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mlongval··on Kobo can run apps now
Very nice project. I looked at it with the aide of Claude. I was interested in porting the Chess game that Claude helped me make for NickleMenu that runs on my Kobo Elipsa Gen1. From my understanding of Claude's analysis it would be difficult to port the chess game because each Cobalt app is sandboxed, and my app would not be able to spawn the Stockfish engine that my Chess (Nickle menu) game needs to run. Is that an erroneous conclusion? Also I probably could not port my Tailscale client to Cobalt for the same reasons. I kinda creates a separation. Perhaps that is by design: Cobalt = very secure, Nickle = more open but more risk. Finally the Elipsa Gen1 does not seem to be included in the supported platforms. Thanks. Cheers from Canada!
mlongval··on DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
New Google -> perfect example of en$hi++ification.
mlongval··on Using "Hi Claudette " on Claude.ai
Idealy, Anthropic could add this mode, and Claudette could award "Tokens" for proper writing (grammar, spelling and punctuation) It's a way to help maintain our ability to communicate not just with machines but with humans.
mlongval··on Luce: First Electric Ferrari
Yawn.
mlongval··on Earl Grey Tea Intoxication
TLDR: The Lancet and Elsevier are dič&$ for being behind a paywall for a 20 year old article.

Bottom line: Earl Grey tea gets its flavor from Bergamot oil. Don’t OD on it. It’s toxic.

mlongval··on Get fancy ls output with LSD and this script
Ok. So I wanted a fancy ls -l command that would show NerdFont icons but NOT the long pointers to symlinks (just the colors), so I got this.
mlongval··on Musk gives random petition signer a $1M check
1 million to his personal worth is the same as 50 cents to the average American household yearly income.

So he is giving away pocket change.

Big deal.

mlongval··on Your showerhead and toothbrush are teeming with viruses
Folks these types of articles on CNN and others are just clickbait.
mlongval··on Obesity is driven by a build-up of molecular mesh around hunger neurons
YC/HN should actively discourage referencing articles that are behind paywalls like "Nature"

Despite the fact they don't show the full article, they are getting your traffic and profiting by it.

"Nature" and other such publishers are simply pimping the article author's hard work.

Unfortunately SciHub does not seem to have this article.

mlongval··on Omnivore: A free and open source read-it-later app
This is a great alternative to Pocket or other read it later type program. Would be great if HackerNews had a save to Omnivore button next to each story.
mlongval··on First water car is already a reality: 1000km of autonomy and the end of gasoline
I concur. Seems too good to be true.

My guess is that “membrane” used to facilitate hydrogen extraction is going to a bitch to maintain. Probably any kind of impurity with render the system FUBAR.

mlongval··on Trump found guilty on all charges related to the hush money case
34 > 45

The new math.

mlongval··on Blaming Food for Obesity Is Like Blaming Water for Drowning
Another simplistic take on a complex multifaceted problem. ”… it’s not that you eat too much, it’s that you’re lazy…” I’ve spent 30 years caring for diabetics and obese patients. Yes food is a contributing factor, yes exercise (lack of) is a contributing factor. So are hereditary factors, gut microbiota and societal stressors. My message is not that there is no hope, it’s just not easy and simple.
mlongval··on Bare Metal Emulation on the Raspberry Pi – Commodore 64
This is a really nice project. I built one on a RPi 3b+ a couple years ago when the project started. I got to chat with Randi Rossi about attaching a C64 keyboard to it via his adapter. He is a really cool and talented guy. Very down to earth (for such a genius).

It’s too bad that there isn’t someone else who could take up the project. I have a dream of seeing his Kawarii extensions to the VicII implemented in the emulator. Wow what a blast that would be!

mlongval··on Software ‘death dates’ are sending schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin
“I have become Death, destroyer of Chromebooks.”
mlongval··on The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
Love it!
mlongval··on Show HN: Artimator: change style of photo for free using Stable Diffusion
Don’t bother. It’s a scam, click bait, fraud. Gotta register, then download a VPN client. Big no no
mlongval··on Synergy 3 Released
Still doesn’t support Wayland…
mlongval··on Ranger: A Vim-inspired terminal file manager
Can’t live without it! I have it aliased to just “r”

It it so intuitive that I’ve hardly read the manual.

Quick one to remember however: Ctrl-h to show or hide “hidden” (dot) files.

mlongval··on Ask HN: Best medium for reading papers
I agree with you. Just so happens this might be the thing I’m looking forward to:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/coming-soon/lenovo-smart-pape...

mlongval··on Babashka Babooka: Write Command-Line Clojure
Babashka is cool. I’ve looked at it and want to learn more, but it’s always a question of time.
mlongval··on Why Johnny Can’t Code
Classic article by author David Brin about the loss of coding in the space of a single generation.
mlongval··on Alex Jones ordered to pay nearly $1B in Sandy Hook defamation case
The stated reason is "defamation" but in reality what he has been doing is psychological torture.

This is not a case about free speech. It is a case about malicious intent and profiteering.

mlongval··on Ask HN: Has the quality of Google search declined for anyone else, or just me?
Ask a technical query and you will invariably get a bunch of sales offers for the product in question.
mlongval··on A computer assisted proof for 100k years stability of the solar system
This information must be kept from the ETO and other Trisolarian agents. At all costs.