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by raphman 9mo ago
FWIW, many of the researchers on the paper did not study in the U.S. but immigrated after their PhD studies. I checked the first, middle, and last author: Lars Mescheder got his PhD in Germany, Bruno Lecouat got his PhD in France, Vladlen K
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by raphman 10mo ago
I found this quote from the paper by Catchpole et al. quite important: "Whilst it is encouraging that analogies from other industries with longstanding cultures of safety and reliability may be extrapolated, it is also important to re
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by raphman 10mo ago
Some more sources I saved recently after learning about Elliott's work: The original paper by Catchpole et al. (2006): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-9592.2006... A quite interesting lect
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by raphman 10mo ago
There are companies that laser-'etch' 3D images into glass. I guess it's not that hard to find one that accepts a list of xyz coordinates.
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by raphman 10mo ago
FWIW, the Haribo charger seems to be rather well made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT_t5nvFcoY (26:50, by ZeroBrain, a German YouTuber that disassembles electronic devices)
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by raphman 10mo ago
hiq's comment was not about Whisperfish but about the presage library. My comment can be read as "Whisperfish wrote their own implementation of the signal protocol" - which is wrong. (Sorry, can't edit it anymore) With p
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by raphman 10mo ago
The Whisperfish [1] project (a Signal messenger for Sailfish OS) maintains an independent Signal client library written in Rust [2]. It works quite well - unless Signal decides to change their protocols or kick non-standard clients. [1] ht
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by raphman 10mo ago
My personal opinion (based in part on HN): - In a nutshell: everyone should know about UML and how some relevant diagram types look. Nobody should use it religiously. - Diagrams are great tools for communicating ideas and implementations on
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by raphman 10mo ago
Thanks HN! I regularly open HN during lectures. There is no better way to show my students what software engineering entails and why I focus on certain topics. Is SCRUM really as great as its evangelists claim? Let's read HN comments.
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by raphman 11mo ago
Dito. I 'grew up' with Bash in the early 2000s and never knew about the globstar. I an pretty sure that I never encountered it in any scripts or tutorials - otherwise I'd certainly have looked it up.
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by raphman 11mo ago
"SAT/SMT by Example" also contains many Z3 examples (and has a new URL): https://smt.st/
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by raphman 11mo ago
Given the code has been completely vibe-coded, what does this mean in practice?: > Copyright (c) 2025 Whose copyright? IIRC, it is consensus that AI cannot create copyrightable works. If the author does not own the copyright, can they ad
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by raphman 11mo ago
> "most idiotic devices anyone could own" Ever been to Chesterton's Fence? Hypothetically, some people who own such an idiotic device might have pets that bring in lots of dirt from the fields, lose lots of hair, and get a
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by raphman 11mo ago
I can confirm this. We have been using it for 10 years now in our research lab. No data loss so far. Performance is great. Integration with OnlyOffice works quite well (there were sync problems a few years ago - I think upgrading OnlyOffice
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by raphman 11mo ago
FWIW, Seeed Studios offers a range of Intel SBCs with an embedded microcontroller that is explicitly meant to be used like an Arduino board [1]. [1] https://www.seeedstudio.com/ODYSSEY-X86-v2-board-p-5075.html
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by raphman 11mo ago
FWIW, I actually received my Jolla Tablet (albeit delayed). Your are right that Jolla is sometimes less transparent and professional than one would expect. However, I realize that Jolla is also under much more scrutiny by the community tha
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by raphman 11mo ago
I have been using SailfishOS phones as my main driver for ten years now. Some random, personal, possibly uninformed thoughts: - It is not for everyone. Some Linux experience and willingness to tinker with it is helpful. - Despite the many l
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by raphman 11mo ago
Thanks for pointing this out. If someone reports a bug in my software, I usually acknowledge the reporter in the commit message. Seems like vibe coding also allows one to get rid of this pesky obligation.
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by raphman 11mo ago
Honest question: why would this code clamp the reported round-trip time? By default, min = 0.05 ms and max = 800 ms [1]. if (rtt < config.min_rtt) rtt = config.min_rtt; else if (rtt > config.
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by raphman 11mo ago
The commit messages (with dozens of semi- and unrelated changes in each commit) suggest so. https://github.com/davidesantangelo/fastrace/commit/79d92744... (For me, this does not necessarily say anything ab
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by raphman 11mo ago
There is/was https://github.com/selfspy/selfspy (not updated in 10 years).
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by raphman 11mo ago
I'm doing this in the software engineering¹ course I teach. However: a) Practical CI/CD requires understanding (and some practical experience) of many other concepts like Linux shell scripting, version control, build automation,
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by raphman 1y ago
> OpenDoc For anyone interested in the Apple future that could have been, check out Jim Miller's articles, e.g. on LiveDoc ( https://www.miramontes.com/writing/livedoc/index.php )
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by raphman 1y ago
No, the article incorrectly cites/summarizes the original blog post [1] which indeed seems to pull some numbers out of thin air: > "I’m going to use a bunch of numbers here that I believe to be directionally correct," >
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by raphman 1y ago
> but Airline and big hotel websites have way too many dark patterns made to confuse the user and force them to pay extra. And sooner or later these websites will implement new dark patterns to confuse the LLMs...
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by raphman 1y ago
"Sora Update #4: Through a partnership with Google, Meta and Snap Inc., you will be able to generate tasteful photos of the cute girl you saw on the bus. She will receive a compensation of $0.007 once she signs our universal content cr
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by raphman 1y ago
Thanks - seems to work quite well.
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by raphman 1y ago
According to [1], the downloaded video is AES-encrypted. Decryption key is stored locally in an IndexDB. I tried building a Python script using plyvel [2], a Python module for reading IndexDB/LevelDB, some time ago but IIRC, it had tro
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by raphman 1y ago
If a special rate that better fits an organization's usage patterns is "charity", then any rate that is not extracting the maximum amount of money from the customer is also "charity", no? To some degree, reduced rat
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by raphman 1y ago
Oh, valid point. I actually hate heise.de's approach to hard-require consent to ad-tracking (or payment). As my university has a subscription for heise.de, I was not shown the consent popup and forgot about that. Sorry.

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