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by omtinez 1y ago
Nice work! I'm also a fan of the runtime only frameworks. They might not be as efficient as the compiled counterparts on paper, but in my experience the performance loss is almost negligible compared to the rest of the stack. Shameless
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by omtinez 2y ago
Really cool work, congrats! I built my own frontend framework for similar reasons: https://github.com/fresho-dev/mancha . It was meant to adress the lack of lightweight solutions that worked both on the frontend and the
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by omtinez 3y ago
Corollary to your statement: of the very small (<1%) group of users running such ancient versions of Android, 100% read HN and will be responding to your comment. As if it invalidated the stats on actual usage: https://apilev
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by omtinez 3y ago
What hardware are you using? I recently finished a project myself and I'd like to do more with e-ink but the hardware "driver" that plugs into the pi costs as much as the e-ink display.
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by omtinez 4y ago
You can use Wikidata and its Sparql query language for this. Although it's not straight forward for all countries, e.g. some have especial properties for regional breakdowns that are not defined as ISO standard subregions.
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by omtinez 5y ago
Shameless plug to my own version of this: http://mngo.org/fire
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Show HN: Open Covid-19 Dataset(github.com)
6 points by omtinez 7y ago|1 comments
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by omtinez 7y ago
> Does it work with Raspberry Pis and the CSI cameras? What about my Logitech USB camera? I don't know details about the Raspberry Pi cameras, but if it's a UVC camera (quite likely) then it should be supported by this library
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by omtinez 7y ago
I'm surprised to see such big emphasis on support for Android. Most camera modules come with their own drivers that already provide Android support. One benefit could be the licensing, but after a quick inspection it is unclear to me w
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by omtinez 8y ago
Sounds reasonable. So, what's the timeline on solving those problems? Ten years? Fifteen? [1] https://xkcd.com/1232/
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by omtinez 8y ago
Maybe someone can take a second look at the paper. I couldn't find the published version, just a manuscript[1] (kudos to the authors for making it available under CC license). But... The only reference I could find about the sample siz
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by omtinez 9y ago
I haven't read the paper in full detail, but reading between the lines I'm guessing that there's a significant portion of manual processing and hand waving involved. From the abstract, emphasis mine: > the second stage u
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by omtinez 9y ago
By your definition, how can a REST API be idempotent? Say that GET(user) = john so, what I'm interpreting is that: GET( GET(user) ) = GET(john) = john. That doesn't seem valid to me.
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by omtinez 9y ago
I fail to understand the need to re-use terms from other fields in a completely twisted way. For those like me wondering what an "idempotent API" is: making multiple identical requests has the same effect as making a single reques
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by omtinez 9y ago
That is exactly how the Spectacles work. Bluetooth is only used for transfer as a fallback mechanism.
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by omtinez 10y ago
I'd say that the Windows equivalent is https://chocolatey.org/ . It has the largest amount of "packages" from all other similar efforts that I have seen.
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by omtinez 10y ago
The EULA for it is the same, but the underlying system is totally different. I am 100% sure about this :-) But, as you noted, a lot of the telemetry instrumentation has been backported so that argument is lost for someone wanting to avoid u
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by omtinez 10y ago
Also wrong. The telemetry in Windows 8 was just in critical components that had been instrumented long ago, such as Windows Update, crash management, etc. None of those were using the current universal telemetry system. In fact, I don'
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by omtinez 10y ago
Thanks for sharing that! Some of them are just a big pile of CSS which I don't know if it's a better option than JavaScript... But others were pure gold and a very clever use of HTML (like the carousel)
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by omtinez 10y ago
Actually, no. Microsoft instrumented essentially every OS component (and sharing backend infrastructure, universal telemetry client, etc.) starting in Windows 10. Prior to that, it was just a few isolated pieces that had their own kind of
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by omtinez 10y ago
Shameless plug: I have been working on my own code editor as well, I wanted something between Notepad++ and Jupyter Notebooks; I called it TeIDE: https://github.com/omtinez/teide Fully open source, built on Polymer and
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by omtinez 10y ago
Well, are you gonna share that with us? :-)
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by omtinez 10y ago
Actually, I had a similar experience. For that reason, I decided to work on a side project precisely to encourage people to get started lifting weights and lose the fear of going to the gym: https://ezworkout.org
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by omtinez 12y ago
I don't see the point of this with newer generation cameras. Almost all drivers nowadays support the "photo burst" mode where you take a single photo and the driver gives you back X frames before and after the fact (at full r
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by omtinez 13y ago
How can this be news? The fall of the Berlin wall is far more important and current!
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by omtinez 13y ago
Generate a public/private pair of keys for each user in each chat, using user-provided entropy (key strokes, etc.). For each message sent, encrypt it using a random single-use key and encode the passphrase using the recipient's pu
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by omtinez 13y ago
For a second there I thought that you were gonna start another Wayland flamewar...
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by omtinez 13y ago
Official sources from Spain are particularly well known for bogus counting when it comes to protests, etc. I suggest to take this with a pinch of salt