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amar-laksh··on Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
This inference engine is soooo much faster btw: https://github.com/tamnd/kime
amar-laksh··on A Crashed Israeli Lunar Lander Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon(2019)
Lol fair, done.
amar-laksh··on Show HN: I made a git rebase TUI editor
Bloody love lazygit!
amar-laksh··on Nurdle Patrol
Oh thanks! I was looking for something similar when I posted.
amar-laksh··on Is cocaine driving the British riots?
Nope: Decade of public spending cuts, crazy regional and national inequality, and right wing agitprop from the major political parties and media etc.
amar-laksh··on Git-cliff – Generate changelog from the Git history
Not sure about anything else, but love the animation!
amar-laksh··on Android 14 adds support for using your smartphone as a webcam
The scrcpy project is already great for this: https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

Here's a little script for streaming through your camera on obs:

get-adb-devices-list() { adb devices | grep -v "List of devices attached" | grep -v "daemon" | grep -v "^$" | grep -c . }

echo "device count: $(get-adb-devices-list)" while [ "$(get-adb-devices-list)" -eq 0 ]; do echo "Waiting for the device..." sleep 0.5 done

IP_ADDRESS=$(sudo adb shell ip addr show wlan0 | grep "192.168.." | awk -F ' ' '{print $2}' | cut -d '/' -f1)

connect-adb-tcp () { sleep 1 echo "Connect to the device...$IP_ADDRESS" && \ adb tcpip 5555 && \ sudo adb connect "$IP_ADDRESS" }

connect-adb-tcp && \ v4l2-ctl --list-devices && \ scrcpy -e --v4l2-sink=/dev/video0 --lock-video-orientation=1 -n -N &> ./log & obs

amar-laksh··on Writing summaries is more important than reading more books
I never heard anyone say that we need to summarize, and/or note sections and quotes movies and shows. I just want to enjoy my books as I read them. That's it.
amar-laksh··on Show HN: Gut – An easy-to-use CLI for Git
Please stop building git CLIs, just use LazyGit and be done with it: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
amar-laksh··on Flow-Based Programming, a way for AI and humans to develop together
I feel nobody seems to be talking how LLMs can be used in training humans to teach better. fundamentally the process of getting a desired outcomes from such a model involves nudging it to ask and answer better questions right? so why don't we use it as a training tool across domains. Teacher training across multiple subjects could really use this!
amar-laksh··on LineageOS 20
If you want the most amount of customization in a camera app, try the FOSS FreeDcam [1] It's incredible!

[1] https://github.com/KillerInk/FreeDcam

amar-laksh··on [dead]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial
amar-laksh··on [dead]
This is a known climate denial group[1,2], co-founded by a shell scientist[3].

[1] https://www.desmog.com/climate-intelligence-foundation-clint...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/26/co2-is-p...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guus_Berkhout

amar-laksh··on Andrew Tate: influencer detained in Romania on organised crime and rape charges
I am seriously wondering what all of this is doing to twitter servers right now.
amar-laksh··on The End of Programming
At the bottom of the article is the blurb about the author:

> Matt Welsh (mdw@mdw.la) is the CEO and co-founder of Fixie.ai, a recently founded startup developing AI capabilities to support software development teams. He was previously a professor of computer science at Harvard University, a director of engineering at Google, an engineering lead at Apple, and the SVP of Engineering at OctoML. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley back in the days when AI was still not playing chess very well.

amar-laksh··on FX swap debt a $80T 'blind spot', global regulator says
Here's the original BIS report, I don't understand anything, hopefully someone will: https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt2212.pdf
amar-laksh··on Ask HN: What are your healthy habits?
Water, Good Sleep, and Running.
amar-laksh··on Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020)
I would recommend this crazy but kinda accurate video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZxzBcxB7Zc
amar-laksh··on Show HN: I stripped DALL·E Mini to its bare essentials and converted it to Torch
People might also like this one: https://github.com/saharmor/dalle-playground Really easy to work with
amar-laksh··on In Your Face – Visual Studio Marketplace
Thank you for making my day! :}
amar-laksh··on Ask HN: How to get better knowledge about math notations in computer science
Excellent talk by Guy Steele explaining the history of maths/comp notations that can probably lead you to the right path through original sources: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dCuZkaaou0Q

Then have a look at this extremely underrated talk by Alexander Stepanov for basically falling in love with maths (he gives a long view of maths in general adorned with beautiful commentary): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fanm5y00joc

amar-laksh··on Wikipedia.org Returns a 503 Error
503 in the UK as well. Not good. This might be a helpful alternative: https://www.openzim.org/wiki/OpenZIM
amar-laksh··on Ask HN: What's Your Personal Motto?
Life is to be lived once, forever.
amar-laksh··on My C++ Toolset
Has anyone been using meson in any capacity? How's the experience been?
amar-laksh··on Tutorial Series to learn Common Lisp quickly
Okay but everyone needs to think deeply about lisp.
amar-laksh··on Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search
Obligatory Reddit scroller comment: https://scrolller.com/ (The best photo aggregator for reddit)
amar-laksh··on GJK: Collision detection algorithm in 2D/3D
Yep! I saw it and stumbled upon this pretty blog post.
amar-laksh··on Tinder for Bananas
If it looks like a robot can solve it... It's probably being used to train a robot to solve it.
amar-laksh··on Ask HN: How do you deal with Climate Change induced depression?
I understand that, I understand we will eventually resolve this. It's not the end result I am worried about, it's the damage we'll be doing to all species (including ours) on the way. It's the killing we're already doing right now.
amar-laksh··on Ask HN: How do you deal with Climate Change induced depression?
I am talking about reading IPCC reports and understanding how most of the world we have, won't be the way it is now.
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