thomas536

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by thomas536 2mo ago
+1 to using MUD as a learning tool. Learn about agent loops, prompting iteration, etc. I vibe coded a few room proof of concept MUD. I added a tools called `oracle` (aka me) that it could ask me questions to help along its way; and the abil
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by thomas536 2mo ago
I refuse to believe this is the only way to make it cheaper. Standardization and modular components could help. Might not be cheap enough. But surely we can be more imaginative!
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by thomas536 3mo ago
My intuition is that a small radio from the 80s is sufficient. Has relatively small size and passive speaker. Small passive speaker and small enclosure are cheap aka not 100+ USD. A tonie box sounds fine. Can I diy reproduce one similar at
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by thomas536 3mo ago
I've spent countless hours searching for a small, good quality passive speaker. In a roughly 4 inch cube size. That comes with an good (acoustically) box/enclosure. Plenty exist in various forms (kits) but I never know if they sou
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by thomas536 4mo ago
I wonder where the water is coming from for these sites
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by thomas536 4y ago
Did they publish that fact anywhere?
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by thomas536 4y ago
Is anyone using this on Android?
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by thomas536 4y ago
Perhaps? I remember the article arguing more comprehensively why a different order would be beneficial, but maybe I am just misremembering
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by thomas536 4y ago
I once read an article about SQL and how reordering the sections of a query would make it more ergonomic for users (iirc things like specifying what you want first and then how to present it last, more like a pipeline). I searched many time
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by thomas536 4y ago
Re hydration Do you have any good reading on that link? Searched just now and there's a lot to wade through to find a good article
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by thomas536 5y ago
What's your favorite PTT mic? I'm always on the lookout for great device recommendations!
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Ask HN: Learning Reimplementation of Make
1 points by thomas536 5y ago|0 comments
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by thomas536 5y ago
Ah finally found one! Looks great!
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A faster multi-way merge algorithm interchangeable with heapq.merge(github.com)
3 points by thomas536 5y ago|0 comments
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by thomas536 5y ago
Are there similar relatively simple methods or simd tricks for multi-way merges?
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by thomas536 5y ago
Still looking for a microcontroller that can fit on my wrist [watch-like form factor] with built in microphone, deep sleep, quick wake, and quick push audio to wifi or BLE...
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by thomas536 6y ago
A recently launched pi tablet hits a couple of the requirements but definitely not all https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/745629624/cutiepi-raspb...
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by thomas536 6y ago
https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/129400382869048524...
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by thomas536 6y ago
I ran across this person's blog, who seems like they have some different slants on publishing that might interesting to you: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/6-lessons-learned-self-pub...
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by thomas536 6y ago
Sorry to hijack this thread, but too curious if you made any headway from your "Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?" post? Sounded like an interesting use-case. tia
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by thomas536 6y ago
+1 I appreciate your answer!
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by thomas536 6y ago
(Yeah the exact billing model is fungible/an example to get people to think in terms of actually willing to fork over money.) Do you mean you might have a specific and relatively small set of videos that you would like searched, but at
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by thomas536 6y ago
The only public search engine that I'm aware of using common crawl is ChatNoir. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/common-crawl/3o2dOHpeRxo/H2O...
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by thomas536 6y ago
Most searching (e.g. web, email, torrents) is based on ads, which works because of the utility to a huge number of people. There are many things one might in passing want to be able to search (e.g. quickly finding the location of particular
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Ask HN: What would you pay monthly to be searchable?
4 points by thomas536 6y ago|11 comments
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by thomas536 6y ago
I can do this as well (recall where a stray phone is), but don't understand why I notice and remember better than others. Do I remember more "that's out of place" instances, am I more predisposed to prefer things be in a
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by thomas536 6y ago
If people's public bookmarks aren't available online, I'd encourage you to publicly post them somewhere. Even if they aren't useful to you anymore, they are good signal for good content, which I think is worth trying to
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Ask HN: What Airflow bug/lack of feature would make you use something else?
1 points by thomas536 6y ago|0 comments
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by thomas536 7y ago
I'll second the recommendation for Kaldi. It's more complicated to get running vs pocketsphinx, but in my experience Kaldi has better accuracy/lower latency in general cases vs pocketsphinx (assuming caveats below). https:&#
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by thomas536 7y ago
https://lwn.net/Articles/776435/

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