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Cool to see this, it's a cool in-between step for not having additional wraparound screens or a VR headset.

I used to run a similar software[1] for when I was really into playing F1 racing games. However one of the problems I found was the initial disconnect in your head and eye movement that took some getting used to.

For example, if you want to look left to see an upcoming turn, naturally your eyes move before your head, and your head follows after. With this software enabled, you have to consciously inverse the process where your head moves a direction, but your eyes still remain looking forward at the screen.

It took a some getting used to and resulting in some dizziness afterwards, but was fun.

[1] https://facetracknoir.sourceforge.net/home/default.htm

Does anyone know how the name Ladybird came about?

It's the colloquial name of an insect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinellidae

I'm somewhat confused to why Google needed to open source the original Pebble source code for this project to exist?

Was it not possible to already create a comparible e-ink screen, long life battery, smart watch without the source code? Is it the pebble branding itself that is important somehow?

I don't think switching to the open source alternative is a viable option for many, mainly because a lot of them just don't work as well.

This article lists a large amount of pitfalls when trying to do just that: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/just-paying-figma-15-dollar...

And this isn't some esoteric use case used as an excuse. The core need the author has is "export my diagram to SVG and have it render the same in all browsers".

Staffpad and Audacity are both software under the ownership (?) of Muse Group.

Staffpad is recent acquisition which is why they are now able to share technology like this: https://mu.se/

I'm really not sure how you can argue that "AI is great at explaining code snippets" while also acknowledging that it will just give you flat out wrong answers some times.

Either it's good at explaining and is right, or is bad at explaining and is wrong.

Applying the logic of it being "right most of the time" seems really bad for a tool applied to a reference documentation website.

I sincerly hope that they remove this feature and apologise for its integration in the first place.

I don't think a reference website should include any sort of feature that can hallucinate incorrect documentation for you on demand.

It's bad enough that they have to include a disclaimer[1] on their upsell page, which states that the "AI Help" may occassionally return incorrect results.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/plus/ai-help

I don't mean to be rude but your response really sounds like it could be turned into a dril Tweet.

"advertising may be immoral, but it also helps pays for the content you watch, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,"

https://twitter.com/dril/status/464802196060917762

This is something that's really similar to what I want.

Ideally I would like a standalone device to display TOTP codes, but the only devices I've found only have a support for a single code.

I guess a feature phone with a custom app is the next best thing.

League of Legends

League of Legends originally.

It's a popular copypasta that gets used in esports discussions whenever an EU team beats an NA team harshly.

"NA" as term in esports just refers to teams primarily based in the US or Canada.

It feels like of bleak to discourage childish computer tinkering on a website named "Hacker News". Not entirely sure what this says about the direction of this website.

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have been campaigning to address child sexual exploitation for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(organization)

I would guess they are simplying sponsoring this legislation sincerly without understanding the privacy ramifications if it passed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-family_zoning

It's the first sentence in the History section

No that is not how the GDPR works.

It would be illegal specifically if you _collected and stored_ the IP address information from the phone home requests to process in some form later.

If you simply process the web request, and don't store the IP address then there it no issue.

If you do end up storing IP address in a log somewhere, then simply having the logs deleted in a documented and reasonable timeframe will be enough.

"Documented and reasonable timeframe" is intentionally vague since business requirements are varied, but if you can justify whatever you come up with, then there is no issue.

Simply do not hold onto user data for longer that what is required for the purposes of the user request. That's it.

I still don't understand the purported difference between "sounds smart" and "is smart".

This really does encapsulate the average Hackernews commenter

I think your point (1) doesn't really match with what the rails devs expect.

37Signals have both their Basecamp and Hey.com products which act very much like a single page app but only using Turbo and Stimulus.

I think the rails devs believe that single page apps are overused and the majority of functionality can be done using just the provided tools.

This may be a poor analogy:

Imagine, during a war, a missile that has been set to target a city. The casualties will be many, and random, and innocent, but this is wartime and horrible things happen.

Now, imagine that this missile is set to target the city, but will launch at a random time in the future. The missile may launch during the war, or many years after.

Now it's obvious to me that the missile that lauches at the random point in the future is more evil than the one fired immediately.

It's a poor analogy, but the random missile is how I view landmines.

I think this is less about the casualties of war itself, but the effects of when trying to move on after the war.

If people die due to landmines many years after a ceasefire are they a casualty of the war?

I think landmines represent a physical device that artifically extends the destruction of war in a time that is way after the parties may have agreed to peace. In that sense, the landmine inflicts death on people with no agency. A bomb dropped on a someone has intent and an army responsible for it. A landmine planted decades ago is so divorced from its original intent that any resulting death or injury feels random and injust.

For context, the Bluetits seems to be an association of people who enjoy outdoor swimming in colder waters: https://thebluetits.co/pages/about

Not sure exactly what this implies other than they are likely to care more about the quality of the local river water.

If you're interested, here's a really comprehensive video on how USB keyboards work which may answer your question: https://youtu.be/wdgULBpRoXk

Are you conflating respect (treating someone with human decency) with respect (treating someone as an authority)?

Assuming your async job workload isn't massive, you could use job systems that have database backed queues?

Does anyone know if the Framework team plan to offer an ARM based mainboard?

I'm honestly not even sure that there are any good ARM based SoCs to make a laptop mainboard from, but given what we've seen from Apple's development of their iPhone chips being integrated into laptop and desktop, I wonder if something similar could be done with other existing ARM CPUs from Samsung or Nvidia?

The biggest takeaway that I get from these comments is that HN users seem to either dislike fun hardware or just don't understand what the use case is.

The Playdate is a novel, low-powered, handheld console intended for experiemental indie game design and has been marketed as such.

Comparisons to a Nintendo Switch or a Steam Deck seem very pointless since these consoles are very much not targeting the same end users. It would be like complaining that you shouldn't buy a Raspberry Pi since a Mac Mini is better for your average user.

I agree that the price is a bit steep, but that is to be expected when you are not producing at a volume.

The author's overall point is that China does not seen to export many cultural works with global appeal (and not just restricted to western tastes). In comparison you could look to Japan with it's global cultural export of manga, anime, and video games and also South Korea with it's global cultural exports of movies and drama. These exports aren't strictly limited in taste to western audiences but have a global appeal while still retaining elements of it's place of origin.

It's unclear to me though if it is deliberate in this way for there not to be many cultural exports like this and if having a strong domestic scene is enough, however purely from a number game I would have expected more (which the author goes onto address later in the essay in the section "Strangling the cultural sector")

The entire point of TFA is that the ability to go fast is a force multiplier for being productive in the first place.

It's an internet protocol with the intent of being extremely simple and with the goal of fostering an alternative internet space.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi https://drewdevault.com/2020/11/01/What-is-Gemini-anyway.htm...

I feel your comment only supports the points in the article.

I would say that YouTube, GMail, and Google Maps are all direct funnels into the Adsense machine.

Android, Chrome, and Chromebooks see success only as instruments to have infrastructure to more efficiently push users to use the Google products to direct data into the Adsense machine.

Any Google product that does not sufficiently funnel user data into the Adsense machine is canned. GCP exists as a covinient way to make some side money on their existing infrastructure.

I think only Waymo is the true outlier in this case, but I think that lives as it's own thing, given that's under Alphabet instead of Google proper.

I'd like just to point out that I find your comment absurd to the point of being really funny.

Since humor is now banned on the internet, would you mind deleting your comment as good praxis?

:)