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by theamk 1y ago
Spoiler: it's PocketMage, home-made PDA based on ESP32. Github says "custom OS", but it's more like "custom UI", it's actually Arduino-based and relies on Arduino libraries for all OS-like functionality.
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by theamk 1y ago
spoiler: it's automatic day/night theme switching
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by theamk 1y ago
That's because finding out the mistakes in OP is one of the biggest benefits of the public comment section. Let's say I read a post about how NEW-TECH is so much better that the current state of the art. I may now be convinced to
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by theamk 1y ago
You can never have too much space. Plus, as better disks appeared, older disks became much cheaper (or even free in some cases). It was pretty simple to collect a few of older, smaller, drives and stick them all in one machine just to give
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YouTube rolls out age estimation model in US to detect people under 18(support.google.com)
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by theamk 1y ago
It's not like there are good options out there. USSR showed what state-controlled socialism looks like, and the picture is not pretty. A most damning example is that it was impossible to leave USSR during the most of its existence, and
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by theamk 1y ago
re application/x-www-form-urlencoded: > The second problem is that implementations may use different ways of encoding arrays. The two most common ones that I know of are: > 2. A single pair where the key name ends with [] and the
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by theamk 1y ago
this brings memories - university, first Unix exposure, Sun Ray terminals, "tcsh" as default shell, and me doing "find / -name ..." a lot. I always wanted to ignore all errors form this (there was a lot of "per
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by theamk 1y ago
Except they went with --libxo command-line option, which is extremely unlikely to cause any problems in the existing scripts.
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by theamk 1y ago
This still exists... OsmAnd, offline map app for Android, has 10M+ downloads. Maps.me has 50M+ downloads. Sure, that's not 10B+ of Google Maps users, but still a lot of users. I don't think the "advanced users" market ha
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by theamk 1y ago
https://archive.is/PMSia
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by theamk 1y ago
Note: this is for Australia
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by theamk 1y ago
They got VC funding, they can spend it almost any way they want. And they likely need to deliver a lot in a short timeframe (like a year), so it's not like they are promising they'll be paying that salary for decades. They could h
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by theamk 1y ago
non-twitter link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44608448
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by theamk 1y ago
> But mainly, the SCP project is a community of real human people. I'm interested in what they have to say. I'm much less interested in what a machine has to say. I don't think it's unreasonable for a swimming club to
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by theamk 1y ago
It's all about security, especially for non-technical user. The Chrome OS is running trusted boot and immutable partition, and completely closed host system, with no user-installable apt [0]. This means it's impossible to complete
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by theamk 1y ago
Some sort of class helps here a lot - not as much as actual tutoring, but just as motivation and audience that you can show off your projects to. A tea-making robot you made at your home is boring. A tea-making robot you made during class w
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by theamk 1y ago
.. if CNC machining had much higher failure rate than manual, and had a tendency to introduce subtle defects which required tedious manual review of all outputs. People don't look down at AI coding because it needs new skills, they loo
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by theamk 1y ago
Totally normal for PHP software, and that's a primary reason of why PHP apps have such a bad security reputation. Note: - The application code itself and system configs are modifiable by the web handler itself. This is needed to allow
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by theamk 1y ago
tl/dr how it was lost: > The last thing I remembered was leaving a party at my friend's café, very drunk. and how it was found: > I received a letter to my mailbox address in London. A man named Simon wrote: he had found my
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by theamk 1y ago
related post from few months ago: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21819-impact-of-ongoing-war... "We avoided specifying the country or war to avoid involving GrapheneOS in a debate on forced conscription in an ex
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by theamk 1y ago
Bad news for you: If you want to do performant ACID, you need a language that runs on the server, without network roundtrips. Sure, it does not have to be SQL - for example Redis uses Lua instead. As others mentioned, there are also SQL rep
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by theamk 1y ago
Sure, I can believe this. Does not change the fact that some people encounter compete data loss with it. Sadly, there are people (and distributions) which recommend btrfs for general-purpose root filesystem, even for the cases where reliabi
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by theamk 1y ago
The reliability is about variety of workloads, not amount of data or throughput. It's easy to write a filesystem which works well in the ideal case, it's the bad or unusual traffic patters which cause problem. For all that I know
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by theamk 1y ago
what do you mean? Memory and i/o ports are in separate address spaces in Z80, but for use cases described in post ("dot product for 1536-bit vectors") i/o port space does not matter, it's all memory - and there is j
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by theamk 1y ago
Good, they approved an design that's unsafe for road users. Better to put engineers in jail, instead of someone dying from car crash on unsafe bridge.
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by theamk 1y ago
the article says: > the final result “is neither fulfilling the functional requirement nor safe for road users.” Customers can say all sorts of crazy things, they havo no knowledge of what's a good design or not. It's up to eng
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by theamk 1y ago
I don't think I ever needed something like that... Since most cases don't need local time zone, why not keep two separate fields?
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by theamk 1y ago
Just not in C++ code. gprc has a bajillon dependencies, and upgrades are a major pain. If you have a dedicated build team and they are willing to support this - sure, go ahead and use it. But if you have multiple targets, or unusual compile
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by theamk 1y ago
And soon, articles like that one will be ingested into next generation of models, and they would become a bit more nonsensical...

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