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j1mmie··on Show HN: Convert your LinkedIn profile to a resume
It froze for me. Stuck on this screen: https://imgur.com/a/CH30zoK
j1mmie··on Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI
For years I've wondered why a general purpose, high quality, good UX, browser based DB browser has not existed. I've implemented 3 such (not general-purpose) browsers in my career. But I'd be really happy to stop doing that and use this instead.

I would love to see a Firestore driver implemented (maybe I'll take a crack at it some day), as I'm stuck in GCP land for the time being.

j1mmie··on QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image
I'm interested in building a Unity game for Raspberry Pi 4. Does QNX have good graphics support for RPi currently?
j1mmie··on Hacking 700M Electronic Arts accounts

    So, like any sane person would, I overnighted an Xbox, installed Battlefield 2042, and waited for the moment of truth...
     
    I was in!
I love hackers <3
j1mmie··on All political ads running on Google in the US
In the age of information warfare, ads are a weapon and Google is the modern day Colt. If you sell guns to the North, the South needs more guns from you. If you sell to the criminals, the cops need more guns from you.

Not sure what this is called but it's definitely not "don't be evil"

j1mmie··on Show HN: A Website for Comparing Protein Powder Prices
Doesn't include Form protein (https://formnutrition.com/), which has the added benefit of not coming in a plastic container.
j1mmie··on Workers Uncover Underground Chamber Sealed for over a Century Near National Mall
Dan Brown about to write an entire book about this
j1mmie··on Jerk
There was a game called Specter Spelunker Shrinks that required arbitrary shrinking and growing. It's more of a prototype than a full game, but I could imagine this exact mechanic working in a more fleshed out setting.

A cool thing about the game is that time also scales with size. So the challenge provided by moving objects also scales with the character's size (sometimes beneficially, sometimes not).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ65SWBb1Kg

j1mmie··on Show HN: I created a Next.js CLI to ship code like a hacker
chuckled at "100% Secure - The CLI is listed on the npm registry"
j1mmie··on Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
I'm really impressed at its ability to output pixel art sprites. Maybe the best general-purpose model I've seen capable of that. In many cases its better than purpose-built models.
j1mmie··on HTML Tags Memory Test
<dfn> - I was going insane trying to remember that one! I tried <def>, <definition>, <define>...
j1mmie··on HTML Tags Memory Test
61! Pretty proud of that
j1mmie··on Software galaxies
Saw an odd little cluster in distance of the NPM galaxy and decided to explore more: https://i.imgur.com/PIXKU1A.png

It's strongcanary-a through strongcanary-z, and more.

They're packages designed to test strongly-connected components in a dependency graph.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/strongcanary-a

Looks like this tool passes the test! Cool that it was so identifiable from a distance

j1mmie··on The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes
This also fits well with the theory that lack of deep sleep increases the risk of alzheimers and dementia:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/not-getting-enough...

j1mmie··on The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes
> during sleep, slow electrical waves push the fluid around cells from deep in the brain to its surface.

Is that what dreams are? Electrical waves and fluid knocking on our brain cells?

j1mmie··on Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life
Took a while to find the image resolution - 2304 x 1296 pixels. Or, 3 megapixels.

I love the website and the product's design. But I'm not sure what the use case is. Spy cam?

j1mmie··on Destruction of nuclear bombs using ultra-high energy neutrino beam (2003) [pdf]
This is actually a great plot for a supervillain in a movie. Simultaneously detonate all nuclear weapons on Earth, albeit at 3% of it's power. That would seriously fuck us up.
j1mmie··on Turbo Pascal Turns 40
Pedro Pascal is 8 years older
j1mmie··on The weirdest bug I've seen yet
I wonder what version of Chromium they used. If it was a nightly, it could be weeks before the fix makes it into Chrome. They might've tested at a time when latest Chrome had the bug and Chromium didn't.
j1mmie··on The weirdest bug I've seen yet
What an interesting conflux of tech to create this bug. That's the web in 2023. I would love to know if it was a Chromium bug that got resolved, but navigating this is tough: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?can=1&q=gif...

Also, I am fully here for Gusto posting this to say "wasn't our fault" and to throw some shade at Grammarly in the process

j1mmie··on The Ingenious Cardboard Bed
And once you eat it, they can stuff you in the very coffin-shaped bed/box you lay on, and bury you in an eco-friendly grave.
j1mmie··on Unity plan pricing and packaging updates
I will move as soon as possible. Unfortunately I've got a two-year old project I'm about to launch. Can't rewrite it now. This is really not great
j1mmie··on Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die?
Not sure how accurate this is, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqxeLodyyqA

Visual Basic's popularity peaks in late 2001. Exactly when VB .NET was launched. Then it drops like a rock. In my memory, .NET overcomplicated VB and yet still felt like a kids toy.

j1mmie··on macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
What great way to do reconnaissance about your own machine so that the hackers don't have to!
j1mmie··on Show HN: Shaq, a CLI for Shazam
I have needed this so many times in my life! I usually run a virtual audio device router like Loopback or Soundflower or Background Music. It's so janky.