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PacificSpecific

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Programmer and technical artist
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PacificSpecific··on Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"
I'm not but thanks for the tip and thank you for being classy about this.
PacificSpecific··on Why is Claude an Electron app?
That was only 1/3 of the electron applications which you hyper fixated on. If I use 10 applications a day and the 3 of them I (and countless other people) consistently have a problem with share something in common. Well, I'll let you figured that one out on your own.

I just saw your other posts in this thread though.

PacificSpecific··on Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron
I understand now and thank you for explaining the issues to me.

Good luck on your project!

PacificSpecific··on Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron
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As an aside. What were the CJK IME issues you resolved? Was it related to win32 emacs IME issues?

PacificSpecific··on A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong
I don't understand why you appear to be downvoted for this (your comment is faded at the time I'm reading this). It sounds like a perfectly reasonable take.

I've certainly inherited and also caused these problems in my younger years.

PacificSpecific··on Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"
Convineince really. I was hoping the feature existed already but you make a point. That could be a fun quick experiment.
PacificSpecific··on How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
If you wouldn't mind sharing more about this in the future I'd love to read about it.

I've been thinking about doing something like that myself because I'm one of those people who have tried countless apps but there's always a couple deal breakers that cause me to drop the app.

I figured trying to agentically develop a planner app with the exact feature set I need would be an interesting and fun experiment.

PacificSpecific··on Why is Claude an Electron app?
Discord could have been a lack of resources as I previously said. They weren't a billion dollar company when the application was conceived.

Regardless the only thing keeping those millions of people at this point is lock-in. Even then people are actively looking for ways to move away from it. I'm witnessing the migration now and am looking forward to the day I don't have to hard restart the client 2-3 times a day.

PacificSpecific··on Japanese Woodblock Print Search
Ah I should have posted the link. Glad you were able to find it and thanks for digging it up!
PacificSpecific··on Why is Claude an Electron app?
I've used 3/5 of those programs significantly and have issues with all of them relating to software quality. Especially discord. So bad I have 4 different servers actively trying alternatives.

When discord and slack started the company was not large so it definitely could have been a lack of resources. Could also have been a bad design choice.

I'm not alone on that either at all. This is a pretty common opinion.

Claude had a chance to really show something special here and they blew it.

PacificSpecific··on Japanese Woodblock Print Search
Wow 2 ukiyo-e threads in 24 hours. This is really cool.

I posted that there was a museum in kurashiki in the other thread but neglected to post a link. For anyone interested here it is https://ukiyo-e-kurashiki.jp/?lang=en

PacificSpecific··on Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games
Love the old school steam inspired ui.

First game I noticed was deadlock which technically isn't even released yet. That's fine though. Deadlock is a game that is really good to play with a fixed group. So I'd say this site is good for even more than dead games.

Nice work!

PacificSpecific··on Why is Claude an Electron app?
I disagree. It's often chosen due to lack of resources to make native applications.

If it really is a design choice then it's a bad decision imo.

PacificSpecific··on Why is Claude an Electron app?
There's other ways to make cross platforms apps than to build them on top of a web browser
PacificSpecific··on The Rediscovery of 103 Hokusai Lost Sketches (2021)
If anyone is ever in kurashiki. There is a great museum featuring Hokusai and everyone involved in ukiyo-e
PacificSpecific··on Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"
That's per-post though isn't? I can't ban a submission source can I?

Regardless thanks for the tip

PacificSpecific··on Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"
Yeah it's really quite annoying. Is there a way to just block his site source from showing up on here without using external tools?
PacificSpecific··on I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
Ah I see that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.
PacificSpecific··on I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
I wonder what mongo and snowflake are doing with that data. The table is a little vague.

I was under the impression they just make database products. Do they have a side hustle involving collecting this type of data?

PacificSpecific··on I hate AI side projects
That's how I do it too. I haven't checked (and can't right now as I'm not at work) but does codex not have a feature that lets you download your codex chat logs? I would certainly hope so...
PacificSpecific··on Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality
I'm with you. The way I deal with insomnia is to pretend I'm sleeping in a noisy environment. For example an apartment under a elevator highway or a cot behind a bunch of refrigerators. Or even in a tent on a lively beach.

Don't know why but it works great.

PacificSpecific··on Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI
That's what we do in games too. If you know the scope of your project and how to avoid dynamic allocation it's fine.
PacificSpecific··on Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation
Wait until you try a good train system. It's sublime.
PacificSpecific··on Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine
Most definitely.

Less popular opinion : the ps vita was also one of the greatest despite Sony's horrid support and faith in the product.

PacificSpecific··on Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in
Same for me and most people I work with in Vancouver as well.

These days I'm finding people are very much against relocating to the USA more than 4-5 years ago.

PacificSpecific··on Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
Can you share the link to elons app?
PacificSpecific··on Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in
Isn't slack and Flickr Canadian?
PacificSpecific··on Maze Algorithms (2017)
Ah fair enough! Will give it another go from my desktop tomorrow.
PacificSpecific··on Maze Algorithms (2017)
Hey thanks for sharing. I gave it a try but ran into some issues.

Is this intended to be able to be used on a phone? I saw the instructions about guiding a yellow ball but what I experienced was about 10 seconds of chiptune music with a maze that had some icons I couldn't interact with.

After the 10 seconds a series of green spheres and vertical lines washed across the screen but I wasn't able to control them.

I'm using the duck duck go browser on Android if that helps.

PacificSpecific··on The world of Japanese snack bars
Love these places. My wife's best friends husband owns one in Osaka and it's always a great time when we go. I find conversation is a lot easier in places with an 8 seat max.

I wish we had stuff like this in Vancouver.

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