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ovi256
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About ovi256
By carefully attending to client business, Ovi hopes to increase patronage to a most satisfactory level.
Must-read list: 'patio11, 'tptacek, 'grellas, 'rayiner.
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Comment #48496068
I love retro UIs, and this one even more, because of course it reminds of Turbo Pascal, which was so cool. Great job!
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Comment #48350488
It seems the OP agrees with you, and he's proposing a method for how to do so using agents.
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Comment #47717870
Definitely, the cow isn't free.
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Comment #47649744
Especially given the hardware has no moat and there are a zillion IR transceivers on Aliexpress. It's not a good market.
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Comment #47612773
> ad-block whack-a-mole diagnostician that is being done as open source community efforts now: NewPipe for mobile, SmartTube for smart TVs etc. All you have to do is update them on…
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Comment #47322886
On the contrary, this gives me hope it's possible to create value for people even when you compete with hundreds of free Youtube playlists. This is good!
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Comment #47167921
I bet the two sources won't agree on what values go into the denominator and / or numerator of their effective tax rate calculations. It can be as simple as the 3.5% being a calcul…
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Comment #47023594
For inspiration, check out Ben Katz. He worked on the MIT Cheetah and electrified the Boston Dynamics dog https://build-its.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-mini-cheetah-robo... He designs…
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Comment #46576443
A user provided location cannot be trusted for geofencing purposes. A GNSS (GPS or other) is needed sooner or later. This is a legal requirement for sanction and regulation enforce…
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Comment #46254826
> I have escalated this through my many friends in WWDR and SRE at Apple, with no success. Ouch. If he can't get it fixed, it's scary
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Comment #46106034
While humans have historically mildly reduced their working time to today's 40h workweek, their consumption has gone up enormously, and whole new categories of consumption were ope…
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Comment #46037323
> Le Parisien (a big French billionaire-owned newspaper) They're all billionaire owned. As an example, left wing newspaper Liberation has Kretinsky among the owners
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Comment #45460550
I'm impressed you could train a dog to cleanup toys! It's hard enough with humans.
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Comment #45004757
> Heat pumps work as aircos In France, tax credits were denied for air-to-air heat pumps that could also cool (which they all can).
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Comment #44985634
CF will cooperate with UK authorities because they're not in 4chan's business.
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Comment #44683567
> Cheetah robot can run 10.3 km with a 3 kg (465 Whrs) LiPo Battery > the 33kg robot runs at 22 km/h (6 m/s). The total power consumption from the battery pack was 973 watts and re…
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Comment #44482073
Google's gemini-cli offers the most generous current free tier, 2500 daily requests. I'd recommend checking it out, since mostly everything said about Claude Code applies to it too…
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Comment #44259585
Some people are above the law. In a country ruled by laws, that's bad.
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Comment #44209704
It does limit, but I suspect a lot less for the rebuilt from ground up biplane, than for a certified for airline service aircraft (a commercial airliner).
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Comment #43219412
> countries on the eastern end of the EU look ready to make that trade without hesitation I don't think so, there already are populist opposition parties in most of these countries…
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Comment #43219375
The planned AUKUS submarines have no nuclear weapon capabilities. They're nuclear powered attack submarines that use conventional weapons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSN-AUKUS
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Comment #42876731
A coup by whom against whom ?
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Comment #42320894
That's weird, because France has a higher rate of homelessness than the US. The French average, 45/100k pop, is comparable to NYC. Italy is much lower at 8/100k.