exo-cortex

Funny that you mention IKEA. I have 4 very old IKEA glasses that were made by Duralex. I just love the fact that they're about as old as I am (40 next year) and we're able to survive that long. I consider them to be the peak of IKEA glassware. Today IKEA glasses are known to be breaking easy - sometimes simply by getting hot in the dishwasher. The design might look fresher, but they won't last.

The rest of my glasses (most) are Duralex as well. They're just very ... durable. I was kind of getting annoyed that the brand became so popular that I see them everywhere now (every other cafe serves water in them). I'm not French btw, my love for the glasses simply comes from seeing them outlast time and many pretty dramatic falls (a few times on hard ceramic tiles from a meter up and bouncing up almost as high again - leaving a few nearby mouths agape in the process). But reading that they're a worker owned cooperative makes me want to buy many more from them. That's what I want: Stuff that's build to last a long time by people who can live from their work. Who cares if they look dated? For something that's used daily being old is a testament to their quality. I use my IKEA-Duralex glasses almost daily. They look much cooler than any new shit with their battle-scars ight scratches :-D). IKEA is literally the opposite.

I remain sceptical about the "Planet Tracker"-task. The task was to debunk claims about historical positions of Jupiter and Saturn. If the task was to find those planets were NOT in a certain (claimed) position an erroneous program would still appear to "debunk" the claims. Did they check if Devin's code's calculated positions were actually correct? Did they check in some NASA-database? If Devin gave arbitrary positions for the planets it's much more likely that they're different than any claim and appear to debunk it.

A rather extensive video that explains in detail scheduling tasks ion an embedded device (the microbit) and explains while updating incrementally the ideas of async Rust.

Just one thing (maybe the author reads this):

The nicest way to avoid the "oh a lot of boilerplate!"-problem with implementing "Add" for a custom type is by using the "derive-more"-crate. Then you simply put a "#[derive(Add)" above your struct. That was the initial reason I switched to Rust myself: because I was writing a dynamical systems solver in C++ and had to overload arithmetic operators for my state-struct. But doing this was so complicated and I never felt sure of it performance wise (what if one side is a reference? And so on).

In rust I have a macro and don't have to ever worry about that again.

That would be interesting in VR to have syntax highlighting that moves variable names towards the viewer, or puts context menus with possible methods of some object above.

Would probably just be stupid gimmick, but I want to see somebody do it :-D

Hm.... I've spent a lot of waiting time in this station (Rosenthaler Platz) over the years. And these tiles (in different colors though) are in a considerable amount of Berlin subway stations. Are they all radioactive like these here? Or is it only caused by the orange pigment?

we should! We have laws against oil spills, we should have laws that prohibit languages with the singular purpose of making me point a gun to my foot and pull the trigger repeatedly.

/s

In my opinion hn is still here because it is still only text. I was a very happy Reddit user way back when most of the content was links to other sites and/or pure text posts. Today the most visible parts are just images or videos - highly stimulating content that does not encourage calm, thoughtful and nuanced discussions. HN is still only text based _and_ it is mostly about technical issues. Nothing could be improved here, it's already perfect.

Would this open-source alternative "mycroft" be capable of replacing the functions Alexa is currently relegated to?

I highly recommend french comics - or "bande dessinée / BD" as they are called there. I believe France has the biggest and most interesting culture when it comes to comics - so many different kinds of genres, art styles and forms are alive there. Reading "L'Incal" as a very young and slightly unattended child in a french bookstore put some really freakish images in my mind.

Current status of the attempt at getting AVS (Advanced Visualization Studio - a Winamp Plugin) to compile with GCC and make it cross platform.