bassdigit | 1 year ago | on: Psion 5mx Emulator
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bassdigit | 1 year ago | on: Pluckable Strings
further idea: let strings resonate with the overtones of other strings being played
also: support different materials like steel/nylon/gut
bassdigit | 1 year ago | on: Tiny World Map
edit: OP apparently [fixed it](https://github.com/tinyworldmap/tiny-world-map/issues/6)
6 places now, so it's [accurate to 11cm](https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/8650/measuring-accur...)
bassdigit | 1 year ago | on: Tiny World Map
I wonder if it could be even smaller when they wouldn't store all coordinates with 10 decimal places, at least for the label positions.
bassdigit | 2 years ago | on: Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
Hilarious that these outputs, depicting black founding fathers, popes, warriors, etc., overturn the narrative that history was full of white oppression.
bassdigit | 2 years ago | on: Adding type safety to object IDs in TypeScript
nice!
bassdigit | 2 years ago | on: The glEnd() of Zelda: Automatic 3Dification of NES Games (2016)
OP doesn't owe you an excuse for offering content for free through a technology you disapprove of.
bassdigit | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: A JavaScript function that looks and behaves like a pipe operator
Still not hard: In that case, instead of msg use sendMsg AND/OR in the second statement use { status, msg: resultMsg }, or just result and later result.msg.
bassdigit | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: A JavaScript function that looks and behaves like a pipe operator
Not hard: msg can be derived from the parameter name of the send() function and status is a fixed attribute of the result.
bassdigit | 2 years ago | on: Epicycle Clock
Not quite, the "0" of the minute hand is always aligned with the direction of the hour hand, so it points >down< at 6:00 unlike an ordinary clock.
bassdigit | 3 years ago | on: Faceless clock makes you think twice about how it works
This year, Cartier took the idea to the next level with the "Masse Mystérieuse": An absolutely gorgeous watch with insane mechanics where the movement is the rotor.
[1] https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-watches-and-wondrously...
bassdigit | 5 years ago | on: Problems with AI-based monitoring startups (2018)
Look, three paragraphs beginning with "Look," give the article a rather condescending tone.
bassdigit | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Pdf.js Express – PDF annotation, e-signatures, and form filling
> Website design is poor. You could definitely do with a designer to make it look nicer.
Really, in what way? In my view it's clean and simple.
> You either need to make it cheap, like $200/yr, or much more expensive. Right now you are in no mans land.
Another unsubstantiated statement. How much market research have you done on PDF libraries?
Pricing is a sensitive topic and many factors play a role in it. Too many to be assessed by an armchair expert.
> Don't worry about it not being open source; that's fine.
Where did OP express any worries about it not being open source?
bassdigit | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: iOS Login Page
You are right, I found more on this:
https://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/10_1/bernardin...
bassdigit | 6 years ago | on: Listen to the moment the guns fell silent ending World War I
Birds sing seconds after ear-blasting gun shots. Really?
bassdigit | 6 years ago | on: The Top Idea in Your Mind (2010)
"So avoid disputes if you want to get real work done."
There is an exception: When a dispute forces you to view a topic from a different angle, like in rubber duck debugging.
bassdigit | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: iOS Login Page
After thinking about it more, maybe I am wrong and there is a use case for these animations:
Small children like to look at moving things.
So it depends on the target audience. Toys or educational Apps are different from the business / financial context implied in your demo.
bassdigit | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: iOS Login Page
Am I the only one who finds subtle animations much more pleasant?
I think there is a reason why it's dark when the stage set of a theatre is being changed between scenes, but with user interfaces somehow any rearrangement must be a distracting visual gimmick these days.
Edit: Seriously, why do you need a hard change to a blue background only to then move a white cloud up across nearly the complete height of the screen?
https://github.com/realpaliy/ios-login/raw/master/art/finalA...
bassdigit | 6 years ago | on: My favourite Git commit (2019)
Not sure how to feel about being author of the most upvoted and also the least upvoted comment.
bassdigit | 6 years ago | on: My favourite Git commit (2019)
The commit message succeeds in justifying the effort but lacks an in-depth understanding of the related mechanics. I can imagine the developer felt bad about 'only' committing a one character change at the end of the day and wrote the message to make up for it. Because of this un-economic outcome, he hesitated to dig deeper.
There is no reason to feel bad.
The cultural issue is bad management that still evaluates developers by lines of code / commit activity.
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The 'GPD P2 Max' comes close and for me hits the sweet spot of offering a small size while not deviating too much from a comfortable typing experience, but it has a fan and I wish the battery lasted longer.