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This article and james clear go along the idea that: behavioral change is preceded by an identity one

Personally I disagree. as I see it, the harder "something" is to achieve, the less true that statement is. For example, identifying with a particular political ideology requires less material effort to align your behavior than identifying as a genius or olympic athlete

On top of that, I have the subjective perception that the world keeps getting more and more complex and difficult to fully understand. There are way too many loops of information to be deep into

On android I'm able to extract some of this data by directly accessing the sqlite files in the databases directory of my rooted device, (with sudo-level permission obviously). I find that much more comfortable than having to use APIs with temporary tokens

This was used as part of a 2017 competition to make the worst volume controllers: https://x.com/0xDesigner/status/1642554834535477249

That's because the studio's ethics are against pre-orders (and of course any type of lootboxes, microtransactions etc). I'm also happy they settled on a relatively low price tag of 19.50€, other studios would have marked it around 60€ to milk their user's wallets taking advantage of all the anticipation built up these years, kudos to team cherry

I'm probably being naive, but I feel surprised that in 2025, a platform like Steam (which has existed for well over 2 decades and has around 70M DAU) is having this type of issues. I don't want to downplay the complex engineering behind scale and massive surges of demand, but it's not like it's their first rodeo. What seems to be blocking users from getting the game is accepting payments, nothing computationally complex per se IMO

Will it be possible to bypass this limitation for users with rooted devices? If that were the case then I guess that would add more weight to companies who provide firmware and OEM unlocking for android devices: https://github.com/melontini/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame

This decision was actually made at IAG (International Airlines Group) which is the parent company of Vueling, British Airways, Iberia etc... not Vueling per se. The main motivation behind it is the price drop on the 737 MAX line. I'm surprised that switching to Boeing it's even worth it considering given these companies mostly fly Airbus planes so their pilots, supply chains for maintenance etc will need an overhaul

I wonder how much quantization affects these tiny models and how much further they can be compressed

I have yet to find a suitable alternative for the W10 emoji picker that works on linux. I like to use emojis as color codes for errors etc in some of my scripts and I find them very useful as location markers since a visual element is always faster to be recognized by the eye than pure plain text. This tool is also useful when you use multiple messaging applications because you share the same "most used" emojis panel. It also frustrates me that the W11 emoji picker got downgraded, it's much more limited and has less of a minimalist design (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻

> Assuming genAI won't deliver and make that world disappear entirely, ofc.

Even if genAI were to kill the cinema/animation back-end industry, I still think 3D software would be needed to continue videogame development, and godot is far behind in modelling/animation capabilities compared to blender. Hopefully they can latch on this in the long term if it happens that AI keeps eating artists lunch.

I also wonder if technology acceleration might open us to solutions in the future that we can't think of right now, humanity is advancing very rapidly in many fields

I much prefer tech being applied to violent video-games than actual military applications like autonomous drones who kill real humans

This might not be the case for once: https://80.lv/articles/gta-6-was-delayed-to-avoid-brutal-cru...

There is some speculation indicating the base version will cost >= 80$, this could give some room for other game studios to distance themselves in terms of price

I love it, it feels like an extension of these other HN posts:

- Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy (valatka.dev): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42676432

- Using uv as your shebang line (akrabat.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42855258

There is a YouTube channel named "The Quantified Scientist" which offers technical and more in-depth reviews of varied fitness trackers: https://www.youtube.com/@TheQuantifiedScientist. I would very much recommend it if you intend to buy a wearable and care about accuracy

Astral has consistently surprised the python community with amazing tooling. It was a matter of time before they jumped into type checking. I think ruff and uv were good first MVPs for a small company with a highly talented team. I can't help but wonder if someday they'll attempt to build their own Python interpreter in Rust, or if that's overkill.

I still keep around my pebble time (which I mostly use as a timer because I love the UX experience) and I'm surprised about how well the battery still works. Seeing devices such as the mi band 9 having a battery that lasts around 20 days, I can't help but wonder how much longer could last a new pebble

This is super cool, personally:

uv run --python 3.12 --with label-studio label-studio

Made my life so much easier

His IG was https://www.instagram.com/luigi.from.fiji/ but they obviously took it down

Compared to the amount of reactions I see in the posts, I suspects users are deterred to comment because a big part of GitHub is "work related" and it could be seen as an endorsement to a murderer

Thank you for writing such a transparent and deeply touching essay. Even if it was painful to read because the topic feel unsettling to me, it made me reflect a lot about life and gratefulness. I look forward to read the rest of the things you have posted

Contrary to many android wearables, the most recent google pixel watch 2 is reasonably good at sleep tracking according to the quantified scientist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef1by8kJfk4&t=1109s

Google partnered with fitbit last year and now sleep data and other biometrics are shared with the fitbit app. The good thing about this is that you can access your data via fitbit's API, there is a python package for this process: https://github.com/orcasgit/python-fitbit. You can read this article if you want more details on how to configure oauth to make this work: https://towardsdatascience.com/using-the-fitbit-web-api-with...

The cons of this setup is that you still need an android phone synched with your watch and is not too privacy friendly, but sure, you could run the code on your linux machine