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by modeless 11mo ago
Second best, after Apple.
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by modeless 11mo ago
His point seems to be that we haven't yet seriously tried optimizing for energy efficiency of producing antimatter. It's a call to action. If we actually tried it's plausible that we could get to a level that, while still fan
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by modeless 11mo ago
This piece argues that antimatter could be feasible for space propulsion and we could start developing it now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46073414
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It's time to accelerate the development of antimatter for space propulsion(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
20 points by modeless 11mo ago|0 comments
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by modeless 11mo ago
I care a lot more about the screen resolution than the chip. The Steam Frame would make a really cool Linux workstation if the pixels per degree on the display matched typical monitors. Unfortunately, the resolution would have to be much hi
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by modeless 11mo ago
Has Qualcomm seen the light after working with Valve on Steam Frame? The news that Steam Frame would be running an open source Adreno GPU driver really caught me by surprise.
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by modeless 11mo ago
The important thing is that all the code written by Core Devices is open source. They can't force third parties to open their code, but they're opening all of their own work. And that proprietary code is not required to use the wa
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by modeless 11mo ago
No need to wait. It has an expansion port right over the nose for smell-o-vision.
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by modeless 11mo ago
The model is open weights, so you can run it yourself.
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by modeless 11mo ago
None of that is included in their statement that "we’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on storing and hosting the data". If they meant that they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on building a dev portal, patching app
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by modeless 11mo ago
Their original statement was "we’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on storing and hosting the data" that was scraped from the Pebble app store. So, explicitly not on the other services. I have to agree with other commenter
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by modeless 11mo ago
They charged a subscription for those. If they lost money on that they have nobody to blame but themselves.
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by modeless 11mo ago
Core doesn't want Rebble's data. They want the data from the original Pebble store, which is not owned by Rebble. It's the work of thousands of independent developers and it should be shared freely, not kept in a walled gar
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by modeless 11mo ago
It's a good point, and in fact I went and looked at the original announcement of VS Code and it appears that Microsoft didn't credit Chromium or Electron back then either. I guess big companies are allergic to crediting other big
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by modeless 11mo ago
Thank you for saying what this entire blog post doesn't. It's actually disrespectful of Google to launch this without even a mention of the fact that it is based on VSCode.
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by modeless 11mo ago
libpebblecommon consists of 5362 lines of Kotlin code. libpebble3 is 25578. Core Devices has done by far the large majority of the work even here, and Eric has heaped copious praise on Rebble repeatedly and consistently. If he didn't s
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by modeless 11mo ago
He had no way of continuing to support his customers without money. I doubt he personally made more than a token amount on the sale, liquidation preferences and all that. If selling out was his goal he could have sold out for a whole lot mo
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by modeless 11mo ago
Look, even Rebble's own blog post about the open sourcing says "a massive shout out to Eric Migicovsky for ensuring this happened". It is clear that he was the driving force that started the process inside Google that allowed
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by modeless 11mo ago
Rebble didn't write the firmware, just as they didn't write the apps and watchfaces that they scraped from Pebble for their store. Their main contributions were writing a web app to clone the Pebble store and maintaining it for ma
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by modeless 11mo ago
> The claim was that Rebble paid the developers of NimBLE, Codecoup, to assist with integration of NimBLE into RebbleOS OK, that claim wasn't actually made in this post. I see in a blog post last month they say "We engaged the
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by modeless 11mo ago
Only a small part of the software in use here was written by Rebble. They cloned the Pebble app store originally, but the store has no value by itself. What makes it valuable is the catalog of watchfaces and apps, approximately none of whic
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by modeless 11mo ago
I used Rebble for many years and bought the new Core Devices watches. The truth is Rebble will die without new hardware. It was declining in usage and I myself stopped using it when my old Pebble hardware gave out, until the prospect of ne
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Physical Intelligence: A VLA That Learns From Experience(pi.website)
1 points by modeless 11mo ago|0 comments
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by modeless 11mo ago
Ha, thanks, I should have remembered the URL
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by modeless 11mo ago
Doesn't that indicate that patents are being used to suppress competitors rather than as a direct revenue source? I don't see how that indicates patents aren't an issue.
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by modeless 11mo ago
From the same era of the internet I recall a site called the "Large Hardon Collider" making fun of the very common subtle typo. IIRC it had a light blue background and crude (in more ways than one) pencil diagrams. I can't fi
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by modeless 11mo ago
It already has an IMU and gyro, obviously. Time of flight cameras are unnecessary. Steam Frame doesn't have them either. At most you would put IR LEDs for illumination which are tiny but also optional (Quest 3 doesn't have them),
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by modeless 11mo ago
Only for in app purchases of Robux. They are uniquely allowed to distribute their own app store (not based on HTML/JS applets) within the App Store, which is against the terms that every other Apple developer agrees to. And they are al
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by modeless 11mo ago
They're not stopping at servers. They want to sell datacenters.
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by modeless 11mo ago
That's a cool idea! I think there are lots of ways to forward that notification to your phone. Probably vibe-codeable.

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