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rockdiesel··on Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
Northwoods is actually a very real collegiate summer baseball league.

https://northwoodsleague.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwoods_League

rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
Are you referring to a text box that would allow you to filter the brands based on what you type into the box instead of having to scroll through all the brands?
rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
I added an include/exclude toggle for Brands. Take a look and let me know if this works for you.
rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
Nice layout. Looks solid on mobile.
rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
Thank you. Glad you liked it.
rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
Yep. That's one of the downsides of relying on unit count. Sellers don't always accurately match the unit count to their product title. I'll work on fixing these inconsistencies.
rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
That's a good idea. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into expanding the filters to be more useful and allow some more granularity.
rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
I'll look into it. Thanks for the suggestion.
rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
You're probably right. I can see how LLM is the better way to approach this. I haven't looked into AI usage fees or anything, but I would think the amount of queries I'd send wouldn't be that expensive. I'll look into it.
rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
Product Advertising API - https://webservices.amazon.com/paapi5/documentation/
rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
Funny that you mention that. That's how it originally worked, but I changed it to filter in brands because I assumed golfers are more brand loyal, and thought they might want to only look at the brands they normally play with.

I think your toggle idea is a good one though, and I'll look to implement that. I can see how some people might want that.

rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
Yeah. I state in my post that I took inspiration from diskprices.com. I always wanted to build something similar, but for a product that I actually buy on semi-regular basis.
rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
I appreciate you taking a look. This product weight approach has me intrigued and something I'll look into.

I'm thinking I could just start with any listing where unit count = 1 and take a pass at those first. I haven't looked yet, but I'm guessing single unit counts are almost always inconsistent with the actual number of golf balls.

rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
O wow, that's an interesting approach. That would've never crossed my mind without posting this on HN. Appreciate the suggestion.
rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
Thank you. I appreciate it. I love that site and always sat around thinking about building something like it, but for a product I buy frequently. And I finally built it.
rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
Before going full AI, maybe I could create a list of quantity keywords like "dozen", "3-pack", etc... and at least use that as a starting point.
rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
Yeah... I'm just now realizing how relying on unit count in the listing is more problematic than I thought. Sellers say their unit count is 1, but the product title says it is 4 dozen. I need to figure out how to fix these inconsistencies.
rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
Posting my other comment from above:

Yeah. I'm trying to figure out how to combat these inconsistencies. Right now, I have some manual overrides, but not sure it's sustainable to keep manually overriding inconsistent listings.

Any thoughts? Should I default to what's in the product title instead of the unit count? Not sure the best way to combat this.

rockdiesel··on Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball
Yeah. I'm trying to figure out how to combat these inconsistencies. Right now, I have some manual overrides, but not sure it's sustainable to keep manually overriding inconsistent listings.

Any thoughts? Should I default to what's in the product title instead of the unit count? Not sure the best way to combat this.

rockdiesel··on John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died
If you haven't heard of it, maybe give MacroFactor a look (not affiliated, just a happy user). It is the only food log and weight tracker that I've used with success. On the weight tracking side, it also requires daily weigh-ins and tracks your trend weight over time. Combining that with the calories you log, it determines your TDEE and adjusts your calories and macros from week to week depending on the goal you want to achieve.

https://macrofactorapp.com/

rockdiesel··on Effective Spaced Repetition
Yes. I had a similar experience. The answer would come to me before I even finished reading the prompt, but I never felt like I was actually learning the info. Just memorizing the pattern.

I surmised that it was a result of my deck being too small. It may be different with a larger deck and a greater variety of cards, but I never got my deck to that point.

rockdiesel··on Launch HN: Helio Sleep (YC S21) – One-stop portal for sleep apnea
Have you looked at Lofta?

https://lofta.com/products/sleep-apnea-test

Disclaimer: I've not used them. No experience with them. I've just seen their name mentioned as an affordable sleep test.

EDIT: Just realized the company of this submission has similarly priced sleep apnea test. I should have probably clicked through before commenting.

rockdiesel··on A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)
I'll admit it's been 15 years since I originally read Warrior Diet, but I thought it advocated a massive salad as the first part of your dinner followed by the protein source? I don't recall much mention of stew in the book, but like I said it's been ages since I read it. Not challenging you. Just curious since it has been so long since I read it and I'm trying to jog my memory.
rockdiesel··on Ghidra 9.2
Good to know. As a Godzilla fan, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.
rockdiesel··on Ghidra 9.2
I don’t think it is.

King Ghidorah is the 3 headed monster from the Godzilla universe.

rockdiesel··on California Live Fire Maps
> updated up to twice daily

Far from ‘live’

rockdiesel··on Spaced Repetition
Can you give an example or two of how you effectively turn your Kindle highlights into flash cards?
rockdiesel··on Whirlpool told to recall dryers in 'unprecedented' government move
Anyone know how to check this in the US? Only information I can find is for UK.

I have a GE Hotpoint tumble dryer from about 4 years ago and would like to see if I'm at risk.

rockdiesel··on Ask HN: What are your best learning methods/hacks/tips?
This article on SuperMemo might help you - https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/articles/20ru...
rockdiesel··on Don't Post Evergreen Content on Medium
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