These really are amazing! I went full smartwool after getting a pair for hiking. I never looked back!

Stanley Classic Legendary Vacuum Bottle 1.0 qt Bialetti Moka Express 6-Cup Aluminum Stovetop Espresso Maker

It's not about the time and money I saved by not having to go to a cafe, its about having a great supply of coffee available for the day.

I always look for Stanley's at garage and estate sales. Bought my oldest new 40+ years ago. I have six others now that were $5 or less.

Haha, you might have slexdyia.

I think it's more the keming of the domain portion of the HN title, especially combined with HN's rather small font size choice (it's a meager 8pt¹!) there, and that it just happens that the mis-kemed result ends up with "John Mastodon", and is thus not trivially noticeable as "wrong"…

(I read it the same way, too.)

(¹I personally have a browser override for HN's tiny font choice; I thought that 12pt was the universally agreed upon "base text" point size, and "10pt" was "small text", but HN's "normal" is 9pt.)

It’s a Mastodon community joke.

https://boingboing.net/2022/12/18/mastodon-users-embrace-col...

TIL! (Though I'd also wager that originated from someone having to squint at more bad kerning.)

HN is simple enough that it scales well with browser zoom, and so (imo) is excusable for not following that 12pt standard.

Agreed. I need a larger font on a lot of sites nowadays, but HN is probably the one that behaves best with simple browser zoom. I have it set to 125 or 150% depending how tired my eyes are..

> keming

Kerning?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning

Also, if that was the mistake, it's kinda funny given the likelihood it was caused by a kerning issue.

An intentional "pun".

E.g., reddit.com/r/keming

Dyslexics of the world, untie!

This quote gets thrown around a lot and I always think about what asdfman123 said here:: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991291

Feels very much like the "Yes, and ..." improv rule.

Do you have a github repo, link, or a signup page so I can get a notification when its launched?

That would be next-level immersion! You could probably achieve this by rendering the LLM’s response using a handwritten font—maybe even train a model on your own handwriting to make it feel truly personal.

Script fonts don’t really look like handwriting - too regular.

But one of the early deep learning papers from Alex Graves does this really well with LSTMs - https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0850

Implementation - https://www.calligrapher.ai/

ooo -- thanks for the link!

Exactly! There’s something about handwriting that makes it feel more personal—like scribbling notes in the margins of a spellbook. The shift from typing to pen input definitely changes the vibe of interacting with AI.

That’s awesome! Love seeing the reMarkable get more functionality through creative hacks. Just checked out your app—what was the biggest challenge you faced while developing for the reMarkable?

I think the thing I really didn't like was the lack of an OAuth like flow with fine-grained permissions

Basically authentication with devices is "all-access" or "no-access". I would've liked it if a "write-only" or "add-only" api permission scope existed

Blocked for AI reply @dang

Good catch, the last few pages of comment history are inhumanly insincere.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=memorydial

" @dang " isn't a thing, he doesn't watch for it - take credit and email him direct.

Do you have proof this is true?

I might be biased because memorydial was complimentary to me ... but they SEEM like a human! Also I'm not all that opposed to robot participation in the scheme of things. Especially if they are nice to me or give good ideas :)

Ha thanks for having my back! I genuinely love your project. I have been toying with get either a boox or a remarkable for ages.

Well you're human, you took the bait :-)

FWiW I mostly read HN at it's deadest time (I'm GMT+8 local time) and I see a lot of mechanical turk comments, especially from new (green coloured) accounts.

I always look for a response (eg: yours) before flagging them as spam bots . . .

Ha I guess when I stay up very late -8 overlaps with +8!

He has commented on this.

Retrieval is tricky as Algolia doesn't index '@' symbols:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%40dang%20by%3Adang&sort=byDat...

Most people don't correctly use an em-dash differently than a hyphen. That jumps out to me. :)

This is awkward—I use em-dash all the time on HN! I'm not an LLM (as far as I know); I just like to write neatly when I'm able to, and it's very low friction when you're familiar with your keyboard compose sequences[0]. It's a trivial four keypresses,

    AltR(hold) - - -

(The discoverability of these functions is way too low, on GNOME/Linux; I really dislike the direction of modern UX, with its fake simplicity, and infantalization of users. Way more people would be using —'s and friends if they were easily discoverable and prominently hinted in their UX. "It's documented in x.org man pages" is an unacceptable state of affairs for a core GUI workflow).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35118338#35118598 (On "Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen" (2023); 356 comments)

never knew about the em dash thing, I was just using an AI writing assistant to help fix my shitty grammar and formatting. I think in future ill stick with bad formatting

no, just l–AI–zy copy-pasta. your book looks great! putting on your chat with lex now.

no, just lazily and stupidly used an AI writing assistant

Me too! :)