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by lioeters 1y ago
> JeeLib is an Arduino IDE library for JeeNodes (made by JeeLabs) Source code: https://github.com/jeelabs/jeelib Website: https://jeelabs.org/202x/sw/jeelib/ The latter redirects to a
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by lioeters 1y ago
Oh that's a more proper study than the amateur experiment I saw. > For this purpose, we trained goldfish to use a Fish Operated Vehicle (FOV), a wheeled terrestrial platform that reacts to the fish’s movement characteristics, locati
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by lioeters 1y ago
> Linux is the most distracting That's totally subjective. Windows takes the cake, since it ignores user agency when it wants. It's not your operating system. macOS is not as bad, but it does what Apple wants. If your use of co
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by lioeters 1y ago
Not sure about this particular experiment, but there is certainly interesting potential in integrating biological organisms (or parts thereof) with larger robotic and mechanical systems. Recently I saw a video of a turtle which was given a
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by lioeters 1y ago
> GPL is a theoretical idea that doesn't work in the real world GPL has been working in the real world for the past 36 years. > No one really cares if they have access to their refrigerator's source code. I do, and believe i
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by lioeters 1y ago
A person being alive is not at all similar to the concept of intellectual property existing. The former is a natural phenomenon, the latter is a social construct.
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by lioeters 1y ago
The presentation was recently discussed at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596554 [video] (37 comments) This current posted link is an article by Casey Muratori with supplementary material on topics to explore furth
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by lioeters 1y ago
I just learned that Bun supports "autoimports" similar to the above. > If no node_modules directory is found in the working directory or higher, Bun will abandon Node.js-style module resolution in favor of the Bun module resolu
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by lioeters 1y ago
> You can download it here. https://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/in-his-own-wor... ..which leads to a page, with this link at the bottom. > Download the Kildall Manuscript [2.31MB] https:/&#x
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by lioeters 1y ago
Years ago I was recommended yr.no for weather forecasts, and I visit it often. I wonder what's special about Norway's meteorologists that they have exceptionally good quality data and ability to build and run a useful public servi
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by lioeters 1y ago
I'm starting to see this kind of wording as a unique selling point, that some software (or article, visual art, etc.) is handcrafted and artisanal, as opposed to AI-generated. "Every word was written by me, a human being!" At
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by lioeters 1y ago
> Mozilla now only seems to speak using creepy, gibberish lunatic language. I think the reason is that Mozilla used to be a tech-focused company, speaking in a precise technical manner about concrete things in the real world. Gradually t
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by lioeters 1y ago
> Any Spanish government wiretaps carried out by law enforcement agencies will soon be managed by Chinese telecom giant Huawei thanks to a recently-won contract. > the contract includes digital storage of judicially-ordered wiretaps &
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by lioeters 1y ago
I don't think Ram Dass ever came down. He blasted through Richard Alpert, and stayed on the other side permanently for the rest of his life.
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by lioeters 1y ago
Computers are one of the most psychedelic technologies ever created. It literally expands the mind.
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by lioeters 1y ago
That's what the ego would say.
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by lioeters 1y ago
I'd like to practice verifying file integrity, instead of running `curl | sh`. I see that sha256sum (or 512) is the standard command people use. # Download package and its checksum curl -fsSLO https://example.com&#x
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by lioeters 1y ago
Even as an occasional casual Python user of several years, I noticed how much simpler it is to check out new projects using uv compared to other tools. It's such a relief because I used to encounter so many weird compatibility issues w
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by lioeters 1y ago
I was curious about this too, and found some discussion related to the topic of "bloated C" when the 3rd edition was announced. The C23 edition of Modern C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41850017 Like this
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by lioeters 1y ago
> vaguely repressive surveillance It's authoritarianism, and frankly paving the way for fascism. People are already getting visits from the police for unsavory Facebook posts. Be careful not to criticize your government online, beca
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by lioeters 1y ago
Sometimes mathematics and physics provide superior solutions than man-made laws. Encryption for example. It's better to make something impossible, than to have laws that are routinely ignored by law enforcement.
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by lioeters 1y ago
Looks like a code block didn't get closed properly, before this phrase: > the functions `recip` and `recip⁺` and not equivalent Several paragraphs after this got swallowed by the code block. Edit: Oh, I didn't realize the artic
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by lioeters 1y ago
> c4wa needs Java 11 or above It sounded good until this part. Would have been nice if it were written in the subset of C that it supports, so it could compile the compiler to Wasm.
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by lioeters 1y ago
Thanks! I haven't heard of any person in that list - other than Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart. Oh and literally just this week I heard about Edward Said and his book Orientalism. Well I'm going to enjoy studying the w
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by lioeters 1y ago
Oh cool! I was looking at this page, which looks official but apparently not up to date. https://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html Looks like this is the proper location for the project. https://libpng
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by lioeters 1y ago
> money, internet routers, and code are social relations Could you recommend some further reading to dig into this insight? Also I'm curious why you created such a topic-specific user, I guess for privacy?
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by lioeters 1y ago
> Not backwards compatible They say it's technically compatible since older image decoders should recognize the PNG file is using a different compression algorithm than the default. > Many programs already support the new PNG spe
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by lioeters 1y ago
The article was really good, explaining the details of how the virtual machine works. I starred the Git repo, good luck with the Hack Club!
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by lioeters 1y ago
Fun article and project. I enjoyed reading and playing around with it. My first run of `make release` failed with this error. cc -std=c11 -Wall -Wextra -Werror -pedantic -O3 -DNDEBUG -c -o build/main.o src/main.c src&#x2
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by lioeters 1y ago
I think what they mean is, having all the source code that make up your system as well as building everything yourself, allows you to climb down to any level of the system and adjust the parts as needed, including the compilers and build sy

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