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by bergie 3y ago
That only applies between power boats. Between sailboats the direction of wind is what determines the right of way. And of course power boats must give way to sailing vessels.
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by bergie 4y ago
The N810 keyboard was quite nice, too. Better than on the N900. Of the mobile devices I’ve had, only the Psion S5 had a nicer keyboard.
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by bergie 4y ago
I make coffee every morning with a Wacaco Nanopresso. It produces a pretty nice shot after you get the grind, tamping, etc dialed down. Sure, it is a bit of work to pump out the coffee, but it makes for a decent morning wake-up ritual.
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by bergie 4y ago
When I still had a company, we had everybody working from home for years. But then we had one employee who didn’t have a good workspace available, so we ended up renting a small office for him. That then became the “company headquarters” as
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by bergie 4y ago
You get that only in dark mode.
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by bergie 4y ago
I was able to get Bing to produce those, but only pretty simplistic ones. And as mentioned, the results were better in the fbp language than in JSON (most JSON wasn't even fully valid).
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by bergie 4y ago
Yup! Similar approach would certainly work with more traditional programming methods as well. But FBP enforcing that separation of concerns makes it easier to split the workload between GPT and human.
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Flow-Based Programming, a way for AI and humans to develop together(bergie.iki.fi)
166 points by bergie 4y ago|111 comments
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by bergie 4y ago
Not so far. There are lots of positions open, but not sure how many of those are actually being hired for.
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by bergie 4y ago
And users of the New Bing will certainly verify that the sources say what ChatGPT claims they do?
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by bergie 4y ago
https://flowhub.io/ - visual programming tool. This was a business, once. Now I'm running it as a free service, so it costs some hosting plus maintaining the domains.
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by bergie 4y ago
I ran a consultancy for 15 years before selling it. Was at times fun, and certainly educational, but would I do it again? Unlikely. Anyway, couple of things that worked for us: * Try to get retainer contracts: we would offer one when we had
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by bergie 4y ago
Earlier Google devices had magnets for Qi charging alignment. I think in the Nexus 4/Nexus 7 era. I had a Google Qi charger with strong enough magnets to hang the device on the wall. And then in typical Google fashion, the concept was
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by bergie 4y ago
That’s a cool ship! I spent some summers sailing (well, mostly rowing) on a bit smaller Viking ship replicas: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/albums/7215760328404647...
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Apple plans to support sideloading and third-party app stores by 2024(arstechnica.com)
7 points by bergie 4y ago|1 comments
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by bergie 4y ago
There are thumb drives, and then there are index finger drives https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/when_reality_meets_product_concep...
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by bergie 4y ago
Yep. Military, coast guard are both often without AIS. Actually, I think the only times I’ve seen military vessels with AIS on has been during some courtesy visits to other countries. The AIS static data is often not super useful (I think I
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by bergie 4y ago
The other two books in the Siege trilogy are also fun, though maybe not equal to the “sixteen ways”. All of them have quire abrupt endings.
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by bergie 4y ago
There’s a new take of the GGR starting in a couple of days. Only sixties tech allowed https://goldengloberace.com/
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by bergie 4y ago
Just like everything else in the globalised economy, young people are being manufactured at scale in places where the manufacturing costs are lower (for instance, Africa). So “aging western society” is mostly a question of logistics.
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The state of Flow-based Programming(blog.kodigy.com)
115 points by bergie 4y ago|51 comments
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by bergie 4y ago
"Pukki kaalimaan vartijana" for the Finnish equivalent (goat guarding the cabbage patch)
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by bergie 4y ago
Here’s a pretty good report on the state of Starlink on a boat https://seabits.com/starlink-finally-useful-aboard/
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by bergie 4y ago
Somewhat related, a constructive method for trying to fit inside the resource constraints: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000-watt_society
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by bergie 4y ago
Now, your comment format follows a pretty typical pattern utilized by paid Russian trolls, so I'm likely wasting my time here. But anyway: There is a slight difference between de-platforming Russian propaganda channels in the West, and
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by bergie 5y ago
https://bergie.iki.fi/ Hasn’t seen much love lately, but content stretches back to the 90s.
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by bergie 5y ago
In the early 00s we were using a Psion Series 5 as a travel blogging machine. We even had a publishing pipeline where you could FTP upload Psion Word documents to a server, from where it’d be converted automatically to HTML and published on
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by bergie 5y ago
For somebody who doesn’t “care a single bit about money” he certainly has gathered a significant amount of material wealth for himself, his mistresses, etc. But then again, since you’re taking his ridiculous casus belli scribblings at a fac
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by bergie 5y ago
The messaging app on the Nokia N900 was also based on libpurple. You had all of your Google Talk and Skype contacts and chats, together with SMS in a single place.
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by bergie 5y ago
Microsoft couldn’t employ their standard anticompetitive playbook on Chrome due to the antitrust process. So that gave it a chance to become viable.

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