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by sho_hn 9mo ago
Despite everything that has happened over the past year, the Democrats only have a few percentage points lead over the Republicans in current midterm polling. As an outside observer: Absolutely wild. I know a lot about the reasons, but it s
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by sho_hn 9mo ago
https://eikehein.com Just a portfolio.
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by sho_hn 9mo ago
Gruber's take is nothing but a blog spam rehash that adds nothing at twice the word count, too.
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by sho_hn 9mo ago
A lot of what is shown here comes down to the people in the art asset and level pipeline. The real story to tell would be what tooling was used to pre-bake the lighing in the textures, e.g. if they used a seperate rendering package or mostl
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
Amusingly I also added a coffee stain to my Tex-based e-ink newspaper: https://imgur.com/a/diy-automatic-e-ink-newspaper-using-rust... Not using that package, though.
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
This one runs Linux on the ARM cores rather than the RISC-V cores in the same package, so it's apples and oranges, but still pretty neat for something that comes essentially with a companion MCU and is in the same form factor: https:&
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
Agreed, this is some proper nice tinkering writeup that we get far too rarely now. Lovely project! I'm a software guy who in recent years does lots of CAD for hobby projects (mainly robotics) and orders custom machined parts (lots of s
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
It's not advertising. And what you quoted was an explanation, not a defense.
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
First of all, thank you so much for your donations. To turn off the popup, head to System Settings -> Notifications, search for "Donation Request" and turn it off.
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
Your description of how LLM works is super muddled and confused.
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
(Plasma dev here.) I don't think it's something the user is "doing". A crash is never the user's fault. I will say it's atypical though. We measure session uptimes in months. There is probably a very specific c
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
It's a desktop notification that fires once toward the end of the year. It can be disabled by the user, and distributions can also pre-disable it (some do). > Or is this just something on the KDE website, like Wikipedia does? In Wik
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
Similar to what Eastern Germany had done to it as well.
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
What a wonderful website/project. I love finding one of these obscure deep-dives on the internet.
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Thank you very much in advance!
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
The ring doesn't just have irreplaceable batteries, it cannot be charged . You get it charged and once it's empty, it's obsolete. The more you use it, the faster this happens, and the usage they advertised was very much not
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
Yeah, it's the principle that gets me. "By the time it run out of power, there will be a new version" does nothing to make it better, either. That's like Planned Obsolescence 2.0. I just don't think we should make s
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
KDE's income from individual donations has doubled recently, and many of the comments we get with donations are from recent Windows switchers. As I wrote on HN just yesterday, I've been working on the Linux desktop for 20 years an
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
I'm sorry for the sour grapes, but the recent ring announcement - disposable, single-charge electronics - soured me on the entire brand in a "never meet your heroes" sort of way. Somehow it makes the idea of wearing one of th
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
You are not talking to the author. The comment was a quote from TFA, written (or, well, prompted) by someone else.
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
Genuine Agent Zen is when your instructions .md contains but a single line, "Do!" Everything else will be dated by Monday.
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
To be fair, it's a fandom community with high requirements and standards toward video players and that really knows its stuff.
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
I do understand the contention is that an LLM would be less thoughtful in editorializing which bits to make interactive, reasoning about the progression in understanding and delight by the user. I'm not so sure it's that far out o
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
Ditto macOS. To be honest, I always figured we'd make it in the long run. We're a thrifty bunch, we aim to set up sustainable organizations, we're more enshittification-resistant by nature. As long as we're reliable and
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
I've been working on the Linux desktop for 20 years, and I've been using it on the desktop since 1999, so I lived through the infamous "Year of the Linux Desktop" era. I've not seen anything like the current level o
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
"Make a Bartosz-style website about $topic" seems like a fun benchmark idea. Maybe more so than pelicans on bicycles. To be honest, though, this seems like ideal content for an LLM to produce. It's basically fact regurgitatio
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
Sure -- but that's fair game in engineering. I work on cars. If we kill people with safety faults I expect it to make more headlines than all the fun roadtrips. What I find interesting with chat bots is that they're "web apps
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
Not in this review: Also the record year in intelligent systems aiding in and prompting human users into fatal self-harm. Will 2026 fare better?
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It's so very similar to the two teenage suicides ChatGPT assisted with, in terms of the general flavor and timeline of the interactions.
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by sho_hn 10mo ago
This is key to fulfilling a senior tech leadership role and substantially what people expect to pay you for, if you ever wonder what the mysterious "impact" really means.

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