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sqrtc··on Developing with Kiro: Amazon's New Agentic IDE
I tried out Kiro last week on quite a gnarly date time parsing problem. I had started with a two hundred-ish word prompt and a few bits of code examples for context to describe the problem. Similar to OP it forced me to stop and think more clearly about the problem I was trying to solve and in the end left my jaw on the floor as I saw it work through the task list.

I think only early bit of feedback I had was in that my tasks were also writing a lot of tests, and if the feedback loop to getting test results was neater this would be insanely powerful. Something like a sandboxed terminal, I am less keen on a YOLO mode and had to keep authorising the terminal to run.

sqrtc··on Bus Bunching
You can tell exactly where you live based on the castle reference. Happened to me once when a tourist in front asked about the castle and I couldn’t quite believe it was real.
sqrtc··on Ask HN: Is there a service that can search multiple video streaming services?
I’ve always used https://www.justwatch.com/ and it works a charm.
sqrtc··on Ask HN: What are some good sites for non tech people to keep up with tech?
I’ve always thought of The Verge to be an accessible source of new tech, as well as broadening out a bit into more science and culture.
sqrtc··on Ask HN: Building Bluetooth web applications for health monitors
I think if you’re planning on using this for personal use, and willing to accept the (slight) inconveniences associated with it, then this is likely very possible. Note that you’ll likely only be allowed to use the Bluetooth API in secure context, so HTTPS rather than file://[0]. I point this out as you’ve said a simple HTML page.

I recently built an application involving BLE (although not in a browser), and was quite surprised by how straightforward it can be. I’d recommend O’Riley’s Getting Started with Bluetooth Low Energy[1] as a quick skim to understand the core BLE concepts.

If you’re unsure how your device’s services and characteristics are set up, then using a decent inspector app is good if you’re trying to reverse engineer the values, I recommend BT Inspector[2] but unfortunately it’s iOS/MacOS only.

[0] https://developer.chrome.com/articles/bluetooth/#https-only

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/getting-started-with/97...

[2] https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/bluetooth-inspector/id15090850...

sqrtc··on Study tracks how we decide which groups to join (2016)
I am curious about how physical attractiveness was rated, and if there was particular criteria.

“..with the physical attractiveness of each participant rated by three members of the research team to produce an averaged single attractiveness score”

That seems very subjective to me, and subjectiveness may not even be the problem but having an average of just three scores.