onli

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Current projects:

A PC hardware recommender, https://www.pc-kombo.com/

A Yahoo Pipes inspired feed programming editor, https://www.pipes.digital/

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/onli; my proof: https://keybase.io/onli/sigs/bNRi8ad_Yqzfnd89O_tkt-lXFypwn9PRbyxknVaQ4PI ]

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Comment · 7 hours ago
Sadly enlightenment broke backwards compatibility with old themes so often basically nothing works anymore. You have to search for themes specifically made for the new versions, of which there are very few.

Quite a problem since the default theme (of the prior version at least) was a mess.

Comment · 9 hours ago
The G84 has a very good battery by default though, judging from its predecessor. It can take some additional strain. Something weaker will suffer more.
Comment · 9 days ago
Andromeda got critized a lot for admittedly unnecessary flaws, but at its core it was a great mass effect. It even corrected many mistakes of the original trilogy, like having a proper ending that used the allies won during the game.
Comment · 12 days ago
> Then again, I'm stuck with decades of legacy code and systems that noone understands that were introduced by humans...

But that's despite many efforts made to keep that code understandable, maybe even documented. If now that's not even tried the results will be a thousand times worse - and the dependency on the LLM absolute.

Comment · 14 days ago
The first phone in that list isn't a dumbphone - Clicks Communicator is a full-on smartphone, just with a keyboard. Same goes for the Unihertz Titan 2 and some others on the list.
Comment · 15 days ago
Are you sure? I haven't played enough Quake to know either way, but I did play Deus Ex in software mode (unreal engine), and that had a lot of differences to the other renderers. I very much doubt texture sampling mode alone would reach a similar result.

(It even had graphic errors, green textures in the faces etc giving everything a very alien look. But that's not what I mean).

Comment · 19 days ago
Doesn't sound all that convincing to me. There is no need for network controlled fridges in the first place. And it's not like setting up that network control was free. This is not about saving money, this is about ignoring what IT people preach since multiple decades now, spending more for the attack vector and then loosing a lot of money when that attack vector gets used. Margins? If it were about margins the problem wouldn't exist.

(I can see the need for remote monitoring, that the freezer actually worked. Controlling the temperature is the issue.)

Comment · 23 days ago
The streaming model really makes remembering details difficult.

I used to play only local files, and then during a time at university played in the office music on Youtube. One specific album got stuck in my head, but for a long while afterwards didn't find it again. No name, no lyrics - not a good starting point. I just remembered a pink unicorn and that is was psychedelic rock and that the singer sang with a specific deep voice. After several rounds of research (the same youtube channel is still up) and looking through uploads of the timeframe and their recommendations it turned out I misremembered: The cover had a rainbow cat looking into the distance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ea1mYXUcBY, Whoopie cat).

How I remembered was funny. I talked to someone about this, researched while, then talked again, when something came over me to look to the side into the distance with a slightly open mouth - just to suddenly realize that this face was on the cover, not the unicorn!

But actually, I still have that image of the unicorn cover in my mind (one color silhouette, hoofs into the air, but who knows at this point). The Whoopie cat album is definitely one I heard back than and it was the music I was searching for, but the unicorn cover probably also existed in that space and was a different album. Or did I just imagine something based on space stallions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Otaq2tmNMM)?

After that experience I set up a local music player again and downloaded some of the albums I wanted to remember.

Comment · 24 days ago
(If that is your project, you should mark it as Show HN to get feedback with a nicer default).

I'm sorry, but then that article fails. It is very repetitive without clearly answering the differences. It gives the LLM feeling because it does not give a straight-forward answer to what the alternative actually is. Yes, something the agent can call itself while doing the task without having to pre-process the data, but that encompasses basically everything. What exactly is the proposal, what is the thing that was (according to the title) built?

Instead you get a quick answer box after the introduction that repeats the introduction, and the FAQ at the bottom leads with two similar sounding points. Even for an LLM-generated document that's not a good result.

Comment · 1 month ago
OK :) It was just a really big purse. I don't think the phone was clipped on or the purse see-through, just that it must have been stable enough to carry the phone a little bit when placed on top of it.

I remember specifically being surprised that she didn't put the phone inside the bag.

Comment · 1 month ago
Argh, I translated that wrongly. Replace purse with handbag.

It seemed important. Instead of hiding a technical artefact it was presented to outside world by someone obviously placing a lot of importance on their looks.

Comment · 1 month ago
And in a way that actually happened with the iPhone. Yes, that was also a functionality boost, but it was also a fashion object. I did a (for university, small scale) observation study at the time and found it notable that some young women started wearing their iPhone on their purse while leaving the bus - that was a shift, a thing formerly seen as a functional device became a fashion accessory.

Think about how different the target group for blackberry for example had been, or how little glamour the (mostly) cheap and small nokia phones of the past years had been.

Comment · 1 month ago
What's your question? "Are there real people with opinion on this?"?

Then yes, sure. My opinion matches what's the overall tenor of this thread. It's not astroturfing, mullenweg just has lost that much support.

Comment · 2 months ago
It was a normal developer position (with PhD bonus possibly) at a private enterprise that only worked on public projects. No Befristung, no other surprises I got aware of. I was also a bit surprised that this existed, because with private-public constructs like Fraunhofer there usually are the limitations you mentioned (and the low salary). Here the limitations probably didn't exist as the company was 100% private.
Comment · 2 months ago
The construction would be a private company that works with the government. That exists already - I had applied for one before - and the pay was completely competitive, for German salaries. 80K.

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