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It’s not hard for a visual model to score the quality of that output though, which would be a pretty good fitness function.

This is impressively full-featured for a new app. I tried it out for some route-planning and tracking a hike and kept finding the features I was looking for. Can you share anything about your development approach?

I tested it out for route planning and it seems very nice. I’ll be following along!

Feedback:

- Bug report: on my phone, the “measure distance” tool sets the marker far away from the crosshairs, about halfway to the top of the screen. This makes it impossible to set the first point accurately. - bug report: in an area near me, the base map contains two separate overlapping (slightly differing) sets of contour lines. - feature request: when planning a route, it would be big to be able to drag the route anchors and add/remove anchors, rather than just removing the latest anchor.

Thanks for this app!

Yes. Even standing outside a straight-through tunnel, you can get some echo back to you off the walls.

It’s still there, but the builder is only in the web UI.

I’ve been working on a homemade CPU (in simulator) and I’m in the middle of implementing an ISA and assembler as a bug step up from working in machine code to working in assembly. I’ve been looking at Forth as a good option for a next-level-up language which is relatively easy to implement and easy to script with.

Look into keyboard macro programs for a much easier way to do this. I use Espanso and have it set up to paste the time anywhere I type `;tm`.

Representative line from a previous post:

> You probably don’t remember from a post almost two years ago, but I already implemented generation of temperature, wind and precipitation patterns, and inferred the local climate from those. That was still in C# on a spherical world though, so I dutifully started porting it all to Rust on a flat world.

I absolutely loved FrozenFractal’s Around the World hackathon pixel art game. It has really good gameplay and I find it pretty satisfying and absorbing for such a simple game.

I’ve been enjoying the blog posts about development of the larger Around the World; but it seems like the absolute opposite of a hackathon project. And that’s okay. But based on the pace of development it seems like there’s still plenty of time to wait for something playable.

But aren’t toasts fundamentally different by being intentionally designed not to block your work?

How can this be true? If my parents and spouse and friends were all hairdressers, I definitely would never pay for a haircut.

Still a supported feature! You can find it if you dig around in the menus long enough.

This would work! QR codes would be even more opaque.

Their status updates look clearly like AI-generated blurbs saying the same thing with varied phrasing, hour after hour. Thanks for the slop? I know writing status page updates is annoying, but “a human is paying attention to this” is the specific thing that status updates are trying to convey, so trying to get info from this page felt dispiriting today.

Edit: this would also explain why some details of the updates were nonsensical.

A “fifth” of alcohol is a 750ml bottle (about a fifth of a gallon). So someone drinking a fifth is drinking more like 15 shots.

> are people not taught this in school?

I agree about standardization, but I think this framing comes off as lacking empathy. Plenty of folks either

- Avoided the topic in school or put all their effort into other subjects

- Didn’t learn this in school—there are a wide variety of education systems across all the decades and distances that folks on this site may have grown up in

- Learned this in school, but a lifetime ago, and haven’t had a reason to revisit it. At a certain distance, your life experience and work experience massively overshadow what you learned in school.

Forgive the inference, but based on your recall of specific grading policies I would guess that your time in school is still near to you, or at least very important. It’s not that way for everyone.

(I am of course doggedly accurate with my unit abbreviations.)

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This seems like a rather large claim that would benefit from some kind of supporting argument.

Those execs sound like terrible communicators. It’s hard for me to imagine a colleague acting this way in real life.

Agreed entirely. The substitution in the article didn’t cause much inconvenience to the readers, even if it was new to them (it was new to me). But people sure seem to have an appetite for complaining about it rather than the substance of the article.

I recently got into it with my son. I bought an arena starter kit from Amazon and it came with two 60-card decks, which seemed to work pretty well in play against each other. I bought another one long – same result. No focus on the commander format at all. I would suggest that route.

Isn’t that the point of the parking requirement? If you don’t have room for enough parking to support the Thing, then you don’t have room to add the Thing to the neighborhood. Seems like the intended outcome.

> what happens when your senior engineers retire and there are no replacements prepared because it's more efficient to hire foreign senior engineers rather than onboarding and training a college grad

This assumes that the overseas engineers aren’t senior or reliable? I (in the US) work with a lot of talented and dedicated overseas folks who keep me on my toes. Some of them are founding or staff level engineers of our SF-based startup.

But: we are KNOWN to be undergoing one right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction?wprov=sfti...

And having a stranger along for the shopping trip doesn't affect the timing more than the extra walk to the back of the store?

And the engineer is sitting in the car on the first night and it "wouldn't start," which signals the end of the episode for the day. Were they stranded? Did the car start after a few tries, which would have given a huge hint about the root cause? Surely the engineer who had reproduced the issue would quickly narrow it down by running diagnoses on the car itself.

But the family dynamics are the most improbable part here. How does the family have this predictable routine and not simply stock up on ice cream? The family has enough kids that the consume a whole $unit of ice cream per day. So with that much chaos in the house, how does the dad justify going out for a drive after dinner when the chaos of family multi-tasking (cleanup, chores, homework, bedtime) is at its peak? "Oh, look. Out of ice cream again. I'll be back in a few!"

Not what regex is good at, though.

I actually often skip this step with real cards. If a joker comes up, toss it and replace it from the deck.

I tried setting up a game of solitaire (on desktop with a mouse) and it got tedious really fast. What I wished for right away was:

- Ability to drag a selection region and move multiple cards together (like, say, the deck) - Ability to align cards to each other (I found myself testing modifier keys while dragging to see if this was a hidden feature, but alas.)

This is an unfair debate tactic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Agreed. Back when I was wringing the maximum utility out of every dollar, an iPod Touch alongside a feature phone provided a whole lot of usefulness for a few years, even with no mobile connection.

I dunno, I took an IQ test for a job application in 2016.

> No AI will ever host a breakout session at an offsite to discuss strategy for getting people to work in the horrific hotel seating dehumanized office

Well, let’s hope not.