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comradesmith··on Show HN: Do you know RGB?
18/20, first try :)
comradesmith··on A critical look at MCP
What’s the problem? Can you point out a specific thing you would change from that quote?
comradesmith··on On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots
What’s worse, being forgotten long after you die, or forgetting yourself during your own lifetime?
comradesmith··on On loyalty to your employer (2018)
I have rent and calorie upkeep costs
comradesmith··on Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace
We’ve invented the worlds dodgiest decompression algorithms
comradesmith··on Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond
It would be done stepwise.

When the Dutch florin was introduced there would have been an agreed (or imposed) exchange rate. Looks like that was 1:1.

Later when the Euro was adopted there was an exchange rate for that too.

To get to USD use the floating exchange rate of the open market.

comradesmith··on The era of open voice assistants
Open source
comradesmith··on A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
You can disable the speaker physically, it’s not too difficult
comradesmith··on A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
Not all AirTags exist within the US :)
comradesmith··on Conversations are better with four people
What are some concrete tips?

Sometimes I ask people about their internal monologue, can they change its perceived voice? Do they even have one? That often sparks some interesting conversations.

comradesmith··on Is the 80 character line limit still relevant? (2008)
I think 110 is a nice spot. You can still split screen but also fit a lot of content on one line
comradesmith··on What the heck is going on with WordPress?
The way this is written is so indirect that as someone not involved with Wordpress I read this whole article and still don’t know what it’s about
comradesmith··on GitHub taught me to micromanage
It’s an article about communication styles and how they differ between open source software development and the corporate world.

And quite an interesting article at that!

comradesmith··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
Before I swapped to iPhone I was churning through phones and money at a faster rate. They’re expensive but really do last well
comradesmith··on Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa
Here’s a practical solution based on this:

Take your kilometres e.g 60, divide by 5 -> 12, now times that by 3 -> 36.

Take your miles e.g 80, divide by 5 -> 16, times 8 -> 80 + 48 -> 128

So any conversion reasonable conversion can be done in your head with your 3, 5, and 8 times tables

comradesmith··on OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews
https://tactiq.io is made for meetings, but also does uploaded transcripts and supports Japanese!
comradesmith··on Discord vs. IRC Rough Notes
I also used discord.rb, maybe it’s “not active” cause it’s not broken ;)
comradesmith··on The the the the induction of jamais vu: word alienation and semantic satiation
I don’t think that’s the same at all. Nobody could ever actually understand that sentence without breaking it down.

Semantic satiation can come up when you’re having a conversation and use the same word often enough (not necessarily back to back) that it feels like that word is wrong, or doesn’t mean anything. You start to pay attention to the sound of the word instead of the meaning.

comradesmith··on Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop (2021)
I don’t think it’s fair to say integer division is an error, it’s more so a lack of an abstraction of “number” over floats and ints.
comradesmith··on Guess my RGB
#8855aa
comradesmith··on Open Policy Agent
Unless “instance” means something different in this context? Policy?
comradesmith··on It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]
Do you like OLED displays?
comradesmith··on GPT-3.5 crashes when it thinks about useRalativeImagePath too much
I also thought my eyes were doing something strange and it made it harder to read too.
comradesmith··on Beeper – Moving Forward
So Apple changed the locks on their front door, what’s the big deal?
comradesmith··on Beeper – Moving Forward
It’s apple’s own private system and infrastructure and they’re within their rights to control content delivered using that system. It’s not free for them to operate.

I have seen lots of comments like “well we need some kind of solution to this problem, whether it’s Apple launching an android app or a 3rd party”, and to be honest with you, I don’t even understand the problem. Maybe it’s cause I’m not from the US and can’t wrap my head around the social implications of message bubble hues?

comradesmith··on NetworkX – Network Analysis in Python
yeah I will admit I was conflicted in posting this, but I see a few instances of posts like this, and it was very useful for a recent project. I was really fishing for alternatives though :)
comradesmith··on Towards accurate differential diagnosis with large language models
Not hard to strap GPT voice to a phone line, and provide it with some information of local labs and their contact information.

Also you said the office doesn’t have an electronic link but your example workflow includes the phone ;)

comradesmith··on New study confirms: Many adults opt for child-free life without regret
I think the point is more about demographic crises.
comradesmith··on Toyota adopts the North American charging standard
I think it’s because they know there isn’t enough lithium supply for 100% of their sales to be electric. They’ve also stated that many consumers can’t afford fully electric vehicles.

If they get something working with iron based batteries and have a path to fully electricity their sales then the world is a better place. Their sales volume is immense.

comradesmith··on Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics
Aren’t a lot of the tailpipe emissions gaseous? Like carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and water?
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