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My favorite quote was in the preface “how to learn” of one of their Obj-C/Cocoa books.

TLDR: You are not stupid. This stuff is hard.

—- While learning something new, many students will think, "Damn, this is hard for me. I wonder it am stupid." Because stupidity is such an unthinkably terrible thing in our culture, the students will then spend hours constructing arguments that explain why they are intelligent yet are having difficulties. The moment you start down this path, you have lost your focus.

Aaron used to have a boss named Rock. Rock had earned a degree in astrophysics from Cal Tech and had never had a job that used his knowledge of the heavens.

He was once asked if he regretted getting the degree. "Actually, my degree in astrophysics has proved to be very valuable," he said. "Some things in this world are just hard. When I am struggling with something, I sometimes think Damn, this is hard for me. I wonder if I am stupid,' and then I remember that I have a degree in astrophysics from Cal Tech; I must not be stupid."

Before going any further, assure yourself that you are not stupid and that some things are just hard. Armed with this silly affirmation and a well-rested mind, you are ready to conquer Cocoa.

E.g. wibble-wobble or the more pronounced wibbly-wobbly.

It’s not every day you read something that completely boggles your mind. Our solar system passes through interstellar clouds and it can affect our planet. Wow.

So that’s where all the M4s are going … to Apple’s private inference cloud.

I loved the first season so much. But for the love of god, I should have stopped long before I became mad at it’s absurd drama.

We have a wood burning fireplace insert (vs free standing stove) and a few days each winter we lose power. The blower on the fireplace uses about 100 watts and can help keep the house comfortable in sub-zero weather. That’s why we have a small battery/inverter. We have a “generator switch” near our electrical panel that powers just the circuit that the fireplace blower is on. In normal mode the circuit is powered by mains.

I’m a firm believer that good enough means avoiding catastrophe. Baking bread? Making beer? Caulking a window? Just avoid these common mistakes the outcome will be good enough.

I’ve gotten in the habit of asking LLMs to coach me to avoid the things that can go wrong.

I was not familiar.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

This satisfied whatever cravings I still had. Thank you!

I develop barcode and label design software. My app is immediately usable after download, but it will print a watermark when not licensed. Users can start a 14 day free trial to remove the watermark. Since it’s a desktop app, each trial is locked to that one computer. I can keep track of which computers register for a trial and limit the duration for subsequent re-registrations. It’s all based on JWT.

As a solo dev with a successful electron app I can say that the 5+ year journey from babel+flow+webpack to typescript+webpack, between two targets (main node and renderer chromium) not to mention native modules, node ABI, dual package jsons, electron itself as a giant shifting foundation… has been one of the most intimidating challenges in my dev career and I’m coming out the other side much stronger and confident. Props to everyone involved.

I use ChatGPT mobile app and brainstorm. I only show the child the results. Here’s a prompt: “Grim reaper wolf pet in style of Pokémon character. Make the body just out of skull and bones.”

Then I take this image to any of the number of online card creators. None are perfect. Most are half broken. You can use ChatGPT to make names. For example, we made a card for my wife who’s an attorney. We asked for character names based on her profession (law) unique last name with a fire theme. Then we asked for attack descriptions. I used these, heavily edited, to create a full card with her “likeness.”

Flaming justice hammer, anyone?!

For printing I use a laser printer w duplex. I have a trial/error workflow for lining up 4-up cards. I use a heavy poly cardstock from Terraslate. I think the 10 mil. It’s pretty close look/feel and they will last a long time.

These are purely for our own enjoyment, but we have also done play dates where we make custom cards for friends that visit.

The only downside is every kid wants their character to have 300+ HP. Ha!

Me and the 6 year old have been making Pokémon cards and generating AI character images based on chimeras. This morning on the way to school we dreamt up a knight+scorpion with tons of armor. Basic: knightstrike, stage 1: knightbite, stage 2: knightflight.

Totally installing this font on the kid’s rasp pi. This will be a fun way to explore the keyboard. Love it.

Super ducking accurate.

Both my grandparents died a year ago and with one Catholic and the other Lutheran the food looked similar but tasted oh so different. The Catholic food was decent. The Lutheran food, the turkey sandwiches, the buns/rolls, the gingersnap and whole-date-filled cookies were, forgive me: to die for. Everything seemed to be made from scratch and it made me feel love for the elder women, for how special they treated their job that day. I want my friends and family to remember me by the good food they had at my funeral.

For example, if the screw/servo controlling one axis of the dish is turned by a minimum adjustment, how many hundreds or thousands of miles does it throw the cone’s target at the distance of the probe? What’s the remaining margin for error at these scales?

I understand the division of units, what I’d like to see is an illustration of the signal’s cone at the astronomical distances in the article.

It’s hard for me to understand the arc seconds and degrees. Is there some kind of illustration available that shows the transmission from earth as a megaphone cone expanding out into to space?

Love how they applied first principles to standing up. Can’t wait to see how the robot deals with “disarm human.”

Spoiler alert: dis-arm.

The Humane couple were interviewed on “How I Built This” last month. The interview has the “I worked at Apple” vibe because both husband and wife did work at Apple.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-...

Thanks for this. Instead of a definition it’d be fun to type out an example sentence so you can learn the surrounding words. That … and highlight the place you are typing in the source language so you can immerse yourself in both languages.

I’d also enjoy paying $5 a month to nag me to spend X minutes or X words learning each day.

The know it all. This “wouldn’t have happened to them because they are” THE ONE. Also known as, “that guy” as in, “don’t be THAT GUY.”

Does anyone know any similar projects that can render to an HTML canvas?

See also: Titanic vs Ice

My long held feeling: A fleet of autonomous busses traveling predetermined inter/intra-city routes. Think, greyhound replacement. They were never going to be operated by humans.

I use jwt for my app’s licensing. It works great.

If you buy mustard seed there is often yellow and red seeds. Use yellow variety plus turmeric and vinegar for your standard American mustard. Use red and vinegar and beer/wine for your brown mustards. In my experience there is little difference in heat, what matters is time to mellow. The older the mustard the less spicy horseradish/wasabi sensation. Perhaps it’s oxidation.

Are bell peppers not peppers? Surely a bell pepper is the least spicy.

or maybe, Cyclist Hits Waymo

Oh sure, kind of like we adults cannot keep control of everything, like secret browser loopholes. Hey, one dev parent's scope is another dev parent's creep!

But honestly, maybe re-read the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

These are parental controls. They aren't working in this one specific way. That's. The. Scope.