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hoc··on Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites
Of course you are supposed to keep and collect those useless containers (plus lid) since you "surely will be able to use them for something" in the future. For storing screws, rubberbands and Kulis that nobody has or keeps anymore... A roll of Gelbe Säcke might fit inside.
hoc··on ZF makes magnet-free electric motor uniquely compact and competitive
Hm. Can I just buy two of them plus drivers or do I have to order a fully custom designed series?
hoc··on Flipper Zero can spam nearby iPhones with Bluetooth pop-ups
I'll buy one at some point :)

The problem with this particular hack is (like with many others where flipper zero is mentioned) that you might just use some 10 BLE micro controller to achieve the same thing.

Usually the things that were glued together in the flipper are never used together for a complex use case. Not sure about what Apple does here, though, so I might be wrong.

Anyway, the cases where you can employ IR, BLE, RFID and the flipper's custom radio in some useful combination seem to be rare and it usually always seems to make more sense to list the needed components for the hack instead of giving some folks finally a (destructive) use case for their expensively acquired gadget.

Of course the idea of delivering the solution as software/declaratively is the interesting part. But applications are rare and seldom new (at some point replaying your old garage door might only deliver so much long term motivation)

hoc··on Flipper Zero can spam nearby iPhones with Bluetooth pop-ups
Lazy implementation meets overpriced gadget resulting in TC's boredom filter getting sabotaged? Pretty thrilling story line.
hoc··on Putin’s Cinema Fund Rejects Movie Piracy, Fuming Cinema Boss Demands Barbie
One could produce an even more colorful version, picturing all the Kremlin's fears, and plant that for pirating.

"Oh no, son, your Omon tag reads 'Homo' if you look at it in the mirror..."

hoc··on Putin’s Cinema Fund Rejects Movie Piracy, Fuming Cinema Boss Demands Barbie
I like the story, because any info in it could be totally made up and I wouldn't know, and it would still sound like an interesting plot to me.

Ah, movies.

hoc··on Unit: A visual programming system [video]
Finally something that allows to have a personal repository again (after version control just stole that word). And not in Squeak. Amazing work.

(Does it support version control...?)

hoc··on Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”
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The Norwegian Blue... 44 billion volts...

This is an X-Parrot!!

hoc··on Remembering lithium-ion battery pioneer John Goodenough
When I first read "John Goodenough has died" (which was an actual headline here) I thought of "just another" overdone headline for excellence coaching or motivational GTD training...

Still sad that it wasn't about that.

hoc··on GPT-Prompt-Engineer
Well, I am intrigued by the obvious analogies of Deep Thought and the prompt engineers (and their upcoming tools and their respective complexities) while on the other hand I already see the upcoming war between simple and dumb business interests on both sides that will try to make the fascinating und useful concept (which it is after all) consumable on one side while the other side will be ready to kill it if they don't get paid for it using/refrencing/quoting their pieces of work in its answers or "thinking"/modelling. Probably resulting in a cripled tool if politics won't visibly value educational gain over commercial interest.

Pain and joke too often come as closely bundled as within Adams's pointed work.

hoc··on GPT-Prompt-Engineer
Hm. The idea of allowing a transform without actual reasoning to act as speech... source of new chapters of their work or of total despair.

Just ask ChatGPT to not say a thing.

hoc··on GPT-Prompt-Engineer
Doug Adams would've had so much fun these days.
hoc··on TabDB: Using browser tabs as a database like only a maniac would
Calling the AWS donation API in the background now fulfills that requirement without degrading your app's performance.
hoc··on How to do the thing you've been avoiding
Nah, I meant the 15 mins would be even easier to be delayed again. Towards "tonight" right away, because it's just 15 minutes, just to re-schedule it for tomorrow when "tonight" has arrived. It's just 15 mins after all, right. "Could do it anytime..."

I'd think the definitions seem similar. The avoidance strategies usually have slightly different hotspots, though.

hoc··on macOS Developer Setup
So afraid of movie night now.
hoc··on NRF52840 Connect Kit – Rapid prototyping kit for your next connected projects
So what's the difference to their own MDK dongle? More IO pins, that LED and the type of USB connector?

Surprised to see another nRF52840 product with a whole new repo for it. What parts of that repo can I also use on their MDK and what not, and why?

hoc··on How to do the thing you've been avoiding
If it's just 15 minutes, I'll do that tonight :)

But I get your point. I wanted to cite the original comment, though. It's true that the entry point has to be chosen according to the individual and the task at hand... as long as that's not something that has to be chosen so wisely that I should take time to reason about first :)

hoc··on How to do the thing you've been avoiding
I think the best part here is "spend the next hour" on that thing. Don't go for success or finishing anything.

Just spend that one hour right now.

It's the only thing that ever helped me with these blocking situations. Afterwards I'm usually warmed up and curious.

Thanks for reminding me, because I'll only feel the whole overwhelming abstract thing instead if the situation has gotten really bad.

hoc··on DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain and turned her into a sharpshooter
Got enough vocabulary and design drawings from that article to create a new cult.
hoc··on WebXR
Will have a look at Moonsharp. Thanks.

I got around lua so far, but bindigs seemed easy and a friend just chose it over integrating python just recently, so it seems to be getting some traction again, especially in tools and such to get a first step beyond a purely graphical UI.

hoc··on WebXR
Yes, I've seen similar examples. Reminded me of HW video card overlays and I hoped we would have a better solution soon.

But currently probably it what's there. Would this work as well for other HTML content, like dynamically projecting a whole DIV into/over a canvas scene that I would then be able to have positioned over some surface in VR?

Love the product/concept, btw.

hoc··on WebXR
For me it's about allowing more than plain UI interaction and about interactively building immersive working enviroments and tool-spaces.
hoc··on WebXR
Nice. I also started looking into possible WebRTC sources and servers since at least this could be integrated quite well into WebXR.

Unfortunately I find myself cycling thru needed components for interactivity these day and being stuck between competing SW and HW constraints.

Will give it a closer read next week.

hoc··on WebXR
Good point.

So many great exec environments already for WASM. Is there already something available for Unity? Maybe even with a source language and compiler built in?

My focus currently is on creating code inside a running app (by the user) with references to selected Unity objects and their methods. While WebXR is great for this, the first (and sometimes only) SDK implementations for certain devices are usually in Unity.

WASM probably ist great for hotloading but would need a more complex toolset available at runtime to edit and create. Interactivity and incremental code creation would also be better in a scripting envirnment.

hoc··on WebXR
Code that I can create during runtime. Ideally interactively.
hoc··on ARM’s Cortex A53: Tiny but Important
If that could be checked and fixed on a regular basis, I'll be fine with that.
hoc··on ARM’s Cortex A53: Tiny but Important
Got on of these keychain chips in the late eighties from a friend whose dad worked at IBM. I remember that it came with a comparably cheap key ring clip and that the edges wore off nicely over time. Funny to be reminded of that. Thanks for mentioning.
hoc··on WebXR
Interesting months coming up, indeed.
hoc··on WebXR
Yes. I'd love to load and re-use existing js libs as well as add code to a project and rules at runtime. I'd have loved to see WebXR being an extension of HTML instead of it being an extension to the canvas.
hoc··on WebXR
Ok. will look into scripting plugins then for now, probably bridging some introspected interfaces. Would be nice if one could add/integrate existing JS libs but that's outside the Unity context.
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