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by utopiah 2mo ago
> far from feature complete, but it did work well that's the trick. If you look at implementing a Web browser or a physics engine you instantly give up, and you are right about it, it's just too hard. If instead you write a par
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by utopiah 2mo ago
Ah nice, I had no idea. Then if I was somehow forced into using iOS I'd probably try that first.
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by utopiah 2mo ago
Glad you brought that up, I was actually going to suggest not to replace KDE Connect but rather to become interoperable with it because AFAIR (but didn't touch an iPhone for few years now) there is no iOS client for it.
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by utopiah 2mo ago
Yes, for efficiently of course but at the very least for accessibility.
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by utopiah 2mo ago
What's even more maddening is that I bet their "app" is actually a WebView and provides no native functionality.
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by utopiah 2mo ago
Fair enough not to want to get involved but seems problematic for 2 reasons : - code gets re-regenerated over and over again, so waste of resources - no signal back upstream that it is indeed a genuine need that is in fact so important some
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by utopiah 2mo ago
Well that is a different setup that what I mention but thanks for indeed highlighting how they are not the same. FWIW houses in Tuscany with very strict rules, e.g. you don't even get to pick the color of your own house, manage to get
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by utopiah 2mo ago
Very strange take, you can buy an airco unit in the EU today get it delivered tomorrow morning and, assuming it's the portable kind that just need to be plugged and exhaust outside, have it running right away. For more permanent ones y
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by utopiah 2mo ago
for microduck I didn't find but their older reachy_miny was Apache 2.0 and hardware design files as Creative Commons BY-SA-NC
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by utopiah 2mo ago
This "with emotions like a living creature" should just not be allowed.
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by utopiah 2mo ago
FWIW I tried it shortly after it launched so a bit after ~2005, maybe 2007 because I read about and honestly found the prospect, from a dataset creation or improvement, quite interesting. I think I heard about it from a research paper that
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by utopiah 2mo ago
Yep... was on the countryside for the Summer in places so small they didn't even have a bakery, which in France matters. What did they have though? Optic fiber, high bandwidth, low latency, reliable and for a very low price. Honestly I
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by utopiah 2mo ago
Hmmm is it though? Quite a few articles like https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-stiffing-contr... make me think they better ask to be paid upfront.
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by utopiah 2mo ago
Fiction would led us to believe they look ugly or gorgeous... history has shown us they look very banal.
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by utopiah 2mo ago
Sad for the project but unsurprising knowing how much SpaceX (sigh) relies on xAI which it mostly a shelf for a neocloud bootstrapped precisely from Twitter/X as a dataset. I imagine they will legally fight to close as much as possible
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by utopiah 2mo ago
Upvoted obviously just to counterbalance how often I got downvoted for stating how popular posts from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc are just ads. The author is most subtle or diplomatic than me and thus call them "AI vendor press rele
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by utopiah 2mo ago
> modern facilities can reuse Can, but do they? Feels a bit like Musk's Colossus that "could" use nuclear power but has been running on "temporary" natural-gas turbines for years now.
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by utopiah 2mo ago
Might want to look into OPDS support, cf https://opds.io , to make content available to e-readers.
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by utopiah 2mo ago
IMHO at least 2 reasons, the jagged frontier (you cant easily evaluate the capabilities of your companion, I expanded a bit on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49419952 ) and probably riskier in a lot of story games the
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by utopiah 2mo ago
I get it is fun to play for an hour or so then you inexorably encounter behaviors that are too complex to handle, e.g. you try to sneak in on an enemy but get spotted because the dog started talking or barking randomly, then suddenly wonder
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by utopiah 2mo ago
How is CrowdSupply, US based, managing?
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by utopiah 2mo ago
So... nothing new? /s You naively thought Silicon Valley was just a funny TV show about people wanting to make money, a lot of it, but even that was an idealized version.
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by utopiah 2mo ago
Tricky to make predictions based on costs or quality when the costlier parts, training and inference, are totally disconnected from reality thanks to VC money and when total cost of ownership over time is radically different.
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by utopiah 2mo ago
he does mention that it would later on be about building a startup, which is about making money
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by utopiah 2mo ago
... and it would be totally pointless. I mean first that is already what plenty of 17yo are actually doing, because that is what they do at school or in parascholar activities. There are already countless of such tutorials where you can do
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by utopiah 2mo ago
Honestly I do like this trend if it genuinely leads to more interoperability. Im not sure that is the case though and in fact I worry people will start to imagine that anybody can do that in no time and that future devices will remain hacka
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by utopiah 2mo ago
related newer discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49414088
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by utopiah 2mo ago
except that is not true, it is an example of a successful attempt by one person on one device, it does not necessarily generalize to others device of other persons. The fact that this specific device by that manufacturer on that version is
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by utopiah 2mo ago
Clearly it has value for some as the author was showing they invested a lot of resource, money and time, in order to open up the device.
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by utopiah 2mo ago
enlighten me then, what was the point?

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