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Wait, the smartwatches don't upload activities directly to Strava, do they? They connect to their manufacturer's cloud service (Garmin Connect etc), and Strava has API integrations with them, doesn't it?

So what's missing are the integrations from Endurain to the big manufacturers' platforms (if they are missing, haven't checked the code).

I agree, I know the game you're referring to, but didn't think of it when I chose the title. I wanted to add some more context than just calling it 'Cyberrunner' without any additional information, although I'm aware that editorializing submission titles is discouraged on HN.

I'm less impressed that the AI figured it out in the end, but more by the speed with which it played in the final state.

I'm thinking one reason why human players do this more slowly and careful is that they'd get annoyed by the repetitiveness of having to start over many times and therefore adopt a more conservative strategy. Getting annoyes is of course a problem that AIs don't have.

A standard demo for robot dexterity is balancing a vertical pole, which probably doesn't qualify as a 'game'.

There was also this PR stunt by Kuka, a German manufacturer of industrial robots, that challanged famous player Timo Boll in table tennis. This was almost ten years ago, not sure how it ended, to be honest.

I just saw that it's actually Randall narrating the videos himself, which I think is great.

Two apps that fulfill convenience functions for two niche interests of mine:

- https://ramdass-search.net - Full-text search in videos of talks by Ram Dass, aka Richard Alpert, a former Harvard professor of Psychology who became a well-known spiritual teacher in the 60s and 70s.

- https://rtfcal.de - Get the dates of amateur cycling events (Gran Fondos) as an .ics file so I can import them to my calendar. The app submits the search to the cycling association's site, parses the resulting HTML and creates an .ics file.

Gotta mention Succession as a very recent example of great TV and great season finales.

Seinfeld was recorded in front of a studio audience, so the laughs are real. The thing is though that they often did multiple takes of each scene, and the laughs are sometimes the ones from different takes.

It's also worthwhile to remember where the team honed their craft, as was also mentioned in this session: The early id team worked for a publisher called Softdisk that provided a game subscription where customers received a new game every month. This was basically a way to iterate on the practice and process of game development in one month cycles. The shareware relase of Doom had four months of development, which sounds crazy short by today's standards, but for them it was unusual to have so much time.

There's several talks on Youtube by John Romero where he tells the story of the early id software, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2MIpi8pIvY

On the FTP server of the University of Wisconsin. Romero tells this story where people are hanging around in the upload directory, waiting for the Doom shareware release to drop, creating text files expressing their impatience.

Why not use a standard Thesaurus like https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ ?

CO2.js agrees: https://observablehq.com/@greenweb/co2-js-playground

Yeah, sounds like that company's wifi on their chargers has this SSID. I hope they're not relying on a 'secret' SSID as the sole security mechanism, assuming it to be safe because nobody can enter it manually since it's not ASCII characters.

A project has a planned end date, a product typically doesn't.

I could be interested in a mechanical watch showing decimal time, just for the novelty and fun of it.

True. And having 7 days per week is majorly impractical, also for reasons of divisibility. With 7 being prime, it's impossible to do things every other day or every three days without being left with a remainder.

A crowdsourced interpretation platform for spiritual texts is actually a really cool idea. It seems like people have already 'abused' genius.com for that purpose:

Bhagavad Gita: https://genius.com/artists/Bhagavad-gita

King James Bible: https://genius.com/artists/Holy-bible-kjv

Tao Te Ching: https://genius.com/albums/Laozi/Tao-te-ching

> People have a right to convenience and a better quality of life.

That's a pretty bold statement. Where is this right stated, and who guarantees it? Who do I go to if I feel my convenience and QoL isn't high enough?

Is this an absolute right that is realized at all costs? Even if my convenience affects the health and safety of others?

Why does the ANFR come up with this three years after the launch of the device?

Please don't dissect an aphorism by a standup comedian like it was a Ph.D. thesis.

According to this tutorial [1] by Google, part of why LLMs are so verbose is a phenomenon called 'chain of thought reasoning'.

Basically, the LLM will formulate a better answer to the question if it talks itself through its reasoning process.

[1] https://youtu.be/zizonToFXDs?si=5f_IxvR7h0iJy2Db&t=678

"The Internet brought agile, what will remote work bring?"

Interesting question. What are the companies doing that have been working remotely already years before the pandemic? How is e.g. Gitlab working? Would love to hear people's experience.

It's not like Agile cannot work with remote collaboration, just that waterfall is more suitable if people have a tendency to isolate and form silos.

The "discovery" of America (quotes mine) mentioned as a "good quest" in the introductory paragraph... I mean, we don't need to agree on this one, but at least choose a less controversial example for your introduction. The authors and their reviewers seem to lack a modicum of reflection.

I was just reading the New Yorker's profile and history of Prigozhin/Wagner group: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/07/inside-the-wag...

Cool to have this multiband technology, but what about the southern hemisphere? Assuming they have time signal transmitters, too: Do watch manufacturers have different SKUs that can receive signals in the southern hemisphere? Is it possible to have a watch that receives these signals truly worldwide?

They misspelled Mainflingen, where the German DCF77 transmitter is located, as "Mineflingen", which is basically spelled phonetically (for English speakers).

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll give it a try!

So how does a 'poor table' take 2 hours to cook?

I just canceled my HelloFresh subscription, because the meals took too long to make, occasionally some ingredients were missing or wrong, I had no space to store all the ingredients that were delivered, and I hated the amount of cleanup I had to do afterwards. This cookbook is exactly what I need.

It sounds like you're supporting OP's view. If someone hasn't put it the time and effort to learn these compromises, communication, patience, and forgiveness previously, why would they do it now with you after they meet you at age 40?