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+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 i…

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. …

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…

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 …

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!

Looking for short toy impls

Ah finally found one! Looks great!

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...

A recently launched pi tablet hits a couple of the requirements but definitely not all https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/745629624/cutiepi-raspb...

https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/129400382869048524...

I ran across this person's blog, who seems like they have some different slants on publishing that might interesting to you: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/6-lessons-learned-sel…

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 s…

The only public search engine that I'm aware of using common crawl is ChatNoir. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/common-crawl/3o2dOHpeRxo/H2O...

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 abl…