flobosg's comments

On: Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language

[flobosg]

Same here. I think no site brings me less joy than LinkedIn. I find broetry particularly tiring to read.

On: Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral?

[flobosg]

The header illustration brought to my mind, for some reason, the tomato bushy stunt virus depiction by the late Irving Geis: https://pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/geis-archive/gallery/geis-05...

On: "That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction)

[flobosg]

Discussed here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224

On: Show HN: Modern Reimplementation of the Speck Molecule Renderer

[flobosg]

Nice! I’ve been meaning to do something similar with David Goodsell’s Illustrate (https://github.com/ccsb-scripps/Illustrate) but sadly haven’t progressed much.

[vlad_angelov → flobosg]

Thanks!

On: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

[flobosg]

Then you meant audiovisual content.

On: The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today

[flobosg]

Seems to be part of an ongoing series: https://xakpc.dev/windows-widgets/

On: Self Sanitizing Door Handle

[flobosg]

(2019)

[logicallee → flobosg]

What makes you think so? One of the section titles says "Your inspiration" (rather than "Our inspiration"), which sounds like ChatGPT was writing to them. That wasn't around in 2019.

[sigio → logicallee]

see the url, dysonaward ... so probably the site/judges asking/interviewing the inventor of this product.

[blitzar → sigio]

also:

Awards - Elevator Pitch Competion 2018

Where are they now - Self-Sanitising Door Handle, 2019 Hong Kong James Dyson Award winner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiLPyOKRcJo

[billynomates → logicallee]

I doubt they used ChatGPT, considering the spelling mistakes

On: Desperately Seeking Squircles (2018)

[flobosg]

> Nokia, despite its late entry with MeeGo’s Harmattan UI, found the squircle unclaimed and ran with it beautifully.

―https://interuserface.net/2011/06/own-a-shape/

On: Desperately Seeking Squircles (2018)

[flobosg]

Same with the rendered math formulas, they could get a bit more love. Great post nevertheless!

On: Things I've quit doing at my desk

[flobosg]

(2012)

[10729287 → flobosg]

Thanks, this is the most important information here. While the sentiment and those posts are pretty common nowadays, it was absolutely marginale in 2012.