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New comment by frnz in "Kugelblitz – Mac-Native Google Earth Alternative"

frnz — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:39:28 +0000

and, and! It's Mac OS 27 only! I mean, really?

Edit: I can't switch since I need some older intel apps...

New comment by frnz in "Bentley's Kyiv deadlership among the strongest, despite the war"

frnz — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:16:22 +0000

thanks for pointing this out!

New comment by frnz in "I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard"

frnz — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:07:35 +0000

Multi-billion-dollar copy-machines are the same as a person just dropping by and having a look? If you can't tell the difference, what are you? Be you human or robot?

New comment by frnz in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

frnz — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:31:20 +0000

that's the joke. They are making fun of their own text-based interface to sell the visual side.

New comment by frnz in "Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards"

frnz — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:06:19 +0000

Very impressive. I also like this LECTRON-system by Gregor Greger from 1965. BRAUN bought the rights and then Dieter Rahms worked on the design in 1967. Produced until 2022 (!)

You can still find some stuff on ebay with "baukasten braun lectron"

edit, Link to Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectron

New comment by frnz in "Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude"

frnz — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:29:45 +0000

This is so true, it really struck me, thanks. For me, this is the most important post of the week. By far.

New comment by frnz in "Inverse Kinematics and Foot Locking"

frnz — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:35:17 +0000

I imagine, that unsolved foot sliding is considered as a genuine part of the genre, but personally I really enjoy fixed feet in gameplay very much.

New comment by frnz in "YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning"

frnz — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:18:48 +0000

"The physical modeling is promising but extremely compute intensive. " This is not true, at least for the makers of pianoteq. Their simulation runs fine on a raspberry 5 with 1 gb.

btw. thanks for your perspective.

New comment by frnz in "There is no AI"

frnz — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:53:25 +0000

of course not directly, especially with names like gpt123. But broad consumer perception is a totally different kind of thing and there I see a lot of artificial-mind pre-god perceptions. At least the term intelligence, historically human- or creature-bound, will not come off into self-abstraction as mere product too easily.

New comment by frnz in "507 Mechanical Movements"

frnz — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:47:57 +0000

The first two examples I looked at (https://507movements.com/mm_016.html and https://507movements.com/mm_015.html) have the ropes partially going in the wrong direction.

New comment by frnz in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

frnz — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:06:11 +0000

of course, sry, I didn't read the descriptions. Thanks for clarification!

New comment by frnz in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

frnz — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:08:22 +0000

so an empty train does not show up?

New comment by frnz in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

frnz — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:30:25 +0000

you or the dog? In both cases: respect!

New comment by frnz in "Show HN: Live breath detection and biofeedback from a phone microphone"

frnz — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:57:28 +0000

Audio normalizing seems to be quite hard for this kind of use. I tried this 20 yrs ago with parts of a (mouse-)pointer device, a rigid nylon strap around the chest and 8 cm of flexible length in between. Mouse pointer wheel (one dimension only) was driven by change of length. For some hours of fiddling it was quite reliable.

New comment by frnz in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

frnz — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:28:13 +0000

60.000.000 kg ÷ 1.000.000.000 user

is about 60 gramms of co2 per user?