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Loved ground effect since I first saw it on (iirc) beyond 2000 television program. I haven't been able to find any reference to that episode...
Posted by
thomas536 on Monday October 19, 2026 @09:15PM
from the self-post dept.
If so how did you do it and what did you migrate to and how did it work out?
I know you were focusing on backwards compatibility, but given your understanding of terminals and scrollback, I'm curious how far vibe coding could push to retain and persist state to keep that state through restarts or reboots. Such a pain to get back to before a reboot or after accidental closing. Having effectively"undo close tab" and better persistent resume would be interesting.
Turning your brain off is usually a defense mechanism to protect yourself against something bad. dissociate during trauma etc. lighter dissociation points to the interaction trending toward badness, not goodness. Seems like the mind and body is telling us something that we shouldn't ignore
+1 to using MUD as a learning tool. Learn about agent loops, prompting iteration, etc.
I vibe coded a few room proof of concept MUD. I added a tools called `oracle` (aka me) that it could ask me questions to help along its way; and the ability to interject in the loop with a hint. Just as I might want an llm to stop to ask me for help instead of plodding along...
Interesting to limit the number of turns and see where it gets stuck or how quickly it can finish.
I refuse to believe this is the only way to make it cheaper. Standardization and modular components could help. Might not be cheap enough. But surely we can be more imaginative!
My intuition is that a small radio from the 80s is sufficient. Has relatively small size and passive speaker. Small passive speaker and small enclosure are cheap aka not 100+ USD. A tonie box sounds fine. Can I diy reproduce one similar at low cost (less than buying 50 USD)?
I've spent countless hours searching for a small, good quality passive speaker. In a roughly 4 inch cube size. That comes with an good (acoustically) box/enclosure. Plenty exist in various forms (kits) but I never know if they sound as good as even laptop or phone speakers. Which is a low bar, but still can't find good reviews.
I wonder where the water is coming from for these sites
Did they publish that fact anywhere?
Is anyone using this on Android?
Perhaps? I remember the article arguing more comprehensively why a different order would be beneficial, but maybe I am just misremembering
I once read an article about SQL and how reordering the sections of a query would make it more ergonomic for users (iirc things like specifying what you want first and then how to present it last, more like a pipeline). I searched many times over the years but have not been able to find it again.
Re hydration
Do you have any good reading on that link? Searched just now and there's a lot to wade through to find a good article
What's your favorite PTT mic? I'm always on the lookout for great device recommendations!
Posted by
thomas536 on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:43PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Looking for short toy impls
Ah finally found one! Looks great!
Posted by
thomas536 on Saturday July 17, 2021 @10:44AM
from the github.com dept.
Are there similar relatively simple methods or simd tricks for multi-way merges?
Still looking for a microcontroller that can fit on my wrist [watch-like form factor] with built in microphone, deep sleep, quick wake, and quick push audio to wifi or BLE...
Sorry to hijack this thread, but too curious if you made any headway from your "Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?" post? Sounded like an interesting use-case.
tia
+1 I appreciate your answer!
(Yeah the exact billing model is fungible/an example to get people to think in terms of actually willing to fork over money.)
Do you mean you might have a specific and relatively small set of videos that you would like searched, but at a much lower price point (e.g. 10k videos at less than $10/year)?
Most searching (e.g. web, email, torrents) is based on ads, which works because of the utility to a huge number of people. There are many things one might in passing want to be able to search (e.g. quickly finding the location of particular book on your disorganized bookshelf, non-web text content, etc.) but don't have mass appeal to sustain ads revenue. And even many of those wants aren't worth paying a few dollars for let alone the cost of hosting search.
So does anyone in the HN crowd have a search-based itch they're willing to pay to have scratched that's not already handled by existing search products?
Posted by
thomas536 on Friday July 03, 2020 @02:38AM
from the ask-hn dept.
For $10-20 per month (the rough cost of middle of the road web hosting), what would you pay to be searchable? Your favorite niche vertical like your twitter network, full fidelity search of the glory days of Usenet posts, your bookshelf?