mikepurvis

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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
IR blasters are rough because there's no feedback. You're literally just shouting out commands into the void, and heaven forbid if it's something that's a toggle where you don't know which state you're starting
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
Okay interesting, so maybe openclaw does a lot less than I thought it did; really I have no excuse not to be just trying it myself regardless, given that I'm sitting on a 9070 XT. It doesn't look like you're building directly
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
I'm very interested in this kind of thing as a kind of ADHD brain augment, like it's monitoring my slack, github, email, calendar, active terminals, etc, and helps me prioritize what I should work on as well as weighing whether th
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
I'm mostly very happy with my LG C4 as a home theatre centerpiece, and I did have it online so that I could use the apps for YouTube and Jellyfin. However, the lack of support for modern 4k rips (HEVC+DTS) ended up being a dealbreaker
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
I'm not knocking the devs for the choice to target open hardware, only remarking that that choice signals the project is for hackers, not regular consumers.
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
I've never heard of any of them; I guess it's geared toward build-it-yourself or kit-type devices? I can't imagine a serious aftermarket FW not supporting a single Kindle or Kobo device.
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
Wide angle lenses have been a thing in real estate photography since forever, but you would always have the reference of the furniture to ground your perception. Having furniture be slightly downsized is diabolical.
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
I've started to see this on Etsy and Wayfair too, where there will be a listing that is clearly just MDF flatpack being resold from China, but the AI-generated images wildly exaggerate the proportions of it. Here's a recent exampl
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
I run the crafty controller Docker container on my unraid machine and it's easy and pretty hands off.
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
Earth is 12700 km in diameter, so such an image would be 688 pixels across. Basically you won't be reading license plates but you'd see enough to identify evidence of very large scale construction, and with multiple images over ti
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
Even without the rebar rusting, I think you can still have issues with the steel and concrete having difference thermal expansion properties, particularly for outdoor strucutures where a freeze/thaw cycle is in play. Basically the reba
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
Blah, so you're right. I was just looking for a link with some representative reference pictures, but I should have done more diligence. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
To build without tension you have to build structures that basically look like Roman structures [1]: a bunch of tightly spaces arches so that the entire thing is in compression, with no meaningful tension anywhere. But it turns out that&#x2
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
The tablets in my OTC jar are 10mg, and they're pretty small already, not easily divisible, and certainly not to 1/100th of a dose as the sibling comment is suggesting. This is an interesting suggestion though, maybe I'll try
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
While that's true, editions are more about leaving legacy decisions behind while keeping the backward compatibility promise. Even if you're in one of those unconventional settings (say, a bare-metal microcontroller or something),
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
Key phrases make sense to put in place, but another easy safeguard is: "Before you send anything to anyone, ever, call them back. Doesn't matter if it's me, the bank, a lawyer, whatever... tell them 'hang on I have anoth
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
I take melatonin to sleep on a redeye, but otherwise don't use it. I find the effect is similar to taking a weed edible to fall asleep— basically, my wearable registers a lengthy period of deep sleep but instead of waking up feeling re
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
I think it depends who it is making noise. There are some famous Oculus-era stories about John Carmack tracing display latency issues and then writing lengthy screeds to Samsung engineers to get them to give him lower level access. I bet if
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
This year I grudgingly switched from an iPhone 13 Mini to a Pixel 10, largely to get the full integrated Pebble experience, but having USB-C has been a surprising and delightful upgrade to my home/travel experience. For sources, I basi
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
Is... that possible? I thought the whole point is that those were a challenge-response specifically to avoid ever them disclosing over the air the material necessary to impersonate one.
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by mikepurvis 3mo ago
I used a car-sharing service (Communauto) for a while when I was between vehicles, and it was invaluable to just plug in my phone and not have to worry about setting up anything else . No menus to navigate, no signing into spotify or googl
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Definitely another case where Nintendo platforms benefit from everyone having a shared understanding of which are the marquee, must-work titles; like every Mario and Zelda and Pokemon game will emulate flawlessly and after that is the long
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Yes, fair, and that matters if the discussion is "I want to buy someone's physical copy of a game released a few months ago that they are finished with". Digital distribution with robust hardware security does in fact complet
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Yes, for play-online titles for sure, but I think everything up to Xbox 360 / PS3 era has robust emulation and wide distribution of the whole library. Obviously it's gotten harder over the years, but PS4 and PS5 jailbreaks do exis
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Hopefully emulation and piracy will continue to provide a reasonable check valve on this getting too far out of control. I don't personally engage in either at present outside of an old homebrewed Wii U, but I feel like the existence o
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
In my day job, I do a lot of AI coding but almost never have Claude actually create the PR titles or descriptions for me. It produces too much content, and the justification/background sections are often not quite right. Most PRs to me
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Lots of cynical replies here unfortunately, but that proposal is similar to other ones that seek protection for various other natural commons. John Michael Greer discusses a bunch of this in Wealth of Nature [1], basically arguing that me
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
I've always really enjoyed Andrew Kelley's article about trying to statically recompile NES code from 2013 [1]. Basically he makes a ton of progress but gets hung up not just on the realities of the handwritten assembler of the er
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Timely. I just downloaded Augustus last night and played a bunch of Caesar III with the assets for $5 from GOG. Interestingly Augustus is itself a fork of Julius, where Julius intends to replicate original behavior including bugs whereas Au
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
I'm a relatively basic claude code user, basically just running a few instances in different terminal tabs and monitoring them pretty closely, but I could definitely see value in being able to dump a bunch of code and tools into a work

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