pbronez

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   by pbronez 2y ago

   Wow! Never saw Snooker before. It was awesome to slowly realize what he was trying to do, then watch him sink shot after shot after shot… the really impressive thing to me was the placement of the cue ball. He wasn’t just shooting balls int
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   by pbronez 2y ago

   OpenSCAD has been great for simple projects. It’s very easy to get productive with if you know basic programming concepts. However, I’ve run into frustrating limitations on more complex projects. The core geometry engine is skittish. I stil
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   by pbronez 2y ago

   TIL several useful things about typefaces!
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   by pbronez 2y ago

   I made a couple AIs try to play a Fallout RPG. The Result was uncanny, but vacuous. https://tabled.typingcloud.com/share/1d49715b-c6d6-47b2-bbb7...
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   by pbronez 2y ago

   There’s a working group under the Eclipse Foundation that’s actively working to standardize AsciiDoc. I’m eager to see that effort succeed/complete.
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   by pbronez 2y ago

   First I’ve heard of Semantic Markdown [0]. It appears to be a way to embed RDF data in Markdown documents. The page I found is labeled “Alpha Draft,” which suggests there isn’t a huge corpus of Semantic Markdown content out there. This migh
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   by pbronez 2y ago

   The best (and only) implementation of this I’ve seen is https://all3dp.com/ If you visit with an ad blocker, they say “please disable your blocker or subscribe for $3/year. Hit the subscribe button and you can Apple Pa
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   by pbronez 2y ago

   For me, Kagi is super fast and provides high quality, customizable results. Web search Just Works. When I use a new computer/browser and accidentally search with Google, it is a viscerally unpleasant surprise. As for perplexity - I got
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   by pbronez 2y ago

   Here’s the best list of search indexes I’ve come across https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    Here’s a 30min audio version of TFA: https://www.audiowaveai.com/p/2626-dawn-of-a-new-era-in-sear...
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    I would really love for a Lemmy constellation to reproduce the peak Reddit experience. So far the activity isn’t there, but I’m trying to show up and be part of the solution.
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    I'm not very familiar with OWA - what is your critique? Their recommendations seem grounded in a very detailed assessment of how Apple's compliance with the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) https://open-web-advocacy.
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    Yes, but it's probably worth another look as my use cases have shifted around. I'm 1000% not interested in signing up for their SaaS (corporate data security concerns) but I see that they have an open source CLI [0] so maybe I&#x2
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    They’re still working on the spec. Last release was five months ago. So, slow progress continues. https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/asciidoc-lang/asciidoc-la ... Here are the minutes from the last working group m
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    Thanks for the reminder about Asciidoc! A few years ago I dug into various markup languages looking for a better way to draft legal documents. Asciidoc was the best balance of power & simplicity. Unfortunately the ecosystem was pretty w
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    Interesting to see that MIT explicitly wants the ability to do computational analysis over published papers. Many content creators are strongly against their work being used in AI, but this policy welcomes it: > Publishers will provide c
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    How do you feel about Ring Modulation? It’s another step into weird. https://youtu.be/9PmHWap1T-E?si=9lbiTQSU1ARFBKeD
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    I’m on iOS with Safari - no audio either. Album plays fine on Bandcamp though!
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    You’re both correct. Absolutely you need to start small and build confidence over time. However, it’s important to know early if you plan to eventually make the product a profit center. You can establish legal and technical foundations that
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    Concur. In house can work wonderfully, but you have to get the dev team integrated into the soul of the business… and you have to be willing to bend when they tell you the current system is insane.
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    Heh I feel called out. I love these kinds of things and don’t publish any music. For me, it’s about the joy of making music. It’s not a performance, it’s a recreational activity. It’s playful. When I want productive music making, with the i
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    I haven’t done any piloting. If I could convert a 250 mile trip from a 5 hour drive to a 90 minute flight, I would take my family of 4 to many more places. I’d be willing to invest several months in the requisite training. Currently I won’t
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    A Quick Look at FuelEconomy.gov shows many modern cars for sale with highway efficiency of 25mpg or less. Some (many?) people may judge it unconscionable, but it’s clearly acceptable to the broader market and current regulations. These mode
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    How do your project and Z3 compare to (1) Logic programming tools like Prolog and (2) optimizers like scipy.optimize? All of these seem to find solutions to user-provided constraint sets. They must be appropriate for different classes of pr
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    Interesting that it relies on OpenSSL, either dynamically from the OS or vendored at compile time. I wonder what the implications would be for using something like rustls. You’d get TLS batteries included and kill a large external dependenc
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    I’ve started using VIM because the key bindings are available in many other places. I’m not leaning into advanced configuration, just muscle memory for core actions.
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    The scary thing to me about that setup is how the global value is updated. Every individual script must successfully increment the value to avoid duplicate keys. Really hope they had a “get key” stored procedure to handle that.
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    Wish there was more discussion of Datalog here. That’s come up in a few interesting places and I’d love to hear about folk’s experience with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    One real feature: improved battery life. This might let me leave my phone in my bag and stop worrying about the watch battery.
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    by pbronez 2y ago

    huh. Maybe I should try Brave again.