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volemo
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volemo
11mo ago
Simply rotate your monitor. /j
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volemo
11mo ago
> being able to move your head so that you can see past the thing on the screen is useful Afaiu, the dashboard is positioned above you, so you have to tilt your head up to see it and it shouldn’t obstruct anything important in regular li
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volemo
11mo ago
> if you mean people reading phone screens or on drugs or what Nope, just people in my regular life, colleagues, etc. having that little twitch in their eyes.
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volemo
11mo ago
There is a big README panel saying: > We have now released a demo source code to show how you can build your own application (iOS/Android) to interact with G1 glasses. > More interfaces and features will also be open soon to give
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volemo
11mo ago
Why would you need world lock rendering on a 640x350 monochrome display? It’s a personal dashboard, not a “spatial computer”.
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volemo
11mo ago
Would that attract your attention? I see people with nystagmus often enough to not care.
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volemo
11mo ago
Isn’t AI everywhere nowadays? I won’t be surprised if there’re AI toasters and fridges.
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volemo
11mo ago
These particular classes don’t have a camera.
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volemo
11mo ago
They have an open BLE based protocol, you can display whatever you want on the screen. https://github.com/even-realities
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11mo ago
These glasses don’t have a camera.
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volemo
11mo ago
On an iPad. But sometimes, in a pinch, it can be nice to rerun a script to update some plots, so iPhone as well.
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volemo
11mo ago
Running goddamn Emacs for one. Running the software I need for work like Python with a full suite of packages and Wolfram Mathematica. Remapping freaking keys and their behaviour. The possibilities are endless!
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11mo ago
> eventually, iOS's quality will degrade enough that I'll find Android or GrapheneOS more attractive. Tbh, with the quality of the latest iOS I’m getting pretty close to that point. Looking at Ubuntu Touch right now.
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volemo
11mo ago
“My program suite is ported to x86, x64, ARM, and Apollo Guidance Computer” :D
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volemo
11mo ago
So we all agree we need Emacs 2.0™, rewriting both the UI and the guts? /j
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volemo
11mo ago
I often think this way about my smartphone: what do I need the “smart” for? Maps, messenger, banking app, taking/viewing photos, web browser, listening to audio (music, podcasts, audiobooks), taxi app, calendar/reminders. Seems so
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volemo
11mo ago
Maxima isn't a GNU package, is it?
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Using LaTeX to produce accessible PDF
(latex3.github.io)
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volemo
11mo ago
What a guy, to criticise dang himself. :P
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volemo
1y ago
I've spent the day revisiting this issue, and, after some research, I think my next phone will be Fairphone 5 with Ubuntu Touch. It's not perfect — too big for my taste and not waterproof — and I'll need a couple of weeks of
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volemo
1y ago
Oh, I didn’t consider that aspect. Is the SoC physically bigger, does it require a bunch of additional components, or is it simply power hungry?
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1y ago
> good enough to be a daily driver Are they, though? I don’t think I’m the most demanding user [1], but a $2000 phone with 4 & 128 GB, a 720×1440 TFT, and no NFC? I guess I don't want my freedom that much. (Although USB 3.0 w&
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1y ago
Artists with photographic memory can. And in the modern world of computational photography and gen AI what even is the difference between a photo and drawing?
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1y ago
While I agree with you that publishing a picture of a person without their consent ought to be illegal, I as an individual with very unreliable memory and one who’s always doubting my perception of reality, I heavily rely on modern techno
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1y ago
I don't think syntax is the problem here. Using some tool that transpiles to LaTeX, you'll still have to fight your TeX engine sometimes, but now you also add friction and gotchas of your tool that does transpiling. I've trie
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1y ago
Oh, you mean those 500 pages of dense Knuth writing?
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volemo
1y ago
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2837614.2837630
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volemo
1y ago
> 100-600 nm (infrared) light Ultraviolet, you mean. > I'm curious what could be producing UV and visible light. There is tons of chemoluminescent stuff in a live being. As my spectroscopist friend says, everything luminesces at
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1y ago
People have different capacity for social "niceties". Sometimes I'm full of energy and am happy to be Alexei for someone, sometimes I am Anna.
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1y ago
Or very well fed.
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