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nsriv··on Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
The calculator results page gave me a good dark laugh, thanks for making it! Good writing!
nsriv··on Storing Files in Chess Games
Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUtafoC4-7k
nsriv··on Routed Gothic Font
This is such a beautiful story, thanks for sharing!
nsriv··on "Everything" is a filename search engine for Windows
I was typing out a comment about how integrating Everything with PowerToys Run would be amazing. Thank you for sharing this!
nsriv··on Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid
I had no idea this was a thing that could happen, I thought (naively, I suppose) that all they'd get would be the equivalent of a meter reading with a suggestion to limit load at certain hours.
nsriv··on A camera that shoots 40k FPS decided the 100-meter sprint final
The rule is that the winner is the first person whose torso, defined as trunk of the body, reaches the closest edge of the finish line. In practical terms that means shoulder line when leaning forward, as is evident by image in the article.
nsriv··on Show HN: Rust GUI Library via Flutter
Do you mean in Flutter generally? I'd say it's very good, easy to build in on widget by widget basis, very easy to check and rest when running builds.
nsriv··on NASA inspector general gives damning assessment of Boeing's quality control
In an indirect way sure, slashing QA budgets is an effect of corruption, but it's also the more productive thing to criticize in this specific instance. I share your sentiment generally.
nsriv··on Inkbase: Programmable Ink (2022)
It has been a while, but I've used Notability for teaching purposes over the pandemic. I can't recall why, but there was an exodus from Notability to Goodnotes at some point, so you may already have insight into the two.
nsriv··on I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century
This is incredible work!
nsriv··on The Objects of Our Life (1983)
I looked very superficially and found this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=275FQ9koAw8
nsriv··on Can you inherit memories from your ancestors?
Exactly this. My response is usually just asking if they believe in compounding interest. It's the same concept, but with those farther up the curve justifying themselves.
nsriv··on Framework Laptop 13 Deep Dive - Creating a custom high-resolution display
Is this in USD? I'm seeing $269
nsriv··on Framework Laptop 13 Deep Dive - Creating a custom high-resolution display
This sounds like such a cool project! Are you documenting it anywhere?
nsriv··on California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days
I've used this and compared to friends who have installed solar, and it's been roughly accurate to +/- $1500 or so.

https://sunroof.withgoogle.com/

nsriv··on Show HN: Free AI-Powered Resume and Cover Letter Maker
I've felt this exact sense of dread since Gmail's auto-suggest for emails.
nsriv··on U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades
I'm a teacher now, and this made me wince. It's exactly how I've been told by my parents that seating worked for them in school (India, 60s-80s) but their grading was done by semi-anonymous roll numbers.
nsriv··on U.S. students will take the SAT online
Anybody that's taken a proctored online exam in high schools knows that this is absolutely not about efficiency. With universities rolling back test-optional pandemic policies, the College Board is likely to raise the price of exams and drive down the cost of administering them by gutting support. I'd predict more frequent exam dates once people have absorbed the price increase. Driving that velocity requires online administration.
nsriv··on Show HN: Astro App
The very next screen after the modal allows you to change your location or use device location, upon which the Chrome permissions modal fires.
nsriv··on Why do military personnel wear watches upside down?
One of my favorite ever watches. Waiting on a Pixel Watch to try my hand at making a custom tilted watchface like this just to learn how.
nsriv··on Show HN: Nomad Hypertext, a local first writing app built around semantic search
I really like this concept, echoing what others have said. I'm an avid user of Pocket and tagging is wonderful, but auto-tagging and periodic surfacing is something I've wanted forever. Doing it at the note/db level is awesome
nsriv··on Notion Calendar
Todoist finally getting around to it as well.
nsriv··on Notion Calendar
Was really interested in this at the time of Cron's acquisition, hoping it would mean Cron would be cross-platform (specifically on Android). 18 months for ecosystem integration and a rebrand and no platform expansion.
nsriv··on Notesnook – open-source and zero knowledge private note taking app
This looks amazing, but I'm desperate for a cross platform (Android & PC/web) version of Noteplan3.
nsriv··on Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip
So you made an account to leave this needlessly aggressive comment?
nsriv··on Apple's Trademark Exploit
What a perfectly zealous response to that opinion, seems to have touched a nerve lol
nsriv··on Pixel 8 Pro
This was my first thought as well. Curious to see if it functions similarly or within a certain tolerance of one of those much more expensive FLIR temp gauges you see laptop reviewers use. MKBHD video showed that it asks for 5cm distance from object being measured and for you to tap to select type of material, which notably excludes skin temp.
nsriv··on Pixel 8 Pro
The Pro gives you access to full res RAW images from each sensor which are all 48mp (on the Pro, not sure about regular), not accounting for digital crops, which are 12mp center binned.

As a sidebar, you're all over this thread with negatively framed and inaccurate musings on features, so I'd recommend you give the product page or critical reviews a more serious look rather than letting other people do the work for you by correcting.

nsriv··on Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates
The value judgment of "not worth it" is relative to perceived improvement in getting a new phone, but for many people the judgment is "can I get a new phone for $69?" Outside of carrier subsidies in the US, that's still not possible.
nsriv··on Tell HN: JPMorgan Chase forcing arbitration agreement to log in
Highly recommend organizing people that are similarly alarmed or affected into filing complaints with the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/
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