SamuraiLion

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A 3D Rasterizer for Embedded Devices(github.com)
1 points by SamuraiLion 12m ago|0 comments
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A 386 PC for Your RP2350(github.com)
219 points by SamuraiLion 3d ago|80 comments
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Custom AMOLED Wearable Makes Great Icebreaker(scd31.com)
1 points by SamuraiLion 6d ago|0 comments
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WordStar Lives Again (and Again)(github.com)
2 points by SamuraiLion 11d ago|0 comments
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All the microbes you can't have(worksinprogress.co)
4 points by SamuraiLion 12d ago|0 comments
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Choice Notes on History from Notes and Queries (1858)(publicdomainreview.org)
1 points by SamuraiLion 15d ago|0 comments
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Much Ado About Adenoids(damninteresting.com)
32 points by SamuraiLion 15d ago|0 comments
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by SamuraiLion 19d ago
I mean; they cause no harm unless you are a farmer or something, do they?
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Show HN: Why your eBook won't open, answered from its first 4KB(readkinetic.com)
2 points by SamuraiLion 1mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A speed reading test you can fail(readkinetic.com)
2 points by SamuraiLion 1mo ago|0 comments
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Most speed readers break on Japanese, Chinese and Thai(readkinetic.com)
2 points by SamuraiLion 2mo ago|0 comments
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
We've got up and down arrows, or you can drag vertically to adjust. Funny, you're not the only one who missed that today, so the interface definitely isn't making it obvious. Fixing that is definitely a priority for me. What
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
That's a good way to phrase it, and it makes me question my own approach. I've been sorting things into fiction and non-fiction, but what you're saying suggests it's more about why you're reading. Are you there fo
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
That's the profile I keep bumping into, people who already read a lot and want the volume rather than a shortcut. What does your load actually look like, out of interest? I'm trying to work out where the line sits between the read
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
A lot of what you're saying here resonates with me, I've touched on some of these points myself in this conversation. It definitely isn't great for anything that requires actual thought. Your comprehension does suffer as your
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
The hypothesis is that much of the time spent reading is not spent deciphering the words but rather on moving the eyes around. Your eyes flicker around constantly, lock onto a word, then sometimes flicker backwards to previous words (those
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
Nice, always good to see another implementation! Were you able to get past the pivot alignment issue? Because in a proportional font, the word seems to slide around your eye as it shifts the spacing of the characters immediately adjacent to
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
That's the one, thanks. Spritz is where most people discovered it and the reason why the highlighted pivot letter is the norm. However, RSVP itself has a long history that dates back to reading research in the seventies done in the con
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
You are the third person this afternoon asking for this extension, therefore the obvious next task is creating it. One person emailed me this morning asking to paste a url and have the article read to them, and it came up again in another t
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
Up/down arrows, or dragging up/down on the reader itself. An overlay appears stating the new speed. Which would be a great answer, except that several other folks have made the same comment today, so I'm afraid it's my f
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
The minimap is, in fact, the best idea anyone has given me today (and I think it addresses a concern 3 other people brought up in this thread). The underlying problem with all the suggestions is that you lose all the scaffolding, the paragr
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
That's the right answer, and it's pretty much what I’ve been considering since someone earlier in the thread asked about figures. Epub makes it manageable because the images are just files in the zip. They are positioned at a set
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
E-ink is the frustrating part because it's where people actually read books, yet it's the display least capable of doing this. Partial refresh allows for a handful of updates each second, but it comes with ghosting. At 300 words p
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
Oh nice, the pre-processing hooks are a way cleaner way of solving the format issue than I was doing. When you are on the terminal you can shell out to pdftotext or pandoc and people use the format convertor that they already know and trust
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
Yeah the toggle is there-double press and it locks it into playing continually. But if you didn't find it, that’s on me because it’s not discoverable. There is that line of text at the top which says hold to read, left/right to sc
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
Thanks. Calibre’s crossed my mind a few times, the obvious hook is the content server, but the browser integration makes it clunky. Calibre-server doesn’t spit out CORS headers that you can use from another origin, so a web app can’t just r
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
Thanks, I'm glad the controls eventually clicked. The saved toast is a reasonable hit and frankly is worse than annoying. The whole format is based on your eyes never having to leave the same area, so popping anything up next to the wo
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
Thanks. The parsing cost is the entire one-time cost, the rest of the operation involves simply walking an array of words, a 900 page novel and a short story will perform the exact same. There is essentially zero cost in rendering a word at
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
Thanks. To be frank, the images and graphs are the weak spot at the moment. The parsers extract just the text layer and that’s the extent of it, so images are just discarded and you don’t even get told there was one. Tables are worse than d
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by SamuraiLion 2mo ago
Yeah, the skimming thing surprised me too when I started looking into it. In regular reading, people skip about a quarter to a third of the words, mainly small ones like "the" and "of." Your eyes grab the next word or tw

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