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Decoding Weather Fax Transmissions with Ilma(code.sailorslog.io)
1 points by sailingcode 3mo ago|1 comments
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by sailingcode 3mo ago
Ilma is a Navtex decoder for the Raspberry Pi that just got weather fax (WEFAX) capabilities. I’m a sailor and I built a headless receiver for the Raspberry Pi & SDR-RTL v4 dongle.
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by sailingcode 4mo ago
The tempo of AI development is overwhelming. Within one generation, coding/IT has gone from the most promising career for the young to profound insecurity about the future.
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by sailingcode 4mo ago
I use a self-developed plain text editor for writing and my one-click GitHub sync menu bar app to deploy Astro blogs. The irony of the GitHub sync app is that I do no longer have a working GitHub account...
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by sailingcode 4mo ago
Impressive, congratulations for the nice work.
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Ilma, a Navtex Receiver for Raspberry Pi(code.sailorslog.io)
3 points by sailingcode 4mo ago|1 comments
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by sailingcode 4mo ago
I built this on a Pi Zero 2 W because of its low energy consumption when it's running continuously on a boat. Navtex is a 1970s radio technique that delivers navigational and meteorological info and has forward error correction built i
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Storing sunlight in DNA-inspired molecules, released later as heat(science.org)
2 points by sailingcode 4mo ago|4 comments
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by sailingcode 4mo ago
Storage is the hard part of renewable energy. In this article, the researches used a molecule that captures sunlight and locks it into a strained, high-energy shape. It can hold that energy for months to years and then release it as heat on
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Show HN: Quay – Menu-bar Git sync(code.sailorslog.io)
4 points by sailingcode 5mo ago|0 comments
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by sailingcode 5mo ago
I can relate. I also fought with OAuth (GitHub, for a much smaller project) for an App Store app (Quay) that finally went through.
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by sailingcode 5mo ago
Efficiency claim: 70% less token usage, 3x faster task completion in internal testing. Even if that's marketing-inflated, the structured CLI commands replace a lot of trial-and-error. Gonna try it.
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by sailingcode 5mo ago
I'm an iguana and need to wash my bicycle in the carwash. Shall I walk or take the bus?
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by sailingcode 5mo ago
There was a recent research article titled "LLM Targeted Underperformance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Users". They described systematic underperformance of AI models targeted towards users with lower English proficiency,
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LLM risk spreading misinformation to humans who are least able to identify it(arxiv.org)
4 points by sailingcode 5mo ago|1 comments
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by sailingcode 5mo ago
"We show systematic underperformance of GPT-4, Llama 3, and Claude 3 Opus targeted towards users with lower English proficiency, less education, and from non-US origins." Even if you're trying and willing to learn as a less s
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by sailingcode 5mo ago
I had the same issues, so I built a macOS menu-bar app that does one-click git pull/commit/push for any local folder, including Obsidian vaults. Uses the system git binary, fast-forward merges only (stops on conflict instead of si
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by sailingcode 5mo ago
I had Max plan and never reached its limit despite constantly working. Now I use the Pro plan and regularly reach the 5h limit as well as the weekly limit, as expected. I found that it makes a huge difference if you provide clear context wh
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by sailingcode 5mo ago
AI has solved the "code problem", but it hasn't solved the "marketing problem"…