I'm working on a public access Symbolics Portable Genera system that will be reachable from the web, similar to Interlisp Online. The current owner of Symbolics' intellectual property gave me the permission to do this. I'm also going to mirror all Symbolics documentation on the same domain.
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#242Prompting GPT to do rich text editing. Instead of replacing the entire document or selection, we want it to create diffs or operations for the minimal amount of edits as possible. This helps preserve intent better when merging the doc later on with OT/CRDTs. (Of course, you could also ask GPT to semantically merge docs for you haha). So far, it's been harder than plain text or spreadsheets which have an easier positi…
I want something like this that will add comments and suggested edits to Google Docs.
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#243I'm working on a production version that allows for the cloning of identification cards with or without RFID using a 7 color epaper display I call psychic paper. Raw BOM is ~$100 I presented it at skywalks and defcon 32. The hardware and software is really all built out the real thing is to find the right epaper display (4.01 inch 7 color display) and an easy way to display the badge. I moved to a pimoroni instead of…
That github link gives a 404 - is the repo private?
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#244I’d like to drop some cool tech thing, but mostly just working on balancing running our company and being a new dad.
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#245I'm working on a timed audio description script for the 1994 science-fiction / adventure film “Stargate” for blind and low-vision audiences.
There are a lot of older films that are not audio described, and so every now and again I pick a film and write a script, and another volunteer records and mixes the narration track.
It takes about 2+ hours to describe about 20 minutes, and the film itself is 2 hours.
Sample:
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They step through doors marked "Research Laboratory". The wheel shaped cover stone towers over them, mounted upright on the wall. The disc in the centre has a cartouche, a vertical panel of symbols. Jackson stares up at it open mouthed.Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#246https://codeberg.org/ideasman42/font-topaz-ng
Re-creating a vectorized version of Amiga's system font.
Since I've always found font's online to be unreasonably opaque, the glyphs are stored in a TOML file, edited in Blender and exported using FontForge.
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#247I'm learning to deweed our lawn space. Its strange feel to have visual proof of what happens when you neglect your responsibilities even for a short time.
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#248Training folks from around the world to use pandas for data analysis and ML. Training folks on who to apply ML to their data.
A course on using modern Python constructs and tooling. (uv, coding with AI, pytest, type annotations, etc).
A book on interviewing for Python coding jobs.
Planning next book on either catboost or duckdb.
Ideas that I'm thinking about: how AI helps established programmers and new programmers.
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#249https://exfilcloud.com was me playing with E2E encryption without authentication.
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#250I'm working on a project to help people find the best place for them to live or move to (USA right now). You can filter based on 50+ metrics, compare side by side, and just look up random facts about all US counties and states currently.