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New comment by Gregordinary in "Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5"

Gregordinary — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:30:20 +0000

Yeah I noticed informing me of mistakes it made during sessions. It felt really off when it informed me of a mistake it almost made but caught it before it landed.

New comment by Gregordinary in "A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee"

Gregordinary — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 01:08:56 +0000

Not sure of the current progress with breeding and cultivation, but there is a naturally occuring caffeine-free coffee plant. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffea_charrieriana

New comment by Gregordinary in "The effect of daily usage of Mouthwash on the oropharyngeal microbiome"

Gregordinary — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:41:30 +0000

If you don't mind a baking soda toothpaste, then another option is Trader Joe's. They made a baking soda & fluoride toothpaste that is SLS free. Been using it for a number of years now... Though it's been briefly discontinued and is slated to be back later this year.

New comment by Gregordinary in "Jeff Lawson buys The Onion"

Gregordinary — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 05:57:01 +0000

"Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race of Skeleton People"

https://www.theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient...

"Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Fillm as Fun, Watchable"

https://www.theonion.com/trekkies-bash-new-star-trek-film-as...

"Jurisprudence Fetishist Gets off on Technicality"

https://www.theonion.com/jurisprudence-fetishist-gets-off-on...

New comment by Gregordinary in "Pepper X"

Gregordinary — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:54:47 +0000

Superhots also produce capsaicin in the fruit, unique from non-superhots. Removing the pith from a ghost, reaper, etc., will significantly reduce the heat but still contain a lot of capsaicin from vesicles present in the fruit itself.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279564263_Novel_For...

New comment by Gregordinary in "Annual EFF Awards: Alexandra Elbakyan, Library Freedom Project, and Signal"

Gregordinary — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 01:45:06 +0000

Alison spoke at LibrePlanet 2016 on the Library Freedom Project and some of its programs and initiatives.

https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/library-freedo...

Servo Layout Engines Report

Gregordinary — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:20:33 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Servo-Layout-Engines-Report

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35558853

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Gregordinary in "Banana Pi BPI-R3 Router Board: Wi-Fi 6 and Dual Fiber SFP Ports"

Gregordinary — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:13:17 +0000

Looks like they have OpenWRT booting in it: https://youtu.be/dbcRk-vMAog

New comment by Gregordinary in "Ask HN: What is your preferred notebook screen size and why?"

Gregordinary — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 10:57:22 +0000

Asus makes a 14" AMD laptop with a 16:10 4K OLED screen. Been eyeing it as a possibility. https://www.asus.com/Laptops/For-Home/Zenbook/Zenbook-14X-OL...

New comment by Gregordinary in "Monumental Timekeepers"

Gregordinary — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 11:00:13 +0000

Anytime I hear sundials, I now think of my trip to Jantar Munter in Jaipur, India. Home to world's largest sundial, accurate to two seconds.

https://www.jantarmantar.org/learn/observatories/instruments...

Also home to many other instruments of measurement, absolutely fascinating.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jantar_Mantar,_Jaipur

New comment by Gregordinary in "Alcohol-free beer is fizzing"

Gregordinary — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 16:52:12 +0000

I've been drinking hop tea and hop seltzer from HopLark. It's not trying to replicate beer. I like that with the exception of some limited releases, they're just carbonated tea and hops or carbonated water and hops. Unsweetened and have both caffeinated and caffeine free variants.

My favorite so far has been a spruce tip tea with sabro hops.

I haven't quit alcohol consumption entirely, but I limit it to once every few months if I feel like having one, typically with family.

https://www.hoplark.com

Also working on just making it myself, with tea, hop pellets, and using a "drink mate" (like sodastream but can carbonate any liquid, not just water) to carbonate it.

New comment by Gregordinary in "Systemd 248"

Gregordinary — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:25:24 +0000

I think so. This was posted a few weeks ago ahead of the 248 release. http://0pointer.net/blog/unlocking-luks2-volumes-with-tpm2-f...

