rgovostes

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by rgovostes 19d ago
Have you used a social network in the past year? Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, et al. have become increasingly hostile to blockers with techniques that break pattern-matching on hostnames and element selectors. It may be inevitable that adb
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by rgovostes 24d ago
Technically this is Schlarpcoding.
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by rgovostes 25d ago
Amazon's hardware development subsidiary in Sunnyvale, California is Lab126. (Hi Mars!)
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Lot #4006: Steve Jobs 8th Grade Science Fair Project(rrauction.com)
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by rgovostes 1mo ago
A young relative of mine is having a miserable time cashing Treasury bonds that were gifted to her through TreasuryDirect for her tuition. Treasury is requiring she get a medallion signature guarantee from a bank to access her funds but, li
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by rgovostes 2mo ago
Ironically, "No feeds. No algorithms. No likes." reads like copy that is, well, not handwritten.
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by rgovostes 2mo ago
Flexify ( http://www.flamingpear.com/flexify-2.html ) is an incredible decades-old Photoshop plugin for making these. I made a mobile for a grade school math project using Flexify and NASA's equirectangular planetary map
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by rgovostes 2mo ago
See also: Black Hole Vision for iOS from Vanderbilt University. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/black-hole-vision/id6737292448
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European Commission: 'Guidance to Google for AI Interoperability'(daringfireball.net)
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by rgovostes 2mo ago
Infuse is a nice app but note that it does not use the media server's transcoding service, so it can work poorly trying to stream remotely, while Jellyfin's transcoding-aware web client works better. The Jellyfin app for Apple TV
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by rgovostes 2mo ago
A website dedicated to promoting LASIK says the surgery “boasts a success rate of at least 96%”, and a satisfaction rate of 95%. “Long-term or chronic dry eye affects only a small minority (about 4%)” while cases requiring follow-up treatme
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by rgovostes 2mo ago
I've recently been test driving SPR[1] which is a security-oriented distro for Wi-Fi routers. The team behind it are serious about Wi-Fi security and have a research lab[2] that has been credited with several CVEs in the likes of Apple
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by rgovostes 3mo ago
I've been using Podman on Mac and Linux for 3 years, and unfortunately, I have found this to be perennially true. I am willing to doggedly pursue the root cause and file bugs, but for many people it will just seem broken. Most recently
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by rgovostes 3mo ago
I've successfully tinkered with USB/IP with Apple containers, but it does require loading a custom kernel (which they make pretty easy, thankfully). On the host side, macOS also doesn't make it easy to unload a driver that at
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by rgovostes 3mo ago
Related: Gus Mueller (of the excellent macOS image editor Acorn) has a parametric pizza dough calculator: https://maybepizza.com/calc/
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by rgovostes 4mo ago
Once upon a time, or perhaps in an alternative universe in which the iPhone did not take over the world, there was Peek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peek_(mobile_Internet_device)
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by rgovostes 4mo ago
Great comment, thank you. I have only seen The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) once, but fifteen years on I distinctly remember a scene where Daniel Craig is trying to use a Mac and accidentally drags Safari off the Dock. https:/
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by rgovostes 4mo ago
Apple Vision Pro's hand tracking was first alluded to in a section of their first machine learning research publication. It was about using GANs to add realistic sensor noise to synthetic datasets. The bulk of the article is about eye
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by rgovostes 4mo ago
I appreciate that the post was short and to the point, but it is, like so much content submitted to HN now, heavily filtered through an LLM's voice, if not completely written by one. Here is how the author used to write: https:/&
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by rgovostes 4mo ago
This article uses every one of Claude's cliches, e.g., "No SGD, no epochs, no hyperparameter search." It's hard to tell if this is real research.
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by rgovostes 4mo ago
So you ran an "experiment" where you deliberately made someone else's community worse to see what would happen? Cool project.
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by rgovostes 5mo ago
There exist many underwater vehicles that can withstand ocean pressures. The REMUS 6000 for example can reach depths of 6000m. As the article describes, these are gliders: > A glider is a small robot that slowly changes its buoyancy, bec
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by rgovostes 5mo ago
There was a charming reality TV show in the 2000s called "Airline"[0] in which a camera crew followed around Southwest ground operations, cabin crew, and passengers. There was a British series that aired around the same time about
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by rgovostes 5mo ago
In high school I had the TI-89 Titanium. Like everyone here, I got into programming it using some USB adapter I could attach to my iMac G5 and the TI Connect app[0]. One day, vexed by something, I vented my frustration by composing a profan
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by rgovostes 5mo ago
Please don't post slop here. What do you get out of it?
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by rgovostes 5mo ago
And was this written by a local model or a frontier cloud one?
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by rgovostes 5mo ago
It takes more like 10 seconds. For a large range of height and weight inputs crossed with all option combinations, you could precompute ~10M measurements and return results basically instantly.
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by rgovostes 5mo ago
> The iPad remains my favorite form factor to use in lots of my day but Apple never invested in killer app software optimized for it. Apple doesn't received much credit for making iPhoto for iPad back in 2012 ( https://www
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by rgovostes 5mo ago
Curiously, the accounts whose comments/articles I'm most confident about being AI-written tend to focus heavily on AI, yet deny using it themselves. I prompted Claude 5 times with a simple "What do you think about <blog
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by rgovostes 5mo ago
I'm willing to wager that your comment was generated from the body of the article plus a prompt to work in an advertisement for your product, which gets a mention in nearly every comment you make (and every submission you make, sometim

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