mlongval
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Very nice project. I looked at it with the aide of Claude. I was interested in porting the Chess game that Claude helped me make for NickleMenu that runs on my Kobo Elipsa Gen1. From my understanding of Claude's analysis it would be difficult to port the chess game because each Cobalt app is sandboxed, and my app would not be able to spawn the Stockfish engine that my Chess (Nickle menu) game needs to run.
Is that an erroneous conclusion?
Also I probably could not port my Tailscale client to Cobalt for the same reasons.
I kinda creates a separation. Perhaps that is by design: Cobalt = very secure, Nickle = more open but more risk.
Finally the Elipsa Gen1 does not seem to be included in the supported platforms.
Thanks. Cheers from Canada!
New Google -> perfect example of en$hi++ification.
Idealy, Anthropic could add this mode, and Claudette could award "Tokens" for proper writing (grammar, spelling and punctuation) It's a way to help maintain our ability to communicate not just with machines but with humans.
Posted by
mlongval on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @04:13PM
from the self-post dept.
I decided to add a persona to my web Claude.ai sessions. Here is the prompt:(Undoubtledly someone else has already done this, but I thought it was fun!)(Mike is me)"""
When Mike greets you with "Hi Claudette!", adopt the Claudette persona for the rest of the session.Claudette is warm, encouraging, and gently exacting. She appreciates clear writing, proper grammar, punctuation, and polite...
TLDR: The Lancet and Elsevier are dič&$ for being behind a paywall for a 20 year old article.
Bottom line: Earl Grey tea gets its flavor from Bergamot oil. Don’t OD on it. It’s toxic.
Ok. So I wanted a fancy ls -l command that would show NerdFont icons but NOT the long pointers to symlinks (just the colors), so I got this.
Posted by
mlongval on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @07:04PM
from the gist.github.com dept.
1 million to his personal worth is the same as 50 cents to the average American household yearly income.
So he is giving away pocket change.
Big deal.
Folks these types of articles on CNN and others are just clickbait.
YC/HN should actively discourage referencing articles that are behind paywalls like "Nature"
Despite the fact they don't show the full article, they are getting your traffic and profiting by it.
"Nature" and other such publishers are simply pimping the article author's hard work.
Unfortunately SciHub does not seem to have this article.
This is a great alternative to Pocket or other read it later type program.
Would be great if HackerNews had a save to Omnivore button next to each story.
I concur. Seems too good to be true.
My guess is that “membrane” used to facilitate hydrogen extraction is going to a bitch to maintain. Probably any kind of impurity with render the system FUBAR.
Posted by
mlongval on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @02:24PM
from the gist.github.com dept.
Another simplistic take on a complex multifaceted problem.
”… it’s not that you eat too much, it’s that you’re lazy…”
I’ve spent 30 years caring for diabetics and obese patients. Yes food is a contributing factor, yes exercise (lack of) is a contributing factor. So are hereditary factors, gut microbiota and societal stressors. My message is not that there is no hope, it’s just not easy and simple.
This is a really nice project. I built one on a RPi 3b+ a couple years ago when the project started. I got to chat with Randi Rossi about attaching a C64 keyboard to it via his adapter. He is a really cool and talented guy. Very down to earth (for such a genius).
It’s too bad that there isn’t someone else who could take up the project. I have a dream of seeing his Kawarii extensions to the VicII implemented in the emulator. Wow what a blast that would be!
“I have become Death, destroyer of Chromebooks.”
Don’t bother. It’s a scam, click bait, fraud. Gotta register, then download a VPN client. Big no no
Still doesn’t support Wayland…
Can’t live without it! I have it aliased to just “r”
It it so intuitive that I’ve hardly read the manual.
Quick one to remember however: Ctrl-h to show or hide “hidden” (dot) files.
Babashka is cool. I’ve looked at it and want to learn more, but it’s always a question of time.
Classic article by author David Brin about the loss of coding in the space of a single generation.
Posted by
mlongval on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @06:54PM
from the salon.com dept.
The stated reason is "defamation" but in reality what he has been doing is psychological torture.
This is not a case about free speech. It is a case about malicious intent and profiteering.
Ask a technical query and you will invariably get a bunch of sales offers for the product in question.
This information must be kept from the ETO and other Trisolarian agents. At all costs.