bobek

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by bobek 24d ago
TBH this is one of a few things that feels exciting about LLMs. I've recently revived a flip-dot panel from an old bus by reverse engineering and replacing its firmware -- https://www.bobek.cz/buse/
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by bobek 28d ago
It it less crazy that it sounds. I have recently replaced firmware on an obscure MCU to revive a flip-dot display. https://www.bobek.cz/buse/
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by bobek 1mo ago
DataMole is already in use by a company [0]. [0]: https://www.datamole.ai/
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by bobek 1mo ago
This resonates. I have just got back to hacking an old flip-dot display after sitting on the shelf for years. https://www.bobek.cz/buse/
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by bobek 1mo ago
Git back hacking an old flip-dot display. It was sitting on the shelf for years. https://www.bobek.cz/buse/
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by bobek 4mo ago
This template is a great starting point. I have tweaked [0] it for A4 and two-column output, if anybody is interested. [0]: https://www.bobek.cz/til/pandoc-markdown-typst/
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by bobek 4mo ago
Graph paper FWT :)
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Is Bitwarden Getting Enshitified?(fastcompany.com)
9 points by bobek 4mo ago|2 comments
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by bobek 4mo ago
Bitwarden scrubs ‘Always free’ and ‘Inclusion’ values from its website as longtime execs step down
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by bobek 5mo ago
Plus we had a visual diff on the top of that as a part of the CI pipeline. It prevented a bunch of mishaps ;)
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by bobek 6mo ago
I went the complete opposite and print one A4 every morning [0], so I don't have to touch any device. [0]: https://github.com/bobek/rannich-5minut-denikn
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by bobek 6mo ago
Made me smile. Thank you!
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by bobek 7mo ago
And you are absolutely correct. I've seen the DT page thanks to the linked HN submission (actually comment [1]. And incorrectly associated the DT article incorrectly today. Thank you. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by bobek 7mo ago
Wow. This page is actually a product of LLM [0]. So they can produce useful stuff after all :) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195123
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by bobek 7mo ago
It is not only recommender though. These guys [1] seem to be able to react pretty quickly and not to create addicts on the way ;( [1] https://recombee.com
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by bobek 9mo ago
Welcome ;) Linux is my desktop last 20+ years.
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by bobek 9mo ago
Interesting, my favorite one on Android - HiPER Calc - does it correctly and returns 1.
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by bobek 10mo ago
The biggest (engineering) team I've built and led was 150 people, so I cannot speak for 200. I don't feel that the solution of keeping the understanding of what is happening was about a formal structure like an "employee stee
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by bobek 11mo ago
Adam Grant had recently Daniel Immerwahr on attention span and how it really has not shortened despite popular beliefs. In the age of social media and short-form content, many people insist that our attention spans are getting shorter. But
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by bobek 1y ago
Mildly related are written standups [1] when treated as journal/logbook. [1] https://www.bobek.cz/the-power-of-written-standup/
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by bobek 1y ago
Love Pentel Graphear 1000, have multiple distributed throughout the house/workshop and backpacks :) The other I really like is UNI Kuru Toga, the plastic one (shrug). The twist mechanism actually works; it is slightly wider thus more c
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by bobek 1y ago
The site appears to be down. HM hug of death, maybe? Writing isn't just communication—it's a thinking tool that forces clarity and precision. Yet I still get pushback when advocating for written narratives over slide decks in tech
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by bobek 1y ago
It is not particularly hard either. Checkout restic server. https://github.com/restic/rest-server/
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by bobek 1y ago
I always liked the esthetics of Wharton studio clocks. There is an OSS implementation at https://github.com/bobek/sdg_wharton_miniclock
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Telegram Messenger's Ties to Russia's FSB Revealed in New Report(newsweek.com)
4 points by bobek 1y ago|0 comments
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by bobek 1y ago
Well, it is the same as all those examples of people "just doing their jobs" in concentration camps. Being compliant, focused on execution of their ~orders~ process. Interestingly, many people are being pre-emptively harsher, than
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by bobek 1y ago
Go for it. Running it for quite some time at home. Very easy to deploy, regular updates.
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by bobek 1y ago
Once, I got pulled into a fintech company who done synchronization of remote psql databases by dump to csv -> send over ftp or email -> verify in Excel -> import back to centralized psql. No wonders, they have been missing some tra
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by bobek 1y ago
I would recommend a slightly different approach to written/async standup. Issue I have with stand-ups is the ad hoc nature of proving a report, instead of making it a collaboration space https://www.bobek.cz/the-power-o
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by bobek 1y ago
Maybe try Kagi. I am pretty happy with the results.

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