Hacker News: __void

New comment by __void in "Gemini AI"

__void — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:32:13 +0000

it's really amazing how in IT we always recycle the same ten names... in the last three years, "gemini" refers (at least) to:

- gemini protocol, the smolnet companion (gemini://geminiprotocol.net/ - https://geminiprotocol.net/)

- gemini somethingcoin somethingcrypto (I will never link it)

- gemini google's ML/AI (here we are)

New comment by __void in "Punica: Serving multiple LoRA finetuned LLM as one"

__void — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 11:58:54 +0000

it seems that in 2012, along with the end of the world, the possible acronyms/usable names for a project also ended

New comment by __void in "MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems"

__void — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 06:49:03 +0000

still this is not an "operating system" nor does it in any way related to them;

please use the right words when you have to communicate, otherwise you just sound like scammers who want to sell pots with holes by passing them off as colanders

New comment by __void in "Show HN: This is what social media could be"

__void — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 08:43:49 +0000

nice project, reminds me (a lot) of astrobotany on gemini

[1] gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us

[2] https://github.com/michael-lazar/astrobotany

New comment by __void in "When a website erases your text you can use this trick to recover it"

__void — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:38:38 +0000

I know this is a bit offtopic but maybe someone can help me...

since *always* when i try to access https://merveilles.town/ the server gives me an error (the console shows an error 500 and site crashes there); it happens to me both from pc and mobile, both under wifi and cable and 4g... since that mastodon instance is the home of the 100 rabbits dudes, i'm so sorry i can't view their posts :(

New comment by __void in "Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]"

__void — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:49:25 +0000

very good, congratulations on the achievement!

New comment by __void in "India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moons water rich South Pole"

__void — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:23:40 +0000

given that space is hard, any progress in this direction has real and practical repercussions for all of humanity; for example, knowing how to handle metals, chemicals, mechanical systems, logical systems (production chains and industrial production), lighter and more powerful computers, human biology and so on

furthermore, the fascination with space missions generates hordes of inspired children who will study and thus this plant the seeds of scientists for future generations who will solve tomorrow's problems (in practice, it is a long-term investment)

of the race to the moon we now have the practical and common use of transistors and chips, led, batteries, pace makers, medical pumps, thermal insulation and dozens of other things we use and take for granted every day

to prefer little and bad immediately at the expense of much and good in the future is a very short-sighted and stupid attitude

New comment by __void in "Noctis, the 'No Man's Sky' Forerunner Whose Creator Retreated from the World"

__void — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 11:46:47 +0000

Alex we miss u

New comment by __void in "A proto-pizza emerges from a fresco on a Pompeii wall"

__void — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 08:55:59 +0000

oh god... that dough looks more like frozen pizza, apart from in some tourist traps I have never seen it served seriously in my area

New comment by __void in "Reddit is going to remove mods of private communities unless they reopen"

__void — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 07:22:04 +0000

> He hasn’t alienated anyone. The vast majority of users [...]

you were not entitled by anyone to speak on behalf of everyone, Mr. Account with twelve days of live

> My only qualm

while you are worried about the video player, the moderators (who have been working for free for years to at least make the place where you watch your funny videos decent) have been waiting for decades for the tools to be able to moderate, and they have been promised dozens of times (all lies)

if you had problems with some power tripping powermods (no one denies they exist) that doesn't mean everyone is like that: have better judgement and measure your words

New comment by __void in "A proto-pizza emerges from a fresco on a Pompeii wall"

__void — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 09:11:17 +0000

> There's also a type of pizza that is round but thick,

do you mean 'pizzetta'?

New comment by __void in "A proto-pizza emerges from a fresco on a Pompeii wall"

__void — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 09:08:39 +0000

or from 'pinsa' (from the Latin verb 'pinsere' or from the verb 'pansere', 'to pound'), or from the Greek dish plakous or from the piada (or piadina), mentioned in Virgil's Aeneid

frankly speaking, I don't think we can find the true origin of this dish, it's like looking for the inventor of the wheel or the three-year rotation

either way, the history of modern pizza in northern Italy is truly fascinating (and controversial)[1]

[1] https://www.vanillamagazine.it/le-pizzerie-furono-sconosciut...

New comment by __void in "SnarkOS: A decentralized operating system for zero-knowledge applications"

__void — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 06:53:38 +0000

Using wrong names on purpose to attract users is a good indicator of the irrelevance/uselessness of a project

cryptobros are masters of confusion (web3, somethingOS, 'zero proof' and so on)

New comment by __void in "Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35"

__void — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:57:12 +0000

they are very different, esp32 is an advanced microcontroller (with wifi/bt) and is comparable to an arduino on steroids, whereas this board uses cortex a35 and is more comparable to a raspberry

esp32 has 520 Kb of ram, while this board has 512 Mb!

New comment by __void in "The Matrix Cookbook (2012) [pdf]"

__void — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:09:22 +0000

yes I was a little disappointed, ngl

a post-apocalyptic recipe book would be really interesting (canned cultivated meat, mycotissues, texturised hydroponic soya and boiled grains, yummm)

New comment by __void in "Silvio Berlusconi, a Showman Who Upended Italian Politics and Culture Dies at 86"

__void — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 10:27:08 +0000

it will be the biggest meme week for us Italians, there are already incredible pearls on telegram

New comment by __void in "Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s former prime minister, dies at 86"

__void — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:26:11 +0000

oh well, this will be an extremely interesting week for the Italian internet

and also for TVs: brace yourself, moirologists are coming

New comment by __void in "New Taschen book on the history of the computer"

__void — Tue, 30 May 2023 14:34:17 +0000

mmh we are saying the same thing, so I suppose there was a linguistic misunderstandig, English is not my native language

New comment by __void in "New Taschen book on the history of the computer"

__void — Tue, 30 May 2023 12:18:41 +0000

Seeing that it's also in this book (which I would like to buy, btw) I can't help but comment on the myth of the 'first bug' in computing: it's a historical fake, see for example here[1]

[1] https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-story-of-the-first-comput...

New comment by __void in "IntelligentPad (1989): a component-based drag-and-drop software creator"

__void — Thu, 18 May 2023 09:10:26 +0000

yes, [in vvvv] they've changed the site many times (it's an early 2000s project) and in the current iteration it's more commercial than technical...

however there used to be screenshots[0]! always praise be to the wayback machine

ah and there is also a javascript version[1]!

apparently they've also changed the colours of the environment, it used to be in light shades of grey now it looks all dark mode (which I personally detest and find illegible)

[0]http://web.archive.org/web/20170111184727/https://vvvv.org/s...

[1]http://www.vvvvjs.com/start