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Native meshtastic client for HP Jornada 720/728 Win CE(github.com)
3 points by fidotron 7mo ago|0 comments
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FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text (old)(figlet.org)
4 points by fidotron 7mo ago|1 comments
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by fidotron 7mo ago
We can remain grateful the kids haven't discovered how to use figlet in HN comments.
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by fidotron 7mo ago
This is going to end up with TUIs that resemble old BBS ANSI art, such as https://16colo.rs/ It completely misses the reason people like current TUIs.
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by fidotron 8mo ago
> then the beholder is trusting not just the correctness of that one sentence but all of the experiences and insights from the author. This is my point. There is no sane endgame here that doesn't end up with each user effectively de
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by fidotron 8mo ago
The only question is is the entity interesting and/or correct. Those properties are in the eye of the beholder. If they're human or not is beside the point. After all, no one knows I'm a dog.
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by fidotron 8mo ago
The purpose of hiring them is to make them come to the conclusion you already have, so when it goes well you get the credit for doing it, or if it goes sideways you can pin the blame on them.
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by fidotron 8mo ago
There is no meaningful distinction, which is why a civil case in a foreign country is picked up by the BBC. Furthermore, the Gov are trying to deflect on to OpenAI (and the internet) because a huge part of the failings in that case involve
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by fidotron 8mo ago
It contains "The plaintiffs allege no age verification took place on the site." As if this is a problem.
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by fidotron 8mo ago
The Canadian version of this is especially cynical: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c309y25prnlo
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by fidotron 8mo ago
> So the UK is now China it seems Western governments have been looking enviously at China's authoritarianism (notoriously Trudeau blurted out he admired their "basic dictatorship" back in 2013) while completely ignoring a
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by fidotron 8mo ago
> In comparison, I think Arm is actually a very strong cautionary tale that focusing on power will not get you to performance. Hugely underappreciated. Someone involved fully understood that "you don't get to the moon by climbi
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by fidotron 8mo ago
> I think the bigger question is does RISC-V need to be fast? Who wants to make it fast? Honestly, the initial reaction is it sounds like cope, and I know this because I've been saying it for ages to angry reactions. RISC-V looks fo
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by fidotron 8mo ago
The fact the Hazard3 designer ended up creating an extension to resolve related oddities was kind of astonishing. Why did it fall to them to do it? Impressive that he did, but it shouldn't have been necessary.
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by fidotron 8mo ago
> RISC-V doesn't have the pitfalls of Sparc (register windows, branch delay slots), You're saying ISA design does have implementation performance implications then? ;) > There's no one that expects it'll be hard to
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by fidotron 8mo ago
> RISC-V will get there, eventually. Not trolling: I legitimately don't see why this is assumed to be true. It is one of those things that is true only once it has been achieved. Otherwise we would be able to create super high perfo
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by fidotron 8mo ago
There's that immortal Alan Kay line "arrogance in computer science is measured in nano Dijkstras".
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by fidotron 8mo ago
Homage. I really like the ideals of fidonet. Edit to add, and as our friendly Russian here reminded us, it was a much more optimistic time.
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by fidotron 8mo ago
"The civil lawsuit, brought by Gebala's mother Cia Edmonds, alleges Rootselaar set up an account with ChatGPT before she turned 18 - something users can do with parental consent. The plaintiffs allege no age verification took plac
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Family of child injured in Canada school shooting sues OpenAI(bbc.com)
12 points by fidotron 8mo ago|2 comments
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by fidotron 8mo ago
Of course! There was a time we were encouraged to be friendly with Russia, and many Russian devs were on Fidonet. This was actually how some I knew were recruited to work for western companies.
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by fidotron 8mo ago
The confusion is possibly almost appropriate, given so much of his work was on creating systems which avoid confusion through using proper synchronized communication channels. The null pointer stuff is famous, but it's occam and the Co
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by fidotron 8mo ago
Say what you will about Zuckerberg, but at least he tried to burn untold billions on something that was potentially slightly exciting. We should be grateful for funding of the research, and that it didn't pay off in market results. Mor
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by fidotron 8mo ago
Did he (or anyone here) get to talk to King Hussein of Jordan? https://www.dx-world.net/the-ham-radio-operation-that-made-h...
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by fidotron 8mo ago
Similar. Experience of Canadian ham scene though is it's almost all just buying/selling equipment, to the point some channels were occupied by automated announcements of what people were buying and selling. APRS is fairly well use
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by fidotron 8mo ago
Getting it to work with one end stationary first sounds like a reasonable development plan. LEO adds a lot of complexity, but with huge benefits. OTOH the number of engineers that focus on throughput over latency is quite staggering.
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by fidotron 8mo ago
Curiously the Sega game Columns was licensed from the HP UX original.
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by fidotron 8mo ago
From the noises that occur whenever you force a Windows loving gamedev to use a Mac the first major "problem" is mouse acceleration.
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by fidotron 8mo ago
The games industry remains a hotbed of people that vehemently hate Apple, even those that have never touched a Mac. Part of it historically was a sort of Visual Studio induced Stockholm Syndrome, where for a long time if you were doing C++
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by fidotron 8mo ago
If you've seen analytics from stuff hitting the front page here in the last few years you'd see why, by which I mean the US tech industry is much less of the audience on here than you might think. Now that we've all gone thro

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