I'm gonna try it out once my Solo V2 arrives.

New comment by Gregordinary in "Systemd 248"

Gregordinary — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:22:53 +0000

I believe so: http://0pointer.net/blog/unlocking-luks2-volumes-with-tpm2-f...

New comment by Gregordinary in "78rpm Records Digitized"

Gregordinary — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 17:12:20 +0000

The title sparked a memory of someone using a flatbed scanner and some software back in 2002 to extract audio from scanned images of record tracks.

https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/index.html

Results were interesting though fairly unintelligible. Practicality aside, wonder if/how much this method could be improved today?

New comment by Gregordinary in "Sega Dreamcast: Windows CE"

Gregordinary — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 02:09:00 +0000

The homebrew scene for dreamcast is impressive and still surprisingly active.

Good list of emulators available for the DC too, though in various states of functionality: https://dcemulation.org/index.php?title=Emulators

New comment by Gregordinary in "Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine"

Gregordinary — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 18:11:08 +0000

Mentioned below by another commenter, for what this feature is, it makes sense to keep it opt-out. A technical user can figure out how to change it, while the target audience of it, would not (or not as easily).

Could make a subdirectory, subdomain, or even different domain e.g. runnaroo.tech that allows you to keep the user-friendly defaults on runnaroo.com, and more technical users could go to an alt location with a different set of defaults, and perhaps more features exposed by default.

Similar to having a mobile, lite, or no-js version of a site.

New comment by Gregordinary in "Pine64 launches the cheapest Linux Tablet ever priced at just $99.99"

Gregordinary — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 21:25:09 +0000

While I wouldn't call it polished, at the very least, the PrawnOS image will give you a quick way to get a Debian-based distro onto the c201 to customize as you see fit.

I noted above it uses Linux-Libre, so the internal WiFi does NOT work with the distro "as is". EVERY other component is supported though. If you need internal WiFi instead of external USB WiFi, you can modify the build script to use the regular Linux kernel & add the non-free Debian repos to sources.list. I've done it before and it works fine.

The default image when you build or download it puts you at a command prompt where you can either use it "as is", run a script to install a pre-configured desktop environment(XFCE, GNOME, or LXQT), or custom install things yourself.

GNOME was just recently added. The RK3288 processor in the c201 is now supported by Panfrost for 2D/3D acceleration, but I think it still has a bit to go before GNOME is completely usable. If save the resources if you're doing development.

4k output should be available soon, just tested patches for that. Admittedly 2160p was much smoother. Eventually there will also be hardware video decoding. The RK3288 has a full Hantro G1 VPU and drivers for that were recently merged into the kernel.

For alternatives, there is a decent list here that might be better suited to your needs: https://github.com/nikolas-n/GNU-Linux-on-Asus-C201-Chromebo...

New comment by Gregordinary in "Pine64 launches the cheapest Linux Tablet ever priced at just $99.99"

Gregordinary — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:24:26 +0000

Do you have that running Linux via Crouton or have wiped the C201P? Or something else?

I just use mine for fun/learning. Have it flashed w/ Libreboot and running PrawnOS (Debian / Linux-libre based) which keeps seeing a nice amount of improvements. https://github.com/SolidHal/PrawnOS

New comment by Gregordinary in "FC5025 USB 5.25” Floppy Controller"

Gregordinary — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 00:30:03 +0000

Thanks for confirming my suspicions with this comment. Was just messing with an internal Zip-750 drive. I tried both SATA to IDE adapters and an internal USB to IDE adapter. I tried with two different drives using Ubuntu 20.04 and jazip.

With both drives there was a brief moment the the zip disk showed up, once. Then never again.

I eventually just purchased a PCIe IDE controller card and that works as expected.

New comment by Gregordinary in "Lubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)"

Gregordinary — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:33:30 +0000

Lubuntu plans to support Wayland in the 20.10 release by porting Openbox to Mir, which supports Wayland. https://lubuntu.me/lubuntu-development-newsletter-9/