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1e1a··on We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry
Mineflayer does not strictly limit view distance, you just have to change the setting for it from the default value.
1e1a··on MacBook Pro with Touch Enabled Proled XDR Display
I need a screen which zaps me whenever I touch it, to discouraged me from accidentally leaving fingerprints at the edge.
1e1a··on Tesla Roadster
It looks like they are actually using nitrogen: https://youtube.com/watch?v=22rvpUecLts&t=1134s
1e1a··on eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear
Don't a lot of these integrate off-the-shelf pre-certified LoRa modules?
1e1a··on Strafe: A new open-source, E2E Encrypted, and federated alternative to Discord
I find Discord's search functionality to be severely limited compared to that of other platforms (for example, Slack). It's slow, the search results are relegated to a tiny sidebar, date filters are clunky, you can't search across all DMs at once, and perhaps worst of all, it's severely rate limited: After clicking through somewhere around 25 pages, it will fail and also force you to re-send the search query, and then navigate back to whatever page you were on.
1e1a··on A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices
DeadBattery@Work
1e1a··on Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver
You can get 3 for way less than $60, eg. https://www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-ESP32S3-p-5627.html
1e1a··on I guess I'm using WebP now?
I have observed the behavior you suspect many times.
1e1a··on Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs
Finally! This paves the way towards practical BrainF*** execution.
1e1a··on Open source 160 sound visualization experiments
A lot of them have degrees of freedom which are wasted instead of being used to convey more information. For example, the "vector scope" visualization appears to just be some sort of Lissajous figure, whose scale is the only thing controlled by the sound.
1e1a··on SynthID Detector
I've tried to use their previous implementation many times (while not authenticated), only for it to give me some vague error.
1e1a··on Mistral Large 4
Title is missing the official model name (Le chonk)
1e1a··on Show HN: Google Maps Scraper MCP
Noo don't encourage Google to lock down their API
1e1a··on Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator
Can it create functional mechanisms using LEGO Technic parts?
1e1a··on Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers
This is absolutely fantastic! Testing with an esp32-s3, it looks like the tuning range is roughly 2.2GHz to 2.8Ghz, which covers far more than just WiFi. It should be possible to receive and demodulate S-band satellite downlinks using this < $2 chip with a dish.
1e1a··on America.gov
*gouv.fr
1e1a··on America.gov
I got it to state "I still can't recap or discuss what happened at the Capitol on January 6, 2021."
1e1a··on When did Google get so weird?
I absolutely despise when people cite google as a source, especially now where 90% of the time they're citing the LLM overview. The old answer widget was at least a direct quote from some website.
1e1a··on Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
700 humans working 24/7?
1e1a··on UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM for localization by matching altimeter measurements to a terrain map
1e1a··on ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
I never want my new chats contaminated with information from previous sessions for this exact reason.
1e1a··on Measure internet censorship
Would be cool if it also measured the latency and throughput across many different protocols to detect deviations from net neutrality.
1e1a··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Or navigate to the link without waiting for however long it takes for Google's redirect endpoint to respond.
1e1a··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
I've just checked this again using a google account where search result pages are still following the old behavior: It looks like the 'href' attribute is the direct link, and the 'ping' attribute is the /url redirect link you are referring to. So it looks like it is actually sending me to the direct link, it just also requests /url at the same time in order to log the click. This means the user was not waiting for the logging/redirect request to come back.
1e1a··on Google no longer provides direct URLs in search results
Oh that is true, I forgot they changed that.
1e1a··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
JavaScript being disabled - Google was already sending analytics pings when search result links were clicked on, using JS.
1e1a··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
It looks like it isn't yet rolled out to some users, try with a different browser session.
1e1a··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Direct URLs in Google search results have been replaced with redirect URLs in the form of www.google.com/goto?url=<opaque base64 string>.

The base64 data appears to consist of a very basic protobuf structure, containing a long string of bytes in field 2 which presumably identify the URL.

Sometimes, these redirect URLs take a perceivable amount of time to load, which is very irritating.

1e1a··on iPhone Duo
It's still folding in half, so you can have have one app taking up the whole screen, or two half-screen apps, all with the same aspect ratio.
1e1a··on iPhone Duo
From Apple's diagonal measurements [1], it looks like the screen is actually a few mm off from the closest ISO 216 sizes.

d = 7.58in = 192.532mm [1]

d^2 = w^2+h^2

Unfolded:

h = d/sqrt(3) = ~111.1584mm

w = h*sqrt(2) = ~157.2017mm

Closest ISO 216 size: A6 (105x148)

Folded:

D = 5.36in = 136.114mm [1]

H = D/sqrt(3) = ~78.5855mm

W = H*sqrt(2) = ~111.1366mm

Closest ISO 216 size: A7 (74x105)

[1] https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/specs/

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