perryizgr8

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Comment · 4 days ago
Why not? All that stuff might actually be easier to solve than software engineering.
Comment · 1 month ago
> Every part of the UI is broken, though. You have to discover this by clicking (all icons, no text)

And no tooltips either. Even by clicking I couldn't figure out what most of the buttons even do. A lot of them seem to do absolutely nothing. The only thing I've learned is to summon a randomly sized box on a random position and then struggle to resize and reposition it.

Comment · 2 months ago
The page says it should work on my phone but it doesn't. No difference between the SDR and HDR versions on my phone (S26 Ultra / Chrome).
Comment · 2 months ago
That's a sharp question, and it reframes the whole point.
Comment · 3 months ago
You don't interact with downloaded executables? How do you procure your executables? From USB drives? Every single executable that didn't ship with the computer from the factory was downloaded. Even the ones built into the OS if you ever let it update.
Comment · 4 months ago
This is almost exactly how Windows voice control works. It keeps dividing the screen into smaller and smaller boxes labeled with numbers that you can speak to focus into.
Comment · 5 months ago
Offtopic: I posted a Show HN and it was instantly flagged. I don't know what I did wrong :(
Comment · 5 months ago
How is OpenAI Voice mode any different than a Whatsapp call? Ignoring the part that there is a GPU on the other side instead of a human. But what is the technical challenge in the voice call portion? It seems like that has been a solved problem for a long time now.
Comment · 6 months ago
These guys are at the absolute frontier, why can't they rigorously find the exact weights that are causing this problem? That's how software "engineering" should work. Not trying combinations of English words and hoping something works. This is like a brain surgeon talking to his patient hoping he can shock his brain in the right way that fries the tumor inside. Get in there and surgically remove the unwanted matter!
Comment · 6 months ago
I do my work on this PC. And even though almost all of it is on WSL, the rest of the OS just works better than any Linux I've tried. And I'm no stranger to Linux. My first was the Ubuntu Dapper Drake CD they used to mail out for free. So I put up with all the abuse :( I have a fully functional Arch Linux on a secondary SSD, but it's just a pain to deal with all the Bluetooth audio quirks, the uncanny valley GUI, incomplete app support, etc. I'll muster enough willpower one day to fully make the arch boot by default.
Comment · 6 months ago
I've a solid UPS.
Comment · 6 months ago
I've set it up to run on login. But this screen is special. It blocks everything after login until you accept or remind later it.

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