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robertn702on VisionOS developer docs and Vision Pro SDK

An app that corrects your vision while using passthrough mode and makes it look like you're wearing glasses from the outside.

robertn702on Kysely: TypeScript SQL Query Builder

You might also want to consider pgTyped (https://github.com/adelsz/pgtyped). It's supposed to make SQL and TS work together. I haven't gotten around to using it yet but I hear good things.

robertn702on Salesforce, but for Dating

This is hilarious. I can imagine the person on the other side using the same app and the conversation just being the two AI talking to each other.

robertn702on Ask HN: What do you think when companies ask for gritty people?

I think the wide range is appropriate given that the thread is trying to extrapolate an entire company's culture from a single word in a job posting title. It's up for interpretation, but I think the message the company is trying to get across is that their culture is not like that portrayed in the recent LinkedIn employee TikTok videos.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/linkedin-employee-reignites-wo...

robertn702on Heatwaves kill more Americans than hurricanes, tornadoes and floods

We do have a better metric. It’s “years of life lost” (YLL) and it is a commonly used metric for the exact reasons you mentioned. My guess as to why you rarely see it being used outside of the scientific community is because “number of deaths” drives more clicks.

https://www.who.int/data/gho/indicator-metadata-registry/imr...

robertn702on DbDiagram – Draw Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Painlessly

I've tried doing the SQL dump on dbdiagram a few months ago and ran into some issues. Unfortunately I don't remember specifically what, but after testing out a few other programs I ended up using the free version of https://dbschema.com/ and have been very happy with it.

robertn702on This Day in History: FDR orders Japanese Americans into internment camps

You're arguing that an incident involving three individuals of Japanese descent in Hawaii, a US territory at the time, somehow justifies sending almost the entirety of the Japanese Americans to internment camps. I don't think this story is being suppressed, it seems insignificant.

Can you imagine if the story read, "Three Puerto Rican residents of German descent — two of which immigrated to Puerto Rico from Germany — helped a Nazi pilot after crash landing his plane. Therefore the US Government has decided to send all German Americans across the continental US to internment camps."?

This is just a bad take.

robertn702on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)

Plugd | Founding Product Designer | Remote (US or Asia) | https://getplugd.com

Plugd is like Reddit built for commerce, making community-generated content discoverable and shoppable. It's getting hard to find trustworthy content online, especially when it comes to products. But small, niche communities, like the ones on Reddit are one of the few places you can still find it. Plugd is solving this problem, while rewarding the community members for their content.

Plugd is a remote-first company. We are a team of two based out of Taipei and LA, and looking to add a product designer as our first hire.

Founding Product Designer: https://angel.co/company/tryplugd/jobs/1426400-founding-prod...

robertn702on Andrew Yang Enters Mayor's Race with Scaled Back Plan for Universal Basic Income

What would be the process for a homeless person from Baltimore to become a homeless NYC resident in order to take advantage of this? I'd imagine it's not as simple as just showing up in NYC. Serious question, just something I've never thought about.

robertn702on AirPods Max

"Simply charge via Lightning connector"

source: https://www.apple.com/airpods-max/