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I came up with the name before I realized that meta will soon be associated with facebook.
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meta-level··on AnduinOS
you're not alone it seems..
meta-level··on Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
https://devhumor.com/media/how-to-teach-yourself-c-in-21-day...
meta-level··on Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from stratosphere, dies in Italy
Reminds me of Yuri Gagarin, first man in space who later died in a plane crash..
meta-level··on Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS
Imagine the title being "... a free, open-source, offline music player for <any other OS>"
meta-level··on 2048 with only 64 bits of state
Wow,I have a bash script that just starts a docker container with some fancy arguments roughly the same LOC...
meta-level··on Show HN: DIY virtual HDMI monitor using "AR" glasses
Aren't these for vision correction (diopters)?
meta-level··on A Review of Kagi Search
I like kagi, too, but this not a review, is it?
meta-level··on Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole
I too read the book and was just searching for anyone mentioning it. Why can such an idea be called new, when someone else already described it decades ago?
meta-level··on !Camera
The site looks like someone tried to manually mimic LLM generated content
meta-level··on Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways
Also f and j are marked and you can find them blindly
meta-level··on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
What a mess..
meta-level··on WebTUI – A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the Browser
For python there is also https://github.com/Textualize/textual-web, based on the rich/textual framework
meta-level··on A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports
Not sure anyone posted it already, also great: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hOVdjxtnsH8
meta-level··on Today Google bricked my Chromebook by force-installing a hidden extension
This is was Microsoft did with their copilot thing, but they knew 95% would not care or even realize..
meta-level··on Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi
I guess if you could easily block sites as easily from the image search, too, at least alamy.com and dreamstime.com also would compete for the most blocked domains
meta-level··on Two new PebbleOS watches
Is there some definite information about what kind of "e-paper" is used for those? While I like reflective LCD more than backlit LCD/TFT a "real" e-paper (as in eInk) is far better readable in low light, so would be nice to know.. For e-paper feeling we still have the Watchy (with far less battery life and close to no available software admittedly)
meta-level··on Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?
Micropython of course
meta-level··on Free introns of tRNAs as complementarity-dependent regulators of gene expression
https://m.xkcd.com/3056/
meta-level··on Show HN: I created a language called AntiLang – breaking all the conventions
also you can set the probability of a command to be executed at all!
meta-level··on Markdown's Big Brother: Say Hello to AsciiDoc
What exactly is your comment about? Have you heard about asciidoc before?
meta-level··on Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Linker Script (2021)
I like the look and feel of this page. Can someone spot a hint to the generator/stack or maybe even the page source?
meta-level··on AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing
Can you elaborate a bit on the tech-stack used for this blog? I didn't find any hints in the source (but I'm not an expert). Is it some known framework? What does the input look like (Markdown etc).?
meta-level··on Review: ReMarkable Paper Pro
While I really like the color, and IMHO the back-light works quite well in my eyes, there are a couple of shortcomings of the RMPP and reMarkable in general which are barely mentioned, but which you should know if you consider buying one:

- while the total resolution is slightly higher on the RMPP (229 PPI) compared to RM 1/2 (226 PPI), the effective resolution is lower, especially for ebooks/PDFs. When you have text on say grey background you can barely read the text on the RMPP while there is no problem on RM 1/2.

- starting with RMPP there is coil whining (not loud but you hear it in quite settings)

- while the advertising sais "Can render 20,000 colors", you have actually a very limited number of colors when it comes to one pixel. Colorful images or highlighted text is being rendered quite coarsly as on those cheap 7-color e-ink devices (but faster and with higher resolution)

- you can't use the (quiet expensive) pen which works for RM 1/2

- the software feels quite unfinished in a lot of aspects. This is hard to summarize of course but includes very slow processing of and poor interaction with ebooks/pdfs or the close to non-existing integration of typed text.

- without the cloud it's hard to get documents on your device. The web interface is fiddly and for some documents it simply doesn't work.

On the plus side you get root access on a relatively native Linux system and there is a community providing cool stuff [0]

[0]: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

meta-level··on Sound Lab – A Simple Analogue Synthesiser
you're right, LFO and VCO are digitally implemented.. B.b.b.but.. you won't recognize it from the outside if you're not a professional (and in this case maybe you have the big devices anyway). In contrast to the Volca, NTS or comparable devices you don't have a tact, scale, harmony or anything else which makes it easy to create "music" out of the box, but you have oscillators, inputs and outputs and create connections using wires..
meta-level··on Sound Lab – A Simple Analogue Synthesiser
those who like this probably also like the kastle (https://bastl-instruments.com/instruments/kastle)
meta-level··on ReMarkable Paper Pro
Oh - did they remove SSH access? With a RM2 you could go to Settings > General > About > Copyrights and licenses and you were shown an IP address and the root password for SSH..

No they didn't - you just have to activate "Developer mode" (forcing a factory reset, so don't set up too much, you'll have to repeat it all..)

meta-level··on Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
from the comment:

> That post points out it’s probably just subpixel stuff causing the issue, but I think my thick, cheap glasses at the time were adding a layer of chromatic aberration to something that was already visually confusing.

meta-level··on Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?
Or Checkmk [1], which is coming from Nagios and brings thousands of plugins for nearly every hardware and service you can think of..

[1] https://checkmk.com/

meta-level··on Using the Moon as an Echo [video]
it was neither the moon or a main plot in 3 body problem. And surely no signals have been magnified by the moon..
meta-level··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
Wow, CrowdStrike made it to #6 of all time HN threads by now.. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=
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