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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's surprising to me that there aren't any details about the software stack. Whenever I've tried to find a touch-optimized Linux shell, I've come up short. As has been discussed on this forum in the past, most of the a
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I remember Motorola showing off a concept like this in ~2012.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's gonna be wild if they make paying to be default search illegal, and then Google gets to keep all the money it pays out while still being the default (because nothing else is worth using).
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by bsimpson 2y ago
As I recall, the original App Store argument was "It would cost a lot more than 30% to mint CDs and sell them in Waldenbooks, so we're doing developers a favor by _only_ charging 30% to distribute."
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Did something happen that made Sailfish relevant again? Surprised to see it on the front page today. It's unfortunate that they're taking a closed source model when others like System76 and Librem are using their hardware sales t
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Sailfish is the successor to Nokia's Linux efforts, before they scrapped it all for Windows.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
In the initial version of Bike Index you were supposed to give them names. This was green and brown (the girl I was dating at the time insisted I try brown tires), so I used Avocado.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I appreciate that - thank you! Was a lot of work, but a fun project to really learn what goes into a bicycle. Definitely won't see another bike like mine on the road!
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by bsimpson 2y ago
https://bikeindex.org/bikes/1035
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by bsimpson 2y ago
A 29er with a continuously variable transmission in the rear hub, mustache handlebars, wood fenders, and a crank made by a mill in Petaluma.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I'm remembering the time I spent $40,000 worth of time saving maybe a couple grand on bike parts. (I spent a couple months between gigs building a bicycle from parts, and sourcing the parts was the biggest timesink.)
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's wild that the shorthand for "good school" is what sports division some schools in/around Massachusetts are in.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I've seen this same map used for years in digital nomad guides.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Reminds me of the Microsoft Surface from the mid 00s. Never seemed to take off though.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I love that notebooks started as a student hacking together a Python fork and now they're core infrastructure for all these places trying to make sense of GenAI.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I've only used them in Colab, which feels a lot like a Codepen. It's a self-contained scratchpad that's easily linkable to send to others.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Yours wasn't the only comment along those lines, and I was replying to the class of them rather than yours specifically. I don't mean to curtail discussion or say that only praise is allowed. I just want to steer away from "
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I was in the audience for Stop Drawing Dead Fish and talked to him about his approach afterwards.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's been 6 years since I've been there. I'm sure they've made developments since then. I also think these comments along the lines of "what about X" are unhelpfully reductivist/dismissive. The whole poi
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's not OCR. Those colored dots along the periphery are fiducials. They're how Realtalk recognizes a program. Every object that you can interact with in Realtalk has a unique set of fiducials. When the camera sees one, it look
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by bsimpson 2y ago
For those unfamiliar, the founder is Bret Victor. He made a name for himself working on human interfaces at Apple in the Steve Jobs iPad era. In 2012, he gave a couple of influential talks: Inventing on Principle, and Stop Drawing Dead Fi
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I had the good fortune of taking a field trip there in 2018. The video is a very good overview of the project. One interesting artifact of "the real world simulates itself" is version control. At Dynamicland, each version of a pr
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by bsimpson 2y ago
FWIW, the Ars reviewer installed COSMIC on a Framework and seemed to really enjoy it. They even sell a mini case that transforms their laptop into a desktop.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's sad to know that the revenue stream that generates projects like COSMIC is dependent on "astoundingly bad" build quality.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Interesting to read this in the context of COSMIC, a new Linux shell that just released a blog post celebrating their alpha release: https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-released-heres-w... The post hat-tips the
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Sounds like the victim got lucky that the thieves were in a relatively small town. I can't imagine SFPD taking you seriously if you said "someone stole my thing and here is the pin on my map where they are."
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I feel like fucking with the Post Office is one of those things that sounds minor but can be a big fucking deal. Your petty theft just became a literal federal case, complete with a police force whose whole job is to protect the integrity
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Google Home was kind of magical when it launched, but as its reliability has degraded over time, its appeal has worn off. It is still nice to be able to ask it to play music or set an alarm or whatever without engaging with a screen. I hav
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by bsimpson 2y ago
They originally suspected that the mast broke in the storm, but they found the boat intact.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I think this is more like Google Colab, where the UI renders in the browser, but offloads computation to a kernel running elsewhere. As I recall, Observable uses the browser's JS runtime for computation.

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