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pragmatickon Iconhunt: Search 150k free and open source icons

I searched for "mute" on both but on yours I only find sets but not specific mute icons?

pragmatickon High Res Image of the Balloon [Tweet]

So the pilot had a phone in the plane and made a selfie? Or is it just one of the many cameras in the plane and they decided to release just this one because it looks cool (and probably doesn't give away too much of the plane's capabilities)?

pragmatickon Show HN: Graph-based AI for longform writing

I think this would benefit from an example. When I open the page for the first time I'd like to see the option not to just see the instructions on how to achieve something but also to see what I can achieve with it.

pragmatickon Cut the Cutesy Errors

In my previous job any humor or "humor" in the code was forbidden as it was audited by our customers. At first I thought it was stupid but after a while I was thankful not to have to read the same tired jokes all the time.

pragmatickon Ask HN: Why is it so difficult to find quality Windows apps?

Have been happy with ShareX for years. Basically everything you could want is covered and it's updated very often.

pragmatickon OpenTTD 13.0 Released

I tried it because I loved the original and remember playing it for hours (and keeping the low difficulty game run over night to get a lot of money).

I think the controls haven't aged very well. Compared to modern games laying tracks is so damn complicated. I get that you can build complex layouts without the "helping game" get in your way but I just couldn't get into it anymore.

pragmatickon Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records

Not sure if I agree with the rest but I love the scale.

pragmatickon I Added GitHub Copilot to My Toolbelt

It keeps suggesting code that doesn't work, like when I call three different setters it will suggest a setter that looks like it might fit but when I complete the suggestion it's a setter that doesn't exist. I find it very distracting and so far am unimpressed.

pragmatickon LastPass breach gets worse

The new addon for Firefox doesn't just work but instead is unable to match the current URL to entries. You have to switch off the "Advanced autofill" which is automatically turned on nearly every day. The android autofill doesn't "just work" but that may Android's fault.

pragmatickon GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal

The german antitrust agency recently started an investigation into PayPal because they forbid businesses to offer lower prices to customers which use a different paying method. If they succeed pressure on PayPal might increase if you pay 2% or so less for using a bank payment.

pragmatickon Kodezi - Autocorrect for Programmers

I've tried Copilot the last week and am severely underwhelmed. Many of suggestions don't make any sense and it takes me more time to analyze and disregard the wrong ones than it saves me time. Most egregious though is that it suggests invalid code, i.e. code that can't be compiled. For example it suggests a setter that doesn't exist. I don't know if I'm using it wrong but right now it's not even worth the free trial for me.

I'm not sure if Kodezi is any better. But the page as so often doesn't provide me with enough information without having to sign up and try it myself. Wanna know what "Debug bugs" actually looks like? Sure, watch this short styled up video which actually doesn't show anything.

I found some information in the doscs https://docs.kodezi.com/feature-guides/debugging but that's a manual, not a proper feature presentation.

pragmatickon Ask HN: Do you prefer Powershell?

Disclaimer: I'm inexperienced with bash and powershell.

I just converted a bash script to a powershell script. Some things are a lot easier (like writing errors or info messages in different colors). But I had a lot of problems getting the exit codes from maven calls to determine the exit result. Checking for 0 in shell works fine all the time, in powershell checking $LASTERRORCODE works sometimes but not always. I'm using try catch now but it's a bit of a hassle (which is ironic, comic from a java developer).

pragmatickon Please don’t film me in 2023

It doesn't matter if it's your door, it matters if it records public space.

pragmatickon Spotifyd

I use neither tidal nor linux but that is a really cool project!

pragmatickon YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos

As funny as that landing page is I would like to see at least some information on the stack.

pragmatickon Enhance Speech from Adobe – Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio

They should've added english subtitles by now.

pragmatickon The Making of Dune II: The birth of the real-time strategy game

Knowing that a game isn't fun (or good) does not mean that you know how to fix it. Or that you have the budget left to fix it.

You can tell a book isn't fun but you may not know how to make it better.

