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Comment · 1 month ago
Fun, but this seems to assume all LLM run on SAAS subscriptions. I would like to compare this to local LLM costs by converting my usage load x hardware costs into a token price. In addition if it games the LLM so often, these eventually are optimized and basically cheat on the score.
Comment · 2 months ago
Nice story, but where is the video demo for DesktopFly ? The only existing Youtube videos are Shorts made using AI recap crap. Recapping an AI written readme.. go figure. I'll have my AI read this for me.
Comment · 2 months ago
Aha this would explain. I have seen similar behaviour with a news website trying DRM requests (has no reason to ask this info) resulting in stopping playback.. did not consider the impact of multipoint here. Interesting, might be worth looking into if i see this "bug" again.
Comment · 2 months ago
Best feature of old Casio products is they do NOT have RF (wifi/bluetooth) , but (sadly) this one has listed bluetooth and app as a feature.

I have seen (Xiaomi) smartwatches that wont allow setting the time without an app (asking to many permissions, and forcing cloud accounts) installed on a linked phone. facepalm

Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
Android devices already know exactly where they are even with GPS disabled, because they sniff the nearby WIFI networks and then ask Google where they are. QED Google knows already, all combined is mass metadata surveillance already provided to those that tap into it.

Any sub-meter precision or presence detection does not really matter, if these companies have all your other questions, queries, messages, calendars, browse history, app usage, and streaming behaviour as well.

Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
This +

Layer one also explicitly identifies stakeholders, and describes the current (AS-IS) situation with annonated screenshots so everyone quickly sees what we are talking about.

Layer two also lists alternative solutions considered and why not chosen.

Layer three is developers making a few notes on chosen tech design, most important is the choice reasoning here.

In all layers, add and use references. Less is more, a picture beats a wall of text.

Comment · 1 year ago
I use it to design functional parts for 3D printing at home, very solid 3d design software that works on any internet connected device. Can easily open/see/edit parameters quickly on a phone or tablet even, to address a design flaw.

Workflow in a nutshell:

- Start a sketch on a plane, use toolbar circle, draw, type dimensions, close sketch.

- Click the rectangle you made and use toolbar extrude.

- Click the resulting object (bottom left) and export as STL / 3MF file.

It is parametric design:

- Discover your oops. Go back to sketch or extrude, edit dimension, entire design updates by magic.

- Dimensions can be changed into a quickly editable #variablesYouName by typing # basically.

Documentation is short and to the point. Same for most videos that explain how to accomplish something specific. Love it.

Comment · 1 year ago
I have long dreamt of automating Factorio in the way that HDL and a PCB router works: just specify the ingredients and it produces a Factorio Blueprint.

First MVP stupid designs, then optimized routing, and eventually usable ingame where it connects with provided in/outputs.

Would be more fun to develop than to play obviously..

I liked the nilhouse mega base with that factory-train-blocks blueprints, its basically Factorio DUPLO.

Comment · 1 year ago
I would simply argue that the “offline” editing is a people-problem and hence van not be solved using automation. People shall find a way to break/bypass the automation/system.

The only “offline editing” that I allow on human text documents is having people add comments. So not editing, no automated merging.

For “offline editing” that I allow on automation (source code) is GIT which intentionally does not pretend to solve the merge, it just shows revisions. The merge is an action supervised by humans or specialised automation on a “best guess” effort and still needs reviews and testing to verify success.

Comment · 2 years ago
This page is ridden of ads, popups, and sensational writing. They may be facts but its written as clickbait filler to scroll past even more ads.

Clicking the back button redirects me to a never-seen-before and full-screen Ad page before returning to Hacker News.

I am never visiting insideevs.com again. If this is real news, a real news website shall report it.

Comment · 2 years ago
I’d say; Yes using only about 7 steps where each repeats a permutation, but it requires reorientation of the cube ofcourse.

But reassembling is the true brute.

Comment · 2 years ago
On a more serious note: populist politicians seem to like making gettier claims; they cost a lot of time to refute and are free publicity. Aka the worst kind of fake news.
Comment · 2 years ago
Well this is a roundabout way of justified thinking about a belief that just happens to align with some actual facts..

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