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by iamjackg 7mo ago
Nobody is promoting a product. Simon is just sharing an experiment he attempted. No products being sold here.
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by iamjackg 8mo ago
Heck yeah! Love the VisiData shoutout. Echoing other people's desire for a web UI, mostly so I don't have to be the sole Maintainer of the Truth as the only resident household technomancer. EDIT: alternatively, exposing the data&#
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by iamjackg 8mo ago
Maybe your point was that, but that's not the point the person you replied to was addressing. Nobody was arguing about the specific definition of "modern." The original commenter made a very clear claim: that the most recen
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Skapa, a parametric 3D printing app like an IKEA manual (2025)(nmattia.com)
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by iamjackg 9mo ago
It's not unsolved, at least not the first part of your question. In fact it is a feature offered by all main LLM providers! - https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-caching - https://platfo
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by iamjackg 10mo ago
Curious how this will fare when playing Pokemon Red.
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by iamjackg 10mo ago
Oh absolutely -- this was a no-stakes personal project, so I was happy to rely on pre-made solutions and learn a thing or two along the way.
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by iamjackg 10mo ago
Somewhat related: a while ago I was working on a project and wanted to use an RS485 to TTL conversion board which came with badly translated instructions. However, somebody had reverse engineered the design and uploaded an EasyEDA schematic
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by iamjackg 11mo ago
Yeah I immediately switched to a Honeywell Z-Wave thermostat as soon as I got the email that they were discontinuing them.
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by iamjackg 1y ago
I was pleasantly surprised by how responsive it was, and overjoyed when I clicked back and immediately came back to HN: no messy history. Genius idea!
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by iamjackg 1y ago
This seems to be done through the accessibility services, which makes sense: they're built for apps like screen readers that must by nature be able to read the content of other apps. Each app has to be manually authorized by going to t
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by iamjackg 1y ago
This technique was also used in mid-late non-motion-plus Wii games to smooth out the pointer movement! Early games hadan incredibly twitchy pointer because they were simply mapping the IR data 1:1 to cursor movement, whereas later ones have
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by iamjackg 1y ago
It is the best version of fuzzy search I have ever seen: the ultimate "tip of my tongue" assistant. I can ask super vague things like "Hey, I remember seeing a tool that allows you to put actual code in your files to do code
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by iamjackg 1y ago
Technically speaking, Claude Code is an agent, for example. It's just a fancy term for an LLM that can call tools in a loop until it thinks it's done with whatever it was tasked to do. ChatGPT's Deep Research mode is also an
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by iamjackg 1y ago
I'd love more info about this, because I've been paying for Youtube premium for years and I haven't seen a single ad.
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by iamjackg 1y ago
I have very fond memories of using Opera Mini on my N-Gage and on a bunch of later feature phones that only had J2ME support. It felt revolutionary at the time, especially since data plans were still extremely restrictive. Wifi on phones w
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by iamjackg 1y ago
It doesn't cure it, the same way wearing glasses doesn't cure poor eyesight.
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by iamjackg 1y ago
I'd argue that there isn't one: you have to offer multiple choices. Auth through any TOTP app, Yubi key, pre-generated codes, mailing a physical code generator, etc.
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by iamjackg 1y ago
Perhaps I'm ignorant, but I wonder why I haven't seen this aspect explored in post-apocalyptic media more. I mean, beyond the obvious fact that if we can "keep making computers" all of a sudden the apocalypse doesn'
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by iamjackg 1y ago
Sorry, I'm a bit confused. That link seem to state the opposite? The user is asking if 911 can still override the location settings on the phone, and the answer seems to be "yes."
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by iamjackg 1y ago
Yeah, this one is tough. I tried doing today's puzzle and I immediately knew the full solution, so I guess the designer's dilemma is whether or not to allow Wheel of Fortune-style "I would like to give the full answer",
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by iamjackg 2y ago
You might not need to, but LLMs don't have perfect recall -- they're (variably) lossy by nature. Providing documentation is a pretty much universally accepted way to drastically improve their output.
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by iamjackg 2y ago
It's often the limiting factor to getting started, though. Idiosyncratic interfaces and control methods make it really tedious to start learning from scratch.
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by iamjackg 2y ago
You're right! It looks like I misunderstood the report and the "hidden opcodes" are only accessible to the ESP32 itself, not to connected devices? The article is somewhat confusingly worded.
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by iamjackg 2y ago
Great. Time to replace half my home automation devices! This is not entirely unexpected, regardless of whether it was intentional or not, but it still hurts. Although I guess it means it might be easier to take control of existing devices w
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by iamjackg 2y ago
Well, in this case it seems like there already is an official Flatpak, but Fedora is overriding it with their own, which is of lower quality. The problem was already solved, unless Fedora is claiming that their Flatpak is better in some spe
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by iamjackg 2y ago
I think that using Mario as part of the sponsor read is possibly even worse from a legal/Nintendo perspective: you can't even try to make a good faith transformative use argument there. I also subjectively found it very icky. Th
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by iamjackg 2y ago
I'm very interested in their Jailbreak evaluations: they're new to me. I might have missed previous mentions.
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by iamjackg 2y ago
That seems more unlikely to me -- training is not free and takes a long time, so it would not result in "[enhancing] the usefulness of results displayed in the Gemini app" and it being "particularly helpful to our users looki
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by iamjackg 2y ago
I've done this in the past with bugs in the grass. If I stare at a fixed point, I start seeing each individual bug moving through the grass, whereas normally they would be really hard to spot among all the fine details of the ground an

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