I've written my own watchface and a couple of other apps and made changes to a number of existing apps, it's really simple because you can always test your code changes live on the watch while keeping it on your wrist. There's an IDE that connects to it using Bluetooth and the code can be modified during runtime

Lthere's also a great community of hackers and tinkerers that steadily improve the watch.

It might not have the same polish as the pebble had, but it makes it up in hackability. I can only recommend getting a banglejs2 (battery life is also pretty great, I get about 10 days with regular use)

Idempotency is key and the choice of the idempotency key as well ;)

I posted this video in response to the thread about facial recognition evasion. [0]

I originally saw this at an exposition in France a few years back, and it stuck with me ever since. It's a very clever commentary about the state of AI and facial recognition software and that's long before the big AI boom. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42357372

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The article says there's no socio-economic factors; the data says the risk is the same for all babies.

If you don't want to change your habits because of an article, that is fine, but people should be aware of the risk.

We use a co-sleeping bed next to the parents bed and the infant is just as close, but safer from harm

For example, in french there is the name "Arnaud", which exists in German as "Arno". For a bilingual child it's much more important for the name to sound the same that to be written the same.

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A friend of mine builds a component for a satellite system and the FDIR mechanisms need to be chosen very carefully, as adding more fail-safes can actually make the system overall more error prone.

There's an interesting blog post on from AWS about that topic [0]. Turns out adding more fallbacks and fail-safes is actually discouraged there.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/avoiding-fallback-in...

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What's interesting here is that base64 does not have the exact same byte sequence (such as a single space) between tokens. So I still think for it to understand base64 is a bit surprising.

For directx 8, you would for example specify light sources as part of special draw calls to the directx API, which makes it easier to translate them to a ray traced scene graph.

Shader tools like reshare also use heuristics to detect which of the framebuffers contains a depth map to add effects like SSAO to older games.

I imagine that rtx remix can to similar things to detect where in a shader the light coordinates are stored: after all most shaders look pretty similar when it comes to implementing a Phong shader etc.

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The rest I leave as an exercise to the reader.

Tags could be utilised for naming commits which would make it much easier to reason about where in the process of your development you are instead of referencing commits by hash. Hashes are hard to remember after all.