shoelessone — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:25:17 +0000

Can you explain a bit more about what "serverless GPUs" are exactly? Is there a specific cloud provider you're thinking of, e.g. is there a GPU product with AWS? Google gives me SageMaker, which is perhaps what you are referring to?

New comment by shoelessone in "FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations"

shoelessone — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:41:09 +0000

I don't believe he misread. I believe he felt like the reply to the other users post was needlessly curt or snarky, which I'd agree with.

New comment by shoelessone in "Gemini Flash"

shoelessone — Wed, 15 May 2024 08:39:20 +0000

> My intuition is that as contexts get longer we start hitting the limits of how much comprehension can be embedded in a single point of vector space, and will need better architectures for selecting the relevant portions of the context.

Is it possible to explain what this means in a way that somebody only roughly familiar with vectors and vector databases? Or recommend an article or further reading on the topic?

New comment by shoelessone in "An alternative to cursor pagination"

shoelessone — Thu, 02 May 2024 02:42:20 +0000

Can somebody help me understand as a casual Elasticsearch (and honestly, more OpenSearch) user how so much data inside of Elasticsearch ends up not becoming the "database"?

I've always understood you're not supposed to treat ES/OS as a database, so in my head I've always sort of thought of it as a cache. If I'm using it I need to be able to reindex (not sure if this is the correct term technically) all of my data from a "real" database, something (in my case) like a SQL database of some sort or another data store.

If I'm reading the article correctly it sounds like they are trying to get massive amounts of data out of ES, but it feels like that's something that would come from a "real" database. To put it another way, it seems like admin tasks that involve exporting data ES wouldn't be the right place to do that.

Now very clearly the author knows an entire world more about ES and I don't fully understand their use case anyway, so I'm hoping somebody might be able to help me understand if there is some gray area or uses for ES/OS that might make different use cases more appropriate?

New comment by shoelessone in "Two hunters from the same lodge afflicted with sporadic CJD: is CWD to blame?"

shoelessone — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:37:01 +0000

Can do what my dad does to mitigate risk. He has a dedicated outdoor freezer, only thing is to hold dead deer (BEFORE processing). Has the deer tested by a lab before processing. Then processes himself.