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mostthingsweb

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    Comment #43134980

    There's ongoing work on an official setup solution, "bitbake-setup". See https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/topic/111... . Shameless plug, there is also my own tool…

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    Comment #41435229

    Maybe to avoid broken links if you move the original files? That's the main benefit of hardlinks vs symlinks in my mind at least.

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    Comment #41121007

    I hate that so much

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    Comment #41119052

    Relatedly, has anyone else noticed Doordash now has AI generated descriptions for menu items that the restaurant didn't manually describe? I noticed it while looking at a taco plac…

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    Comment #41109114

    I agree, but I'm curious if it's for the same reason. I like it because there is now flowery writing. Just direct "here are the facts".

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    Comment #40836942

    Wow, that's embarrassing :/

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    Comment #40831501

    https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex Oooh that looks slick, thanks for the tip!

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    Comment #40755384

    How else will you discover new and exciting speculative execution vulnerabilities? /s

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    Comment #40202708

    I replied to the rowzero guy, which is written in Rust.

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    Comment #40199697

    Any chance you could expand on how the DAG is implemented in Rust for the execution engine? I'm trying to do something similar (not for spreadsheets but rather for a language: http…

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    Comment #40184081

    I reverse-engineered how my adjustable bed base works, then built (and sell) a hub for controlling it from Home Assistant. See https://blog.laplante.io/2019/01/11/reverse-engineeri…

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    Comment #39934673

    I feel bad for the bees

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    Comment #39326785

    You just gave them another one: "Interesting testimonials section. loeg: HN influencer"

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    Comment #38393628

    The actual recognition is quite good. It's just the handling of poor/intermittent network issues that is abysmal.

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    Comment #38393327

    I also have only had Pixels basically since they were released. I guess where I have issues is when the phone has a weak signal, and it insists on trying to use it for voice recogn…

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    Comment #38388958

    I just want decent on-device voice recognition for things like asking the Assistant to send text messages. So tired of having to repeat myself 5 times.

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    Comment #37715521

    If Google employees actually used the phones they build we wouldn't have a lot of the issues we have them. I'm still annoyed that the little weather icon on the home screen has abo…

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    Comment #37614266

    "Documentary Now!" did a great spoof of this called "Final Transmission". Give it a watch if you haven't: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5821512/

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    Comment #37134992

    Can't help you with PoE, but Home Assistant is non-cloud by default.

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    Comment #36934635

    I thought you meant turn it into an alcoholic beverage, so I looked it up and apparently there is such a thing as rhubarb wine.

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    Comment #36839417

    My apologies, I see the OP's comment you're referring to.