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Re:Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad on Friday October 16, 2026 @12:47AM (#50114200)
And sidecar would not work over vpn
Re:Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:48PM (#49995373)
This looks aesthetically pleasing but this is not ASCII Art it seems, where’s ascii? All those differently sized dots are not ascii chars, are they? Perhaps this is unicode-art?
Re:FTL: A new operating system for clouds on Saturday October 03, 2026 @01:08PM (#49945967)
Fwiw diagram renders OKay in Brave on iOS
This is interesting sloproject but in spite of all verbosity I still didn’t parse how do you interface with it when it’s running on intended hw rather than in browser.
Re:Obscura: The first VPN that can't log your activity on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @04:48PM (#49807857)
It’s often ‘impossible’ and until it happens /s
Re:Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:45AM (#49796874)
For 1000w draw it also generates almost as much heat, is your math including all the cooling required?
Re:A Topological Picture Book, Rendered on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:00PM (#49619352)
Going landscape seems to be a bit better..
Re:TALA Is Open-Source on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @08:32AM (#49609472)
Nit: TALA could be another layout engine for graphviz but its not a format itself (I suggested this in comments above). Graphviz also doesn’t imply specific layout unless you mean “dot” that is default. So conversion is somewhat undefined. Maybe you mean graphviz language to d2, afaik there is no official, 100% loss-less automatic translator because of some subtle differences in these declarative languages
Re:TALA Is Open-Source on Monday September 07, 2026 @09:04PM (#49604560)
Would integrating/implementing this into graphviz be a good move or mixing wrong things?
Re:There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get on Saturday September 05, 2026 @11:40AM (#49577611)
The funny thing is that these days they would make it a lot worse with LLMs, perhaps post lots of wins on LinkedIn too. It’s not impossible to steer that ship but it’s never gonna be one shotted in “do refactor, make no mistake” way
Re:Move in C++ without a std:move on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @10:58AM (#49537334)
Title made me think they’d just show that move is just a simple cast, nothing more
Re:Dyson CameraJet: The only toothbrush with a camera and a jet on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @10:51AM (#49537208)
Whole mouth brush was a gimmick for almost two decades if not more, maybe these days its more adequate but I can only imagine what it could do to gums. Doctors can’t wait..
Re:Fastpotify on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:42PM (#49527053)
have you summed up all the Spotify Helper processes from Chrome? alas its way beyond 200MB. But I just built and ran release build of fastpotify and its also hovering in 500s
Re:TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store on Saturday August 29, 2026 @12:45AM (#49486944)
Embedded could also mean no_std, which this is absolutely not. Still cool though
Re:Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:05AM (#49474892)
Question is how long it takes before you need a subscription or get paperweight like owners of Anki robots
Re:Aphantasia Beginner's Guide on Thursday August 27, 2026 @10:49AM (#49465795)
Not that this needs treatment (or is even curable), but I wonder how many people misdiagnose themselves as having aphantasia because of differences in how imagination works. Red apple test just doesn’t seem to be thorough enough. There were spikes of lactose intolerance, gluten intolerance and all sorts of other self-diagnosed deviations from the norm that has no connection to reality, its some quirk of human psyche to cling to any opportunity to feel “special”, mostly harmless but might but at times hinder search for help for those who really need it
Re:c100 on Friday August 21, 2026 @01:24PM (#49391263)
Im mostly curious if R&D was self funded or its a problem of kickstarter-like bakers now? This wont pay off
Re:OpenLogi on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @01:22AM (#49357198)
Name leaves me optimistic it could support keyboards in future
Re:The Art of 64-bit Assembly on Saturday August 01, 2026 @11:39AM (#49135361)
Yes, you either follow Itanium ABI (non Win) or MSVC ABI. Technically nothing stops _your_ compiler from implementing totally own conventions but it will only be compatible with itself
Re:An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk on Sunday July 26, 2026 @01:30AM (#49055025)
Perhaps I didn’t read it thoroughly enough but it seems that lat/long of the “radar” are expected to be entered by user, I think using wifi positioning could be of great assist and could be done from mcu itself without involving web portal, though maybe portal already does it (didn’t get to see it)
Re:How Do We Stop Vibe Coding? on Friday July 24, 2026 @10:23AM (#49036138)
It might not be so much of a peer pressure than “industry pressure” soon. You can keep hand-crafting it all you want as a hobby, but selling your crafts will be totally different matter
Title made me think elrs receivers
Post kinda accidentally gives away why most/many people long for cameras - price. Pretty much every single amazon link is more expensive than plug’n’play Tapo camera and for many the security/privacy question remains secondary
Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Thursday July 16, 2026 @11:09AM (#48935641)
Why only a half measure
Re:Proportion-Integral-Derivative Controllers on Sunday June 21, 2026 @02:18AM (#48616155)
Honest question: are wiki links to any technical topic post worthy now?
Re:Web Browsers on PDAS on Saturday June 20, 2026 @12:03PM (#48610255)
I thought everyone in my generation knows of PalmOS but TIL its later known as GarnetOS..
Re:Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants on Thursday June 18, 2026 @10:14PM (#48594118)
You made it sound like any country that wants nuclear weapons can get them.. just look at Iran. I think existing nuclear weapons club is very interested in keeping membership pretty tight
Re:Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @10:26AM (#48571022)
It would still help to add “in US” to the title

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