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hobo_mark··on ChatGPT for Android – Pre-orders
There is no install button, it asks me to "Pre-register"? Is this another everywhere-but-Europe thing?
hobo_mark··on Discord is not documentation
Surely an LLM could parse the chat and keep a public FAQ up to date? Somebody must already have implemented this, but last time I looked I still came empty handed...
hobo_mark··on Vale's first prototype for immutable region borrowing
There's also been a language called Vala, active since 2006!

https://vala.dev

hobo_mark··on Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
My phone recently died and had to move to a new device and resynchronize my Joplin "vault". I have tens of thousands of notes and the Android app just cannot complete the first sync. I left it running all night (sync gets slower and slower as it progresses) with "stay awake" enabled on Android (because Joplin stops synching as soon as the screen locks or the app is not in focus) and even after restarting multiple times, sync never completes (it claims it finished, but most recent notes are still nowhere to be found).

This is using the WebDAV backend as that's the only option I have (so long as there's no Google Drive backend).

I am looking for alternatives (with a web clipper extension and native apps on windows/linux/mac/android).

hobo_mark··on Threads, an Instagram app
> The absurd levels of pornography

Incidentally, that is also the case on Bluesky and one reason I would not dare to invite anybody on there until they address it.

hobo_mark··on How to Read and Organize Online Articles (Without Driving Yourself Crazy) (2013)
I'm reminded of that every other year or so, nobody made an alternative since then?
hobo_mark··on Apple removes $99 dev account requirement for first iOS 17 and macOS 14 betas
Never used a mac, but I assume that is only for installing from the store, correct? If I publish an open source program that one installs with `brew install` or whatever it's called none of this applies?
hobo_mark··on Why SQLite is so great for the edge
Does D1 support FTS?
hobo_mark··on Sketch of a Post-ORM
But, at least for SQLite, the parser is autogenerated from a plain grammar.
hobo_mark··on Sketch of a Post-ORM
I tried to learn SQLAlchemy to avoid writing explicit SQL, but except for the most trivial relationships it requires me to write several times more code in an arcane DSL to accomplish the same thing, at which point, why bother?
hobo_mark··on Sketch of a Post-ORM
How is SQL hard for a computer to parse? SQLite can parse its flavour of SQL using a plain old LALR grammar and that covers a lot of SQL.

And even if it was, how does having an ORM generate the SQL behind your back change anything for the computer that still has to parse SQL?

hobo_mark··on Dynamic Forms with LiveView Streams
Is this to be understood as the equivalent of HTMX + Jinja, but for Elixir?
hobo_mark··on Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers (2012) [video]
Obligatory link to the popular "Lena" short form novel on the same topic: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
hobo_mark··on Bluesky Frustrations
Person who never used a service has opinions about said service. Not much to see here.
hobo_mark··on Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy
I'm going through the list at random (I'm on the market for such a service) and none of them appear offline so far.
hobo_mark··on Google Cloud Storage FUSE
GCS is not Drive, it's Google's equivalent of S3.
hobo_mark··on People who use Notion to plan their whole lives
> Joshua Bergen is a very productive person.

But is he? I mean his linkedin is, and I mean this with no malice whatsoever, quite average compared to the effort that goes into maintaining such a system?

hobo_mark··on Indie Hackers is indie again
I had the same question, but phrased as: how does it make money?
hobo_mark··on Do Necessary Tools Exist for RISC-V Verification?
And not a single mention of https://github.com/YosysHQ/riscv-formal?
hobo_mark··on 5M item limit for Google Drive: File unable to generate or upload due to 403
Looks like it'll be gone by next summer:

https://www.nyu.edu/life/information-technology/about-nyu-it...

https://case.edu/utech/about/utech-news/unlimited-google-sto...

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/it/google-storage-changes

https://it.wisc.edu/about/it-project-portfolio/reshaping-the...

etc...

hobo_mark··on Lex Fridman Podcast #367 – Sam Altman
Same thing Zac Efron got, from the look of it.
hobo_mark··on New ATLAS result weighs in on the W boson
The Timepix is a TSMC chip, I do not see how you could make that opensource without breaking NDAs with the fab. Something like the Skywater PDK would be ideal for open science (provided it could perform as well under radiations of course).
hobo_mark··on Accenture would cut 19,000 jobs
TVC = Temporary, Vendor or Contractor
hobo_mark··on Anki-fy your life
Is that a real example? Are you learning 20 languages in parallel? Two is already more than enough for me.
hobo_mark··on Sleep habits may have long-term benefits
What symptoms did you have, if one may ask?
hobo_mark··on Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise
It sort of exists: Area 120.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_120

https://area120.google.com

hobo_mark··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
Buy treasury bills?
hobo_mark··on Norway takes a stance against Google Analytics
If mere IP addresses are PII, I do not see how me looking at my GCP logs is any different (i.e. not allowed), and by extension how any US cloud provider can operate in Europe within these rules?
hobo_mark··on Vitamin D supplementation and incident dementia
You what? Sun gives you Parkinson's now?
hobo_mark··on Poor sleep drove me insane, and my long path to recovery
Without immediate access to at-home sleep test kits, could something like Sleep as Android [1] (which claims to record breathing as well) be used to find out, in a first approximation?

[1] https://sleep.urbandroid.org

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