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monroewalker··on Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website
Can we have Arc added to the title of the post to better alert people who use or know people who use the browser?
monroewalker··on Ask HN: What daily puzzles do you play?
huh, Rogule was pretty quick to finish
monroewalker··on Ask HN: What daily puzzles do you play?
Thanks for sharing! Might start playing Weaver. Squaredle I think is just too tedious lol. Travle would be nice to be good at. Waffle I stopped enjoying after figuring it out
monroewalker··on What happens in a mind that can't 'see' mental images
Huh.. what specifically do you take?
monroewalker··on Ask HN: Where do you keep your 401k investments?
Which funds though?
monroewalker··on Ask HN: Where do you keep your 401k investments?
I'm sure you're already aware of the general consensus around how speculative cryptocurrency and meme stocks are but it's worth repeating that this is a very dubious approach. On GME specifically, this is a good documentary to watch: https://youtu.be/5pYeoZaoWrA?si=OuRp-NxyiYR8XmA0

I think it's worth it for you to consider reducing your allocation to these even if you have strong conviction in their long term success. If you do 25% GME/crypto and 75% index funds (or target retirement) then you're still going to be doing extremely well if these assets take off as hoped for but you'll be much better off in the alternative and less surprising scenario where they don't

monroewalker··on Ask HN: Where do you keep your 401k investments?
What fees does betterment have if any? What allocations have you opted for?
monroewalker··on Ask HN: Where do you get your electrolytes?
Thanks, I'll take a look. Any particular reason for these two? Just taste?
monroewalker··on Ask HN: What's the weirdest bug you ever had?
I love these kind of bugs that are due to physical environment factors that are typically invisible to us when thinking about software/hardware. Reminds me of that issue where someone's car wouldn't if they got vanilla ice cream but but any other flavor. Turned out it was because that flavor took longest to serve (or quickest). https://www.managementpro.com/my-car-wont-start-after-i-buy-...
monroewalker··on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
> One thing these trained voices make clear is that it's a tts engine generating ChatGPT-4o's speech, same as before.

I'm not familiar with the specifics of how AI models work but doesn't the ability from some of the demos rule out what you've said above? Eg. The speeding up and slowing down speech and the sarcasm don't seem possible if TTS was a separate component

monroewalker··on Show HN: AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body
This is cool and all but I can't help but wonder if it'd be even cooler to instead show the beta for climbing out of the negativity found in the comments here. /s

But really though, awesome project and congrats on getting it to this point! I'm excited for the day when something like this can be used to critique form

monroewalker··on Two nights of broken sleep can make people feel years older, finds study
Yes
monroewalker··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
Looks really well done! What did you build it with?
monroewalker··on Keypirinha: A fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows
Alfred has a lot of features. What specifically do you use that you miss not having on Windows?

Personally the clipboard history and universal actions are far and away the things I'd be most pained to lose. Curious what the biggest features are for other people though

monroewalker··on Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)
This must have taken serious effort, congrats! Lots of those features seem like huge time sinks

Btw at a glance, this looks pretty similar to Microsoft Loop which just came out. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-loop

monroewalker··on Ask HN: What is your most wanted HN feature?
- reply notifications

- some good way of exploring the comments on a popular post. When a post has hundreds or thousands of comments, there's often interesting and worthwhile comments and discussions. But there are also a lot of the same takes repeated numerous times and long running less interesting tangential discussions.

monroewalker··on Fsearch, a fast file search utility for Unix-like systems
How does a program like this work? Is it indexing every file on the system and monitoring all events for updates?
monroewalker··on Show HN: Play Othello in your web browser (made with Mithril)
Used to be? Did they start using something else?
monroewalker··on Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
The idea sounds really cool! You should add some screenshots to the repo to give a sense of what it looks like in action :)
monroewalker··on Ask HN: Why did Python win?
I often hear this kind of praise for Ruby but have never really dug into it myself. Does anyone have any links to pages that do a good job of covering some of the main selling points of Ruby in terms of syntax, features, ecosystem, etc.?
monroewalker··on Ask HN: Fed up with Evernote; what are your recommendations?
I've been using Notion.so for a couple years now and am mostly really happy with it. Easy to collaborate with others and access everything from any device. Have had annoying issues logging in on Android though.

If I wanted more control over my data, the next thing I'd try is obsidian

monroewalker··on JavaScript macros in Bun
Second this. I've tried Bun a couple times and have been surprised by how fast it actually is but also run into issues getting it to work with existing libraries. Issues that make it seem like it's almost there but just not quite able to replace node yet in most cases.

It's surprising to see effort spent coming up with and developing niche new features rather than on bridging the gaps (within reason) with node.

I've never worked on a language project like this before though so I'm not in a place to cast any judgement, just echoing the sentiment that this seems strange from the outside. Maybe this is just what it takes to keep the project interesting for Jarred? I can relate to getting bored with a project once I've proved out the difficult parts and most of what remains just feels like chores

monroewalker··on Ask HN: How to build a plug-in system with Python for a desktop app?
I've thought about going the json route but the messages don't need to be human readable so it'd just be wasted overhead
monroewalker··on Ask HN: How to build a plug-in system with Python for a desktop app?
So far bundling the dependencies seems best since it's the easiest and I can live with the redundant space usage / extra size. Using poetry, `poetry build` will build a wheel for the plugin. Then `pip install path/to/wheel.whl --target /path/to/some/folder` to create a folder that has the plugin with all its dependencies. After zipping that and moving it to another machine, `PYTHONPATH=some/dir python3 some/dir/myapp/__init__.py` works to run the plugin.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26059111/build-a-wheel-e...

monroewalker··on Ask HN: How to build a plug-in system with Python for a desktop app?
heh.. I also have a conversation going with ChatGPT but this is still helpful. Thank you!
monroewalker··on Show HN: Slint – A declarative UI toolkit for embedded and desktop
Yes but just over stdin/stdout since I'm creating the backend as a subprocess. Not sure if it makes more sense to have the backend be the parent and the flutter app be the subprocess but this is working so far.
monroewalker··on Show HN: Slint – A declarative UI toolkit for embedded and desktop
Protoc actually generates "writeDelimitedMessage" and "readDelimitedMessage" functions for each type. The only thing I needed to add was some buffering on the Dart side to ensure the full message was available. The Go side was able to read the stream and block until input became available
monroewalker··on Show HN: Slint – A declarative UI toolkit for embedded and desktop
I'm looking at something similar with Go as the backend. Why gRPC instead of a pipe? I started with that as well since it was really easy to set up but that comes with the caveat of requiring network permissions even though it's local to local communication.
monroewalker··on Is it common for Java devs to wait 30s+ for a recompile after making any change?
What setup do you have that it's "instant"? I put a decent amount of effort into reducing my apps startup time for local development but it's still on the order of 3-10s
monroewalker··on Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
What is the editor built off of? Prosemirror?
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