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I recently received a PR fully automated by Claude for an 8 years old repo. The bug is legit and the scope it affects is larger than what that PR addressed, but I no longer care too much about that legacy code anyway, so I also let Claude run free for the first time in my life, from handling that PR to fixing all related bugs.
I walked away for half an hour and back, found Claude opened and merged 9 more PRs and added a comprehensive CI for testing for all platforms. It will likely take me months to reach this level of output, but only half an hour for a capable agent.
No wonder why GitHub is down all the time.
KOReader doesn’t support Japanese vertical rtl layout without a hack (e.g., rotating the fonts) is the single reason I don’t use it. The stock software on Kindle, on the other hand, does care about this a lot and its implementation is very good. At the end, I just built my own local server and a KUAL app to sync books and notes and progress in/out from jailbroken devices.
Thanks to the author, I now have a whole lot of destinations to walk around town. I will take some photos of every library and upload to the app soon too!
I am working on a self-hosted library server for jailbroken kindle and opted for using pure Rust for the KUAL app to sync books and annotations with the server.
It's just running `cargo build --release --target armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf` with a .cargo/config.toml:
```
[target.armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf]
linker = "rust-lld"
rustflags = ["-C", "link-self-contained=yes"].
```
the downside is I can't use any c-deps. :)
I have a pipeline of jp epub>m4b, just need to swap tts models in between :)
Exactly. Qwen only has one pitch accent for pure hiragana words, even though it actually work (removing mandarin mixed-in), which requires some great efforts to normalize text in order to disambiguate heteronyms, the result is (if you use voice cloning) your favorite CV speaking in some weird, unknown accent :)
I'd love to see a monolingual Japanese model sometime in the future. Qwen3-tts works for Japanese in general, but from time to time it will mix with some Mandarin in between, making it unusable.
Apple Books has some rare exclusives. To name one, all of Norman Berrow's novels are only available there.
If both are selfish, then neither is selfish. You conveniently deconstructed the concept of selfishness and I like it a lot.
If that was the reason, Gemini must have been doing some very convoluted reasoning...
Tangent. Yesterday I tried Gemini Ultra with a Django template question (HTML + Bootstrap v5 related), and here's its totally unrelated answer:
> Elections are a complex topic with fast-changing information. To make sure you have the latest and most accurate information, try Google Search.
I know how to do it myself, I just want to see if Gemini can solve it. And it did (or didn't?) disappoint me.
Links: https://g.co/gemini/share/fe710b6dfc95
And ChatGPT's: https://chat.openai.com/share/e8f6d571-127d-46e7-9826-015ec3...
It's interesting to note that you consider having children a selfish choice, because in some cultures, not having children is considered selfish.
I live in Germany. After dual-using Google Maps and Apple Maps for a year, I've finally uninstalled Google Maps and now use only Apple Maps.
I resonate with the top comment on Tildes that suggests we need a singular conglomerate to cover all media types. We actually had one from China, douban.com, but the situation of censorship there makes it unusable. There are also a few new alternatives, such as nicedb.org and its fork, neodb.social, but I find them somehow lacking.
As the saying goes, "no news is good news".
Is there anyone out there building a federated Wiki based on ActivityPub, given it's such a fad nowadays?
There's no adventure if you know what lies ahead. But I suppose some are fine without adventure in their lives.
https://luvdb.comhttps://github.com/huangziwei/luvdb
A self-hosted media cataloging web app, with which one can mark the books, movies, music and games one likes, along with some basic social networking features such as microblogging, normal blogging, bookmarking and curating stuffs into lists. It's just me trying out ideas in an highly self-indulgent way.
I live in a small college town in Germany. My workplace is a 15- to 20-minute uphill walk away, my family doctor is in the building next to where I live, and all my friends are within a 40-minute walking distance. The situation was almost the same when I lived in China, in a smaller town two hours' drive from Guangzhou. I've walked my whole life and don't even know how to drive. I've almost taken for granted that one should be able to walk to any place that is important to them; perhaps it's not that universal elsewhere?
I made my web app into a PWA and even went so far as to polish the home screen icon and splash screen to make it look nice once installed. However, in the end, I use the browser much more frequently, simply because I can access the URL of the page and share it elsewhere.
I will let users decide whether they want comments or not. I've also considered public/private notes, as I am working on something similar, and I've reached the conclusion that people post on my web app because they want to be seen; otherwise, they would just write in their diary. Private notes always give me a sense of false privacy, as anyone with admin access can read whatever private things you've written, unless you make it clear to users that "private" means not viewable by other users but not private from the admins.
For both, actually. And I realize I didn’t phrase it very well. I didn’t mean checking out what others think in real time, but only afterward, and async.
And it doesn't have to be a long and complete thought, like an after-reading review, right? Most of the time, it's just, "I like this sentence," "I've had the same thought once," or "I disagree, but I like the author's reasoning," etc. These are ephemeral thoughts that occur during reading, and most of the time, they are lost. It would be nice to have a convenient way to capture them.
StoryGraph actually offers a very close feature called "Track progress", with which one can, well, track progress and add notes correspondingly. But it's only enabled when the status is "currently reading". Ideally, it should extend to any status, one can certainly have afterthoughts much later after reading a book, or even pre-thoughts before reading it. :D
To me, the GoodReads model of book reviews, where one user has one review per book, seems quite limited and obsolete. If you were truly an avid reader in the past, you probably underlined text on the pages, wrote notes in the margins, and even kept a diary of your thoughts while reading. A new GoodReads should offer these features. I was inspired by the "How to Japanese" blog, where the blogger once tried liveblogging while reading 1Q84[1]. How wonderful would it be to see what others are thinking when I am reading the same book on the same page?
[1]: https://howtojaponese.com/2009/05/29/1q84-liveblog/
Just want to say thank you!