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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 Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
They should have copied die voices from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film) instead. Would have been like Amazon removing 1984 from customers Kindles..
meta-level··on How a 64k intro is made (2017)
I'm wondering if there are similar demos featuring graphics and sound with strong constraints but written in Python?
meta-level··on Show HN: React for Circuits
Could this approach also be used to script a Factorio blueprint?
meta-level··on Apple cuts 2024 and 2025 Vision Pro shipment forecasts
I probably would, as I would have bought a Quest or one of the others if that didn't tie me to one little company driven universe with their own rules.
meta-level··on Haunting photos of the bison extermination in 19th century America
Homo Sapiens Sapiens
meta-level··on xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine
You forgot to mention that each level is part of a colaboratively built machine
meta-level··on Lubricate Your Keyholes
Should reference https://m.xkcd.com/1205. .
meta-level··on Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
As a Thinkpad fan (from Germany, maybe this makes a difference) I have to say that Lenovo usually only let's you buy Laptops without Windows for very crappy machines or if you're a student via Lenovo campus program.
meta-level··on Lilygo T-Deck: 2.8-inch IPS LCD display, mini keyboard, and ESP32 processor
I consider this post a birthday present and didn't even try to resist the buy-instantly-reflex..

BUT. What I'm still missing is an audio jack. I've been searching for a long time now for a device of this mobile friendly form factor (i.e. battery support), with a couple of buttons and knobs, a small display and audio in/out.

Like a TE Pocket Operator, but fully programmable (using typical C++/Rust/Micropython programming environments).

I'd really love to deep dive into rapid prototyping some audio generator or effect processor I can take with me, but don't want to design and build a device for this first.

Maybe you guys have seen something like this before and can give me a hint?

meta-level··on 1D Pac-Man
A colleague of mine made this: https://twitter.com/LarsMichelsen/status/1430218030727024641

And those you probably found already:

• https://codeduino.com/projects/games/1d-pong-game/

• https://hackaday.io/project/185011-twang-esp32-led-strip-1d-...

also this one would be great to have it on an led strip:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xx7sgNVE-A

meta-level··on Recursive Recipes
Can someone now create a Factorio mod from this, please?
meta-level··on Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda slams AI for recreating her father’s voice
Anyone here who has seen the 2013 movie 'The Congress', loosely based on the Stanisław Lem novel 'The Futurological Congress'? I wonder why it's not being mentioned when it comes to copying and replacing actors by AI..
meta-level··on Swig – Connect C/C++ programs with high-level programming languages
The syntax is terse if you need to do arbitrary stuff with an arbitrary interface. But if you start off keeping SWIG in mind from the beginning and avoid funky features at API level you might be fine by just "importing" your header files in the SWIG-definition file.

See https://projects.om-office.de/frans/swig_demo/-/tree/master/... (disclaimer: very old and special exception handling)

IMHO this is a good practice anyway, because this way you make sure, your API looks the same in every binding.

And this way you get a binding for Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, Lua, and much more

meta-level··on Joblib: Running Python functions as pipeline jobs
But while Starlark tries to mimic Python (while not allowing lots of useful stuff like f-strings) joblib _is_ Python and you can make use of the eco-system around Python.
meta-level··on Show HN: Time-tracker that helps me with context switches and documentation
Also built something slightly similar - without the need to interact https://github.com/frans-fuerst/track Works on Linux with XOrg and Windows only unfortunately..
meta-level··on Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software
Projects like this make me think of arms race (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_arms_race).

If I wanted my governments surveillance camera system to improve more quickly I'd confront it with some challenging training data by making an exploit public and available for everyone :)

meta-level··on Testing Noctua’s NH-P1 with Ryzen 7700x and Intel’s i9-13900K
Have a Streacom DB4, much cooler (pun intended)
meta-level··on Ask HN: Video games that will make me smarter and are addictive?
Factorio, obviously
meta-level··on You will never “fix it later”
There is one more reason why it's unlikely you fix the hack in the future: unconsciously you feel like / 'admit' you can't do it now, otherwise you would. The obstacle might be the lack of a clear picture of how to proceed, a bad association with the topic or anything else that keeps you from doing it now. So committing a hack can be seen as a symptom of having a reason not to do it now - this reason very likely will still apply `tomorrow()`.
meta-level··on My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (2021)
I have almost the same setup, but with Linux/Fedora instead and the Ryzen 4750 without 'G' but a card. I even made the same thermal images out of curiosity :)
meta-level··on Sound
Bartosz, you have to choose another name, I just upvoted by reflex, when I saw it's you again
meta-level··on Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
It's so very obvious that removing SMS support for "security reasons" is just as saying "please store your insecure SMS plaintext with your stock messages application or better just use WhatsApp for that again". It makes me wonder if there might also be another reason. Legal issues (encryption, governments, etc)?

If not: please Signal guys - that's just a step back. People who write SMS won't stop writing SMS, you just allow another party to do whatever is good for them. And searching through _all_ messages is really a big thing for some of us.

Why not just add some awareness items - visible eyes and ears and dollar signs, together with the information what information is given away and that this might cost money?

meta-level··on It wasn't for nothing
Just reading "The Little Book Of Ikigai" - this post reads like a rewording of the most important aspects of Ikigai :) Sounds all quite familiar to me..
meta-level··on The History of ‘Ampersand’ (2020)
Where I'm coming from Amper is a river and Sand has the same meaning as in English. So without the context, Ampersand is the sand you find at Ampers river bank... When I first read this name I took it for some mystic code name :)
meta-level··on Show HN: Typewaiter, the typewriter that doesn't wait
Can you add persistence (e.g. by running and saving a session encoded in the url)? I'd like to share my letters! Nice idea, makes you think about your thinking..
meta-level··on Life is not short
sorry, what does 'dkb' stand for?
meta-level··on Show HN: Paperd.ink – an open-source e-paper development board
M5Paper has a touch screen..
meta-level··on Ask HN: How can I determine the quality of an image file
This is hard to answer in general, although general aspects like contrast and resolution are important of course. Maybe you can provide some background regarding your know how and technology you're going to use.
meta-level··on Pokitto: Open-source pocket gaming console
we're both blind, was the exit door for me..
meta-level··on Facebook/Instagram consider shutting down in EU if they can't move data to US
At least from Google "search results". But reading HN comments regarding those it looks like we would be better off with Google leaving EU, too..
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