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by sho_hn 2y ago
Not without precedent: The Voodoo 5 6000 by 3dfx came with its own external PSU almost 25 years ago. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQqLXew...
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by sho_hn 2y ago
Thanks! The main difficulty & goal with this one was reducing the power consumption to the absolute minimum, which meant putting some effort into component choices and I also ended up writing the display controller driver myself. But if
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by sho_hn 2y ago
I ended up replacing the battery with a larger one than the one pictured in the end, a 3100 (ed: hang on, was it maybe 3500 even?) mAh Samsung 18650 cell. I also switched the voltage reg to a more efficient chip. I now get about 9-10 months
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by sho_hn 2y ago
I think seeing more public spaces shift away from emissive displays and putting more emphasis on quality lighting again would definitely be interesting. What mainly limits the applications for this tech is that full-color refresh is very sl
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by sho_hn 2y ago
The Kaleido panels features in this article indeed do 4096 colors, but the Spectra 6 panels also from E-ink can be a bit more - they mix particles of 6 different primary colors, and with some advanced dithering in place you can get pretty i
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by sho_hn 2y ago
Here's the one I built for my home: https://imgur.com/a/NoTr8XX This is still a black and white panel, but it's not that different with the color ones. Feel free to reach out if you have questions.
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by sho_hn 2y ago
I stopped liking Musk when his first wife's tell-all "I Was a Starter Wife" came out in Marie Claire in 2010. Yes, penned by a disgruntled former spouse, it felt nonetheless authentic and immediately believable, and all the e
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by sho_hn 2y ago
Strongly second these recommendations. I enormously enjoyed them for both their information density, but also their extremely clear and proficient writing style. Absolute class journalism.
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by sho_hn 2y ago
It'd be nice if we had a good one, alas ... https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm
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by sho_hn 2y ago
You're confusing things. The mission you are referring to was flown using the Boeing Starliner capsule, launched atop a Atlas V N22 rocket. Not the SLS or Orion.
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by sho_hn 2y ago
I see no evidence that "keeping up appearances" toward critics has been a priority for anyone else in the last two weeks.
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by sho_hn 2y ago
I think by individualism what people usually mean is the general "me, I got mine" attitude & the idealization of not giving a care to what other people think, i.e. "do your thing". I lot of what happens in the East A
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by sho_hn 2y ago
Don't bother :) There are other examples, but the US/HN audience is particularly fascinated with Japan in a "if you have to pick one" kind of way. Perhaps also because it's an old adversary. It's much better th
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by sho_hn 2y ago
Slowly getting removed: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/e8612e21-4ea4-4e6f-8c73-9fbee11...
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by sho_hn 2y ago
I've been struggling with some sort of variant of this. I'm a prolific FOSS contributor, but a few years ago I switched to a very time-intensive day job and we had our first kid, and my FOSS contributions have waned a fair bit as
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by sho_hn 2y ago
Remember all the hyperbole a year ago on how Google was failing and over?
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by sho_hn 2y ago
How about Gemini Director for the next agentic stuff.
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by sho_hn 2y ago
I think this is a good summary: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-developer-goog-blog-asse...
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by sho_hn 2y ago
Anyone have a take on how the coding performance (quality and speed) of the 2.0 Pro Experimental compares to o3-mini-high? The 2 million token window sure feels exciting.
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by sho_hn 2y ago
I'd say this criticism is well-addressed in aider. Steering the LLM via code comments is the first UX I've seen that works. https://aider.chat/docs/usage/watch.html How jarring it is & how much it ta
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by sho_hn 2y ago
There are fatal plane crashes in the US every year - in General Aviation (which often may not talk to ATC at all). Important to make the distinction :-)
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by sho_hn 2y ago
A big problem was that he couldn't attain a mental model of how the code was behaving at runtime, in particular the lifetimes of data and objects - what would get created or destroyed when, exist at what time, happen in what sequence,
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by sho_hn 2y ago
Not sure! My own path was very mentor-dependent. Participating in open source communities worked for me to find my original mentors as well. The other participants are incentivized to mentor/coach because the main thing you're bri
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by sho_hn 2y ago
I strongly agree with this comment. Anecdotal evidence time! I'm an experienced dev (20 years of C++ and plenty of other stuff), and I frequently work with younger students in a mentor role, e.g. I've done Google Summer of Code th
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by sho_hn 2y ago
Thanks for following up dang.
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by sho_hn 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902355 also disappeared from the front page very suddenly earlier. This also gave me the impression there's either more active moderation of a certain class of stories atm, or the
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by sho_hn 2y ago
Thanks!
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by sho_hn 2y ago
Thanks! I also think this is a good summary for those who had never heard of Weimar before: https://archive.is/xh2Ci But like most summaries, it suffers a bit from focusing on the key events, and not capturing this sort of
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by sho_hn 2y ago
Are there any good blogs that are chronicling the USA Federal gov's slow descent into facism and overt corruption, just collecting and archiving pieces like this with a classiciation/categorization etc.? I think it's an unpre
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by sho_hn 2y ago
I'm heavily biased and an expert user, but I do also have a Mac from work, and my Linux laptop genuinely is more trouble-free with docking and Bluetooth acrobatics than the Mac (a M1 MBP). Every time the Mac decides today's anothe

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