waxpancake
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Comment · 4 months ago
I certainly don't want to confuse anyone, so I added captions to every image (and alt-text, while I was at it). Thanks for the heads-up.
Comment · 4 months ago
It's not an advertisement for Claude. It's a screenshot from the relevant part of Qontour's website that I was referring to in my post.
Comment · 4 months ago
Oh hey, I wrote this. Thanks for the link.
Comment · 10 months ago
This is definitely not something Neal would ever do. Can you share the URL you're talking about? There's no IQ test in his projects list at all. https://neal.fun/
Comment · 1 year ago
They said they’re looking to “move out of China,” but that almost certainly doesn’t mean the U.S. Probably India or Vietnam, maybe Turkey or Malaysia.
Comment · 1 year ago
The Web Monetization API was another recent effort to try to make this, the latest of many attempts. See previous HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274455
My guess is that 1. there’s virtually no demand from potential supporters for a more convenient way to pay creators than existing payment/subscription apps, and 2. relatively few creators have direct control over their own internet presence anymore, so any solution that requires modifying a web page is dead in the water.
Any new attempt to pay creators that doesn’t factor these two realities in will likely fail, because it just makes things harder than existing solutions.
Comment · 2 years ago
I ordered one yesterday as I wrapping up the post, and it was already shipped early this morning.
Comment · 2 years ago
A semantic search engine for Steam games sounds like my jam. You should put a link to it in your HN profile!
Comment · 3 years ago
I mentioned it in my post: in Image Capture, select the “Virtual Scanner II” device if it exists, and in the Details, set the Media to “Document” and Media DPI to “72 DPI.” You should see the preview of the first page of the Bitcoin paper. But that's only possible if the virtual device exists, and it's still unclear why it's hidden for some people but not others.
Comment · 3 years ago
Others have confirmed to me that it wasn't in High Sierra (10.13) and shipped with Mojave in 10.14.0.
I write at Waxy.org, organize the XOXO Festival in Portland, started Upcoming.org, run Belong.io (a link aggregator) and Playfic (a community for writing/sharing interactive fiction). Helped build Kickstarter, as their former CTO and now an advisor to the company.