Multicomp

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by Multicomp 8d ago
so I'm tempted to order this even if its a premium price point. My question is how close to kickstarter buyer beware is this company? I ordered the Astro Slide 5G and never received it, so much for me getting to see what all of the psi
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by Multicomp 8d ago
hi there, I've done pocket PC, palm pilot graffiti, palm treo integrated and dockable keyboard, landscape slider keyboards, stylus only qwerty keyboards, Swype the app, Gboard, heliboard, t9 physical keys, messageease, and im sire some
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by Multicomp 8d ago
I too am a keyboard diehard (typing on a unihertz titan 2, i traded out my headphone jack for this physical keyboard so I am interested in this minimal phone 2 since headphone jack. if it had microsd card slot and removable battery it would
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by Multicomp 28d ago
I was unfamiliar with this stack and had an AI conversation about it to figure out what it meant, if I'm correct (not likely), this openrun+Go stack has a PHP FastCGI analogy: Your web app can be HTML templated pages, with HTMX client
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by Multicomp 28d ago
One friction point I have out there is that each major OS has differing keyboard shortcuts available, reserved by the OS vendor, reserved by popular global apps registering common keyboard shortcuts, with the net effect being that even for
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by Multicomp 28d ago
Making UI interactions bufferable has appeal to me as well. I had a similar thought but just for the more conventional 'keyboard shortcuts are not discoverable' problem. Using the status bar or an overlay showing on-screen-keyboar
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by Multicomp 1mo ago
> On the other hand, it is difficult to untangle legitimate consumer choice from a monopoly manipulating the market to remove that choice. You said it. I've wondered if the FTC could run through a process like the below to force mar
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by Multicomp 1mo ago
I have only gotten to experience the vespers of that deeper engagement which was a combination of web forum with on-topic threads that you could follow via email for mobile posting, and reply to in kind. I think Discourse is the platform of
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by Multicomp 1mo ago
I have RSS feeds I use to pull out my long-reads to consider knowledge, when I'm not doing wiki walks, that helps give me the 'novel world expanding hit' from the web. I've started to go to tiny forums like forums.blader
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by Multicomp 1mo ago
TL;DR: I want more effort posts/better SNR, so I guess I have to tolerate the human non-effort posts complaining about AI non-effort posts with the hope that it helps retard the rate of non-effort posts vs effort posts. While I'm
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
My library system has an aggressive book weeding policy where books that haven't circulated enough in about 2 years get binned. the excuse is other libraries have a copy available for inter library loan, but of course, those libraries
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
TL;DR: We won't stay here in blackpill-as-entertainment long term, tech/HN will proxy the way forward, but it will take time and will be messy. I think you make a strong point here. I will add a note of hope. In my opinion, beside
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
I'm not happy they do it, but I'm not surprised. There's a lot of media echochambers where Luigi M is lionized and his heinous actions dismissed or celebrated because it advances a grievance/covetousness/envy politi
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
> In my experience, there are two broad categories of Knowledge Workers. The first are outcome-first workers. Their focus is on the business, on winning, on efficiency. Human needs and faults and emotions are an obstacle to be overcome.
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
Doesn't doing that just reinvent eTags on hypertext resources from the RESTful wars and XML Web Services days 20 years ago? 1. Long Poll the cursor to pull down the latest events 2. Trigger a long-poll even if in exponential backoff be
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
Only new models of robots are banned, FCC approval of previous devices still stands and therefore we can continue to purchase those models. They will just get additionally out of date. > However, the US ban only covers new advanced robot
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
why not something like fossil scm but built around git itself?
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
Gene Kim wrote the DevOps Handbook and I think was at least involved in the related DORA and Phoenix Project and Unicorn Project office narrative books. Between those and the Google SRE book, I feel very well placed to have continuing value
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
We could add a friend-of-friend for 1 degree of separation (Alice gets an email from Bob, she doesn't know Bob, so it would go into her Requests folder. But Charlie knows Bob and has said 'yes this guy is legit' and Alice has
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
Agreed 100%! I know there's tough challenges to making this reality, but if https://serverspace.io/about/blog/ipv8-explained-what-we-kno... could be an IRL thing, I would buy company network equipment and use
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
In a way, this new dynamic of 'everyone can code' reminds me of the Unbundling -> Bundling -> Unbundling cycle of how entertainment media went from 3 broadcast channels to cable channels to web videos to our current state of
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
This time around in the pre-covid days, F# had a surge of popularity, there was Fable and Giraffe and an elm-style set of frontends (the generic pattern is called MVU - Model View Update), it didn't take off because A) we are still a t
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
I do one slightly different, if they carry the G2, they likely also carry a pack of retractable Pilot Precise V5s in a 4 pack of black. I prefer V7s or V10s, but even a v5 in black has a better/softer grip than a G2, does not glob like
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
I've done that for a time, then fell off for the past few years. Today, I'm getting out my journal right after I hit 'send' and I'm doing this. To whoever is reading this and may be in a similar situation, let'
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
Now there's a name I've not heard in a long time! Yes the old box of obsolete smartphones and PDAs and datalogic falcon x3 pocket pcs waiting for me to do projects with them are why I can never justify buying even a20 dollar mp3 p
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
What I love about this post showing is that it admits up front that the quality of a given entertainment medium is in the writing. Staff writers are not respected and treated as less than in Hollywood. Yet the classics of any given medium h
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
rainwave.cc has a chiptune mode, that's not electronic necessarily, but its an internet streaming radio that I've used to learn lots of new soundtracks I wouldn't otherwise encounter.
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by Multicomp 2mo ago
I like how DokuWiki has been chugging along, I first found out about it in 2013 when it was a company wiki (which is no doubt long gone, but thanks for sharing it Jeff B!) and have been using it ever since.
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by Multicomp 3mo ago
At my day job, workers and sqlite-backed durable objects that quickly hibernate and quickly resume are quite nice, I prefer that to standard lambda.
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by Multicomp 3mo ago
This reminds me of Fly.io's model off the top of my head, though its not a self-hosted firecracker as such.

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