sam1r's comments

On: Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

[sam1r]

Significant props for accepting .flac files out of the bat. Incredible work.

On: Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence

[sam1r]

>>> the cost of building AI will always be more than the cost of humanity.

Wow! Well said! so shouldn't we focus on ... fixing humanity first?

On: OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

[sam1r]

Yes,agreed. I also found it apparently obvious that they have proven their experts worth on this subject matter. Many times, over and over.

[BonoboIO → sam1r]

But ChatGPT said …

On: Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso

[sam1r]

The flow diagram provided for fracture control is incredible. Quite a work of art. [1]

[1] https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AOMG!,f_auto,q_auto:...

Update: After staring at this flow diagram for quite some time, I realize it's actually the most robust, "complete-seeming" finite state machine I have seen used in the real world.

On: The React2Shell Story

[sam1r]

>> Amazingly, despite being a weekend, the Meta team triaged, reproduced, and confirmed my submission in around 17 hours.

Incredible. Realize what you have done from start to finish (with confirmation) in < 24 hours.

On: OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

[sam1r]

>> ... I say hi to <strike> Scarlett Johansson <strike>

Had a nice chuckle.

On: Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging

[sam1r]

I don't understand why they would go in this inversely-progressive direction.

Shouldn't we be aiming to increase e2e encryption for the most regularly used communication platforms?

On: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

[sam1r]

Anyone else immediately notice that.. this is so built with angular.

On: A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

[sam1r]

That's only because SPAs routing maybe internal for that particular app. In that case, the UI/UX to end user is *only* possible and smooth when they hijack the back button as such.

[bryanhogan → sam1r]

Yeah, I think people are forgetting that if we want PWAs to behave and function like "native apps" that this functionality is needed.

I revently built an app with SvelteKit + Capacitor and had to implement the stack-based navigation one expects from a phone app myself.

On: A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

[sam1r]

Finally! (For this feature to be shipped).

Almost unrelated, but.. I wonder ..if there was an APM intern[1] behind this, or maybe this was this project. Because, this, would have been an excellent one!

[1] I had the fortune to be one myself in June 2012 for the Chrome Team.