pkamb

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Mac and iOS developer

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Comment · 23 days ago
I'm surprised we haven't seen a Plex-like front end app for Apple TV that faithfully runs the full DVD menu experience from your (legally owned and manually backed-up) DVD disk images.
Comment · 27 days ago
Treadmill is a big one. Or under covers in bed with the Kindle propped up or mounted.
Comment · 1 month ago
Instagram released a Reels-first iPad app that is much, much worse than the old iPhone-on-iPad app.
Comment · 1 month ago
> Your own search engine — Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep.

Is there any site/project that works as a fully customizable personal front-end to all other SERPs?

When I search for something, I always want a link to the best Wikipedia result. This should always be in the same place and have a giant icon/picture.

Then there could be easily clickable links to the SERP pages for Google, DDG, etc. for that query.

A big link to route it to your favorite LLM.

Seems like you could have a really useful "homepage" for all searches that sat in front of all the other sites. It could be local only and would not require indexing the web. Also wouldn't be a files search thing, as Hister appears to be.

Comment · 1 month ago
The new roundabout completely prevents fatality t-bone crashes into people turning left from those stop signs, which has likely happened multiple times at that very intersection thus prompting the road to be redesigned.
Comment · 1 month ago
Nowadays, depending on your state, they're being built in almost every new intersection that would call for one. And the worst existing intersections converted to them. It's happening and will only speed up.
Comment · 1 month ago
A major reappraisal is currently happening in the entire industry, which for too long has been focused solely on the throughput of single-occupancy vehicles. Roundabouts offer many advantages over traffic signals, even the ones that "outperform" them. It's probably a good thing that we've stopped listening only to transportation engineers focused on moving cars as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Comment · 1 month ago
> the bulk of traffic all needs to slow down, downshift, turn a bit in one direction and then turn a bit in the other direction for the minority of traffic that's bleeding on or off the main artery.

Slowing/calming traffic like this is a good thing. Make it impossible to speed. Enforce the existing 35mph speed limit via concrete rather than allowing cars to rip through a yellow light at 70mph. You're also ignoring this aspect when you call roundabouts "(mostly) worse for cyclists and pedestrians".

Comment · 5 months ago
Not when watching on an Apple TV.
Comment · 5 months ago
Sent from my iPhone
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
LLMs are better than slow human support of any kind for debugging / helpdesk work (which was never that welcome at SO anyway).

Stack Overflow is still great for canonical questions, multiple answers, public / SEO'd discussion between humans, etc.

But that probably isn't enough to save the company as a private equity acquisition hoping to 100x their $1.8 billion investment.

Hopefully the classic Q/A site eventually gets written off and spins into a Wikimedia-like foundation that is interested in preserving the original Q/A site and has no desire to grow or become something else.

Comment · 5 months ago
Forum? What forum? When has Stack Overflow ever been a forum?
Comment · 11 months ago
> Our goal was to build an app worthy of an Apple Design Award [...] After weeks of experimentation, we landed on React Native with Expo to achieve this.

Has a non-native app ever won an ADA?

Comment · 11 months ago

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