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New comment by a1o in "Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse"

a1o — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:00:55 +0000

Awesome, people in Spain are lucky to see this!

New comment by a1o in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

a1o — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:22:13 +0000

Which cat wheel is that?

New comment by a1o in "Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery"

a1o — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:14:28 +0000

That is pretty cool and looks easy enough to do. I have never seen batteries like that original one seems to be, it looks quite malleable? Is that normal for it? Has anyone seen batteries like that in other products? Most of the other things I did replacement have been “harder” batteries.

New comment by a1o in "The AI Aesthetic"

a1o — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:20:32 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by a1o in "The AI Aesthetic"

a1o — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:03:52 +0000

Oh, I was meaning the pancakes

New comment by a1o in "The AI Aesthetic"

a1o — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:01:45 +0000

Did they write anywhere about it? I noticed it - and I think it uses the system emoji, because I noticed the pancake was different between my systems.

New comment by a1o in "The AI Aesthetic"

a1o — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:59:39 +0000

I think that if the images were replaced by human made (you can take photos of real things if you don’t want to draw or hire an actual artist) perhaps the design could be more passable

New comment by a1o in "Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem"

a1o — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:46:00 +0000

It appears this stuff is highly guarded under NDA and not available for anyone, I read the homebrew version (https://github.com/OpenOrbis/OpenOrbis-PS4-Toolchain), the SDL2 port and the other stuff and honestly didn’t find anything much interesting, or that makes any difference. Unless you have something properly as documentation to show I don’t think it is reasonable to expect anyone in an open source engine to care about whatever this “special” thing you mention is.

New comment by a1o in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

a1o — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:01:10 +0000

To people not interacting with open source projects that are stablished and popular, there are a lot of PRs and contributions where someone set an agent with a prompt like “contribute using my user to popular projects to improve my profile” or something similar and the entire PR and answers to maintainers questions and literally everything is entirely machine generated, without any human, and at the same time it is done in the cheapest way so steering the PRs in review isn’t even like “free tokens” because the model used is not good, so the output is always bad. The policies help point the agent to what is not allowed and shutdown the contribution, and so far the agents seems to respect it. Shutting down an agent without a policy to point to them make them very reactive. Note, there is no human involved in the other side! The person that set up the agent is not even aware of the specific PRs that are going.

New comment by a1o in "Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem"

a1o — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:35:16 +0000

Looking at the example graphics in the OP post I would not think something as specific as the rtx-io matter, I thought it was something more conceptually general that could be applied everywhere without tie to a specific vendor.

New comment by a1o in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved"

a1o — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:54:26 +0000

My experience is Codex is much better but less creative. I use its agent through GitHub Copilot or the agent interface from JetBrains. Try the GPT Sol 5.6 on medium, it gives me good results

New comment by a1o in "Cesium DevCon 2026 talks are up, including a keynote from SQLite's creator"

a1o — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:43:24 +0000

Azure DataBricks has something called Genius where you put the tables and views you want to interact with and can talk to it so it constructs a query based on the data you specified. It often does not work completely for me, it either doesn’t get it, or get things 90% there and I need to jump in, decipher the query it came up with and then figure how to change it to what I need. So not sure if the data I am playing with is just too complex/too big, but it’s not working exactly great for me.

New comment by a1o in "Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem"

a1o — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:18:07 +0000

> We did our best job here leaning heavily on the resource system. There's stuff I want to say about the result that's platform specific so I can't. We have a thing, it works, and it could be a lot better.

Literally the only part I wanted to get more information about.

I could use a lot more information on why POSIX is bad and exactly what it means on resource management being “aware” of unified memory. I mostly didn’t get.

New comment by a1o in "Amiga Graphics Archive"

a1o — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:07:16 +0000

If you click the color cycling animations it shows the palette being actively changed and is very interesting to observe!

New comment by a1o in "KOReader"

a1o — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:06:11 +0000

Did anyone made a comparison across different devices for running this? I am curious on what is the best device today to run it, and also the best when accounting for cost of the device too.

New comment by a1o in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts"

a1o — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:14:42 +0000

I find it bad for generating code but alright for review, I put it as a tool to run along static analysis to catch if I missed something on a code change or merge request (being specifically about C++)

New comment by a1o in "An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk"

a1o — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:51:17 +0000

I imagine the over 1GHz in this case is the baseband that you are talking about.

ADS-B baseband is also around 1GHz, what they mean is once you down convert in the process of demodulating the signal you will get a signal that has bandwidth of 1.3MHz.

New comment by a1o in "Stolen Buttons"

a1o — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:50:20 +0000

Are we in flat design for way too long or is this a recent idea and the collection is also very recent?

New comment by a1o in "Cornell's Interactive Wall of Birds"

a1o — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:02:44 +0000

The visual map that expands to short descriptions with the sounds, gives me nostalgic memories for Microsoft Encarta.

Is there anything as fun and interactive that is available today that could be used by kids? Wikipedia is great for adults but it’s just too much information and it’s not packaged in short and visual focus of Microsoft Encarta of the old times. The other cool thing of MS Encarta is it wasn’t too big, it was finite, you could exhaust one topic and then go explore something else, it wasn’t infinite rabbit hole.

New comment by a1o in "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"

a1o — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:14:19 +0000

There’s a lot of times I see people reaching for AI instead of taking a photograph, this is super egregious when it’s meant as a reference, because the AI generated image won’t necessarily look like the real thing. I’ve seen it used in reference documents about animal management/veterinary reference meant for farmers, and the generated cows, horses and so on are just worse than the original version that was done with photos, they may look more “clean”, but farm life isn’t meant to be clean and it also lost the veterinarian that was shown in the shots manipulating the animal and properly indicating with hands where to pay attention in the animal.