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924 karma · joined September 24, 2016

big blue & startups & applied computer archaeology/necromancy
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Lutzb··on Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
This was/is a long standing feature request to block podcasts and video podcasts completely. Even worse two years ago unrated podcasts were available to kids. Not quoting the stuff I could find there. Highly unsuitable to kids.
Lutzb··on Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek
Der See - the lake

Die See - the ocean

Lutzb··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
I cannot empirically prove it, but I feel like Opus 5 has become more confidently wrong/inaccurate.

Discussing topics from nuclear physics to daily macOS questions, it gives wrong answers, leaves out important details, counterpoints. Only when specifically asked about the things it got wrong or glossed over it continues and adjusts its reasoning. I feel this is dangerous - before I could explore topics with Claude, now I have to know in advance that something is not correct to get more details.

Lutzb··on Forth
Maybe something like

> Mozilla/4.0 [en] (AppleIIGS; U; P3±1-emu; 1024x1; BoatMode; CapsLk)

Lutzb··on Forth
I would not be surprised if an easter egg exists on xkcd.com provided you satisfy these requirements.
Lutzb··on AI companies are shredding rare books
One of my relatives is one of those micro publishers. Selected works are printed and bound to extremely high standards and materials in a way that their customers are willing to pay 1k-25k+ per book. These editions only have a couple of prints and are mostly made to customer requests.

There is a market for these type of books, albeit a very small one.

Lutzb··on MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad
Super cool. I was thinking about using a ThinkPad trackpoint instead of a touch pad. But as far as I know there is no water resistant trackpoint device.
Lutzb··on OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line
Sorry, meant to say it's from the movie script. Need more sleep.
Lutzb··on OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line
It's from the book.
Lutzb··on OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line
ARTHUR I'm sorry -- did you just say you need my brain?

BENJY MOUSE Yes. To extract the question.

ARTHUR You can't have my brain. I'm using it.

FRANKY MOUSE Barely.

BENJY MOUSE We can replace it if you think it's important. An electronic brain maybe.

FRANKY MOUSE A simple one should suffice. Who would know the difference?

ARTHUR I would!

FRANKY MOUSE No, you wouldn't. We could program you not to.

Lutzb··on The PSP feels surprisingly present right now
It's one of the devices I really regret selling.
Lutzb··on The One Dollar Counterfeiter
Maybe it was a test.
Lutzb··on The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis
Pensioners in most western countries are the second most affluent cohort.
Lutzb··on People Do Not Yearn for Automation
Working in IT and AI related fields I made the opposite observation. Taking as HR an example, professionals there wanted to keep the boring reporting tasks and automate the human part, e.g. career guidance, mediation etc.. At the time I could not understand the reason why. In hindsight it was a reward driven decision. Human to human interaction is rarely instantly rewarded. Producing reports on the other hand is measurable and mostly rewarded right away.
Lutzb··on PROBoter – Open-source platform for automated PCB analysis
Video link https://youtu.be/TYEjZA-xbGo
Lutzb··on Claude.ai down
Microns stock is still up 470% yoy
Lutzb··on Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe
It's a good smell. My kids are opening packs and I can totally recall the sensation of opening mtg cards in the 90s.
Lutzb··on Pebble Production: February Update
Fully agree, the led flashlight is ridicously useful.
Lutzb··on Pebble Production: February Update
Garmin watches might fit your requirements.
Lutzb··on Ode to the AA Battery
The best thing about Eneloops do not seem to leak. I can just leave them in rarely used electronic devices without worrying. They might discharge, but so far this has never been a problem.
Lutzb··on Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
Same with QiC80 drives. You could hear when the drive failed to read data.
Lutzb··on Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
Thank you. I was contemplating the logo but my brain could not make the connection.
Lutzb··on Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis
As someone succinctly put it: The future is here, it is just very unevenly distributed.
Lutzb··on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
I am still think that transfering state between devices is the next big thing(tm) waiting to happen. I am working on a file on my macbook, now I want to seamslessly move the whole application working on it to my nearby Windows machine and just continue. Seems impossible right now.
Lutzb··on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
I wonder if this was driven by the Palm Pilots in the early 2000s. We beamed contacts, calendar entries, whole apps via IR. At trade shows exhibitors had terminals that would constantly send out contact informations via OBEX (?).
Lutzb··on The disguised return of EU Chat Control
The people that push this agenda reside on secrecy. We need to expose the people involved and let the press do their jobs.
Lutzb··on Show HN: Learn German with Games
I had "Jugendliche". "Der" can make sense for a male person. But "die" would also work, for the female person.
Lutzb··on Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move
Chicken egg situation. I would be interested to contribute, but I cannot run it on any of my devices. Alas I am not contributing.
Lutzb··on N8n added native persistent storage with DataTables
There is also langflow.
Lutzb··on macOS Tahoe
Steve Jobs is no longer there to reign in the designers.
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