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nalanj.dev
23 points·by commondream·2 years ago·14 comments

Show HN: Known – Semi-smart plant labels

knownplants.com
12 points·by commondream·2 years ago·11 comments

The DeSantis Campaign Texted Me with a Large Language Model

nalanj.dev
97 points·by commondream·3 years ago·73 comments

Documenting Plants with a 3D Printer, NFC, and Cardinal

withcardinal.com
15 points·by commondream·3 years ago·10 comments

Your Team Chat App Probably Isn't Asynchronous

withcardinal.com
1 points·by commondream·3 years ago·1 comments

Minimalist PostgreSQL Migrations

nalanj.dev
3 points·by commondream·3 years ago·0 comments

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1 points·by commondream·4 years ago·0 comments

We don't show typing status

withcardinal.com
250 points·by commondream·4 years ago·215 comments

What Is Structured Communication?

withcardinal.com
1 points·by commondream·4 years ago·0 comments

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commondream
·last year·discuss
Confirmed at our household. Carmen, our dog, never watches tv, but she was entranced by Flow. She kept staring at it, then looking at us, and then looking back at the tv, like “Are you seeing this?”
commondream
·2 years ago·discuss
The Making of the Atomic Bomb is one I read recently and really enjoyed.

I didn’t love the writing, but thought Skunkworks was full of good stories.

It is a little more character study but Dealers of Lightning is a good one.

I also enjoyed The Idea Factory.

And last, a little off the path of making things but Endurance was a good read.
commondream
·2 years ago·discuss
Naw.

Hopefully, regardless of revenue you test your code. It’s just a question of if your tests are manual commands and clicks or if they’re automated.
commondream
·2 years ago·discuss
Good question! It uses a web app. NFC reading is open on iOS, so when you tap our labels it opens up the page for the label.
commondream
·2 years ago·discuss
It’s a pre-programmed to connect with our service NFC tag that we wrapped up in plastic to make it a little more resistant to the weather and a lot easier to just put in your yard. You tap it with your phone and it walks you through the whole process of recording your plants.
commondream
·2 years ago·discuss
Yeah, we need to get something up about the pricing model. There will be three tiers. Basic is free will let you just label your plants and comes with every label. Plus adds the journal feature, the care database, and will let you share management of your garden for $10 or so per year, and there will be a premium plan for $25 or so per year that will let you make your garden public.
commondream
·2 years ago·discuss
Not quite yet, but it’s in progress. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
commondream
·2 years ago·discuss
Thanks for the great feedback!

We’ll have standalone billing with no labels required in the next little while. We’re also planning to add a feature that will let you connect one label to multiple plants for that multiple plants in one location case.
commondream
·2 years ago·discuss
I love Jira because it’s a clear signal that a team doesn’t care much about their tools and that I shouldn’t join them.
commondream
·3 years ago·discuss
The idea that there are no solutions is absurd. Sure there are trade offs with everything, but there are numerous situations where the solution so drastically outweighs the trade-offs that we generally accept that we’ve solved the problem.

There is a type of political dialog wherein one group says that things are so complicated that they can never be better. Usually if you look behind the curtain they’re benefitting from the status quo.
commondream
·3 years ago·discuss
I will gladly admit I have no idea on any of those things. I too could not find anything saying it was happening online.
commondream
·3 years ago·discuss
"As a supporter of Ron DeSantis I can neither confirm or deny if I am more accurate than an official policy document."
commondream
·3 years ago·discuss
"Today we're joined by Alan Johnson, guy who gets too much SMS spam and won't give up on his mediocre startup."
commondream
·3 years ago·discuss
In my probing there were a lot of answers that were "As a supporter of Ron DeSantis..." which felt like the replacement for "As a large language model..."
commondream
·3 years ago·discuss
Oh holy hell, I totally forgot about that. I'll update the post, because this is pretty bad:

"Hi, I'm Liz working to elect Ron DeSantis. Do you have a minute to answer a couple of questions?"
commondream
·3 years ago·discuss
There are messages where I attempted to get it to say inappropriate things that I didn’t include. It does follow their party line about what lives matter, though.
commondream
·3 years ago·discuss
It felt drastically less biased than a campaign worker, so consider yourself only partially lanced.
commondream
·3 years ago·discuss
In the back of my mind I was thinking there had to be a place to find common ways to break these prompts. I should have looked!
commondream
·3 years ago·discuss
I was curious about that specifically with the 30 paragraphs of Loren ipsum. I will say I texted it a ton before that and it kept right on answering.
commondream
·3 years ago·discuss
I enjoyed it more than I probably should have.