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Comment · 1 year ago
I've never worn a pebble, but I also have a banglejs 2 and I really love the watch for it's hackability.

I've written my own watchface and a couple of other apps and made changes to a number of existing apps, it's really simple because you can always test your code changes live on the watch while keeping it on your wrist. There's an IDE that connects to it using Bluetooth and the code can be modified during runtime

Lthere's also a great community of hackers and tinkerers that steadily improve the watch.

It might not have the same polish as the pebble had, but it makes it up in hackability. I can only recommend getting a banglejs2 (battery life is also pretty great, I get about 10 days with regular use)

Comment · 1 year ago
It's an excellent point. In such a scenario, if you're bound to a rigid workflow system, you will probably have a hard time recreating all the intermediary steps required to get the system back into a consistent state with the external world.

Idempotency is key and the choice of the idempotency key as well ;)

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
It's true that e.g. medications and alcohol can increase the risks for the child, but many people also have apnoea (often without knowing) which can also lead to sudden movements in your sleep.

The article says there's no socio-economic factors; the data says the risk is the same for all babies.

If you don't want to change your habits because of an article, that is fine, but people should be aware of the risk.

We use a co-sleeping bed next to the parents bed and the infant is just as close, but safer from harm

Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah, it's pretty much the same story for me; after having found out how to get all the same features in KDE that I had in xfce, there was no way back. I always like to use the lightweight and less resource intensive software, but arguably not using hardware acceleration is actually very resource hungry.
Comment · 2 years ago
Great work and great write-up! I especially love the MAINFRAME BREACH PROTOCOL that comes with it.
Comment · 3 years ago
It would be awesome if there was a mode in which the pronunciation of the names is also same in the two languages.

For example, in french there is the name "Arnaud", which exists in German as "Arno". For a bilingual child it's much more important for the name to sound the same that to be written the same.

Comment · 3 years ago
I immediately have to think of the potential uses for VR: lightweight setups for Varifocal lenses are one of the missing corner pieces to create a life-like VR experince. I'm excited to see where they will go with this research!
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
It's not even a cipher, it's just an encoding. Nobody would be surprised if chatgpt would be able to also understand e.g. utf-16.

What's interesting here is that base64 does not have the exact same byte sequence (such as a single space) between tokens. So I still think for it to understand base64 is a bit surprising.

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