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by follower 2y ago
> I expect a light switch button on a plane act like any other light switch button everywhere else Me too, which was why I was very surprised when I discovered light switches in the USA worked backwards [0]. :D (When I initially read yo
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by follower 2y ago
With regard to "Un*x", the Wikipedia text is... imprecise[0]. The asterisk character in this context/usage is not used as a wildcard/glob but as a censoring device[3], in a manner similar to: "Don't censor f*
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by follower 2y ago
TL;DR: An Audio GIF stores audio inside a standards compliant GIF image: https://audiogif.rancidbacon.com/ ---- From a brief test, at least some of the options on the page do support save-able single file--depending on
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by follower 2y ago
TL;DR: Godot does support WASM project exports. ---- > The WASM distribution channel is a huge potential selling point for Bevy. You don't get that with Unreal, and AFAIK, with Godot either. To clarify: if by "WASM distribution
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by follower 2y ago
> recommend this Spolsky classic on how to convince one to try a new VCS: https://hginit.github.io/ Based in part on the parallels of their respective titles, this post may be similar enough in style to potentially be in
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by follower 2y ago
> it was Google Maps that made the experience of not needing to refresh the page popular IMO that's a reasonable impression of the times unless I'm forgetting something (and the additional observation about sharing--"viral
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by follower 2y ago
> [...] some of the announcements today have thrown us for a loop so plans are still being discussed. Feel free not to answer, but: does this imply Rebbele were aware of an impending Pebble OS source release but not... the other thing? I
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by follower 2y ago
Thank you for mentioning this detail again. I generally remember that there's some problematic issue with Unihertz but often seem to manage to forget exactly which issue it is. Non-compliance with the GPL is frustratingly common (o
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by follower 2y ago
Oh! Also: I'd be really interested for you to expand on "I think I’ve learned some valuable lessons[0]". The 2022 updates gave an interesting insight into how your perspective had changed in regard to your initial thoughts an
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by follower 2y ago
TL;DR: Succinctness has never been my strong suit? :) ---- > But I'm not really sure that this fear is grounded - before we sold to Fitbit we 'unlocked' the Pebble mobile app [...]. If I'm reading OP's comment &a
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by follower 2y ago
Still "daily driving" my burgundy[0] Pebble... hoodie/fleece! (It's impressive quality company swag.) @erohead, when you're at the stage of needing a kick-ass RePebble SDK developed & supported again[1], you kno
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by follower 2y ago
For visibility (via comment by 1337shadow @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42848245 ): ---- > Instead, we took a more direct route - I asked friends at Google (which bought Fitbit, which had bought Pebble’s IP) if t
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by follower 2y ago
> So much for “open source” In the given context "Proprietary source code" seems to potentially primarily mean third-party proprietary source code which Google doesn't have the rights to re-license. There's further
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by follower 2y ago
> Ps so Eric Migikovsky works for Google now? I thought he was working on beeper. AIUI the connection to Google here is that Google acquired the rights to Pebble OS (when Google acquired FitBit (after FitBit had previously purchased the
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by follower 2y ago
> Is he planning on self-financing presumably out of some personal wealth? This may be relevant context for your question: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/technology/beeper-messagi...
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by follower 2y ago
Unfortunately, as mentioned in another comment, the Bluetooth stack is apparently one of the items that is not included in the source release[0]: Some parts of the firmware have been removed for licensing reasons, including: [
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by follower 2y ago
TL;DR: No. Maybe? Depends. It's probably reasonable to make a distinction between "Real Time" desktop/server OS (on CPUs) vs "Real Time" embedded hardware OS (on MCUs). (Even aside from any hard-/soft- rea
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by follower 2y ago
TL;DR: Tintin in the Land of the Public Domain. I had forgotten Pebble used Tintin-themed code names (which I assume was the inspiration for the Snowy assistant app's name?)... Tangentially & coincidentally related: the Tintin &amp
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by follower 2y ago
> There was a great little site that let you use a visual UI to build the file Was the site you used "Watchface Generator" (.de -- domain was poached at some point) : https://developer.rebble.io/developer.pebble
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by follower 2y ago
The Allen Key (a.k.a Hex Key) stored within the device itself is (marketing) genius--that to my surprise doesn't seem to feature very prominently in their marketing... :D (Perhaps because the audience to which such a thing seems to b
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by follower 2y ago
I wonder how this page might look if people could only comment in support of policies that wouldn't lead to a direct personal financial benefit. (Disclosure: In such a situation I would be unable to post this comment--as, in our just w
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by follower 2y ago
> Is it even feasible to provide gnu binaries? It depends on one's definition of "feasible", I guess. Building against the "most recent glibc pushed by GitHub" doesn't make it feasible but building against a
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by follower 2y ago
Indeed, maybe musl will finally be the long-term compatible Linux native binary format to one day replace win64+wine. glibc compatibility breakage is the bane of my existence. The situation is made worse by GitHub pushing people to build ag
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by follower 2y ago
Based on my understanding/recollection of `expect`, the concept is that you're scripting a command/process (or command sequence) via a "terminal connection" (or basic stdin/stdout), based on the (either complet
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by follower 2y ago
FWIW WezTerm does seem to split much of its "generic terminal" functionality into separate published re-usable crates: * https://lib.rs/gh/wez/wezterm/wezterm / https://crates.io&#x2
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by follower 2y ago
> column mode in MacOS's finder FWIW these are known as "Miller columns" if anyone wants to research the topic further: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_columns
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by follower 2y ago
> You get down to where you're working at the syllable level - noticing, for instance, that moving on this word, rather than that one changes the whole dynamic of the scene. That's an interesting perspective on performance
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> but Christians largely believe that God will supernaturally preserve the Bible no matter what You know, until you put it in this context, it hadn't occurred to me how--from some perspectives--"convenient" that is. :)
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by follower 2y ago
Fortunately memorization isn't a requirement for stand-up or my stint performing it might've ended up even shorter than it already was. :D Like general public-speaking, approaches used by individuals to prepare/perform stan
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by follower 2y ago
Well, that seems intriguingly topical in the current era of LLMs & occurrences of their verbatim reproduction of training data... :) Perhaps it's not mindless reproduction of the training data, rather, entirely mindful reprod

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