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You could probably make your infra cheaper if you sent the generated slides to the web client and use some js ffmpeg wasm to compile the video in the browser. This way you could probably use the cheapest VPS to handle this.

"option shift -" like so —, or if you want an en-dash, just "option -" like –. The funny bit is that I like em-dashes too as they indicate a pause or an interruption in thinking that just looks better than parenthesis, however I sometimes like to use en-dashes as well, which can be a pain since some fonts, especially monospaced ones, render exactly the same, for example in this HN edit box: - – —

I used to get 2-3 shady crypto offers per week on LinkedIn. It stopped when I started replying with AI generated responses demanding multiple verification steps: official email, official offer link, terms and scope etc. And a note with a firm refusal to run any code or install any package on my machine for "recruitment tasks".

That’s a big lol compared to what I get out of ChatGPT Pro… running 5.5 on xhigh.

The PR buzz convinced me so I subscribed today to Pro. Running two tasks simultaneously with Fable and Opus 4-8 on ultra reasoning, analysing a single smart contract file used all my 7h usage within 20mins and didn’t produce any results. Pretty useless. I think Anthropic has plenty of room to optimise the interactions and token use but that would cut their income quite a lot, I doubt there’s any will to do it pre-IPO.

Interestingly, wine works on Apple Silicon via Rosetta2 so I guess it won't work by macOS 28, and we will be only left with arm64 DOSBox-X.

Dosbox has its emulator to run DOS, but afaik dosbox binary that starts up dosbox on Mac uses Rosetta on M-series Macs, and without Rosetta it simply won’t start and emulate DOS.

But I wonder if Heroic can install HoMM2 on a Mac if no Mac binary is available on GOG.

Hmm i guess this would require figuring out how to extract game data from an .exe installer GOG distributes. I guess AI would figure it out in like 3 minutes ;) I’ll check later.

So I guess sci-fi movies were right all along. Nobody in Star Wars knows how hyperspace travel works, it just works. The little robots know everything but almost no human bothers to care. People just carry on with their bickering lives while the bots whiz in the background, and these robots are astonished at human inefficiency every single time, but rarely do anything about it. And people are still people.

So I guess that yesterday's questions "Where is vibecoded Photoshop?" just got answered with a vibecoded Gimp UI that looks like Photoshop ;) but seriously, nice work!

Well my idea was that when I said that the overall story arch is interesting, one would read a paragraph or two and see themselves if it's worth reading further or not, so I didn't think mentioning anything else is necessary ;)

You're correct these text are much better called short stories, but I chose the word "novel" anyway. And despite the slop, I still find this experiment interesting for one: because it intrigues me how AI ponders on the subject of sovereignty, and for two: because when I tried other, human novels I also encountered slop (albeit human): pages of meaningless descriptions, deliberations and dead-end side-plots.

Seems like every bubble has the same thing going on. I guess during tulip mania everyone was a florist.

This read is amazing and the development work is very impressive, great job and congrats! That said, my 20-30yo self would end at that. However, my 40yo+ self has a piece of wisdom here: the brass plugs are there for a reason: they slow things down. Technocracy (screens, apps, automation) is not good for our mental health. Human minds need small, calm, slow, manual processes. Like plugging the brass plugs.

This is genius! Now I hope to run all my childhood games on a modern Ubuntu.

As a kid behind the Iron Curtain I had a radio & cassette tape player with a single large speaker built-in. The cassette player had a record button that when pressed together with play used the speaker and I could actually record my voice, and play it back, from the tape. After enough re-recording on a single tape the fade of the old recordings broke through the new ones creating a truly amazing sound experience. Too bad I lost the tapes and the device.

You learn the most from failure and the least from success. Likewise, you grow the most from pushing through the limits and the least from living in abundance. You can do pretty much anything on a full spec Mac Studio, but so can anyone else with a lot of money. But if you push through the limit of a MacBook Neo, you just did something no one else was able to do. And that is awesome.

Ah haha not instantly but daily, but that’s a good idea to expand :)

Wait till tomorrow noon utc :) it’s just a week old.

Bullwhip effect on this will be funny. At least, we are in for some cheap ram in like… a dozen months or so.

What is dead may never die. Perl will live on in the few mostly weird places doing things other languages can only dream of. And that’s fine. Perl doesn’t need to win the race or update itself. It is good enough as it is. It’s the magic wand in the world full of electronics. Sure you can light the room with an electric PHP/Python lightbulb script. But Perl can summon a levitating glowing orb out of thin air with a single line of code.

You need to describe to AI what you want quite precisely. Non-expert people can't describe basic things, let alone complex projects.

Main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43374278

Main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43374278

Well... Good point, but it seems I'm the lucky 10K today :) I wasn't around WWII to see the military equipment ads in the newspapers. And even though I've read a lot of newspapers in Poland (basically since the 90s) I don't recall seeing an explicit military equipment advertisement in popular daily and weekly newspapers, except for one case when Poland was debating the purchase of multi-purpose fighter jets, and there were I think F-16 ads – but these were printed inside the in-flight magazines of LOT Polish Airlines, so not really accessible to the wider public. On a side note, air travel advertisement seems to be a MIC's favourite choice, as I vividly remember huge Raytheon billboards at the Warsaw airport baggage claim during the NATO summit ;)

Google Fit is being replaced by Goolge Fitbit, but as usual with Google what is really happening is Google is one by one replacing the sections of the original Fitbit app with the Google Fit interface. The first thing that got replaced is the Fitbit Sleep tracking, and believe me when I say what Google did is an abomination in terms of UI/UX design. The previous Fitbit sleep tracking screen was near perfection of readability and clarity. The new one is Google's usual form-over-function design language where the most important metric (weekly-view sleep score) is hidden and requires many taps to access.

It was back for a moment, now 500 again. Each refresh is a lottery, 200 or 500.

Yes, error 500 in Poland as well.

Digging deeper it seems these notifications are a one-way street, so Flightradar24 app may not even know it was pushed. It seems like a local on-device notification. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...