adlpz's comments

On: Bored of It

[adlpz]

Go read a book and grow some tomatoes.

May as well be bored about steam turbines or refrigeration.

This posts reeks of a worrying lack of agency.

On: Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app

[adlpz]

This is the funniest thing I've read in a while. Thanks.

On: How Silica Gel Took Over the World

[adlpz]

I've run isopropyl alcohol in an ultrasonic cleaner.

It did get significantly hot after a while. And smelly, so it was surely aerosoling (is that a word?) somewhat.

I did it outdoors and away from anything that could catch fire because it felt rightly sketchy.

On: Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket

[adlpz]

Looks cool! If I may, a couple of feature suggestions:

1. You mentioned it already but bookmarks. In particular bookmarks that can be added through iOS Shortcuts (so we can each build whatever crazy automation we need) and that can be exported (so we can keep LARPing productivity in our Obsidian vaults).

2. An "undo" function, somehow. I know this is weird but I've misclicked the seek bar so many times (esp. in the lock screen) and lost where I was... a solution for that would be so cool.

I've been using the same podcasts app for... well over 10 years. But yours looks really cool, I may just switch.

[Bogdanp → adlpz]

Noted! There is already an undo function, though. If you seek, an undo button pops up. Also, if you go to settings, there's a "History" view where you can also undo from.

On: Schola Latina Europæa and Universalis

[adlpz]

This is lovely. And it's great to have it both in English and Spanish because it makes it much easier to guess the sounds from the explanations as you can compare.

New life goal unlocked: live in a farm away from any computers and learn latin.

On: Bluesky just crossed 20M users

[adlpz]

Just talking about my own usage, I follow lots of people in the tech space, indie hackers, AI researchers, etc. By checking Twitter from time to time I learn about new tools, libraries and models, check out cool stuff made by others, etc.

It's literally the same reason behind reading HN. A HN with a higher ground noise but much more real-time, interactive and orders of magnitude higher bandwidth.

You just need to curate things very hard so make sure you keep enough signal above the nose to be worth it.

On: Linus Torvalds says RISC-V will make the same mistakes as Arm and x86

[adlpz]

Except it's not performance usually, it's just features. And then it gets bloated. And someone things they don't need all that crap.

But turns out they did.

[Mrdarknezz → adlpz]

I feel like there are massive industries that exist just because of this

[bluGill → adlpz]

Everyone uses about 5% of the features of their word processors, but it is a different subset for everyone so all features are needed by someone and most get equal useage.

[graemep → bluGill]

I do not think that is true. There are definitely more and less commonly used features. Everyone uses basic formatting, but only a small minority of users use index or bibliography features. The features might matter a lot to that small minority, but they are not anything like equally used.

[bluGill → graemep]

There are a small minority that everyone uses. It quickly falls off.

[BariumBlue → adlpz]

Ehh the issue is features tacked on w/out regards to existing ones. Lotta apps like that end up with multiple ways to do the exact same thing but with very slightly different use cases

[llamaLord → adlpz]

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On: EGAIR – European Guild for Artificial Intelligence Regulation

[adlpz]

It's time we accept we won't be much more than a glorified theme park in a few decades.

Either that, or we stop complaining and start acting.

Maybe it's that we're just the same as these EGAIR people?

On: Rabbit R1 source code [part 1]

[adlpz]

Any background on how the code got leaked? Insider? Hacked servers?

On: Boom announces successful flight of XB-1 demonstrator aircraft

[adlpz]

It's a 1/3 scale prototype so I guess through some creative maths the speed of sound may as well be 1/3?