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kspyy | 8 months ago | on: Tech CEO Pays $400k to Conduct the Toronto Symphony

sounds like a gavin belson scene

kspyy | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: What is the best keyboard to connect to your phone?

I've connected my apple magic keyboard to my phone before, mostly just to see if it worked. It's a small compact thin and light keyboard. I'd imagine most keyboards with bluetooth these days probably connect, just depends on what kind of form factor you're looking for

kspyy | 1 year ago | on: Sony Wearable Thermal Device

I bought one of these in 2018 on ebay for my dad, and had it shipped from japan.

Living in the US I had to jump through the hoop of making a fake japanese icloud account just to be able to access the app on the app store, which is how you control the device.

Ultimately it seemed like a really cool device but at least at the time wasn't very effective or practical for cooling down, at least in my and his experience. This was mostly just being outside, doing yard work etc in the hot summer.

I think buying one of the <$50 portable neck coolers on amazon are probably just as if not more effective

kspyy | 1 year ago | on: Apple MacBook Air 15-Inch M3 Review

I have the m2 air and it's the best laptop I've ever owned. Perfect for travel as well, battery is amazing

kspyy | 2 years ago | on: Apple doesn't allow you to change macOS cursor anymore

Maybe because all of these cursors reek of the 80s/90s. Besides size and speed do people really care these days?

kspyy | 2 years ago | on: Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – it isn't working

the pilot trying to shut off engines mid flight after having taken mushrooms 2 days prior definitely wasn't a great look either!

kspyy | 2 years ago | on: Slack: Our biggest redesign yet came to be

Dear Slack: Nobody likes your redesign, listen to the masses

kspyy | 2 years ago | on: Mac shipments grow 10%, as all major PC brands see downturns

I think the average user doesn't know or want to go out of their way for third party software to make the operating system actually usable

kspyy | 2 years ago | on: Mac shipments grow 10%, as all major PC brands see downturns

windows feels more and more like adware these days, kind of hard to beat the performance you get w/ a mac, not to mention a consistent ux

kspyy | 2 years ago | on: Startups should consider starting their own podcasts

the world doesn't need more podcasts

kspyy | 2 years ago | on: 40 Years of Koyaanisqatsi

this is a cool idea, thanks for sharing

kspyy | 3 years ago | on: Apple Shutting Down Popular Weather App 'Dark Sky' Tomorrow

unless i'm missing something I've been able to see the precipitation timelines for some time now in their weather app and widget, at least an hour out. (e.g. "Light rain is expected to stop in 17 min")

this was one of my favorite features too but afaict they integrated it (i'm on ios 16.3)

kspyy | 3 years ago | on: Reddit's favorite products in one place

also have used https://redditfavorites.com/ in the past

kspyy | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Must have tools for a new MacBook

is there any advantage of using f.lux over the native nightshift these days?

kspyy | 3 years ago | on: discordo: Lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord terminal client

terms of service

kspyy | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you manage RSS feeds effectively?

I switched to using NetNewsWire as an open-source alternative and have been enjoying it, the mac desktop client works great for my needs. Had previously been using feedly for quite sometime, had contemplated upgrading but honestly didn't feel compelled to pay for an rss service. I sync my feeds via icloud and it works fine between desktop and mobile

kspyy | 4 years ago | on: Cloud Infrastructure as SQL

How are you making the metabase<-->steampipe connection? Are you able to connect metabase directly to a running steampipe/ postgres server instance? or are you doing some ETL into metabase. Thanks in advance (metabase is new to me, but steampipe has been really handy)