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by schrijver 6d ago
I read this take on hacker news all the time, but what indication do you have that this would be popular ? All the streaming giants had ample budget and engineering talent to make interactive fiction happen, but didn’t, presumably because t
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by schrijver 23d ago
So any interesting alternative use for the Camlink ? All I can think of is dropping framerate (some of my cameras output 50p but are 25p). Or maybe adding a LUT ?
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by schrijver 2mo ago
Since dieselgate I no longer believe in German engineering. That, and that they just can’t make their trains run on time. Never have I taken an ICE train that was not delayed. How could that happen in an actual engineering culture?
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by schrijver 3mo ago
You turn a dedicated camera on as you grab it, cold boot, and most of them will be functional before you manage to put your eye to the visor.
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by schrijver 3mo ago
That’s a separate mechanism, and it will tell you so if it does (if the prompt is remated to cybersecurity, biology)
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by schrijver 4mo ago
> your company has to wait weeks for you to return I mean that’s the very concept of a holiday to me ?
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by schrijver 4mo ago
Live has been kind to you ;)
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by schrijver 4mo ago
An em dash is used without spaces in most typography manuals. But that’s for typeset books, it’s not like everybody writes that way in casual communication. I think surrounding it with spaces comes from people using a regular dash (the em d
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by schrijver 5mo ago
For years now all their images have this look, everything sharp at all distances. I enjoy it because it goes against the shallow depth of field trend that has been dominant, it’s refreshing. I think they achieve it by focus stacking, compos
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by schrijver 6mo ago
Right, but if you were Irish, you wouldn’t have to slow it down when listening to English in an Irish accent. Your distinction to what is accented or not seems personal to you. Accent is a subset of dialect, referring to pronunciation, wher
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by schrijver 6mo ago
Fwiw all English is accented, so you’d need a setting for which accent you consider easy to understand.
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by schrijver 6mo ago
You’re right, the kind of cable often used is not easy to solder. This makes it hard to solder a broken cable together again, or to replace a broken / bent plug. So best replace the entire cable and its plug — it’s still an inexpensive
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by schrijver 6mo ago
I’ve repaired many pairs of wired headphones over the years, as electronic repairs go they’re very simple. The same can’t be said for the wireless ones. Plus, the more high end ones come with repleceable cables.
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by schrijver 6mo ago
Sounds pretty grim to me, why are they sending you slack messages when you’re on a trip with family?
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by schrijver 7mo ago
The Macbook Pro has a HDMI port and a Micro SD slot, it’s great to not have to look for a dongle. Steep price difference though.
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by schrijver 7mo ago
Thanks for the links ! Good to have an overview of the current crop turns out there is a factory near me
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by schrijver 7mo ago
It’s one of the reasons I don’t like the current fashion of controlling devices from your phone. Each time you change the channel you risk seeing your notifications or are tempted to go to the apps. Yet AV remote controls were UX hell and p
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by schrijver 7mo ago
I watch through the window to see the current weather, except for the temperature, which I assume is more or less the same as yesterday. I know it’s colder at night, but that’s true every night. It’s all very approximative, but I just can’t
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by schrijver 7mo ago
I see your point but these business owners are going to wait until a big player offers this as an online service. As of now installing *Claw requires running scripts, mucking about with Docker etc, no business owner is going to do that unle
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by schrijver 8mo ago
People keep bringing dead Bose bluetooth speakers to our repair café. These are a lot more expensive than the competitors. Bose has a reputation so people think they’ll last longer, but they don’t, they’ll fail just out of warranty just lik
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by schrijver 9mo ago
It’s a method like any other. The process took him two days, after the LLM suggested which track to mix (like he was working for the LLM instead of the other way around?). Two days is more than enough to learn how to make a mashup in Ableto
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by schrijver 9mo ago
I would say that the ae comes from Dutch, it was the way the open a sound used to be spelled before it became aa (maalstroom). You can still see it in place names (Aerdenhout which is pronounced Aardenhout).
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by schrijver 10mo ago
My bad, a few years ago this was reported in the press (in the Netherlands). Maybe the regulatory framework caught up with them in the mean time.
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by schrijver 10mo ago
I know HN loves Miele, but they are very Apple like when it comes to repair — they don’t make their parts available to the public and since a few years neither to independent repair shops. In contrast I had a great experience repairing a Sm
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by schrijver 10mo ago
Pull out my phone to turn on the heat on my stove ? A simple and satisfying mechanical motion that’s in my muscle memory since forever ? Hard to express how much I would hate that !
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by schrijver 10mo ago
Hobs built into the countertop are usually like that (and I hate them vigorously for the reasons you state), but freestanding furnaces (oven plus hobs) exist with big physical buttons. Since the buttons are on the front of your unit, the he
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by schrijver 11mo ago
It’s perfectly possible to enjoy hobbies deeply without getting “serious” in the way you describe. I’ve taken my 10 euro dance classes for years without feeling the necessity of pricey exchanges and camps. My neighbour goes to the park many
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by schrijver 11mo ago
Knitting / crocheting / quilting / embroidering? Drawing / painting / calligraphy? Singing in a choir? Creative writing / journaling / blogging? Solving crossword puzzles? Bird watching? Day hikes? Reading
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by schrijver 11mo ago
What do you think ‘super’ means ? It is latin for ‘over’, wich in German is über. In English it has come to take on a broader meaning, but Nietzsche’s übermensch is called ‘superman’ in most English translations, even if ‘superhuman’ would
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by schrijver 11mo ago
I don’t think there’s any single way to be sure, but it sure reads like ChatGPT to me. Which I’m not sure is such a bad thing—I presume the author used an AI to help them write the story, but the story is real. Or maybe they edited it thems

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