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New comment by steadicat in "Nano Banana Pro"

steadicat — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:11:18 +0000

What?!? The tower was slightly straightened for safety reasons. It was never intentionally made to lean more.

New comment by steadicat in "In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information"

steadicat — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 10:27:35 +0000

This app made me fall in love with RSS after years of trying: https://feeeed.nateparrott.com/

New comment by steadicat in "Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease"

steadicat — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 03:44:06 +0000

Almost all? I just checked and Act, Crest, CloSYS and many others are all SLS-free and alcohol-free. The only one with SLS I could find is Listerine Cool Mint.

Maybe you’re thinking toothpastes? SLS in toothpaste is indeed hard to avoid.

New comment by steadicat in "Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure"

steadicat — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 01:20:35 +0000

One time I led a project and ran daily standups by screen-sharing our Asana board so the team could review in-progress tasks. Every day, right in the middle of the meeting, Asana logged me out. I’d rush to log back in to finish the review, thus ensuring we’d repeat the cycle exactly 24 hours later. This silly dance lasted the whole project.

New comment by steadicat in "Changes since congestion pricing started in New York"

steadicat — Thu, 15 May 2025 13:02:34 +0000

I think we just have a different idea of what it means to be closed to cars. I live right by the stretch of Broadway you mention, so I’m very familiar. This is what it looks like: https://flatironnomad.nyc/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/4.2-Pla...

There is no restriction of through traffic. Effectively pedestrians are still confined to tiny and overcrowded sidewalks.

By comparison, here’s what a pedestrian street looks like in the non-US city I grew up in: https://sana.ae/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Corso-Italia-Stre...

Keep in mind that cars are still allowed for emergency services and (night time) deliveries. But the difference is night and day.

This is exactly what “the US can't imagine itself without cars” means to me.

New comment by steadicat in "Changes since congestion pricing started in New York"

steadicat — Thu, 15 May 2025 11:40:08 +0000

You’re kind of proving the point here. NYC has fewer car owners and yet NYC doesn’t have a single pedestrian street or street closed to through traffic. Sounds like a city that can’t imagine itself without cars even though it’s completely realistic.

New comment by steadicat in "Cats are (almost) liquid"

steadicat — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:41:01 +0000

I tried this but cats, being (almost) liquid, can very easily wrap around the soft collars and reach pretty much any part of their body.

New comment by steadicat in "On tea and the art of doing nothing"

steadicat — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 21:43:45 +0000

White tea is actually closer to black tea than the name implies. Because – unlike green tea – it is not steamed to stop the oxidation process, it oxides naturally as it dries. This puts it somewhere between green tea and black tea in terms of oxidation (which is also where oolong is BTW[1]). Some oolongs and white teas – if brewed similarly – are very very close to black tea in terms of flavor.

[1] The technical difference between oolong and white is simply that white is processed naturally, whereas oolong has more “steps” (oxidation, drying, steaming, etc.). The steps can be manipulated to give the tea a different character. Oolongs are often roasted, for example.

New comment by steadicat in "Why do arrays start at 0?"

steadicat — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:27:35 +0000

When talking about discrete things, 0 has a specific meaning: it is the absence of things. It does not make sense to count the 'first' element as the 0th. When you encounter the 'first' element, how many elements do you have? 1.

This is of course different for continuous quantities. When counting seconds, for example, we should absolutely start from 0.

New comment by steadicat in "We memo all the things (2020)"

steadicat — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:28:44 +0000

The team actually became part of a company-wide effort called Client Foundations! And no, we haven't changed our mind on this. (BTW we're hiring. :))

New comment by steadicat in "Azlo Is Closing Down"

steadicat — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 03:30:58 +0000

I just signed up for Brex. The application process was fast and smooth. A couple things to note:

- It looks like they use Radius Bank under the hood

- There is no Plaid support (this is almost a dealbreaker for me, as I want to use accounting tools like YNAB)

New comment by steadicat in "Azlo Is Closing Down"

steadicat — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 00:03:34 +0000

Bummed about this, but there seems to be a plethora of alternatives:

- Rho: https://rho.co/

- Mercury: https://mercury.com/

- Radius Bank: https://radiusbank.com/business/

- BlueVine: https://www.bluevine.com/

- Novo: https://banknovo.com

- Wave Money: https://www.waveapps.com/money

- Brex Cash: https://www.brex.com/product/cash-management-account/

- Wise: https://www.wise.us/

- Relay: https://relayfi.com

Now if only there were a clear way to choose one. If anyone has any tips, I'm all ears.

Why We Memo All the Things

steadicat — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:10:55 +0000

Article URL: https://attardi.org/why-we-memo-all-the-things/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24919640

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by steadicat in "New JSX Transform"

steadicat — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 05:22:06 +0000

Interesting. Why not make that special symbol a tiny NPM module with a single published version that any library wishing to support JSX can import?

New comment by steadicat in "New JSX Transform"

steadicat — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:15:21 +0000

I'm curious why the compiled version is still referencing React code, instead of defining a standard JS data structure that JSX would compile directly into? This would remove any dependency to React itself, with the added benefit of skipping function calls at runtime. It doesn't look like there's much happening at instantiation that couldn't be done after the fact on plain JS objects: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/packages/react...

New comment by steadicat in "Cat vs. panel heater: which is better?"

steadicat — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 02:14:30 +0000

Unfortunately, in my experience, cats are endothermic. Give a cat a heat source – a sunny patch, a heated blanket, or a warm belly – and they will cling to it until all the heat is absorbed out of it. Cats need heat sources to thrive, so they will be very unhappy if operated as a heat source.

New comment by steadicat in "Time to Upgrade Your Monitor"

steadicat — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 02:20:46 +0000

The article is all based around this premise:

> Times of low-resolution displays are over. High-resolution displays are a commodity now.

I reject that premise. 4K is basically the maximum number of pixels you can get for less than $1K, and that's only a handful more pixels than a 16" MBP screen. It does not make sense for most people to shell out the $$$ just so that they can see the same number of pixels from slightly further away.

It is absolutely not the right time to upgrade your monitor. Wait until 5K+ becomes affordable again[1] so you can actually get the benefits of an external monitor (more usable screen space) without having to sacrifice the sharpness and quality of retina.

[1] https://tidbits.com/2018/11/16/what-happened-to-5k-displays/

New comment by steadicat in "Driverless cars are stuck in a jam"

steadicat — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:35:12 +0000

This is an odd comment considering how humans have lived hundreds of thousands of years without cars, and only a few decades with them. You’re saying that a solution that’s as old as time - and used by billions of people today - is not as realistic as a technology that hasn’t been developed yet?

New comment by steadicat in "Corsica's 'fox cat': On the trail of what may be a new species"

steadicat — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 14:48:32 +0000

The order is still flipped for noun-noun pairs in romance languages. A "pesci spada" should be translated as "swordfish", not "fish sword".

New comment by steadicat in "Microsimulation of Traffic Flow"

steadicat — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 16:25:27 +0000

Lane change behavior looks completely unrealistic to me. I see cars switching lanes on deceleration into a traffic jam, which doesn't buy you anything (both lanes are stopped) and is extremely dangerous (you're cutting off cars approaching fast from behind and braking at the last minute). Never seen this happen in real life, except maybe at toll booths.

On the other hand, there is no lane switching when traffic on adjacent lanes clears up. In real life, drivers will quickly switch if a nearby lane starts moving. They can't see whether their own lane is also clearing up ahead, and most people won't take any chances.