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by scary-size 16d ago
Really nice project! Expected a visual ID system, surprised it was using audio. "Flock" would be a great name for the project...oh well!
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by scary-size 19d ago
That surprised me too. VR is no issue for me, I can also usually stare at my phone in the car. But this site made me dizzy immediately.
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by scary-size 1mo ago
https://github.com/rupa/z (z - jump around)
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by scary-size 1mo ago
They didn’t get a definition. Probably looked at the word „sprint“. Went: „Yep, sounds fast but only for a short period. Gotta be these 90 hour weeks once in a while. Definitely can’t be the thing these folks are doing continuously.“. Crunc
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by scary-size 1mo ago
Yey, we contribute 432 kWh to that. Northern Germany, small 6.3 kWp system.
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by scary-size 2mo ago
Fair. How is this specific to the marketed AI integration? This could just be a unifying abstraction layer for a bunch of, in my opinion, verbose chart APIs. And then the LLM could just be the abstraction layer.
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by scary-size 2mo ago
There’s this great post about „The Death Of Day Dreaming“: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/on-the-death-of-daydreaming
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by scary-size 3mo ago
Already switched to CachyOS, haven’t booted to Windows 10 since then. Desktop gaming was my only use, everything else happens on an M1 Air. It’s a delight, no pop ups, sell ups, Cortana and whatever else MS kept throwing at you.
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by scary-size 3mo ago
IIRC, WARN filings in NYC require to indicate whether lay-offs were due to AI. None of the filings of the past year checked that box [1] [1] https://www.hrgrapevine.com/us/content/article/2026-02-11-ai...
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by scary-size 3mo ago
„How To Build a Thrust Vectored Model Rocket“ has a good section on this IIRC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cw9K9yuIyU
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by scary-size 3mo ago
Check button hidden under the URL bar thing in safari, progress bar hidden when scrolling check button in view. In between endless whitespace.
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by scary-size 3mo ago
Have been paying for Fastmail for years. It’s actually fast and lets me use my own domain. (And doesn’t shove AI down my throat). Cash well spent.
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by scary-size 3mo ago
Installed CachyOS to replace my Win 10 installation a month ago. Not looking back! But yeah this sucks, I've mostly used Ubuntu with apt in the past. Pacman and makepkg felt a bit weird to use in the beginning.
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by scary-size 3mo ago
I thought the AdGuard folks were looking doing just that!
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by scary-size 3mo ago
It's so satisfying to see all these techniques applied to a product. There's nothing really new tech-wise. Optimistic updates were shown in a lot of early React demos more than ten years ago. Bundle splitting, preloading and servi
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by scary-size 4mo ago
Huh, that somehow reminds me of Crassus from Rome [1] > The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Crassus. Fires were almost a daily occurrence in Rome, and Crassus took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, by c
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by scary-size 5mo ago
I guess „it‘s complicated“. For our system, 6kWp with iMSys, the grid operator can cap the ingestion as they see fit. For systems over 7kWp, you are required to install a iMSys that allows them to cap. Systems without a iMSys must have the
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by scary-size 5mo ago
IIIRC, new individual systems are already required to have the capability to wind down export based on external signals.
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by scary-size 6mo ago
Interesting perspective! Are we in the „fast fashion“ period of software now?
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by scary-size 7mo ago
Pretty cool! (I can't test it, seems unavailable in Germany). How are you handling the text extraction with Readability.js? Does that run in a WebView in the background? I've built a similar, albeit less feature-complete, read-it
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by scary-size 7mo ago
Real nice! Shutting down networking between refreshes definitely helps with the battery life. I also prevent mine [1] from updating between 10PM and 6AM. Nobody is looking at it anyway. If you search around on Github for Kindle dashboards,
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by scary-size 7mo ago
Maybe the folks at TRMNL? https://trmnl.com/
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by scary-size 7mo ago
Yep, it’s super cheap. I wrote about mine here:: https://franz.hamburg/writing/kindling-e-ink-dashboard.html
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by scary-size 9mo ago
This reminds me about this old gist for generating Firebase-like "push IDs" [1]. Those have some nicer properties. [1] https://gist.github.com/mikelehen/3596a30bd69384624c11
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by scary-size 9mo ago
I think they mean that even an OLED display will actively emit light. When, in contrast, the e-ink displays shown in the linked posts are unlit. That, for me, is the key advantage making the device blend in.
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by scary-size 9mo ago
I love just how non-intrusive an e-ink dashboard is sitting in a room. Definitely can recommend it as a base device that gets you display, wonky Linux, a battery and networking in neat little package. Also recently showed my dashboard here:
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by scary-size 10mo ago
Actually used it for a desktop blogging app a few years ago. It was great! I could set up a blog skeleton, send the file to a family member. They could focus on writing content and hitting deploy. https://blog.project-daily.com&#
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by scary-size 1y ago
Thanks, yes it’s obviously for a power system.
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by scary-size 1y ago
Building a little dashboard for our solar system. Running on a mini PC in the office closest. Bun, React, DuckDB https://solar.franz.hamburg/
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by scary-size 1y ago
For engineers doing UIs once in a while, I can recommend Refactoring UI [1]. It has a bunch of practical tips for making your life easier: Picking a color palette, font sizes, margins/padding etc. [1] https://www.refactoring

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