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by pewu 1y ago
Once I tried to reverse engineer a simple checksum (10 ASCII chars + 1 checksum byte), gathered multiple possible values and fed it to Gemini 2.5 Pro. It figured out the calculation completely wrong, when I applied the formula in code I got
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by pewu 2y ago
Wireless earbuds microphones are famous for poor quality audio, even in the top of the line models. The microphone is indeed closer to your mouth, but the sound in the human speech range is quite directional, and does not travel to your ear
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by pewu 2y ago
It's called operational leasing and it's quite popular in Europe. Examples include: https://www.ayvens.com/en-pt/leasing-with-us/how-it-works/ https://www.drivalia.cz/en/fleet-m
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by pewu 2y ago
There's a broader area protected by a high fence with barbed wire. They had access there, cause the father is a radio engineer and have friends on various sites.
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by pewu 2y ago
Does anyone else remember the clone Art for Kids for Atari [1], or more specifically, it's Polish version for Windows, Zostań Małym Picasso? There's no screenshot I could find of the latter, but looked exactly like the Atari clone
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by pewu 3y ago
I wouldn't suggest hosting publicly open services from own local network. Without proper maintenance and experience, this is asking for trouble imo. VPSes are so cheap these days (far cheaper than 10$ if you don't need much perfor
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by pewu 5y ago
One feature missing from the Windows solution, which flux has and it works tremendously, is an automatic trigger to disable the color/brightness change when a certain app is opened. Works beautifully when I'm up to do some Lightro
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by pewu 6y ago
It's also accessible from context menu in the editor, I use it from there.
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by pewu 6y ago
I'm a software developer on a daily basis, whose native language is not English. In this environment, pretty much all keywords are in English and having this perspective, I automatically treat words like "trash", "spam&q
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by pewu 6y ago
Analog encryption schemes are infinitely interesting to revisit today. The ingenuity of these folks trying to create an unbreakable encryption scheme with limited resources of 80's and 90's never ceases to amaze me. BTW A piece of
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by pewu 6y ago
In Poland in 60s, there were also some post-related records sold: http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/misc/postcards.html
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Show HN: Java agent for method monitoring using Groovy scripts(github.com)
3 points by pewu 9y ago|0 comments
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by pewu 10y ago
Is it still possible, when you cannot mount your /system partition as rw, because of well... permissions?