Or the game may just go in a different direction that you originally planned. I've read about authors complaining that their characters didn't develop how they initially wanted and you may think "How is that possible?" but the same can happen with games (or software or any product you design).

pragmatickon Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool

Looks great. Are there any more advanced example projects?

pragmatickon Show HN: Custom Keylabels for Your Custom Keyboard Layouts

I don't think I'd trust myself to properly align them on my keys.

pragmatickon Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub

https://gitlab.com/dependabot-gitlab/dependabot

Haven't tried it yet, though.

pragmatickon Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?

That also means that you cannot mute other members. When I'm in a meeting in my office and a colleague sitting next to me is in the same meeting, I can hear them twice, once in real life and once in teams, a couple of hundred seconds later.

pragmatickon Scala isn't fun anymore

> They know a thing or two about what developers like and appreciate in their products.

Hah, I wish that was true. Looking at the last releases and the new UI which is about to come I highly doubt that is true. Although adding flashy new features instead of fixing bugs in a "visual" IDE is different than developing a programming language.

pragmatickon Show HN: I made an app to create Spotify playlists from music festival posters

Only with Party Cannon

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/...

pragmatickon I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

But the point here is exactly that they don't need to create it, they just need to judge it. They make the AI create the logo and then decide if they like it.

I understand your argument but I don't think that's the problem - the problem is that even most users don't understand what a good logo looks like (even if they like them) the same as users don't know what they want. It's a known fact that you shouldn't ask users of a software how it should be designed because if you'd let them design a software they want it would be shit.

pragmatickon Double Commander

Would be interesting to know what these "new ideas in file management" are that TC does not have.

pragmatickon The Dynamics of Music Exploration on Spotify

My experience is completely different. The weekly dynamic playlists are very poor (either completely the wrong genre or songs I regularly listen to in the case of the monday playlist). The daily playlists regularly play the same songs by an artist. It seems to me that spotify only uses the top 2 or 3 songs and nothing else. I'd say that of a specific genre it will play 40 to 50 songs and then repeat them.

pragmatickon The first car ad shows what changed, what hasn’t

Original german:

  Ausgestellt in der Kraft- und Arbeitsmaschinenausstellung in München
  Seit dem 12. September 1888
  Die Münchener Blätter schreiben über diesen Wagen:
  In der Kraft- und Arbeitsmaschinenausstellung finden seit gestern mehrere kurze Probefahrten mit dem patentierten Motorwagen der Firma Benz & Co. in Mannheim statt. Der Wagen ist eine viersitzige komfortable Kalsche mit umlegbarem Regendach und ruht auf drei Rädern, deren vorderes durch eine äußerst einfache Vorrichtugn, ähnlich wie bei den Tricycles gesteuert werden kann. Hinter dem Rücksitz im Wagenkasten ist ein kleiner zierlich gearbeiteter Benzinmontor angebracht, der mit den Hinterräden in Verbindung steht. Durch einen Druck auf einen unter der Steuervorrichtung angebrachten Hebel setzt sich der Wagen in Bewegung. Derselbe kann auf verhältnismäßig kleiner Fläche umkehren und sofort zum Stehen gebracht werden. Seine größte Fahrschnelligkeit ist die eines in scharfem Trabe fahrenden Fuhrwerkes.

Translated via DeepL (which is impressive, by the way):

  Exhibited in the power and work machinery exhibition in Munich
  Since September 12, 1888
  The Münchener Blätter (papers) write about this car:
  At the Motor and Working Machines Exhibition, several short test drives have been taking place since yesterday with the patented motor carriage of Benz & Co. in Mannheim. The carriage is a four-seater comfortable calash with foldable rain roof and rests on three wheels, the front one of which can be steered by an extremely simple device, similar to the tricycles. Behind the rear seat in the body of the car there is a small petrol motor, delicately made, which communicates with the rear wheels. The car is set in motion by pressing a lever located under the control device. It can turn around in a relatively small area and be brought to an immediate stop. Its greatest driving speed is that of a carriage driving at a sharp trot.

pragmatickon Instagram gets worse with dark patterns lifted from TikTok

The author complains about dark patterns but has a hugely annoying autoplaying, non-pausable gif in the middle of the article.

pragmatickon Magnasanti – The largest and most terrible city of SimCity

There's even a moma entry about it: https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2013/designand...

pragmatickon Lego Battle of Verdun [video]

They definitely came a long way since their first video 8 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD1AbWGqT4c

What makes you say it contains CGI?