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Comment · 10 days ago
> Patch the Planet

I'm sure they named it after the "Hack the planet" slogan from the Hackers movie.

Comment · 4 months ago
> Yes, make the battery 2x bigger and include the compute in that.

You can't move the compute away in a headset. I have worked for an XR OEM, and when you are designing a headset, you want the compute to be as close as possible from the cameras and displays, to achieve the lowest possible latency and avoid motion sickness for the users.

Even moving the compute to the back of the headset was not considered viable by our HW team. And we haven't spoken about the bandwidth required for all those cameras and UHD displays.

A better way to reduce the weight of the AVP would have been to remove the (useless IMO) front holographic screen, and to replace most of the glass and metal by plastic. And maybe move the battery pack to the back, to get a more balanced headset.

Comment · 5 months ago
Yes, I stopped reading here:

> $12 on the front. Whole-network compromise on the back.

Too bad since the topic on its own seems very interesting.

Comment · 5 months ago
Mine is from 2013. There is no longer map updates for the built in nav system.

So I bought an Android auto / Car play module that integrates with the car touch screen. Now I have up to date maps and navigation for ever. :)

Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
A few years ago, I started again to attend regularly to concerts, and often in small / mid size local rooms, with an audience from perhaps 50 to a few hundred people.

Those are much more meaningful to me than those giant stadiums where you watch the band on giant screens. These thoughts will seem obvious, but smaller spaces with a limited audience are really warmer. You feel much closer to the artists, you are sharing emotions, sometimes the artist comes playing or singing in the middle of the audience. Things happen! A guitar string breaks, a drum falls, the singer goes out of tune. This is real live music!

Comment · 10 months ago
When I studied compiler theory, a large part of the compilation involved a lexical analyser (e.g. `flex`) and a syntax analyser (e.g. `bison`), that would produce an internal representation of the input code (the AST), used to generate the compiled files.

It seems that the terminology as evolved, as we speak more broadly of frontends and backends.

So, I'm wondering if Bison and Flex (or equivalent tools) are still in use by the modern compilers? Or are they built directly in GCC, LLVM, ...?

Comment · 10 months ago
That is also my feeling, at least from a part of the GrapheneOS community. I have seen them despising and bullying /e/OS, Debian, F-Droid, the Linux kernel... Too bad for this project, that is amazing, to have such toxic folks.

Open source communities should help each other, and work together, not fight.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
If only UX/UI people spent their time optimizing their code rather than polishing their animations.

Sorry for this rant, but hell, the web, the apps, everything is so sloooow and bloated. Make it instant! I just want to do my things, not to wait for drawings to draw!

Comment · 1 year ago
Not really, despite the repo being named MentraOS, this repo seems to include only some mobile apps (that either run on a phone or on the glasses), some server code, and some SDKs. Mentra glasses are likely running on a fork of AOSP, which is not in this repo.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I found this Raspberry Pi Zero based bike computer project: https://github.com/hishizuka/pizero_bikecomputer

This seems pretty nice in terms of features, but would probably need a bit of polish.

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