freetonik

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by freetonik 19d ago
>The Unibook’s keyboard is pretty good, and its trackpad is pretty bad. Just like 98% of non-Apple laptops. Amazing how after all these years nobody could replicate the feel of macbook's trackpads.
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by freetonik 2mo ago
>It lets the user browser with cover art, descriptions, trailers, sorting by release date, rating, etc. It keeps track of watched and unwatched movies. Infuse [1] is a nice way to get these features on Apple TV and iOS devices while simp
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by freetonik 2mo ago
>...until the engine is turned off again Modern electric Volkswagens (and some other brands) have this amazingly awful feature where lifting your ass off the driver's seat turns off the "ignition". The car just shuts off i
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by freetonik 2mo ago
In older VW Polos (at least) it was easy to disable that feature with two clicks on a physical button located on the steering wheel. Not so on the ID.3, and other newer Volkswagens, unfortunately.
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by freetonik 2mo ago
Don’t forget the “New 3DS”.
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by freetonik 2mo ago
Why does it matter how humans _felt_?
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by freetonik 2mo ago
Well, they had a point, and we've got pretty close to that outcome. It didn't happen, thus today we're able to discuss the fact that it didn't happen.
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by freetonik 3mo ago
There are almost no new physical releases on PC, sadly. I’ve been collecting older games on CD and DVD.
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by freetonik 3mo ago
Anyone who lived in USSR, or otherwise familiar with the way soviet authorities operate, would know not to trust any official data from USSR. I personally treat any statistics and data from the soviet government to be unreliable to the degr
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by freetonik 3mo ago
Stock Android on a Pixel 7 felt the same way to me.
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by freetonik 3mo ago
I could never get rid of the feeling that Material design looks like some stylesheets failed to load. It feels unfinished, raw, or temporary.
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by freetonik 3mo ago
There's a way to compile HL2 on ARM Macs, I've written a guide here: https://rakhim.exotext.com/how-to-play-half-life-2-on-mchip-...
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by freetonik 3mo ago
Nice. Glad these kinds of projects exist. Obligatory mention of Minifeed, a curated directory, reader and search engine for personal blogs: https://minifeed.net/ I’ve been running it for a few years now. You can build a per
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by freetonik 3mo ago
That's also years of top tier PC gaming, if you're into that.
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Related UI elements should not appear unrelated(rakhim.exotext.com)
3 points by freetonik 3mo ago|0 comments
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by freetonik 4mo ago
That’s strange. I was able to renew a work permit in Canada while staying (and continuing work) in Canada. Same for study permit. This was over a decade ago, so perhaps things have changed. They also were not called visas, but permits. Visa
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by freetonik 4mo ago
Nice project! Thanks for including Minifeed!
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by freetonik 5mo ago
It's pronounced "Ice eye". According to the people I know from this company, the original use case was tracking the ice cover of the Northern seas, for both marine applications and climate research (the company is Finnish).
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by freetonik 5mo ago
Every single discussion thread about any announcement in quantum feels exactly the same: 1. this is not what you think it is, there are caveats and the title is misleading. 2. I feel there is so much hype around quantum computing. 3. It&#x2
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by freetonik 5mo ago
I remember watching an interview with Marco Arment (creator of Overcast and Instapaper) where he mentions that he listens to Phish a lot [1]. He collects every single recording and live show, almost 30 gigabytes of music from this one band.
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by freetonik 5mo ago
You sound like Guppy. Nice touch.
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by freetonik 6mo ago
Very cool! Love the minimal design a lot, unsurprisingly. My Minifeed [1] started with a similar goal of having a "HN for blogs", but then it grew to include search, related recommendations, custom feeds, lists, etc. I don't
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by freetonik 6mo ago
Quantum networking is a lesser problem than changing the state and keeping intact long enough. You can already move quantum state over fiber optics pretty reliably, so transport exists, but what then? You need to put the qubits of the conn
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by freetonik 6mo ago
The meme refers to the notion where an observation (i.e. interaction) collapses the wave function to a single value. As in, prior to observation, a system in a quantum superposition is said to be "in multiple states at the same time&qu
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by freetonik 6mo ago
I've started putting together a curated directory of (subjectively) good YouTube channels and videos [1]. It's literally the 3rd day, so not many entries yet, but I plan to continue growing it like I did with Minifeed [2]. 1. htt
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by freetonik 6mo ago
>There is zero profit to be made at the end of the chain. Think of all the "sales" that comprise such things as space missions (ones without immediate real-world use) or large hadron collider. Or any other large, expensive, lon
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by freetonik 6mo ago
During my 3.7 years at the company, we had dozens of sales of full-stack quantum computers, chips + cryostat + control electronics + software, ranging from 5 to ~100 physical qubits. Naturally, the buyers are mostly research institutions an
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by freetonik 6mo ago
I worked at a quantum computing company that builds superconducting QC chips (so, not really applicable to one of the “bombshells” from the article). My team was designing the software stack which allows to control the QC, run quantum jobs&
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LLMs turn an autistic communication style into a neurotypical conversation(hachyderm.io)
8 points by freetonik 6mo ago|1 comments
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by freetonik 6mo ago
OpenAI could vibe-code marketshare by introducing bias into ChatGPT's responses and recommendations. "– how to do x in Python? – Start by installing OpenAI-UV first..."

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